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November 11, 2016Episode 78: Trump's possible effect on tech, plus, containers
We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers.
This episode features Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Mid-roll
Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week.
Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows - Cincinnati - Nov 10; St. Louis - Nov 14; Hartford - Nov 16; Denver - Nov 18; New York - Nov 22; Los Angeles - Nov 28.
K8s Operators
Stateful applications for K8s, a shot at Mesos?
Prometheus & etcd first examples (spark? hadoop?)
This begs the broad question: so, what’s CoreOS’s business posture now?
Azure Container Service, now with K8s
Those Microsoft folks will just put anything that looks tasty in their cloud - what a reversal from the Microsoft we grew up with.
Docker in Production: A History of Failure
From this dude’s perspective: a failure of product management and stable releases.
Bugs, documentation spotty, cleanup scripts, kernel support (Debian!?), aufs & overlay & overlay2, 7-hour outage with no post-mortem
“Docker only moves forward and breaks things”
“The docker hype is not only a technological liability any more, it has evolved into a sociological problem as well.”
A retort… that mostly agrees
“boring tech is what makes money” shiny tech makes resumes?
Mesosphere
Jay Lyman on the momemtum: “Mesosphere does not disclose its number of paying clients, but says it has dozens of large enterprise customers, its primary target. The company says its experience supporting software deployments in production is among its key differentiators, helped by the use of Apache Mesos by companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal and Yelp, which was featured in a 451 User Deployment Report. Mesosphere says its focus is customer deployments of 500-1,000 nodes per day in production. It also says the bulk of its customers are licensees with professional services accounting for less than 10% of its clients, which tend to move to its subscription software.”
TrumpTech, aka, “Putting the 400 lbs hackers on diets.”
Turns out there is some marginally clear policy, just not McKinsey title mode versus white papers.
Jonathan Shieber@Tech Crunch: "The biggest question facing millions of Americans this Wednesday is: just how much of what Donald Trump said on the campaign does he intend to actually try to make happen." (For example, Korea.)
Dave Lee, at the BBC has a good laundry list: “Uncertainty, frustration and an increased fragility for the global home of tech innovation. Mr Trump certainly won't want to go down as the president who destroyed Silicon Valley, but the concern here is that of the few policies that have been explained in detail, some seem directly at odds with each other.”
10% repatriation program - tech companies have tons of cash abroad:
Historic rates: “At the highest tax rate, corporations must pay 35% to repatriate capital, minus local taxes charged by countries in which the funds are held.”
Hardware: “AAPL (93% of $230bln), CSCO (91% of $64.6B), IBM ($8.2B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but note 58% of earnings are from non US operations), HPE ($10.0B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65% of earnings are from non US operations), HPQ ($5.6B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65%-70% of earnings are from non US operations), JNPR (94% of $3.2B).”
Software: “Specifically, some of the mid and large cap companies that have large cash balances “trapped” offshore are likely to benefit from being able to return a portion of this cash to shareholders. We note companies with high gross cash balances trapped offshore include: ADBE (85% of $4B – from 2015 10-K), ADSK (86% of $2.1B), CA (76% of $2.7B), CTXS (80% of $2.45B), FTNT (38% of $1.2B), ORCL (76% of $56B – pre-N), MSFT (96% of $113B – pre-LNKD purchase), RHT (42% of $2.0B), SYMC (93% of $5.6B – post-BC), VMW (77% of $7.5B), VRSN (68% of $1.9B). We believe the chances increase of a larger share repurchase or (lesser chance) dividend from these companies.”
Apple & Amazon are not in a good situation - they’ll be a good test of WTF happens. Meanwhile, tech stocks dropping a bit.
Ovum has a shit ton of quick analysis, all free:
Fear of US public cloud companies, globally. Remember the freak-out from NSA stuff? Same idea. I think the Gemans got over it.
Outsources:
“A massive curtailing of H-1B visas, for example, will mean providers will need to make immediate shifts in what they’re able to offer customers locally, unless or until they’re able to compensate with talent.”
“For providers, there’s also the unanswered question of the impact on US government spending.”
[Education](https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/ - some proposals for de-centralizing, meaning fragmentation of IT spend.
Government talent, regulations, and spending - “If there is a large exodus of high-caliber and skilled staff, how will departments fill the gap? It also raises the question of funding for programs aimed at modernizing tech in the federal government such as F18 and FedRAMP. Trump might reduce the barriers to swapping out tech and push down expenditure that way. Certainly, the high cost and length of time needed to get Authority to Operate (ATO) under FedRAMP has been a barrier to uptake.”
Telcos - other than him stating he’d stop the AT&T/TimeWarner merger, telco stuff is very unclear. No one’s sure what the traditional Republican +/- Trump equals, or what the formula is.
M&A from Brenon@451: “Chinese buyers probably won't be shopping as freely in the US in the coming years.” They spent $14bn this year, I think.
Chinese buyers have recently picked up Ingram Micro, which swings nearly $50bn worth of tech gear and services each year, 25-year-old printer maker Lexmark and even a majority stake in the gay dating app Grindr." Also see shorter blog post with chart of Chinese M&A spend.
Snowden for Head of NSA!.
Follow-up
That’s how you do it!
We got actual comments!
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode
Matt wrote up an Amazon ECS thing
The blog entry
Doing Business in Japan
Not new, but a good primer.
Recommendations
Brandon: New season of The Startup podcast
Matt: TransferWise for transferring money abroad. A16Z on TransferWise.
Coté:
“Tighten Up.”, Archie Bell & The Drells - once you’re done being depressed, get your shit back together.
HSAs.
Meanwhile, this “pastrami burger” at 3 Greens Market in Chicago is AMAZING.
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Cincinnati - Nov 10
St. Louis - Nov 14
Hartford - Nov 16
Denver - Nov 18
New York - Nov 22
Los Angeles - Nov 28
Pivotal: Omaha Cloud Native Roadshow - Coté is giving the opening keynote, and jabbering through-out the day. Join Pivotal and ProKarma technologists for this half-day workshop where you will discover how you can accelerate software development on a modern cloud platform without compromising operations.
1 hr 22 min
November 04, 2016Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile.
Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.
Show Notes
Follow-up
Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap.
Check out the last episode, the show page is- God-damned nifty!
Review in iTunes France
Osprey “one bag” style backpack.
The Best Uber Driver Ever
Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan.
The Sweat Hotel
Coté’s Agile shit
Excerpt from a PDF in process.
IBM design people.
We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.
It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming.
UK GDS rant.
Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture
How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.
Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions
The Product Manager's Lament.
If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile
The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on - leave some comments!
The End-roll Mid-roll
Coté: Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference.
Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.
Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows.
Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
OpenStack Anyone?
There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona
35% annual growth sounds good
With friends like these…: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”
Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”
OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms."
Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week.
New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million
Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like
Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY
http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide
Adrian Cockcroft to AWS
This is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;)
AWS Server Migration Service
“automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.”
Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming
Thanks for the partnership VMware!
RackN gets Funding
Looks like a seed round, yay for Rob.
The Barbarian Establishment
Economist on Private Equity
“private equiteers”
“The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.”
“This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.”
Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter
“The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.”
Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31%
IBM
Hiring lots of people?
Stackanetes as a Product?
“OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it”
VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks
Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle.
“hope is not a strategy.”
“VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.”
Picks
Brandon: Westworld.
Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices, in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants.
Matt: Tokyo!
Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair!
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Omaha Cloud Native Roadshow - Coté is giving the opening keynote, and jabbering through-out the day. Join Pivotal and ProKarma technologists for this half-day workshop where you will discover how you can accelerate software development on a modern cloud platform without compromising operations.
DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016.
Promo Code: SDT2016
Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
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Cincinnati - Nov 10
St. Louis - Nov 14
Hartford - Nov 16
Denver - Nov 18
New York - Nov 22
Los Angeles - Nov 28
1 hr 10 min
October 21, 2016Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack
With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Mid-roll
Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney.
Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.
VMware doing Kubernetes
VMware's post, and a product page.
Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff)
The New Stack coverage
BONUS LINKS, not covered in the show
Ubuntu 16.10
Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too
AWS & Government
Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government
Randy Bias Leaves EMC
OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle
2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition
Heading to… Juniper
Cisco is AWS Skeptical
Good luck with that
What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei
Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten
Recommendations
Brandon: Accused Podcast.
Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty”
Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera. Apple Live Photos.
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Check out the free cloud native road-show in Kansas City, November 2nd. Coté will be there and you can see Pivotal Cloud Foundry in action, all for free.
DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016.
Promo Code: SDT2016
Links:
VMware Photon to Present ‘Kubernetes as a Service’ - The New Stack
53 min
October 14, 2016Episode 75: "AWS and VMware are having a LAN party” or “Matt Ray’s deep story” or “some five year old gibberish”
Summary
Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics!
See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Sponsors/Mid-roll
Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations.
Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Matt at DevOps Sydney October 20.
Matt at AWS North Sydney October 25.
Show notes
Follow-up
Buy-side commentary on Oracle storming the AWS castle
Those reviews are awesome, thanks so much!
I’ll be re-jiggering the podcast back end again, so expect some annoying weirdness (fireside.fm appears to be awesome, if expensive)
So who’s buying Twitter?
Tyler Cowe’s short term focus and going private escape hatch.
VMware and AWS
“VMware Cloud on AWS”
“The service will be operated, sold and supported by VMware (not AWS) but integrate with the rest of AWS’ cloud portfolio (think storage, database, analytics and more).”
https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/aws-blinked–20cddbb537ed#.9cuvcp75o
“these customers will go to Cloud, but its really a glorified co-lo.”
“AWS should be encouraging customers to develop their workloads to take advantage of Cloud ( microservices, serverless etc ) and not delay it further.”
InfoWorld piece:
They keep talking about hybrid cloud, but what does that mean here? Just “we use multiple cloud types/providers,” or one application running across different clouds?
“As part of the deal, VMware will be AWS’s preferred private cloud partner and Amazon will be VMware’s preferred partner in the public cloud.”
Some MSP action: “One of the key differences between this deal and the one VMware announced with IBM in February is that this service is being offered and managed by VMware.”
“Interested customers can request access to the service’s private beta starting Thursday, but VMware doesn’t expect the service to be live until early next year. General availability of VMware cloud on AWS will have to wait until even later in 2017.”
Brief 451 note
No data in DevOps
Google Devices Roundup, and AI interlude
Revisiting the Apple or Google ecosystem question. I hate having to think about ecosystems when buying electronics.
And AI.
Walt Mossberg Thinks Siri is Dumb
Wired Interview with Obama - dude knows AI.
BONUS LINKS, not covered in podcast
Container Madness!
Nothing much new, just content to riff on
Microsoft shipping Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine
Red Hat and containers - relabel, transitioned from originally a PaaS to CaaS.
DockerCon coming to Austin
Opentracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Announcement
Open tracing
Luke transitions to new Puppet CEO
Luke’s announcement in Twitter
Luke is one of the main people who started all this stuff, based on annoyance of BladeLogic, cfengine, etc.
Did I ever tell the one of how I did a terrible sales job getting Reductive Labs signed up with RedMonk?
The new dude looks like the real deal of enterprise infrastructure.
Recommendations
Matt: Warren Ellis’ Normal - From his latest newsletter “What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once," Zapp Branigan reading Trump quotes
Brandon: Slate Plus. Also, Harry’s Blades.
Coté: iPhone 7 Plus. Live Photos, Rotate mode, Bokeh stuff actually in beta, Home button takes getting used to, Two speakers is better?
52 min
October 01, 2016 Episode 74: Being a tech evangelist, with Bridget Kromhout
This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.
48 min
September 22, 2016Episode 73: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle
Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
SPONSOR
Check out cote.io/pivotal for free books, free cloud time, etc.
Come to DellEMCWorld on Oct 18th to 20th, in Austin. I'll be speaking there.
There's also the annual vBBQ event, Oct 17th at the Salt Like. Pivotal is sponsoring (check out my CORPORATE AMEX, BITCHES!). Come to it, it's mostly free-ish.
For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
Show notes
Wordpress Talk
Pantheon
Dreamhost
WP Engine
macOS Sierra
Try rebooting.
Can't get Apple Watch thing to work. Bartender broke-dick.
What have you done for me lately, FREE SOFTWARE?
(Just freed up 15 gigs of space with the storage optimizer, so, there's that.)
Also, ordered a ~$1,000 phone today. JESUS!
Another way to find big files on OS X.
YubiKey support for OSX
Oracle is gonna cream AWS. Wait, wut?
Lydia has a good write-up. She's a bit wry, you know.
This is like the 3rd or 4th go at it.
To be an apologist: doing cloud is freakin' hard. Maybe Oracle should try being less of a jerk rhetorically though? It's help with their credibility.
Ben Thompson is on the case
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
This week in tech PE
Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion
Microservices - Please don't
Maybe microservices ain't all they're cracked up to be
5 "truths" (spoiler, maybe not)
It keeps the code cleaner
It's easy to write things that only have one purpose
They're faster than monoliths
It's easy for engineers to not all work in the same codebase
It's the simplest way to handle autoscaling, plus Docker is in here somewhere
This piece by my man Kenny is ball-exploding awesome.
Too Old to Code?
Tim Bray is old and codes.
"That's fine for you, Marge, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. ... Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.". – Homer Simpson
Recommendations
Brandon: Reminders App
Matt: Usual Suspects; also, my wife’s blog
Coté: Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets, Red - $37.90 at Amazon: only 16 left in stock! GOOD PRICE! Also, don’t get Fantastical...if you’re like me.
1 hr
September 22, 2016 BONUS: DevOpsDays DFW, with ADO and The Food Right Show
At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.
58 min
September 16, 2016Episode 72: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.”
It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Show Notes
Twitter going to sell:
The rumors
“I still think Alphabet makes for the most logical acquirer of Twitter”
Dark Horse: Apple.
Really Dark Horse: IBM.
This Week in Tech PE: HPE Spins off Software
They got divested
“HPE will be retaining tools that support the company’s cloud and infrastructure businesses but will be spinning off tools for application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management, governance and IT operations management.”
From what I know of HPE, this seems to be overlapping. I’d love a list of “stays vs. goes”
Q3 2017, and you thought Dell/EMC was slow
Where does this leave HP? Will they acquire more SW or stay a “systems” company.
It makes you realize how “small” their SW group was.
Coté’s notebook on this topic.
Also, Thoma Bravo says it gets, like, 20-45% returns on assets it takes private.
Mid-roll
Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Lead-gen free webinar with an actual, real customer talking about cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. An analyst and Coté too.
Check out my Sep. column over on The Register, about ROI and shit for DevOps. I’m really desperate to answer this “question.” Put on some high-waders and check out the comments, leave some to go spice it up in that asylum.
For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event.
Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
Google buying Apigee. The whole API Economy thing.
They got bought!
More
Hear us talk about it on Pivotal Conversations: the gigantic strangler pattern!
MASHUPS FTW!
Hashicorp Gets $24 million B-round
Vault Enterprise, Nomad Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise
Coté: what’s the deal with these folks? Are they a competitor to all us?
Blogging is dead
Coté gets better views/reads in Medium than on his broke-dick blog. (Maybe about 80-100 RSS subscribers.)
This makes him sad and confused about what he should do.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
A16Z Not Best of the Best?
Clickbait
“Thought(sp?) it may fall short of some rivals, the company outperforms the average fund: Overall, its three funds have almost doubled their investment capital since inception.”
What’s Cisco Up To?
Our favorite Halo Effect company
What’s up with “software defined networking”? I was talking with someone recently and they posited that it’s
“dead-as-in-over-cause-all-the-big-cos-won.” Plus NSX does a lot (1,700 customers), right?
Short History of Open Source Forks
Lots of examples of successful open source forks
“Oracle doesn’t seem to have a very good reputation with open source communities.”
OS X <- NeXT <- “select parts of BSD”
Thoughts on Nano Windows Server 2016
Is this the future of Windows (no Windows)?
Moving from Docker to Rocket
Bumps in the road but rkt is staying “smaller” per last week’s conversation.
Picks
Brandon: The Night Of.
Coté: Complete Works of HP Lovecraft. Checks out. Also see the series of commentary from the two authors over on tor.com.
Matt: Silent music videos: Dancing In The Streets (And, the original). The Terror. They found the boat.
1 hr 4 min
September 02, 2016Episode 71: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants
Eventually, you have to decide how your open source software is going to make money, and your partners probably won’t like it. That’s what the dust-up around Docker is this week, it seems to us. We also talk briefly about VMware’s big conference this week, and rumors of HPE selling off it’s Software group to private equity.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
SPONSOR
Check out the multi-cloud webinar lead-gen free! I really like Brian’s part and then the discussion at the end between all of us.
I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year. It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16.
Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Show notes
Nippers - "Nippers learn about safety at the beach. They learn about dangers such as rocks, and animals (e.g. the blue-ringed octopus), and also about surf conditions, such as rip currents, sandbars, and waves. Older Nippers also learn some basic first aid and may also learn CPR when they reach the age of 13."
Can someone explain this “Docker forking” hoopla?
Coté’s write-up.
Docker Inc. doesn’t want to be a commoditized building block
From a Red Hat person: “The conflict started to escalate earlier this summer, when Docker Inc used its controlling position to push Swarm, it’s own clone of Kubernetes-style container orchestration, into the core Docker project, putting the basic container runtime in a conflict with a notable part of its ecosystem. Docker Inc. then went on to essentially accuse Red Hat of forking Docker - at the Red Hat Summit no less. After that, Docker Inc’s Solomon Hykes came out strongly against the efforts to standardize the container runtime in OCI - an initiative his company co-founded.”
Re: that episode where we discuss Docker ecosystem challenges: “Yet on a regular basis, Red Hat patches that enable valid requirements from Red Hat customer use cases get shut down as it seems for the simple reason that they don’t fit into Docker Inc’s business strategy.”
A fight over where to draw the line between free/open/commodified and costs/proprietary/competitive: "And while I personally consider the orchestration layer the key to the container paradigm, the right approach here is to keep the orchestration separate from the core container runtime standardization. This avoids conflicts between different layers of the container runtime: we can agree on the common container package format, transport, and execution model without limiting choice between e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm."
Don't bring a pistol to a bazooka fight. Enterprises love RHEL - have you ever tried to sell Ubuntu into organizations? It’s like what selling NT must have been like.
VMware hybrid cloud solutionaring
Brief notebook from Coté. More coverage
Keywords “mostly cloud”
A representative, not too poorly supported VMware obit
NSX up in the cloud
This Week in Tech Private Equity…
HPE looking to sell off Software group, sources say.
“hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion”
“HPE's software unit generated $3.6 billion in net revenue in 2015, down from $3.9 billion in 2014.”
Dell/EMC thing set to close on Sep 7th, 2016
Quest Software, One Identity To Operate Separately From SonicWall After Dell Software Sale
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in podcast.
Spaces vs. Tabs
The data delivers the truth (spaces)
Recommendations
Matt: Bubble-sort algorithm explained with Hungarian ("Csángó") folk dance
Brandon: LastChanceU
Coté: Ulysses - I don’t think there’s any expensive text editors left for me to buy. [This American Life's Worst Song Ever], hear it.
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August 27, 2016Episode 70: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.”
This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya.
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With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
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Show notes
RAX goes private for $4.3bn
The usual need to hide from the Wall Street eye
OpenStack dead, again.
"Tough times ahead".
"There was a time when it was hard to read an article about OpenStack without hearing about 'pets vs. cattle,' and OpenStack was designed to herd cattle"
"It has itself become a big, complex pet, which is why Mirantis and others can make a living providing services, software and training."
What could have happened: (1.) "we can beat AWS," or, (2.) "containers, shoulda thought of that."
Innovation is hard, esp. business-wise
How could you compete with AWS?
Word vs. Google Docs vs. Office 365.
Uber has spent at least $4bn?
BONUS LINKS! Not Covered in show
AWS Sentinel is Coming
Skunkworks-ish project from AWS for managed services. Potentially lots of partner conflict
"MSPs need to work with customers to convert their infrastructure to Platform-as-a-Service using microservices architecture," said one AWS partner. "They also need to bring DevOps into the heart of the organization. Unfortunately, most MSPs don't have the developers that truly understand this."
“Few AWS Partners Are Really Surprised By Sentinel's Emergence“
MariaDB switches away from open source license
MaxScale proxy switching to commercial-only license
“The MaxScale move shows MariaDB Corporation wants to switch from a Red Hat-style service and support model to a Sugar-style sole-vendor approach.”
Hashicorp Shuts Down Otto
Interesting to see an open source project publicly shut down.
Microsoft Open Sources Powershell
Coverage
MSFT blog post
Follows open-sourcing of .NET earlier this year
available for Linux and Mac OS
Recommendations
Brandon: first US college football game in Australia
Matt: Rugby, help me learn it.
Coté: BCG on two speed IT; Wizard of Oz series.
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