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/

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

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