Software Defined Talk

On this episode Brandon interviews Brian Gracely from Red Hat. They discuss Brian's early career at Cisco, his experience with OpenStack, why he joined Red Hat and what's happening with OpenShift. Plus, Brian tells us what it's like to be a VP of Product at a startup and recommends some College Football Podcasts to get us through the off season. Mentioned on the Show Solid Verbal The Andy Staples Show The POPCAST with Dan POP OpenShift learn.openshift.com demo.openshift.com try.openshfit.com Brian on the web Podcast: The Cloudcast Twitter: @bgracely LinkedIn: briangracely Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries. Mood board: I’m perfectly willing to burn my own time on boondoggles. I introduced my kids to King of the Hill yesterday - they did not like it. Or Beavis and Butthead, or South Park. How many instructions are in the ARM chip? Are we gonna start the show? That looks boring. What is a biscuit in Australia? A hazy space between crackers and cookies. More sugar than a Ritz It’s a medical grade cookie. The Mexican Bakery Trap. Just get the tacos. Hey! I’ve got 500 email addresses, how am I supposed to disappear? I think there’s like, 12, 13 calendars on my Mac. We got to the bottom of HEY! Marketing Oblique Strategies. The Seth Godin problem. The Purple Moo. Welcome to the Halo Effect. For your 6 to 50 page strategy memo, email me at cote@hey.com. You didn’t make a TV show that people wanted to watch. The Rundown Hey, do we need a new email service? Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp DHH calls Apple a monopoly Market Power Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse Apple’s App Store fees are "highway robbery," says House Antitrust Committee chair Google brings Meet to Gmail on mobile Hey Larry Ellison: Microsoft’s #1 Priority Is Replacing Oracle Database Epic Games seeking to sell stake for $750 million at $17 billion valuation Too much typing from Coté, from Coté’s newsletter last week. Relevant to your interests Softbank invested in Credit Suisse funds financing its Vision Fund bets. Nintendo now says 300,000 accounts breached by hackers. Big Footy data breach exposed private details of up to 100,000 users. Adobe Flash Player End of Life. Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files. Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500. Panera adds geofencing to curbside pickup. T-Mobile offers an explanation for its twelve-hour outage on Monday. Zoom will offer full encryption to free users after all. Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches. Nonsense Toilet advocates plead for more public facilities during corona. Sponsor strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent to stickers to Robert in the U.K. He tell us big data is happening in the UK were retailer was able to save millions by using big data to optimize when they stock their shelves. Sent stickers to Daniel in Vancouver. He tell us he loves the show. Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT moment of bureaucracy Listen to interview with Todd Gardner Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: USPS Informed Delivery and 1917 Matt Ray: Massive Attack vs Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes ’98). Humble Fight for Racial Justice Bundle. Coté: Short Life in a Strange World, short review in Coté’s newsletter last week. KUTX streaming. Outro: Ice-cream and Chips.Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Todd Gardner from TrackJS. They discuss Todd's career and how his consulting projects led him to start TrackJS. Plus, Todd offers advice on how to build web apps using JavaScript and how to decide which JS Framework is right for your next project. His answer may surprise you... Show Links Lemon OVHCloud Contact Todd Twitter: @toddhgardner Company: TrackJS Latest Project: Request Metrics Email: todd@trackjs.com Personal Website: todd.mn Photo by Tim Mossholder on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Todd Gardner.

We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore. Mood board: Is that guacamole talk Amazon approved? Why don’t you listen to a few episodes? “What generation did they have in the Black Plague?” I have a lot of thoughts on OmniFocus and Evernote. Note gonna talk about it. The Timezone Tax. We win video conferencing bingo! Video conferencing Magic Quadrant. Remember Blue Jeans! They’re gonna go to The Big Data. Hadoop: not as big as we once thought it would be. Grocery store magazine agile. The only thing that’s shocking, is that we’re still shocked. The Rundown Coté got up at 2am. Slack and Amazon Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech Slack partners with Amazon to take on Microsoft Teams Who Will Acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, or IBM? Chiming in on Slack with Sid Rao - Last Week in AWS This is going to get ugly, real fast. Google Meet Switches On Jaw-Dropping Feature To Beat Zoom & Microsoft Teams Cloudera to Explore Sale After Receiving Takeover Interest what happened with Big Data? State of Agile Survey: Coté’s choice cuts. Practices followed, benefits achieved. CI/CD still not widely practiced. Low TDD. Apple and ARM Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month, says report Apple plans to announce ARM transition for all Macs at WWDC 2020 Sinofsky: Apple going to bring ARM to chips to Mac Relevant to your interests VMware acquires network security firm Lastline, said to lay off 40% of staff – TechCrunch Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Talks About IBM and His Vision for the Future Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes Apple releases new open source 'Password Manager Resources' project for developers - 9to5Mac Unity, the $6.3 billion startup that quietly powers some of the biggest video games in the world, is reportedly ramping up for an IPO as soon as this year Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’ States are leaning toward a push to break up Google's ad tech business Why boring is the way forward for businesses Three Reasons Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Open Source Consortium - Software Research and the Industry sickcodes/Docker-OSX Container technologies at Coinbase Rackspace Technology: New Name, Continued Multi-Cloud Services, Eventual IPO? Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job Migrate for Anthos streamlines legacy Java app modernization | Google Cloud Blog IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage The RuboCop Name Drama Redux Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming ## Nonsense 8 things that surprised me about moving from the US to the UK New Sims 4 patch adds ladders but also a bug where Sims pee fire Sponsor strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Listen to the Shannon Williams interview from earlier this week. Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Listen to the Shannon Williams SDT interview from earlier this week. Matt Ray: TuringPi.com Coté: Marten Beck; Mindless mining in Minecraft; Solar Dial in Apple Watch. Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Shannon Williams from Rancher Labs. They discuss Shannon's journey from journalism to startup founder and how Rancher delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Plus, Shannon recommends his top ski resort in North America and reveals who really decided to buy the cloud.com domain. Contact Shannon: Twitter: smw355 LinkedIn: smw355 Photo by boris misevic on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Shannon Williams.

What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online. Mood board: Sounds normal for now. It was kinda cool, kinda sad. Covered in yoke. We just had to speed test it out. Katamari Damacy M&A. I hate network monitoring, shut it all down! The ProductTK. 7G. What’s the plural of Kubernetes? Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that? Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life. Return the Jewels. The Rundown Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes Relevant to your interests What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground Police scanner apps get record downloads Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs Where GREP Came From - Computerphile Software Engineering Within SpaceX Nonsense Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea. Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too. Conferences MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts. Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4. Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks. Header photo from Andrew, probably.

Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio and they discuss building games, Dev Evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest. Margaret on the Web: @dead_lugosi Github: mstaples LinkedIn: Margaret Staples TwilioQuest TwilioQuest @TwilioQuest Photo by Richard Lee on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Margaret Staples.

Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules. Mood board: “The triumphant return to the home office. “ Net Ninety. Software Stockholm Syndrome. Office Mail 360 Whatever. I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy. I never read those emails. I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter. Neck-deep in archaic 2FA. Aggressively defensive. Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision. MoMs are important. Cloud Candyland. I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal. Feed the baby. New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you. The Rundown Microsoft Build Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2 New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls Linux GUI Apps on Windows Remote Work Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom 50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD Relevant to your interests What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners How TechCrunch is like the Iliad IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple Collaboration Tools A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to Nonsense This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch Sponsors MongoDB Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits. Build a Newsletter Website With the MongoDB Data Platform Conferences ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: ZeroZeroZero on Amazon Prime. Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi. Coté: RØDE Wireless Go. Sponsored By:MongoDB: Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits! Promo Code: ATLASSDT

We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back! Moodboard: 3rd kids and pandemics Severe consequences - just another way for companies to fuck you. (The exact wording was “severe ramifications.”) It’s all just a spatula. Downwardness. You should talk less. “Show Less” not working as expected. All the complaints flow through my hammer. Bruce Markup Language. It is what it is, Matt Ray. So much trash. I was already kind of full of webinars. Shit content is shit content. Even Screenflow doesn’t do ripple delete by default. A webinar Renaissance. I wanna be a software vegan. The Rundown This whole never return to the office thing. Facebook says you can work from wherever you want if they can pay you less. Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets “devices and data-center systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.” Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation “Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.” Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.) Farewell to Beyond the Beyond Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly. Relevant to your interests Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets “devices and data-center systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.” Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation “Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.” Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.) Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available | Google Cloud Blog yaml-is-not-a-programming-language New York’s Newest Unicorn: DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation Virtana Raises $15M In Funding Facebook to acquire Giphy in a deal reportedly worth $400 million Aren't there lots of copyright violations? Software Maker Chef Hires Guggenheim to Help Raise Funds Airlines vs. Zoom Andreessen Horowitz leading deal for voice chat app Clubhouse Farewell to Beyond the Beyond Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly. Matt to tell Coté what a “Redis” is. ## Nonsense The Great Asshole Fallacy This is What Peak Hello World Looks Like Ditching Zoom for Red Dead Redemption Sponsors MongoDB Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits. Conferences. FlylessConf May 27 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Coté: ftrain’s newsletter; LumaFusion for video editing; My short videos. Also available in TikTok. Matt Ray: Quiet fans; Anti-pick- Google Meeting links getting added to invitations. Sponsored By:MongoDB: Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits! Promo Code: ATLASSDT

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big. The Rundown Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’ Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab More Amazon AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit CDK for Kubernetes AMC shares jump 17% after sources say Amazon is circling the theater chain (NYSE:AMC) Why AMC Networks Stock Soared Today $AMCX vs $AMC Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 | Amazon Web Services The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe Security Ohio Has Stopped Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After A Hacker Targeted Its Website Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 Microsoft adds initial support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Windows Insiders Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with stunning PlayStation 5 demo Cofounders Of Datadog Become Billionaires After The Cloud Computing Firm’s Shares Surge Relevant to your interests Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash to Buoy Struggling Business Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront – TechCrunch CyberArk Acquires Identity as a Service Leader Idaptive Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to Grubhub Twitter Says Employees Can Work Remote Forever Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black Open Sourcing Tinkerbell Nonsense Pretty cool stuff happening at WeWork Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY Oil Trader Owes $9 Million After Starting The Day With $77,000 | OilPrice.com Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences. FlylessConf May 27 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th — 20th MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog, DataDog now worth $20B LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB Recommendations Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks: Chaos Monkeys Facebook No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram Matt Ray: Starship Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.