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Episode 148: What do these consultants do anyway?
28 september 2018 · 46 min
We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help with your cloud projects. Lees meer
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Amazon's 11 new products from its big event - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside
Software provider Solarwinds files for IPO
Slack has made its biggest acquisition to date
In praise of SWARMing
Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release
Announcing Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure - Chef Blog
Microsoft Ignite 2018: Windows Virtual Desktop, Office 2019 and everything else just announced
Flexera acquires RightScale to combine software asset, cloud management | ZDNet
Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service
Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide
PKS 1.2 Adds AWS: More Multi-cloud for Your Kubernetes
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3, Powered by Industrialized Open Source, Helps You
Revenge of the PMO | Silicon Valley Product Group
Conferences, et. al.
Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor in action at FutureStack on the 2nd.
Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup.
Oct 4th - ITQ Transform, Utrecht - Coté talking.
Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting!
Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting!
Discount Code
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam.
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th.
Nov 14…
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Episode 147: Strategy, the systems management company lifecycle, or, Adobe didn’t fuck it up!
21 september 2018 · 1 uur 8 min
There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA Lees meer
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Americano coffee vs long black.
“Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems
Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater
Oracle president Thomas Kurian is taking time away from the company
New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round
Atlassian to pay $295M for Boston-based OpsGenie
Nancy Gohring and co analyze the deal.
No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different: “The work of operations is changing and the skills required to do that work are changing. The platforms and tools involved are evolving (but don't forget the decades of legacy code that isn't!). Organizational silos are breaking down, and developers and operators are co-mingling as peer engineers.”
Jenkins: Shifting Gears - Coté: recently, I don’t think I’ve heard any one say “yay! Jenkins!” What’s the deal with it? Is Jenkins now bad?
Vapor IO Raises PE Funding, Buys Out Nascent Edge Colocation Business from Crown Castle
In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free
Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo - sources
“Adobe, which has a market capitalization of $130 billion, has topped analysts’ profit and revenue estimates for the past eight quarters, driven by strength in its digital media business, which houses its flagship product Creative Cloud.”
Johnny Leadgen is interested.
Adobe really pulled off a successful strategy. Geoffrey More’s systems of interaction (‘member that?), some CMS/market…
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Episode 146: The 2018 State of DevOps Report, a gander
6 september 2018 · 1 uur
This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Lees meer
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2018 State of DevOps Report, DORA edition:
Coté’s notes.
Effective DevOps.
“Thread.” (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!)
VMworld 2018 Recap.
VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications.
Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world.
Elastic S-1. Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN.
H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin. Hopefully Buddy will crush it.
https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990
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Conferences, et. al.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table.
New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Oct 1st and 2nd - Coté on a partner panel, also, come see The Governor. Later that night, Oct 2nd, Coté speaking at a meetup, topic TBD.
ITQ Transform, Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking.
DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle.
JDriven Managers summit, O…
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Episode 145: Redis be like “I just stepped into a big pile of…SaaSy!”
31 augustus 2018 · 1 uur
This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections. Lees meer
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Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices
Michael Coté from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ
Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz
Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump?
What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative?
Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI
O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations
Slack just raised a whopping $427 million to become a $7.1 billion company. Now, it has to defeat Microsoft.
Apple Pay Now Accepted at All Costco Warehouses in United States.
10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey.
Announcing resource-based pricing for Google Compute Engine.
DevOps Report 2018 released. Will talk about it next week. Until then, enjoy 78 pages of landscape PDF glory. Spoiler alert: elite high performers are elite high performers. Pivotal has a webinar on Oct 11th about it.
Community management is a career cul-de-sac. See interview next week.
Good example of corpdev thinking, in the US (legal) drugs market.
“Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community.”
Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses.
VMworld NA 2018
VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management -
Carl@451: “Primarily a cost management and analysis platform, it has roughly 3,500 users and has also grown to cover automation, security and governance with a broad, API-based management platform for the major public clouds: AWS, Azure and GCP. CloudHealth mainly operates in the US, meaning VMwa…
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Bonus Episode -- Interview with Dustin Kirkland from Google
23 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 18 min
This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more conversations like this one. Lees meer
Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup.
Links:
Dustin’s Blog
Dustin on Twitter
Dustin’s presentation at Google Next
Run-one
Vasa Museum
Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.
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Episode 144: GDPR, Observability, & more on the mystery of serverless, still with half-assed research
17 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 6 min
“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” Lees meer
The title says it all.
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Observations on Observability
https://medium.com/@copyconstruct
This GDPR madness has to stop, son!
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless
State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined
AWS Serverless Application Repository
Taking Tesla Private
CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 - not too bad so far.
Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS?
A developer’s view of getting up and running with kubernetes.
“Progressive delivery,” see also James Governor on the term.
Nonsense
It’s raining tacos
AWS icon quiz
To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume
“I took the cool out of Cool Rick.”
Conferences, et. al.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey!
DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th.
DevOpsDays Pari…
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Episode 143: Serverless now just means “programming”
10 augustus 2018 · 1 uur
After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just moved to Amsterdam, there’s some Amsterdam talk. Lees meer
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Everyone’s favorite Outlook feature, now in G Suite.
Do we know what “serverless” is yet? Someone named that got some funding.
Related, Istio 1.0: “It is aiming to be a control plane, similar to the Kubernetes control plane, for configuring a series of proxy servers that get injected between application components. It will actually look at HTTP response codes and if an app component starts throwing more than a number of 500 errors, it can redirect the traffic.” MUST BE THIS HIGH TO RIDE!
Follow-up: Brenon at 451 says Broadcom is gonna have to sell off some stuff to make it’s margin targets. The mainframe profits are too high, while distributed is low enough to throw the margins out of whack. So, sell off distributed to Micro Focus? To PE BMC? Or a bad analysis.
Austin Regional Clinic is in Apple Health records. Pretty nift…
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Episode 142: Harness that peer pressure for good
27 juli 2018 · 59 min
"Harness that peer pressure for good” Lees meer
This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes.
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Google Next
GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud
Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle
Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud
IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project
Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available
Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform
Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors
Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (Supports AWS and GCP)
Matt’s skeptical
https://deltacloud.apache.org/
https://libcloud.apache.org/
https://github.com/fog/fog
Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers
IBM stock rises after earnings beat
SolarWinds | SolarWinds Acquires Trusted Metrics
Cisco, networking stocks drop on a report Amazon Web Services is considering selling network devices
Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent
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Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of cloud native vendor product management
12 juli 2018 · 1 uur
We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.” Lees meer
Important nonsense
Vinsanto is the Greek wine Coté was talking about.
No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo.
Coté rides a Lime scooter
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AT&T to Acquire AlienVault
Broadcom buying CA:
Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. "Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly $2.2bn in the 2017-2018 financial year, followed by its enterprise solutions segment at $1.75bn and services at $311m."
Coté’s 7 tips for becoming a software company, 2016.
“Wait… what?”
Basho investor to pay up $20m in damages for campaign that put biz on 'greased slide to failure'
Coté: what was Davenport’s plan to profit?
A customer complaint about Google Cloud went viral last week, and now Google is doing damage control to 'ensure this does not happen again’
The mysterious value of dancing hot dog shares, i.e., Snap: ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company does, and that right now you can sell that share on the stock exchange for $13.31. But that evades rather than answering the question: What does …
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Episode 140: Meanwhile, in microchips…
6 juli 2018 · 1 uur
For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids. Lees meer
Meet us in Austin
Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks & Socializing
# Important nonsenseCoté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation. What do you call that stuff?
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Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn - that’s 9.5 Red Hats!
Ding dong Dell deal: Firm is set to go public again
Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images
5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development
Intel veteran departs Google Cloud unit
“What your innovation process should look like,” Steve Blank, and a newer piece on the topic.
What gets me about these things is (a.) they sound real correct, and, (b.) the operational advice is “well, you should do this stuff.”
This one, though, has a good distinction between the innovator force and the get shit done force (“entrepreneur.”)
Adoption Profile: Public Cloud In Europe, Q2 2018
Kubernetes korner
Pivotal Container Service 1.1, Now GA, Helps You Run Kubernetes Without Complexity. Why PKS Just Works.
Kubernetes-fil-A, and interview - running kubernetes in-store for those sweet waffle fries.
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Conferences, et. al.
July 10th, Austin Cloud Native Meetup - The .Net Cloud-Native Renaissance - Coté’s co-host on Pivotal Conversations, Richard Seroter, brings the .Net flavor.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour…
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Episode 139: “Docker? Never heard of ‘em.”
29 juni 2018 · 1 uur 5 min
Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts. Lees meer
Meet us in Austin
Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 -- Software Defined Talk -- Drinks & Socializing
Important nonsense
What does it mean when you wear Thrasher t-shirt?
Follow-up: duffel bags, they work. One got unzipped slightly, so probably should zip-tie the zippers.
Texas’ Favorite Grocery Store HEB Opens Taco Restaurant
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
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You’ve got Money!
Splunk to Acquire Software Problem-Solver VictorOps for $120 Million
The IPOs keep coming: The search company Elastic has filed to go public
BuildGroup Raises $330 Million of Permanent Capital to Build Great Software
DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses
CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform
Software considered hard
Why software giants are failing
What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
Also, more on Oracle’s financials.
DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO
Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
“What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley …
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Episode 138: 8 Duffle bags, some permitted food enhancer and, GitHub goes to Redmond
7 juni 2018 · 53 min
GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announced the first live in person Software Defined Talk meetup in July somewhere in Austin. Don’t miss it. Lees meer
GitHub got bought
Price: $7.5bn in stock. Getting Microsoft stock now is probably good, should have good growth over next 3 to five years (the golden handcuff period, etc.).
See the overview deck from Microsoft.
Very qualitative, not much (or any) business case numbers stuff.
Will “operate independently,” Microsoft’s Nat Friedman to be CEO of GitHub, reporting up to Scott Guthrie.
Does this imply Microsoft will be moving OSS stuff to the GitHub business?
How does this fit with TFS, whatever “Sourcesafe” is now? Coté has no idea about the current state of that business, esp. w/r/t to git. Slides say there’s be the usual seamless integration in VisualStudio, also some marketplace thing additions (presumably, pull in GitHub repos).
Don’t forget the private cloud version of GitHub, plus using it for cloud native/DevOps config storage and release management stuff.
Microsoft’s blog post, GitHub’s blog post.
Google Was Bidding Against Microsoft For GitHub, Report Says | CRN Mobile
# Kubernetes KornerFour years after release of Kubernetes 1.0, it has come a long way
Enterprise hits and misses - AI hits the curve, SAP subverts the two-speed enterprise
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Episode 137: “I didn’t choose the Immortan Joe life-style, it chose me.”
1 juni 2018 · 48 min
There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors. Lees meer
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DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Follow up
Did Matt watch The Tick? (Spoiler alert: no.)
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BA now part of TSA Pre. Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. It’s hard to find where to enter this: on individual flights?
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording, slides.
Cloud is a six-horse race, and three of those have been lapped
State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem
Kubernetes won - so now what?
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. The Full Gartner MQ. Register coverage.
IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and be more competitive, among other survey findings. And, as always, “the biggest barriers are people oriented.” Get the Infor sponsored PDF if you’re into this kind of thing.
Infrastructure software is back! Also, Amazon’s DB has huge growth.
“Full Life-cycle Developers” at Netflix
Like SRE, but “platform ops.”
Which is to say, something like, “shallow DevOps.”
“Netflix created cent…
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Episode 136: That time Matt didn’t eat for 24 hours, or, #chefconf 2018
25 mei 2018 · 59 min
“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs. Lees meer
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th. You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save 20%.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Follow-up
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless, it’s amazingly good and helpful.
#chefconf
Chef Automate 2.0:
Don’t worry, it’s been rewritten in Go.
Scott Carey: “with the release of Chef Automate 2.0 during Chef Conf in Chicago this week, the company is focusing on building a platform on these three pillars: infrastructure, apps and compliance, setting the company up for wherever the future takes it.”
CEO’s keynote summary.
On-prem Habitat Builder.
Chef Workstation.
Matt tells you how suck out some InSpec stuff from Terraform.
How CapitalOne uses Chef:
“[M]ore than 15,000 nodes for dev, QA, and production environments, all hosted on AWS”
They like public cloud (quote from 2017 article): “About 40 percent of our production workload is on AWS now. At 40 pe…
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Episode 135: Coté's magical, mystery mortgage application workflow, or, "serverless: WTAFF?!"
18 mei 2018 · 1 uur 28 min
We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. Lees meer
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless, it’s amazingly good and helpful.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt This week Datadog wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th. You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018
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Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes
Another thing k8s doesn’t do…I guess? “The eight-person Seattle-based startup plans to build a platform that will let Kubernetes users interested in multicloud deployments build services that scale across multiple public clouds and help those companies deploy their applications across those environments.”
DC/OS for all the DC/OS’es. It’s DC/OS’es all the way down.
(I’m glad they linked to the wikipedia definition for “lingua franca.”)As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
This about 1/3 of what a good, internal strategy memo would be. Needs market-sizing, forecasts, and, well, more numbers. If it also said what action to take, you’d have most of it there.Is K8s Too Complicated?
AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them
You know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this: “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL THAT MEANS!”
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Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities”
11 mei 2018 · 1 uur 6 min
Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon. Lees meer
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Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion more coverage from George Leopold.
Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month
Oath to Use More AWS Cloud as It Expands Video Play
Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways from Jeffery Hammond at Forrester
RedHat OpenShift running on Azure Stack and Azure, partnership.
See also the RedHat/IBM partnership along the same lines, plus nifty history of the two collaborating.
Miniature ponies!
CoreOS folded into Red Hat product suite, the old “reverse integration.”
The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018
15 Google I/O announcements.
Serverless Survey: +77% Delivery Speed, 4 Dev Workdays/Mo Saved & -26% AWS Monthly Bill
Related, Serverless to take over like space carpets.
Azure at Microsoft Build Announcements| Microsoft Azure
JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal
AWS numbers reveal extent of Aussie growth
IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere
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Episode 133: If only there was some way to automate software deploys, hopefully with yaml…?
5 mei 2018 · 1 uur 12 min
There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud native land. We then discuss Red Hat’s Operators, Chef, and related ways to package up applications and related configuration for deployment onto cloud platforms. Plus, once again, we finally solve how to calendar better. Lees meer
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Kubernetes. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018
Housekeeping
Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast if you like Coté shit.
Week’s wunderkammer
Calendaring - Coté uses BusyCal, anything better? I can’t get behind that Fantastical as I want full visual, not that weird listing thing. Am I wrong?
Avengers corner: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets: “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with traditional femininity.”
Relevant to your interests
Kube…
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Episode 132: Capturing dumpling juice, the Pentagon selects AWS, & Thor
30 april 2018 · 1 uur 5 min
Eating dumplings, it turns out, is more complicated than just sticking them in your dumpling hole, as Coté found out in Bangkok thanks to a Singaporean friend. We’re live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Jakarta this episode, just Coté and Matt Ray. We discuss the Pentagon’s stubbornness of (seemingly) picking just one cloud provider for their major cloud project and then have an oddly lengthy discussion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Lees meer
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Week’s wunderkammer
SmugMug buys flickr - Coté can’t download all his photos.
DevOpsDays Jakarta, 2018.
Relevant to your interests
US military says “get of my lawn, you kids” to AWS mono-usage
‘Rival contractors complain that the winner-take-all approach favors Amazon.com Inc., the biggest supplier of cloud services. But Pentagon officials made clear they have little patience for continuing debate over the issue. In response to a question on the “rationale for a single award for this contract,” the answer posted was blunt: “This rationale is not going to be published at this time.”’
More: “It was a decision the department made based on its needs, so adding context there doesn’t benefit us.”
But, actually, it’s just one pick for now: “The contract, known as JEDI -- for the the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Program -- won’t prevent the Defense Department f…
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Episode 131: How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ, plus, PE in systems management
20 april 2018 · 54 min
It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon and Coté discuss that. Also, a detailed HOWTO on eating Texas BBQ. Lees meer
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Housekeeping
Listen to Brandon and Satish talk about product management on Software Defined Interviews.
Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast if you like Coté shit.
Week’s wunderkammer
New MacBook Pro:
The touchbar is pretty cool. I do keep hitting “back” because I’m used to resting my fingers on that part of the keyboard. Whatever.
The speakers are very nice too, like the iPad Pro.
Migrate Utility is either easy to screw up or not fully baked.
Dropbox gets a little confused with how long something will take.
USB-C: I’m just here so I don’t get fined.
How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ
Order a plate - two meats (always brisket if it's your first time, then lady's choice), beans, Cole slaw. I’d skip the bread, but load up on onions, and pickles if they’re you’re thing
Eat all the BBQ.
Eat with your fingers.
Don't put sugar on your meat.
Don’t tell people how to eat BBQ, or argue about dry rubs and sauce. Just eat.
Relevant to your interests
HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian:
451: “A…
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Episode 130: CROSS-OVER BONUS! Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio - Software Defined Interviews
12 april 2018 · 1 uur 30 min
Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on. Lees meer
Also, Coté helps you turn eating sugar-encrusted pecans into a Buddhist moment.
See original show notes for more.
And, if you liked it: subscribe to Software Defined Interviews if you don't already!
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Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you!
6 april 2018 · 52 min
“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.” Lees meer
We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and compliance area. Plus, Cloudflare’s new consumer DNS service, The Man in the High Castle, and Oracle goes after those sweet government cloud contracts. And, Coté gets a little too angry about Google Fiber giving his neighborhood the finger.
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they provide APM and distributed tracing for Java applications. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Relevant to your interests
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Auditing - what you do after AD integration. AWS aggregating compliance gunk.
AWS Summit SF: Most definitely not a sales event, nuh uh, no way
AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
AWS Config Rules Update: Aggregate Compliance Data Across Accounts and Regions
Oracle’s Safra Catz Raises Amazon Contract Fight With Trump
Simon Wardley’s Serverless Tea Bet
Microsoft’s Windows chief departs as the company pushes further toward AI and the cloud
The End of Windows
State of DevOps Report now DORA + Google - not doing it with Puppet. Puppet layoffs not related!
Zenoss Announces Partnership With Google Cloud
Apple hires Google’s former AI boss to help improve Siri
Nonsense
The Man in the High Castle, which is not really anything like …
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Episode 128: “Mark’s home, actually, it costs about the same as this”
30 maart 2018 · 1 uur 6 min
Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the Google/Oracle case around Java’s copyright. Lees meer
Listener Feedback
Eric Larson says Coté is wrong there is no zen in pulling weeds.
Craig from Ontario says we are doing a great job and emailed for a sticker
John Mitchell from Duke Energy got a sticker and did an interview with us here.
That French steak house.
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Oracle's Founder Larry Ellison Says Austin Campus is Going to Grow to 10,000
Google-Oracle high-stakes dustup returns to court — with billions on the line
Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case
Pivotal Software files for IPO
Finally, a more coherent IBM story?
Facebook confirms it records users' call history, stoking furor
Getting acquainted with Kubernetes 1.10, CoreOS
Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off
Apollo Is Considering IPO of Cloud-Hosting Firm Rackspace
$13 billion Atlassian explains how the 'joy of missing out' led it to totally reinvent one of its core products
As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy
GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub and deeper Kubernetes integration…
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Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook
24 maart 2018 · 47 min
We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall. Lees meer
Matt Ray’s Facebook links
BIG SNAKE
Matt Ray’s son and a dog..?
Kangaroo vs. Bicyclist
Matt’s Coterie of Browser Plugins:
TrackMeNot
uBlock Origin
Ghostery
Privacy Badger
KB SSL Enforcer
TamperMonkey
Relevant to your interests
The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be.
The Facebook Brand
Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts
Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal
Salesforce buys a mule, but pays for a horse
Salesforce’s $6.5b acquisition of Mulesoft: what it means for the cloud ecosystem
Update: Red Hat could be a Google takeover target – a deal wouldn't be cheap
IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads
IBM's Watson Assistant is coming to IFTTT
Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling
Oracle's New Licenses Sales Drop While Revenue Meets Estimates
Don’t Anthropomorphize Larry the Lawnmower
Docker Cloud is shutting down • r/docker
Introducing Windows Server 2019 – now available in preview
Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
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Datadog wants you to know they monitor Kubernetes performance metrics. You try it by…
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Episode 126: “Broad, but an inch deep.”
16 maart 2018 · 53 min
This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and recommend never ordering the Bison Ribs. Lees meer
Fabric Solutions
Service Fabric is going open source.
“There’s a bit of history to this. We've been developing Service Fabric internally for Windows for close to a decade, and most of that time it was a Microsoft-internal platform, which means we have close to a decade's worth of internal Microsoft tools to migrate and processes to refine before we can put something usable out on GitHub.”
Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take.
Relevant to your interests
Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS?
IBM launches bare metal Kubernetes
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
Moogsoft Secures $40 Million in Series D Funding
RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z
Palo Alto Networks to acquire CIA-backed Evident.io for $300 million
a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith — From Microservices to DevOps
Nonsense
Toys R Us to Close All 800 of Its U.S. Stores
VIM Clutch
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial.
Datadog announces the general availability of log processing and analytics part of the their Unified Log Management that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial.
Conferences, et. al.
March 22-23, DevOps Talks Confere…
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Episode 125: Kubernetes was never for developers…probably. Hold on…hrm.
9 maart 2018 · 1 uur 15 min
Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever. Lees meer
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial.
Datadog announces the general availability of log processing and analytics part of the their Unified Log Management that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial.
CFP Spray
Coté’s new talks, Were’s Waldo ‘em!
DevOpsDays CFPs.
Events in papercall.io.
Bridget is organized AF.
Relevent to your interests
Coté’s Register piece on process and such changes that DevOps &co. brings.
The Kubernetes Lesson - O’Grady gives credit to developers for driving kubernetes interest. Nerd fight ensues.
Mesosphere DC/OS adds hybrid and multicloud management features.
Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups - people always be freaking out about companies making money off open source. I’d wager they pay the wages of most people who write and commit the code, and would happily do so if those folks wanted a job.
Related: Open Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software.
From Facebook to the Unabomber. So called “tech companies” have their problems, to be sure, but this kind of absurd shit has got to end.
Related: people are quickly thinking tech is bad.
Announcing the Flatcar Lin…
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Episode 124: “These pants are all too small,” or Dropbox and all the great public clouds
2 maart 2018 · 57 min
Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? Well, probably a lot more than where Apple, Spotify, and Dropbox run their stuff in - or out! - of the cloud, a topic we also discuss. Also, sheep-skin shoes are hot, too hot. Also, something about dtrace and zfs, I don’t know - just listen to it. Lees meer
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This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial.
Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts, which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/
What even is a “Dropbox”?
Now that we know they generated $1.1bn in revenue in CY2017 (with -10% op margins, translating to a loss of $111.7m and actual cash flow)…we should probably contemplate how they fit in.
451 estimates a valuation at $8bn+. More: “Dropbox has taken just over 10 years to go public since its founding in 2007, which we attribute to anxiety over its high private valuation, a sizable profitability gap, and the dour outlook often associated with the EFSS segment.”
More from 451: “Its net loss ($111m) shrank by nearly half from 2016 – a faster pace than its topline growth. Its relative sales and marketing costs are lower than most of its peers. The vendor spent 28% of its revenue on sales and marketing – half the level of Box, a fellow FSS compatriot that's half the size as Dropbox." Man, think of the shit-per diem an travel policies fo…
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Episode 123: Mesh, Monitoring & Compliance
22 februari 2018 · 58 min
This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices. Lees meer
Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods vs. H-E-B that’s what will divide families!
H-E-B buys Favor.
Amazon extends 5% back Prime credit card benefits to Whole Foods purchases
Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion
Brandon interviews JJ on this weeks Software Defined Interviews. Make sure to subscribe
Email us at stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com for free stickers.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial.
Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts, which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/
Compliance, Monitoring, Mesh & Design, Oh my!
Chef Software bids to automate compliance with new InSpec 2.0 release
Networking ruins everything! History of Service Mesh.
The RED Method: A New Approach to Monitoring Microservices
A print button? Mmkay. Let's explore WHY you need me to add that
xMatters snares $40 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing
The Road To 400G Ethernet Is Paved With Bechtolsheim’s Intentions
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
DevOpsDays Jakarta - April 26-27 Matt will be there
Derek Mazzone from KEXP
ChefConf 2018 - May 22-25 in Chicago
SxSW — Brandon in Austin giving out stickers
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast…
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Episode 122: Don’t get wasted at sales kick-off, & Coté needs to stop being so pessimistic
15 februari 2018 · 57 min
It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Coté complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs. Lees meer
Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion
Software Defined Interviews interview with Nancy Gohring.
Brandon has a JJ interview coming up, Feb 19th, 2018.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (and get a free Datadog T-shirt) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.
Yes, thank you, I’D LIKE A FREE T-SHIRT, SON!
Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ, and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications.
Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt!
Kubernetes Korner
Bluebox turned out well. Real A-Team over there.
Jay@451 has some Heptio packaging and pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported configuration, unlimited tickets and up to 25 nodes; Professional, intended for organizations that are growing their deployments, with up to three supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 250 nodes; Enterprise, for large, mission-critical environments that covers up to five supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 750 nodes; and a Custom version, intended for the largest web-scale environments of more than 750 nodes. Pricing starts at $24,000 per year for the Starter tier.”
Pivotal Contain…
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Episode 121: Does GDPR work? Cisco/AppDynamics, Solarwinds, & Honeycomb
8 februari 2018 · 29 min
Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews. There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ Lees meer
Also, if you’re interested in the Datadog write-ups on monitoring RabbitMQ and Java, check those out as well in addition getting a free t-shirt when you making your first dashboard by going to https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.
We’ll see you next week!
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts!
Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address.
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Episode 120: RedHat buys CoreOS, Heptio DOES NOT have a distro - the kubernetes kids are over their Christmas hangovers
6 februari 2018 · 56 min
Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix healthcare. Lees meer
75% of IT decision-makers believe “that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware,” @ripcitylyman & @alsadowski (@451Research).
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (and get a free Datadog T-shirt) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.
Yes, thank you, I’D LIKE A FREE T-SHIRT, SON!
Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ, and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications.
Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt!
KublaiKash: RedHat Buys CoreOS
Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.”
$50m in funding, since 2015, but CoreOS was started in 2013.
Matt Rosoff: “CoreOS has 130 employee…Docker, meanwhile, has raised more than $240 million.”
451 revenue estimates, July 2017, Jay Lyman: “CoreOS has about 120 employees [up from 75 reported in Sep 2016, “about 30 employees” in April 2015], and estimated annual revenue in the $15-20m range.” Sep 2016 customers: “CoreOS reports more than 1,000 paying customers across its products, with a solid group of CoreOS lightweight Linux clients and a growing number of Quay Enterprise and Tectonic customers.”
Plus, Ibid.: “ The company says most revenue is coming from…
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Episode 119: The ethics of fur lined shoes, bi-modal IT critiques, & Amazon HQ2
23 januari 2018 · 1 uur 8 min
Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking. Lees meer
Amazon HQ2
The Problem With Courting Amazon, The Atlantic.
Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle.
Why your city should avoid Amazon HQ2.
Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1.
The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin.
Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location.
An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of.
Tech ethics elsewhere
Facebook hoopla - “Trump 2.0” vs. “Obama 2.0.”
Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy.
iPhone Addiction.
“Owing” something to open source.
Work-place culture, diversity.
New Economy, Meet Old Continent
Digital publishers want platforms to pay up
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
'Need More Time'? Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a pretty good idea of quarterly earnings 3 years in advance
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
SDT news & hype
Keep up with the weekly newsletter. For example, a few issues back Coté went over some book recommendations based on what he read in 2017.
Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast.
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Recommendations
Brandon: All the Money in the World and Dark Money.
Coté: Friendly Fire podcast.
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WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Fear of FANG
19 januari 2018 · 1 uur 5 min
This week, regular Software Defined Talk listeners get a free episode of our members only podcast. If you like this, sign-up to get access to these extra episodes, about every week. We do a deep reading and analysis of various types of tech content, marketing, and other ephemera from press releases, books, presentations, and white papers. Plus, as with this episode, we just talk about tech ideas and news in general, in the course of being a critic. Lees meer
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Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling hardware, software, or even IT services (like Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Pivotal, etc.).
This week, we look at one write-up of this freaking out from The Economist. They also have a smaller version in their “Leaders” section. As always, there are much more extensive, detailed show notes available as well.
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Episode 118: Bad chips, garbage home IoT, & cloud spending
17 januari 2018 · 56 min
Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves. Lees meer
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Wemo IoT
All the devices - plugs, dimmers, HomeKit bridge (HomeKit is kinda garbage).
There’s plenty of IFTTT applets that do Wemo things, but…are they useful?
Those chip problems - what would you use them for?
What’s this mean?
Another Y2K? The world didn’t seem to end, so are we good?
The Register coverage, lots of gobbly-gook.
TPM estimates cost to IT departments to deal with it.
Suspicious stock sale, or maybe he just needed a new winter home.
What are people doing with exploits?
More IT spending in 2018, public cloud use growing
451 and IDC have some cloud forecast numbers out.
Ent. software growth.
Trad’l IT shrinking, but not too fast 451 days private cloud still the winner, but barely.
451 tracks by survey with plans to put workloads across the different types of infrastructure:
PaaS in not included (see a recent round-up of PaaS market-sizings, tho), but for 2019: public cloud totals ~37% (or 46.3% if you included hosted), private cloud 53.6%
IDC’s tracks hardware spend:
Meanwhile, an analyst says Azure had a gain on AWS in Q4: “Amazon Web Servic…
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Episode 117: Who is the CISO?
26 december 2017 · 1 uur
With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land from the CISO Exec Network joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security. Lees meer
Special Guest: Andy Land.
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Episode 116: Predictions &co.
19 december 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations. Lees meer
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Predictions
Coté, of course, used to do these: the last one, for 2015, at 451; 2009 at RedMonk (boy, I sure was full of piss and vinegar back then); some nonsense from 2014;
Coté: DevOps → SRE.
Coté: I met someone who described themselves as a “chatbot developer” last week. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades.
Ducy’s predictions.
Return to monoliths.
Survey of predictions from elsewhere
Good God, man! - something about the role of AI in appdev.
“AIOps” - please, kill me now. (To be fair, I think it down-shifts to ML pretty quick-like. Still)
Gartner’s mode-salad: “Through 2020, n-tier bimodal workloads will encompass 50% of existing Mode 1 workloads and 80% of new Mode 2 workloads.”
I think this means: “50% of old applications will be n-tier, and 80% of new apps will be n-tier,” where “n-tier” means not “client/server, hosted and peer-to-peer architectures.”
Serverless, Gartner: “By 2020, 90% of serverless deployments will occur outside the purview of I&O organizations when supporting general-use patterns.”
This decade in kubernetes, Gartner: “By 2020, more than 50% of enterprises will run mission-critical, containerized cloud-native applications in production, up from less than 5% today.”
Gartner’s PaaS PDF, someone over there had an SEO-stroke: “Application leaders engaged in digital bu…
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Episode 115: Confularity at Kublecon
13 december 2017 · 50 min
We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage. Lees meer
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This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon
KubeCon - that a thing?
As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack!
List of announcements, from The Register.
“We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home.
Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project
Datadog survey.
Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…”
Relevant to your interests
You’re not doing agile - Coté’s Christmas bonus column.
Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less.
Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature
Planview buys LeanKit.
Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first?
Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.”
Conferences, et. al.
It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left.
Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](ht…
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Episode 114: SpringOne, talking with analysts, in-browser IDEs, & dressing for SF HA-HA-BUSINESS meetings
6 december 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco. Lees meer
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SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News
Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit.
It’s SpringOne Platform this week.
PCF 2.0 - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS.
Serverless bundled in, but not GA yet.
Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware.
Also, use Google Cloud services.
Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it.
Also, a VMware NSX release, but Coté doesn’t know about that.
Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive, etc.
Things people use Spring for/with charts.
More: Ron Miller at TechCrunch, Paul Krill on serverless, Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE.
AWS re:Invent, day 2
Daniel Bryant’s (InfoQ) overview of everything.
Alexa for Business
“Alexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!”
Watson-lite?
There’s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn’t work (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle!
AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices “He noted that at AWS, security will always be his group's number one investment area.” (well, for one, what’s “his group,” for second, I’m guessing they’ll always be spending more on hardware,…
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Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news
1 december 2017 · 59 min
There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals! Lees meer
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Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
Changing of the guard at HPE.
WeWork buys MeetUp.
Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.
EFF write-up
Stratechery & follow-up
This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway.
Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise.
Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.
AWS re:Invent
AWS Business Update
Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
New AWS Services (100+ new total)
Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)
AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption
Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded
DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)
came out of the VMware work
i3.metal instance types
c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking
H1 - h…
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Episode 112: SaaS lunches will be eaten?
21 november 2017 · 50 min
With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo! Lees meer
Show Notes:
VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene.
Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies
Bonus Links:
Mesosphere, a San Francisco cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate.
Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!)
Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don't be
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Recommendations
Matt Ray: Laughing for Days
Brandon: Movie: American Made
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Episode 111: 280 characters on PowerPoint, Product Management, & OpenStack
9 november 2017 · 59 min
With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk and some contemplation of using Rick and Morty references in (supposedly) professional talks, we discuss how impossible keeping everyone happy with product management decisions as a product gets older. We close out talking about the recent OpenStack Summit and Mirantis. Lees meer
This week’s exegesis
OpenStack User Survey, probably.
# Fuckin’ with PowerPoint, or, “these slides will compile, no matter what”David Byrne loves PowerPoint.
History of PowerPoint, best $14m acquisition ever! Dive even deeper!
Is Rick and Morty safe for slides?
# 280 Characters of Bullshit(?)Pro.
Con 1.
Con 2.
Con 3.
# OpenStack SummitIn Sydney.
It’s Mirantis again!
OpenStack Survey - Tasty Meats Paul
# This week in KubernetesWe’re re-writing all of systems management.
Serverless, what is it, exactly?
# BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
# Meta, follow-up, etc.Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
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# Mid-roll & ConferencesGet $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference, Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow
November 14 - Perth MS Cloud Meetup
# RecommendationsMatt Ray: Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Brandon: Snag it
Coté: Ritz Crackers, all the Courtney Barnett songs.
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Episode 110: s/private cloud/hybrid cloud/ig
2 november 2017 · 54 min
This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.” Lees meer
This week’s exegesis
The Corporate Podcast, plus EBC’ing - sign-up and listen!
Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson.
This week in kubernetes
Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?)
Cisco and Google
Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing is. What does Cisco bring to the table?
“Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other policies as applications and services are released with greater frequency.”
Private cloud bundling of kubernetes, Istio, all the great cloud natives.
"This is what we hear customers ask for," Diane Greene.
Big picture: what’s Google’s goal here? Is it really as simple as “on-ramp?”
Even bigger picture: how did it kubernetes win?
IBM’s private cloud stack
So, is the “Blue Mix” brand out the mix?
IBM page: “Overview of IBM Cloud Private.” Another announcement overview.
“Is built on the latest versions of Kubernetes and Docker” - what that mean?
Jeffrey Burt: “IBM Cloud Private can run on a variety of infrastructures, including the vendor’s own mainframe and Power systems, its hyperconverged infrastructure that runs Nutanix software, and IBM Storage’s Spectrum Access solution. In addition, it can run on systems from Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco Systems and NetApp, and can be deployed by such VMware, Canonical and other OpenStack distributions as well as bare-metal systems. The private cloud platform also includes such developer services for data analytics as Db2, Db2 Warehouse, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, developer tools like Netcool, UrbanCode, and Cloud Brokerage and open-source management software such as Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and ElasticSearch.”
Chris Mellor…
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Episode 109: I’m getting Kubernetes Stockholm syndrome
20 oktober 2017 · 51 min
Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’. Lees meer
This week’s exegesis
We’ll be looking at The Four this week in the exegesis podcast. Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯
$1 Class-action settlements
Got my Apple iBooks pay-day!
It was $1.14.
For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money.
Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that?
Soon we’ll all bow to kubernetes
Docker adds in support, official web-page with burger and brief value-props, and over at The New Stack.
Now we can all just start The Battle of Death by a Thousand Value-props. E.g., hittin’ up that security angle hard-core, talking about easily migrate-n-save for existing apps.
Dave Bartoletti, Forrester: ‘said it's clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. "There's too much mindshare around it," he said in a phone interview with The Register. "There are too many developers who just want this.”’…”Bartoletti said he expects vendors will try to move up the stack by providing security, integration, workflow, and managed services. He said Docker now will be free to focus on trying to be the best container platform for enterprises.”
Looks like Bartoletti was the analyst sent around, he shows up in other coverage.
Derrick Harris’s take: “The problem is that it’s difficult to make enterprise sales when users want open source at the lower layers and to pay (real money, at least) at layers they deem more strategic. If that’s Kubernetes, then Docker either needs to support it commercially, or let someone else take all the revenue from the orchestration layer up while Docker keeps on spending money to keep the free part of the puzzle chugging. By supporting K…
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Episode 108: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, & Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50%
12 oktober 2017 · 59 min
Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors - even Oracle! - have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also, Chef and Puppet have new suites of tools, Docker sets its sites clearly on reducing VMware costs, and there’s some new momentum stats on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Lees meer
Do people actually do the DEV-ops?
DevOps sounds cool, but, SREs?
See discussion over on Coté Show.
Chef launches Habitat Builder SaaS
Habitat Builder for the People
Adam Jacob’s commentary
James Governor’s take
TNS coverage, plus, bold muscle-t choice! Celebrate it!
We all succumbing to the cloud-native, even Oracle
JavaEE off the Eclipse, to be more modular (again).
Some deep kubernetes talk.
Chef and Puppet and Pivotal and supporting kubernetes.
CF Summit EU
Round-up press release - mostly more on kubernetes in the Cloud Foundry world. Some Istio mentioning, adding legitimacy to that effort; see Istio discussion in episode #96.
James “my flight got canceled” Governor coverage:
“enterprises now account for more than 40% of Cloud Foundry’s membership”
“Kubernetes too is seeing plenty of tyre kicking, but nowhere near the level of enterprise commitment [to Cloud Foundry] at this point.”
“54% of Cloud Foundry target Amazon Web Services as a platform, that 40% of users are targeting VMware vSphere certainly [i]s” - I assume this is across all distros and OSS, which makes sense. In Pivotal land, it’s mostly on on-premises VMware, last I checked.
Habitat and Cloud Foundry
Programming Languages and Code Quality
Large-scale overview of GitHub projects, their languages and their bug reports
“The data indicates that functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggests that disallowing implicit type conversion is better than allowing it; that stat…
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WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Just another kubernetes article
4 oktober 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter. Lees meer
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Episode 107: Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City!
25 september 2017 · 38 min
Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced, mentoring and filling the tech pipeline, security, and other topics, including Kansas City BBQ. Lees meer
The guests: @ChloeCondon, @wickett, @kantrn, and Julie Stark. Plus, of course, @cote.
The audio quality is a little weird, so sorry about that.
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Episode 106: Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Or, monitoring sucks? No, you suck.
22 september 2017 · 59 min
The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review. Lees meer
Meta, follow-up, etc.
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Is “observability” just “instrumentation”?
Write-up from Cindy Sridharan.
This guy: “Thinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about a system, while Observability is the active dissemination of information from the system. Looking at it another way, from the external ‘supervisor’ perspective, I monitor you, but you make yourself Observable.”
So, yes: if developers actually make their code monitorable and manageable…easy street! It’s a good detailing of that important part of DevOps.
Cloud Native Java has a good example with the default “observability” attributes for apps, and then an overview of Zipkin tracing.
Weekly k8s News
Heptio gets funding, now “has raised $33.5 million in funding to date.”
I think we’ll cover this press release in a WP episode.
Also, something called “StackPointCloud” now with the Istio.
Mesosphere adding K8s support - “Guagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn’t share any numbers).”
"I think it’s fair to call Kubernetes the de facto standard for how enterprises will do container orchestration,” Derrick Harris.
Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack’s Mistakes? - Boris throwing bombs
Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study, fro…
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WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Kubernetes & container landscapes from Forrester & Gartner
1 september 2017 · 1 uur 2 min
This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post on the paper, too. Also, because we’re good boys, we added some bonus reading, a similar paper from Gartner. Lees meer
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Episode 105: Kubernetes Rules Everything Around Me, VMworld, Pivotal Container Service
31 augustus 2017 · 58 min
It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). We discuss both, including a meandering overview of what PKS is and some theory about what enterprises actually want with all that VMware in public cloud. Also, the tragic story of airline and hotel upgrades, like pearls to tired business travelers. Lees meer
Misc.
Australia is bigger than France. Checks out.
Coté got the SSSS TSA search. What fun!
Now you can buy kubernetes from Dell
VMware/Pivotal/Google make a kubo distro. Uses BOSH, NSX, and kubo to setup clusters. Will run on vSphere and Google Cloud, promises to work with other Google Cloud services, be continuously updated to be compatible with GCE containers. Also, VMware storage services and comparability with VMware systems management tools.
El Reg coverage, and also from The New Stack.
TPM: “The private PKS stack will use vSAN for storage, vRealize Automation for orchestration and governance, vCloud Director for provisioning, and vRealize Operations for monitoring. (So, in theory, one could run the PKS stack on the AWS cloud slices that VMware has partnered with Amazon to create, effectively creating a clone of GKE to run on AWS bare metal iron. . . .)”
More laundry listing of the parts from Google, that is, Google Cloud services you can use in a PKS environment: BigQuery, Bigtable, Spanner, Storage, SQL, Pub/Sub, Vision API, Speech API, Natural Language API, Translate API.
A list of capabilities from Cornelia’s(?) talk, and what BOSH does (and, thus, does in k8 management).
Use it for: “PKS™ is ideal for workloads like Spark and ElasticSearch, and when you need access to infrastructure primitives. Further, use PKS for apps that require specific co-location of container instances, and for those that need multiple port binds.”
The Pod affinity thing here is for when you want to run mul…
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Episode 104: “When I go to the grocery store, I just buy the bananas” - Amazon/Whole Goods, J(2)EE, building your own kubernetes stack
25 augustus 2017 · 1 uur 3 min
Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewardship: how will “open source” like this work in a mature market? We also discuss the trend of private equity buying tech firms and GitHib’s write-up of building their own platform with kubernetes and series of small bash scripts. Lees meer
Traveling to China
Coté is a terrible work-trip tourist.
AA 263, DFW to PEK, seat 19K. Exit row seat is good, but the front part of the airplane looked good too (rows 8 to 13?).
Pack some breakfast tacos.
This VPN situation is a mess, rather, I didn’t prepare correctly. Sometimes Cloak works, sometimes it doesn’t. LTE seems better than hotel wifi, but the speeds are high.
Amazon Whole Foods update
All done on Monday, August 28th. See NY Times article as well.
John Mackey interview.
Cheaper private label (I think they were top three or five sold in US).
Return items in Amazon lockers.
Cheaper groceries is cool, but for us, the interesting/instructive things to watch will be how Whole Foods goes full on digital transformation (or, even more eyebrow raising, does not!).
Will they move everything to AWS?
true Omni-channel and digital madness.
Alexa: ”You look fat in that t-shirt, Michael, would you like me to order you some organic kale smoothies from Whole Foods?”
Also, the potential for a culture clash seems high.
As a side-effect, expect grocers to be trying out new computer stuff more, and observe their experience. How will the razor thin margin set cope with Amazon who’s been consistently rewarded for loosing money?
Walmart and Google Hub thing, Andrew on the AI winter.
The Undying J(2)EE
Oracle looking to open source it, move it to a foundation.
This worked out relativly OK for Java proper. It was hella weird, though, and I’m not sure the OSS version ever gained traction: maybe for, like, whatever Google, AWS, and Azure’s J…
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Episode 103: AI is no longer limited by the garbage that is UNIX
17 augustus 2017 · 57 min
AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer in this episode, standing in for Brandon. Lees meer
Removing rebel-slaver memorials
Good job, Old Bay land. There’s more cities too on the case too.
You like white papers? We got white papers
Four new Pivotal white papers: CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH).
We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations.
Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit.
Amazon Summit NYC
There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen?
Machine learning, and such. Deep dive blog post.
Interview with Amazon exec, Matt Wood.
AI Winter.
Maths.
Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon.
“Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?”
Building out Azure HPC
Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing.
A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics: “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years”
What about the GreenButton acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014.
Excellent chart showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
Docker raising more cash-money, container land items
Lizette Chapman & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg: “HPC is about three to five years behind enterprise computing when it comes to new technology adoption – the applications are generally more sophisticated, and engineers are conservative…. Business software company Docker Inc. is raising fresh funds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion, …