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Holiday Special! Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef. Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews. Special Guest: Adam Jacob.

“What choice do we have?” At the end of the year, we answer listener questions. From middle-names, to athletes, to advice to startups. Also, we talk open source in 2020 predictions, that NYTimes story on Amazon, and Twinkies. Mood board: As they say “a dot w dot s.” Twinkies are better after the Apocalypse Does he know something we don’t know? They could have been the paper of record on “A.M.I.” Judgemental open source. The Three C’s. “CTO Edge.” CTOs don’t go to DevOps Days I try to show up to most conferences I’m speaking at. “I love the way they’re kicking that ball.” They didn’t consider “Motel 6” for Matt’s middle name. It’s safe to watch The Watchmen. Relevant to your interests Amazon is Launching a Home Internet Service - Here is Everything You Need to Know About It. 8 of the worst open source innovations of the decade. Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office. Larry Ellison sets the Catz among the pigeons: Safra officially sole Oracle CEO. Google makes moving data to its cloud easier. Atlassian launches new serverless cloud development platform. Costco Earnings Beat But Revenue Falls Short; Costco Stock Falls Late. AWS Outposts by the numbers. Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World. Ask SDT What are your thoughts on the big data industry and technologies like Spark? from Jay via Slack ~~2. ~~As industry vets, what advice do you have for the new school IAM/monitoring startups? (other than: integrate with AD for ent clients) from Ryan via Slack What is the best conference swag you've ever given away or received? My personal best was a power brick that could also charge up apple's airpods for some reason. from Tim from Slack What tech conferences are worth going to that we haven't heard of? Are there interesting things that are smaller scale than the reinvents / dreamforce / et al, that provide great information and attract a really interesting set of speakers?from Tim from Slack Why do you think we don’t see more celebrity athletes featured in tech advertisements? Granted I knew the writing was on the wall at one company I was at when we hired Mike Tyson for our CES booth, but uh why hasn’t that worked out yet? from Ryan from Slack ~~~~ 1. Tangentially: https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1206589810439274496 Related: https://twitter.com/TylerIAm/status/1045495019325587456 Is a startup aspiring to be acquired by a foundation like the CNCF a legit business model? from Ryan from Slack For the expats: what's your favorite and least favorite thing(s) about your new regions? from Nathan from Slack What would you say ya do here? from Noe via Slack Matt, what is your middle name? from Jordy via Slack Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: What are you waiting for you can subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/. Conferences, et. al. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th 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 Matt: The Peripheral & The Dark Forest. Brandon: The Watchmenon HBO (Matt’s eventual recommendation) Coté: Use hotel notepads at home.

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition. Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week. Mood board: #asksdt Remember the Law of Hammarabi. They’re not the Poynter institute or anything. Are we going to be blamed for all the problems? Kubernetes on the barby. It’s all the same broken stuff. Broken ankle con. I’ve never broken a bone. A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going! The Carl Weathers Cluster. I’m really good at thinking while I talk. Just ignore the baby yoda. Relevant to your interests The 100 most important gadgets of the decade. Broken ankle conference. S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC. Ubuntu pro. Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe. Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft. This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into. Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network. AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud. Cloud Wars CEO of the Year 2019: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud. Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Here's Who Has the Greenest Cloud. Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services. Eclipse Foundation Warns Operators: Don’t Be a ‘Dumb Pipe’ for AWS. CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape. BPF: A New Type of Software. Nonsense AI Hiring Algorithm The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement Air France-KLM Group steps up cooperation with Qantas Group Sponsors SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their APM tools – Loggly. To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/. Conferences, et. al. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th 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. Book Giveaway We’re giving away one digital copy of Righting Software. The first person that DM’s @bwhichard on Twitter or in the SDT Slack gets a copy. Recommendations Matt: On the Metal podcast; How Buildings Learn. Brandon: General Magic the Movie. Coté: The Mandalorian. Outro: “Tooth Fairy Crunch!,” Teen Titans. Cover art from yusseyhan.Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.Arrested DevOps: Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/ or by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in your favorite podcast app.

It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt. Mood board: #asksdt “Where are you thought-lording us to?” Pepernoot. Always pack a back-up croissant. Here’s the thing with bread. I thought he hated the swans. Dogs clearly rank as humanities number one friend. Then it’s bread/alcohol. Everyone knows when Bastille Day is Coté. Halloween in London grocery stores: not this shit again. They got a pee-jug back there? Relevant to your interests AWS re:Invent AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Sunday, December 1st AWS DeepRacer Update – New Features & New Racing Opportunities AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models AWS End-of-Support Migration Program for Windows Server Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder No Monday blog post with announcements? AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Tuesday, December 3rd AWS Outposts brings hybrid cloud support – but only for Amazon Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, & Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances Amazon SageMaker Processing – Fully Managed Data Processing and Model Evaluation Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) Easily Manage Shared Data Sets with Amazon S3 Access Points Amazon Redshift Update – Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Wednesday, December 4th Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer Amazon Kendra AI search tool indexes enterprise data Oxide - nice cake! John Chambers and a star team of ex-Cisco engineers have finally launched Pensando Systems, a startup with $278 million in funding, to take on Amazon — and Cisco. A letter from Larry and Sergey. Nonsense Costco Pays Dearly for Shopping SNAFU The Taco Cleanse Is a Real Diet — and Involves Eating Tacos All Day United Changes it Frequent Flyer Program The Effort to Make Everyone Look Less Awful on Video Conference Calls Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. . Conferences, et. al. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th 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 Matt: SysAdvent 2019 Brandon: The Irishmen; Venture Capital and Control with Dave Teare. Coté: Pivot podcast; Art as Therapy book. Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.

Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Mood board: Now we’ve got two topics. The sweet and sour sauce was just pineapple juice. Every culture has its tortilla. Well, definitely, everything just tasted sort of brown. This is where I learned about organized crime. I learned how to use the meat slicer. “There was hiding in the meat freezer.” I have a lot of stories from my time at the Mongolian BBQ. Nobody wants to go update the MIBs or something 90% of software innovation happens because developers don’t want to talk to people. 70% of software innovation comes from people not wanting to pay for shit. Life is basically a risk-curve analysis. Stuffing! I’m like the David Foster Wallace of podcast footnotes. The most sincere ad read ever. Nobody cares about your open source glue. Why don’t you change your terribleness? There’s a lot of money in muck. In Search of Excellence strikes again! The PT Cruiser was a hand me down - it wasn’t my choice. Black Friday/Black Week. Zwarte Piet, pepernoot. Relevant to your interests Anthos: Google's bid for Kubernetes differentiation - interview about Anthos. Basically, multi-cloud (meaning, runs on private cloud) kubernetes platform that fills in the details and missing stuff with proprietary Google code and integration work…right? “We have a lot of people that have kicked the tires on K8s with open source, but when they are serving their customers, they want an SLO [service-level objective] with [Google].” KubeCon NA trip notes: Kubecon San Diego Takeaways. KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (RedMonk): Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. 10 Most Interesting Announcements From Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2019. IBM paid $34B for this: Where Red Hat is taking OpenShift. How open source changed everything - again. Whatever happened to “Big Data”? Datadog container report: Node.js and Java are the top two. People run older versions of kubernetes. “he average container lifespan at a typical company running unorchestrated infrastructure is about two days, down from about 6 days in mid-2018.” “service mesh technologies do not yet rank among the top container images” Banking on the Future: Why our most hated institutions will become our most beloved. Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip. Personal And Social Information Of 1.2 Billion People Discovered In Massive Data Leak: “On October 16, 2019 Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a wide-open Elasticsearch server containing an unprecedented 4 billion user accounts spanning more than 4 terabytes of data. A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.2 billion people, making this one of the largest data leaks from a single source organization in history. The leaked data contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIN and Facebook profile information.” Tesla claimed its pickup truck was ‘bulletproof’ — then smashed its windows with a metal ball. PayPal buys money-saving service Honey for $4 billion. Amazon cites Fox News segment, Trump rally in formal protest of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI award - the military is never getting that cloud. Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Chris in Pittsburgh. He says. “Thanks much for the show, look forward to every week and the great mix of strategy, Kubernetes, parenting, meat, and travel.’ Ashish from Charlotte and he say he “Loves the show.” Conferences, et. al. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th 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 Matt: Black Friday… sorry Adbusters. Coté: Joan Didion, The White Album - the audio book read by Susan Varon is fantastic, perfectly matching Didion’s tone. Outro: A good buy, from Hands on a Hardbody.Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.

We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Mood board: One. “I am not upgrading.” “Nothing ever good comes out of upgrades.” “I need someone with 35 years experience to run the internal blog.” “Shut the doors on your way out.” Planning makes us professional Tech news sucks nowadays, where’s the good news? Put that gravy on your shorts. It’s the Sanka of hot sauces. The problem is, there’s only one size of tortilla: giant. ah tortillas. They have really good lighting. Prove me wrong, Kubecon 2020. “Their negotiation with the underlying platform.” I’m not a technical person, I’m a toga person. The Oxnard Comma. Stop not giving your money to Kafka, give it to us. Is that still the future, or is it finally the present? When the money tree starts shaking, might as well catch some money. Giant monsters fighting in Japan. Call in Idris Elba. The video conferencing circle of life. The Schwag Cycle. 1am city council meetings for the parking app product manager. Cocky sci-fi Europeans. Relevant to your interests Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaches Over 100 Certified Kubernetes Vendors A certified vendor is an organization that provides a Kubernetes distribution, hosted platform, or installer. Cloud Native Computing Foundation Continues Tremendous Growth, Surpassing 500 Members In the third quarter of 2019, 56 members joined CNCF. The rapid growth underscores increasing momentum around cloud native technologies just as a record-breaking 12,000 attendees gather for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. HPE launches container platform, aims to be 100% open source Kubernetes "With BlueData, customers won't be managing five different clusters," he said. "We will have one central point and 100% open-source Kubernetes that is curated and at the top of the trunk." HPE doesn’t want Xerox’s valuation: HP Just Rejected Xerox. Here Are the Moves It Could Make Next. Curiously good press release: Announcing Oracle API Gateway, Oracle Logging and Kafka Compatibility for Oracle Streaming. Slack vs. Teams, etc. Slack stock drops as Microsoft claims big lead with 20 million Teams users. Slack touts users growth as it faces growing competition from Microsoft. Amazon’s packaging: Why thousands of Amazon packages converge on a tiny Montana town. Google some company, CloudSimple…? Snowflake Data Warehouse Partner Google acquires CloudSimple to bolster cloud workload migration - CloudSimple® provides a secure, high performance, dedicated environment in Public Clouds to run VMware workloads. What’s the point: Puppet wash, HPE Container Platform, JenkinsX, K3s, and Gremlins in the cloud IBM driving open source advancements to help developers be more productive with Kubernetes - Kui is designed to be a single tool to help developers navigate between the different CLIs relevant to each part of the solution. Nvidia and Microsoft launch Azure supercomputing instance SoftBank to create $30 billion tech giant via Yahoo Japan, Line Corp deal - SoftBank Corp plans to merge internet subsidiary Yahoo Japan with messaging app operator Line Corp to create a $30 billion tech group, as it strives to compete more effectively with local rival Rakuten and U.S. tech powerhouses. Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today. Apple plans a Prime-like subscription bundle, but that has News+ publishers worried. Nike Pulling Its Products From Amazon in E-Commerce Pivot. The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts. Nonsense WeWork at Kubecon? Stadia Countdown Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Suggested Jobs CNCF Job Board Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Chris in Pittsburgh. He says. “Thanks much for the show, look forward to every week and the great mix of strategy, Kubernetes, parenting, meat, and travel.’ Ashish from Charlotte and he say he “Loves the show.” Conferences, et. al. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th 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 Matt: Brandon’s picks are eventually good - Sicario - 30 for 30: Pony Exce$$. Australian fires. Brandon: Park in Austin App. AWS GameDay. Coté: casino bread. Ezra Klein Dave Eggers episode. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough. Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.

Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Latest issues: Mood board: Coté is gobsmacked by slides. Let’s turn these earnings upside down. It’s not just turtles all the way down, they’re all the way up too! Where are my turtles? Clearly you know what you’re doing, because you’ve got billions of dollars. Clearly these people have missed the point of distributed version control. Put your code in the Phantom Zone. Is there a new April Fool’s in November? They probably had some good slides. Relevant to your interests WeWork The Best Slides From SoftBank's WeWork-Focused Earnings Report Docker, Kube and Containers Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise Docker’s Next Chapter: Advancing Developer Workflows for Modern Apps VMware Bridges Kubernetes and vSphere with Launch of Pacific Beta Google releases Skaffold so devs don't get hung up on Kubernetes Skaffold, the Kubernetes build automation tool, is GA Sysdig 2019 Container Usage Report: New Kubernetes and security insights | Sysdig Red Hat Introduces open source Project Quay container registry Google — Games, Health…? and Banking…? Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans Google plans to offer checking accounts next year Google announces Stadia's launch day game lineup - 9to5Google AWS New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services | Amazon Web Services 15 Years of AWS Blogging! | Amazon Web Services GitHub Changelog - The GitHub Blog GitHub launches Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for 1,000 years OpenJDK repo migration to GitHub gains steam At Universe, GitHub rolls out Actions, Packages and more open-source goodies GitHub faces more resignations in light of ICE contract Fourteen years after launching 1Password takes a $200M Series A Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it has a good keyboard Update on 3.0 Development, FIPS and 1.0.2 EOL - OpenSSL Blog Firefox at 15: its rise, fall, and privacy-first renaissance Honestly, A Video Game That Strands You On A Boring Six-Hour Flight Is Just What I Need Right Now Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Cheats Re-Licensing Sentry Twitter Employees, Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah, Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia | Government | Politics Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS This State’s 50-Year Bet on Big Tech Could Cost Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Intel is still struggling with the truth about its processor security flaws Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros. to store Superman on new glass storage Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Suggested Jobs Jobs at GitLab Professional Services Consultant - APAC (Singapore or Australia) Conferences, et. al. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 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 Matt: Upgrading MacBook Pro/Air SSDs (Mention that here’s the link for last week). The wonderful world of Chinese hi-fi. ****- Brandon: Beats Solo Wireless for Kids. Pivot Podcast. Coté: AirPods Pros. Crypt of the Warlock RPG rules.

We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Relevant to your interests The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, Stack Edge, and new virtual machine instances Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview | Visual Studio Blog IBM, Bank of America Team Up on Public Cloud Aimed at Banks HP confirms it has received a proposal from Xerox about being acquired WSJ News Exclusive | Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP This Time, There Really Are NO IPv4 Internet Addresses Left Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion Founders’ note: IOpipe joins New Relic! Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home Use your iPad as a second display for your Mac with Sidecar Apple AirPods Pro review: perfect fit New cyberattacks targeting sporting and anti-doping organizations Microsoft Azure customers reporting hitting virtual machine limits in U.S. East regions Editorial: Apple Pay passes PayPal, tramples Google Pay & Samsung Pay Linux Foundation Introduces a Telemetry Policy for All Projects Turbonomic Buys SevOne | FinSMEs Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes steps down after 11 years as CEO; sees no urgency for IPO In the Trump era, Oracle holds tech sway Join the beta: our new serverless compute environment gives you more power at the edge Twitter drops all political ads in shot at Zuckerberg DevRel is like coffee.. and other profundities. Writing Docs at Amazon Sponsors SolarWinds Try Loggly FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Suggested Jobs Digital Solution Architect in Bratislava, Slovakia EmacsConf YouTube Video of Matt’s Presentation and Demo Slides from Presentation Matt’s Tweet Conferences, et. al. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. 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: HBO’s The Watchmen Apple Music Watchmen Playlist NIN Watchmen Soundtrack On Spotify Matt: True Facts Photo CreditSponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey. Mood board: Stroke City. QBR times four. Travel costs. We need a better word than “politics.” Corporate virtue signaling. Never ask anything. There’s going to be Werner Hertzog! There’s a difference between making a point and making money. Are you just fillin’ a seat? The fixie of IDEs. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.” Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.” Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office. The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic “89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be? Google moves to buy Fitbit Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard Sponsors SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com. Conferences, et. al. Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/ December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. † 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: eBay for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub Matt: Dolly Parton’s America. Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler. Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.