Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone

What’s the deal with Splunk (and, sort of, ServiceNow)?
Are they just the new normal that everyone buys, the new “legacy” and/or “lock-in as too expensive?”
Also, like, maybe they work really well…?

“~jpetazzo/index” - the World Wide Web!
Jesus - why the fuck isn’t this just built into how networking works? Was SDN too expensive, or something?
“it made more sense to build a new proxy than to extend an existing one” - ladies and gentlemen: the story of open source.
So. Basically, with a local proxy and distributed hashmap you can cloud?
Am I reading this right? We should add another layer on-top of all of this in some kind of framework hand-slapping game? “One approach that has a lot of potential is to use a tool like SuperGloo. SuperGloo offers an abstraction layer to simplify and unify the APIs exposed by service meshes.”
Elsewhere: “The service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in order to make it visible, manageable, and controlled.”

The usual AI/ML speech stuff.
Also, getting Alexia to turn the TV on for you: “By the way, I don’t think nurses also like to come and turn on the TV for you,” Gholami said. “They want to care for you. They want the emotional connection part.”
Coté: I was using the IVR for a rental car company recently. I mean, it was an IVR, really annoying.
Voice is bullshit.

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