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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Mar 29, 2019 • 1h 17min
Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler
There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers.
Plus:
USB-C. Fuck that shit.
Don’t read the comments.
Don’t throw out the executives with the bathwater.
They’re using 1/24th of their ass
Sometime in the future, I am going to be awesome!
If I have a rock question I’ll ask you.
Things aren’t too expensive, you’re just not getting enough value from them.
Light a fire in an air-tight room. Outrun the bear.
Relevant to your interests
Zoom IPO
Oracle Trims Staff During Difficult Transition to Cloud Services
Oracle reportedly axes hundreds or more staff from its engineering teams
Kubernetes 1.14 Adds Windows and Storage Support, Is Light on Sec
OnAll the Game Streaming Services Google Stadia Is Up Against
Apple Has A New Credit Card. Here’s What You Need To Know.
Debunking the open source sustainability myth
Oracle customers fear Oracle's reaction if they use Amazon's or Microsoft's cloud, survey shows
Red Hat reports mixed Q4 ahead of IBM merger
Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email
Azure Data Box family meets customers at the edge
AWS App Mesh - Application-level networking for all your services - Amazon Web Services
Europe splits the internet into three
Microsoft Unveils Azure Backup for SQL Server
Mary Jo Foley covers Microsoft in depth, like, for years.
Bi-modal IT, according to Gartner.
Nonsense
Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress
WOW airlines (Iceland) shuts down. Too cheap?
Micro-topic/follow-up: the MacBook Air I have is noticeably slow with some things, e.g., unlocking 1Password, loading pptx's, etc.
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April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
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Cote: Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka. My blog, cote.io, it’s back! Bruce Sterling talks - I realized that me aping his style causes the style problems people give me notes on, i.e., jokes flying by without time to laugh at them, insiderisms, etc. FUCK IT, DUDE, LET’S BOWL!
Matt: “offline macos netflix. Also, The Culture Map by Erin Meyer.
Outro: “Emmylou,” First Aid Kit.

Mar 22, 2019 • 60min
Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update
Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update
SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed with business, is back once again: Coté craves some intellectual closer. Also, Google announced some big game platform thing. So. Chips?
Tradies! Not these ones. Yes, these ones.
Relevant to your interests
SUSE is once again an independent company
The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg
Coté’s still not sure what the tidy-bow story is here.
AMD stock spikes after Google confirms partnership for new video game streaming service
Meanwhile, fined a lot of money (below). No one cares?
Stadia: Google’s gaming service and hardware announcement, keynote, and details
https://twitter.com/_js/status/1108460711854764032
Amazon Lumberyard stuff
Announcing Istio 1.1
Google hit with €1.5 billion antitrust fine by EU
New Google project offers Kubernetes building blocks for CI/CD
I’m gonna need a map.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019
Nonsense
Beto the hacker…?
FringeWare! Schwa! Gone are those days.
Musicians are freaking out after learning Myspace lost 50 million songs
How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
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Netflix is looking for an SRE via Ryan Kitchens
System and Backend Engineer at Graphext via Jordi
Chef has lots of jobs via Matt Ray
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Cote: Amish balloons. Even more!
Brandon:
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
The Marvel guy.
The Tavi Gevinson impression
Matt: 100 Strong Manly
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Mar 15, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch
Look what you made me do Elasticsearch
NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch are fighting, and why are there so many tech foundations? All this and more on this week’s episode. Plus, Matt Ray tells us how he survived the Facebook outage.
Relevant to your interests
NGINX to Join F5
Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch
Free Software is the only winner in Elastic NV vs AWS
Introducing the Continuous Delivery Foundation, the new home for Tekton, Jenkins, Jenkins X and Spinnaker
The Linux Foundation Launches New CommunityBridge Platform to Help Sustain Open Source Communities - The Linux Foundation
Senator Warren’s Here’s how we can break up Big Tech
Stratechery’s Response
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Requirements Management, QA Management | Polarion Software
Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private
Five Acquisitions You May Have Missed - IT Jungle
Node.js and JS foundations are merging to form OpenJS
Nonsense
United States citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
LaCroix CEO blames poor sales on insecticide lawsuit, calls it "injustice”
Amazon stops selling Dash buttons, goofy forerunners of the connected home
Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
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Job of the week
Magento Sr. Product Marketing Manager
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Brandon: Pluggable Active DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 Adapter
Matt: Test Kitchen/Vagrant Remote Shell and File Editing with Emacs' TRAMP Mode
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Mar 9, 2019 • 1h 4min
Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors
Nobody’s going to take it over, sorry startups!
The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management
They need Java in Cincinnati.
The Mongols have no wine.
Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf.
Relevant to your interests
Red Hat launches Operator Hub, a repository of quality-tested Kubernetes Operators
Bitbucket Simplifies Building CI/CD Pipelines with Pipes - The New Stack
DevOps consolidation continues with JFrog and Shippable
The Digital Maginot Line
Former Kaspersky Lab Expert Sentenced in Russia for Treason
Amazon Web Services CEO: We're a $30 billion revenue run rate business in the 'early stages’
Data manager DataStax prepares for IPO: sources
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
What happened to OpenStack
Chronicle: Can I Get The Backstory? and more on Backstory
RIP passwords | Product Hunt
Phone numbers are the new SSNs
- NSA's new cybersecurity tool
State of Open Source Security report 2019
Lyft has to pay Amazon's cloud at least $8 million a month until the end of 2021
Build your own Data Center….It is going to cost you?
Introducing Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry
Nonsense
Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000
Luminary. A better way to podcast
Farm Sim Steering Wheels, Side Panels, Shifters for Farm Simulator Games | Logitech G
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
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Listener Feedback
Justin Garrison told us the Kubecon Keynote mentioned on last week’s episode was by Julia Evans a.k.a @b0rk who works at Stripe and here’s a list of her talks.
CodeRanch Review by Rookie
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Brandon: Big Little Lies
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Mar 1, 2019 • 1h 10min
Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear
There’s a lot of notions about what IT executives actually want to hear in a presentation. It turns out that, like all of us, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Also, is kubernetes really a platform for building platforms, or just a platform?
More topics:
We can’t talk about blockchain until you’ve done your digital transformation.
The Car Wash EBC.
Dutch bread.
The outcome is that my daughter is no longer hungry.
No one ever likes the website.
DevRel is Standup.
I never get to the part where I deprecate myself.
This sandwich is shelf-ware.
She looks Australian.
Relevant to your interests
Now Available – Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances: M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and z1d | Amazon Web Services
Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition
Add It Up: C-suite Doesn't Have a Clue About App Dev
Red Hat's Hidden Treasure - Avalia - Software Due Diligence
Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
New VMware Kubernetes product comes courtesy of Heptio acquisition
VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser
Rancher Labs strips Kubernetes to its bare essentials for edge computing
Google’s hybrid cloud platform is now in beta
Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
The Value Chain Constraint
Microsoft combines AI and humans to boost cloud security with Azure Sentinel and Threat Experts
Is it time to be afraid of IBM again?
Questionable marketing decisions…?
Slack has decided to somehow make its icon even duller and less notable
USB 3.0 & USB 3.1 merger into USB 3.2 branding by overseers further confusing USB-C
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23
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Brandon: Abducted in Plain Sight.
Matt: Anti-recommendation: The Discovery of Witches.
- Coté: “Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey.” Iceland, sure - you should go. The Story/Saga of Burnt Njal.

Feb 22, 2019 • 1h
Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”
Google goes enterprise, Time to upgrade Win 2008, Redis changes licenses again. All this and more in this episode. Plus, Matt explains good parenting to Brandon.
Relevant to your interests
Google makes $13 billion worth of cloud plans for 2019
Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma
Google emits a beta of Cloud Service Platform to entice hold-outs with hybrid goodness
Google's .dev domains now available for a cool $11k, sensible pricing due later this month
Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret’
AT&T signed an '8-digit' deal that isn't good news for VMware, Cisco, or Huawei — but could be great for Google Cloud
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway dumped its stake in Oracle after just one quarter
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Open source startup Redis Labs raises $60 million and starts planning for an IPO, as it takes a stand against Amazon Web Services
Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
TravisCI Acquired, Layoffs 1 month later
CNCF Annual Report
Chef Hires Cloud Industry Veteran Goldfarb
GitLab Bolsters C-Suite, Hires Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Early bird pricing ends February 28th!
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Brandon: The Dropout,Vanity Fair Article, Bad Blood
Matt: HazeOver for reducing distractions on MacOS
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Feb 15, 2019 • 50min
Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"
Matt makes his return! What do vendors mean by “multi-cloud” and “digital transformation.” Could Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory apply to the public cloud? We discuss all of this and offer more advice on tacos.
Relevant to your interests
Google open sources ClusterFuzz
With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches
CNCF Dev Stats Dashboards
CNCF Annual Report
Amazon Dropping out of NYC
Ultimate Software Sells for $11 Billion - Workforce
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy
Full Q&A: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify
Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer
Chef Hires Cloud Industry Veteran Goldfarb
Exponent Podcast on Gimlet Media
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Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23
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Brandon: Who is Michael Ovitz and the Jeff Meyerson interview
Matt: Pecans. Criminally underrated nut.
Coté:
Bring duffle bag on every trip
Surveillance Capital
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Feb 7, 2019 • 60min
Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support
Should you pay for Java support? Now you get to decide! It’s more kindle for the lock-in fire. Also, some uninformed commentary on “surveillance capitalism.”
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Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019.
What was Java treated like way back in the mid-2000s Sun days?
Should you pay for this kind of thing?
It seems like the answer is just to run an OpenJDK version (Oracle even has one) or pay for support. With OpenJDK you have to do updates/patches yourself…but, then, that’s why you don’t have to pay for it. Pay for it, and you’re paying someone else to worry about that.
Forrester Report:
“The new subscription's prices for Oracle Java SE support — $25 a month per server core and $2.50 a month per Java client — apply to all Oracle Java SE commercial customers. Previously, only Oracle's Java SE Advanced customers paid support fees to obtain security patches among other benefits ($5,000 per processor, plus 22%).”
Oracle to do two Java releases a year, but many companies are way behind and don’t like upgrading. Like, if you haven’t reached release management maturity: “Executing manual regression tests multiple times each year to stay on the latest version of OpenJDK will prove to be a labor-draining exercise, but so will automating existing manual tests and keeping them up to date.”
Old stuff likes old pricing models: “For Java runtimes, however, monthly subscriptions have minimal advantage, as most applications are now stable workloads. Most customers don't need pricing that allows them to scale down, as they almost never will.”
From their blog on the topic: “Under the best of circumstances, a technology base of Java’s size, age, and complexity can’t pivot within six months to new support structures carrying big potential additional costs.”
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism.
“surveillance capitalism uses human life as its raw material. Our everyday experiences, distilled into data, have become a privately owned business asset used to predict and mold our behavior, whether we’re shopping or socializing, working or voting.”
If you’re not buying a product, you are a product “gets it wrong. Surveillance capitalism’s real products, vaporous but immensely valuable, are predictions about our future behavior — what we’ll look at, where we’ll go, what we’ll buy, what opinions we’ll hold — that internet companies derive from our personal data and sell to businesses, political operatives, and other bidders.”
The question is: what’re other options?
The latest The Weeds episode (Feb 5th, 2019) has a discussion of Facebook making you unhappy, and also compared to the TV rotting your brain meme.
Side-note: what’s up with podcasts (like The Weeds) that don’t have actual show notes in a web page?
Crypto CEO dies with the password to unlock $200+ million of customers' Bitcoin.
Slack makes confidential filing to go public
Former Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Named CEO Of Commvault
IDE based coding thing that uses kubernetes, from RedHat
Kubernetes Goes Native for Developers
Red Hat Launches CodeReady Workspaces Kubernetes IDE.
Non Sense
Urban Dictionary: dunning-krugerrand.
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Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Amazon Smart Plug.
Coté: buttered bread, MacBook Air.
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Feb 1, 2019 • 1h 15min
Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”
This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,.
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Confluent’s meteoric rise.
Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data.
The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS.'
Opinion | The Facts About Facebook.
Google asks Supreme Court to rule on when code can be copyrighted.
My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales.
Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1.
Google Hangouts is shutting down for some users in October.
Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up.
Software Chasms with Martin Casado.
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
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Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
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.
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