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This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter. See the much more detailed notes on this piece. This week, the episode is free since we’ve been neglecting mainline Software Defined Talk. We hope you enjoy this sample. If you like this, sign up as a member for $5/month (or, if you’re cheap, $1) to get about 4 episodes like this a month. Check it all out over at in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sdt.

Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced, mentoring and filling the tech pipeline, security, and other topics, including Kansas City BBQ. The guests: @ChloeCondon, @wickett, @kantrn, and Julie Stark. Plus, of course, @cote. The audio quality is a little weird, so sorry about that.

The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Write-up from Cindy Sridharan. This guy: “Thinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about a system, while Observability is the active dissemination of information from the system. Looking at it another way, from the external ‘supervisor’ perspective, I monitor you, but you make yourself Observable.” So, yes: if developers actually make their code monitorable and manageable…easy street! It’s a good detailing of that important part of DevOps. Cloud Native Java has a good example with the default “observability” attributes for apps, and then an overview of Zipkin tracing. Weekly k8s News Heptio gets funding, now “has raised $33.5 million in funding to date.” I think we’ll cover this press release in a WP episode. Also, something called “StackPointCloud” now with the Istio. Mesosphere adding K8s support - “Guagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn’t share any numbers).” "I think it’s fair to call Kubernetes the de facto standard for how enterprises will do container orchestration,” Derrick Harris. Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack’s Mistakes? - Boris throwing bombs Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study, from RedMonk: "Docker, is running at 71% across Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes usage is running in some form at 54%, and Cloud Foundry usage is at 50%” This update from the Cloud Foundry Foundation is a little more, er, “responsible” in pointing out flaws. Instead it just says there’s lots of growth and tire-kicking: 2016/2017 y/y shows those evaluating containers went up from 31% to 42%, while “using” ticked up a tad from 22% to 25%, n=540. Oracle’s in the CNCF club! K8s on Oracle Linux, K8s for Oracle Public Cloud. “At this point, there really can’t be any doubt that Kubernetes is winning the container orchestration wars, given that virtually every major player is now backing the project, both financially and with code contributions.” James checks in on Red Hat. Acquisitions & more! Rackspace acquires Datapipe “The reason we’re buying them is that we want to extend our leadership in multi-cloud services,” Rackspace chief strategy officer Matt Bradley told me. “It’s a sign and signal that we’re going for it.” Bradley expects that the combined company will make Rackspace the largest private cloud player and the largest managed hosting service. Datadog acquires Logmatic.io to add log management to its cloud monitoring platform Puppet Acquires Distelli, known for their Kubernetes dashboard. Jay Lyman at 451. Sizing Puppet: “The company has grown to more than 500 employees, and has estimated annual revenue in the $100m range.” Coverage from Susan Hall: “What we haven’t had up to this point is all the requisite automation for moving infrastructure code and application code through any kind of automated delivery lifecycle” and now they gots that. https://thenewstack.io/puppet-will-extend-infrastructure-automation-capabilities-distelli-acquisition/ “In May, the company launched its Kubernetes dashboard K8S. It allows users to connect repositories, build images from source, then deploy them to that Kubernetes cluster. You can also set up automated pipelines to push images from one cluster to another, promote software from test/dev to prod, quickly roll back and do all this in the context of one or more Kubernetes clusters… The Kubernetes service is offered as a hosted service or in an on-prem version. It provides notifications through Slack.” Google pays $1.1 billion for HTC team and non-exclusive IP license Security Corner The Apple Effect? — Why BMW might get rid of car keys Don’t blame Apache — EQUIFAX OFFICIALLY HAS NO EXCUSE Is there anything to do here? Setup layers of credit cards? Require Touch ID (etc.) approval of all financial decisions and transactions in your “account”? Food & Safety like inspectors for security? Hackers respond to Face ID on the iPhone X iOS 11 Coté has been running the beta. It seems fine. There’s the usual Re-arrangement of how some gestures work that’s jarring at first, but after using it for awhile, you forget what they even are. The extra control center stuff is nice. The Files.app is interesting, but not too featureful. The new photo formats are annoying because, you know, non-Apple things need to support it (which they seem to?) Bonus Links Coté gives up on defining DevOps, and more Interview about DevOpsDays Auckland. Is Solaris dead yet? Strongly confirmed rumors that Oracle is shutting it down. This guy has written a big Solaris-brain to Linux-brain manifesto/guide, plus: “[n]owadays, Sun is a cobweb-covered sign at the Facebook Menlo Park campus, kept as a warning to the next generation.” SICK BURN! Layoffs and more: “In particular, that employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d” in the words of one employee — is both despicable and cowardly.” HPE We Can See The New Hewlett Clearly Now, Says CEO Whitman - AI in storage arrays, Docker in OneView. Clearly? Making money. They bought CTP!? Selling hardware to cloud providers is rough. Huawei New board. Microsoft app support. We can all agree on food Someone has to pay attention to this real world stuff. This Tiny Country Feeds the World More on VMware/AWS The possible failures in the partnership - sort of an odd article in that the larger point is “maybe it won’t work.” Meanwhile, Matt Asay does some loopty-loops on it all. JEE Code put in github. They’re giving it over to the Eclipse Foundation. Probably a good idea. VMware’s OpenStack Little report form 451. “Going forward, users pay a onetime $995-per-CPU socket license fee, in addition to ongoing support.” Recommendations Brandon: Prophets of Rage. Matt: American Gods, the TV show. Zero History: finale(?) to William Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy LOT: a subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing, footwear, essential self-care products, accessories, and media content. Engineering the End of Fashion Coté: Rick & Morty. These cultural guides are fucking awesome! See America, Australia, and Latvia (no one sang at the meals I was at!). Cardenal Mendoza, brandy de jerez. And, you know, cognac/brandy in general - be a fucking adult already, you damn kids. Sponsored By:Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!

This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post on the paper, too. Also, because we’re good boys, we added some bonus reading, a similar paper from Gartner. If you like this kind of thing, sign up as a Patreon for $1/month or more and you’ll get about one of these types of exegesis’s a week. See past episodes.

It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). We discuss both, including a meandering overview of what PKS is and some theory about what enterprises actually want with all that VMware in public cloud. Also, the tragic story of airline and hotel upgrades, like pearls to tired business travelers. Misc. Australia is bigger than France. Checks out. Coté got the SSSS TSA search. What fun! Now you can buy kubernetes from Dell VMware/Pivotal/Google make a kubo distro. Uses BOSH, NSX, and kubo to setup clusters. Will run on vSphere and Google Cloud, promises to work with other Google Cloud services, be continuously updated to be compatible with GCE containers. Also, VMware storage services and comparability with VMware systems management tools. El Reg coverage, and also from The New Stack. TPM: “The private PKS stack will use vSAN for storage, vRealize Automation for orchestration and governance, vCloud Director for provisioning, and vRealize Operations for monitoring. (So, in theory, one could run the PKS stack on the AWS cloud slices that VMware has partnered with Amazon to create, effectively creating a clone of GKE to run on AWS bare metal iron. . . .)” More laundry listing of the parts from Google, that is, Google Cloud services you can use in a PKS environment: BigQuery, Bigtable, Spanner, Storage, SQL, Pub/Sub, Vision API, Speech API, Natural Language API, Translate API. A list of capabilities from Cornelia’s(?) talk, and what BOSH does (and, thus, does in k8 management). Use it for: “PKS™ is ideal for workloads like Spark and ElasticSearch, and when you need access to infrastructure primitives. Further, use PKS for apps that require specific co-location of container instances, and for those that need multiple port binds.” The Pod affinity thing here is for when you want to run multiple things grouped together, like with Spark, Elastic Search, etc. where you the different things go together. More value-props’ing: i.e., kubernetes on it’s own is hard. As Ramji points out, PKS means you’ll get a consistent, standardized kubernetes/container technology across the Dell Technologies portfolio. Watters lays it out. Positioning: guidance seems to be that PKS is mostly for large organizations, “enterprises.” PKS to GA in 2017Q4, pricing then too. Diagram here:. Some vendor exec story-time here, and Pivotal blog post. So, you can run PCF and PKS side-by-side. See longer explanation from Chad Sakac: “historically, [Dell Technologies’] point of view on the container/cluster manager abstraction ecosystem wasn’t clear” See also this pro'er diagram. Lots of emphasize on a unified, compatible approach/GTM: “We now have a Cloud Native/Digital Transformation stack where there is a SINGLE target we are furiously running towards now as VMware, Pivotal, and Dell EMC – no mis-alignment, no differences in PoV. “ Market context: You may recall Coté’s summary of the CoreOS commissioned 451 survey, which linked to a 2016(?) Gartner survey where 18% of respondents had containers in production, with 4% being “significant production” That CoreOS/451 survey had a very important footnote: the survey respondents were already running containers already. It was more about which container orchestration platforms they liked. It was hard to do conclusive ranking of container orchestrators since people were using multiple ones. But, if you lump together CoreOS’s kubernetes distro with generic kubernetes, kubernetes wins out over Docker Swarm, 49% vs. 36%. Meanwhile: “By 2020, 50%+ of global enterprises will be running containerized applications in production, up from <20% today.” RedMonk’s “developers are the kingmakers” theory, more. SDDC on VMware Run the VMware stack on AWS, out of beta: “For the IT and software development sectors, the deal means that VMware mainstays such as all its software-defined data center ware—vCenter, NSX, vSphere, VSAN and others—will run on AWS instead of VMware's own cloud.” Pricing? ”The three-year contract costs $109,366 per host, which would save about 50% compared to the on-demand hourly billing rate, according to VMware. Another program can cut costs by up 25% based on their on-premises VMware product licenses, as long as those on-premises products remain active…. There are separate charges for IP and data transfers, as the standard AWS egress fees still apply. Each host has 2 CPUs, 36 cores, 72 hyper-threads, 512 GiB RAM and local flash storage.” - ”the estimated total cost of ownership for VMware Cloud on AWS is up to $0.09 per VM per hour, according to VMware” More pricing info from TPM: “The base on demand price for this server is $8.3681 per hour, which works out to around $6,109 per month.” Cloud-context, from Derrick Harris: “Look at the companies’ most-recent fiscal years—2016—during which VMware grew about 9 percent to just over $7 billion in revenue, while AWS grew about 45 percent to more than $12.2 billion in revenue. It’s on pace for about $16 billion in revenue in 2017.” And, more from Derrick on public cloud companies ever elusive quest to grab on-premises workloads and revenue: “There will continue to be a lot of big workloads running inside company data centers. If AWS and Google really want a shot at owning them, they’ll probably need to get their hands (and code) a little dirty by going to where those applications live and showing there’s a better way of doing things.” It makes you wonder if a strategy for public cloud companies going behind-the-firewall is just wishful projection on the on-premise set’s part. 451 surveys a predicting that by 2019, 60% of work-loads will run on cloud technologies (across public, hosted, and private), with under 25% on private cloud (hosted/managed and on-premises). VMworld, in general Round-up of news from Larry Dignan - lot’s of security stuff, of which Coté has no clue. And, of course, the VDI/desktop stuff. It’s like the old Project Octopus era vision of VMware. Delving into VMware financials, and some product portfolio strategy typing. VIO, VMware’s OpenStack distro has a few production users, but, “for the most part customers are deploying it for their development and test environments, where programmers want to embrace OpenStack and the IT managers want to keep everything on a VMware substrate” VIO pricing: “The other thing that is new with VIO 4.0 is that it is no longer free. Starting with this release, VIO will cost $995 per server socket in a Datacenter Edition, but customers who are using VIO in conjunction with the vRealize management suite will be able to get it for $495 per socket. That is just the price of the perpetual license; reckon another 18 percent or so on top of that for annual support.” Chad Sakac explains all the stacks, how it does hybrid cloud, etc. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. SDN Turns out, SDN is a condiment, not an entrée. Also, a good list of adoption challenges any new technology/thought-technology faces. # Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray Coté’s on the road! September 13th - Charlotte Cloud Foundry Meetup, speaking. September 18th and 19th - DevOpsDays Riga, Latvia. September 21st and 22nd - DevOpsDays Kansas City. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. October 3rd and 4th - DevOpsDays Auckland, speaking October 17th and 18th - DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting. October 25h - DC Cloud-Native Meetup, speaking. October 26th - FedScoop Digital Transformation Summit, panel. November 6th to 10th - Devoxx Belgium. December 4th and 5th - SpringOne Platform. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the road! September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group November 6-7 - AgileNZ I won’t be there, but lots of Chef Summits coming up (Seattle, NYC, London)! Andrew Clay Shafer will be at DevOpsDays Singapore (so will Matt) October 25-26, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum. Recommendations Brandon: The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition. Coté ads Alias Grace. Coté still doesn’t like Diaspora. Matt Ray: Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History “Destroyer of Worlds.” Coté: Normal, Warren Ellis. Don’t worry about eating cicada grubs. Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Kansas City 2017 is Sep 21st and 22nd this year. Coté will be speaking, and many other great speakers. Get a special discount when register with the code SDT2017. Promo Code: SDT2017DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Nashville is October 17th and 18th. Coté will be keynoting. $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays. Promo Code: 2017NashDevOpsDaysPivotal: Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they've improved their organization's approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration! Promo Code: S1P200_CoteCasper: Get a comfortable, well priced Internet mattress, delivered right to your door. Coté has two. And get $50 off your order with the code hooraymattray. Promo Code: hooraymattray

Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewardship: how will “open source” like this work in a mature market? We also discuss the trend of private equity buying tech firms and GitHib’s write-up of building their own platform with kubernetes and series of small bash scripts. Traveling to China Coté is a terrible work-trip tourist. AA 263, DFW to PEK, seat 19K. Exit row seat is good, but the front part of the airplane looked good too (rows 8 to 13?). Pack some breakfast tacos. This VPN situation is a mess, rather, I didn’t prepare correctly. Sometimes Cloak works, sometimes it doesn’t. LTE seems better than hotel wifi, but the speeds are high. Amazon Whole Foods update All done on Monday, August 28th. See NY Times article as well. John Mackey interview. Cheaper private label (I think they were top three or five sold in US). Return items in Amazon lockers. Cheaper groceries is cool, but for us, the interesting/instructive things to watch will be how Whole Foods goes full on digital transformation (or, even more eyebrow raising, does not!). Will they move everything to AWS? true Omni-channel and digital madness. Alexa: ”You look fat in that t-shirt, Michael, would you like me to order you some organic kale smoothies from Whole Foods?” Also, the potential for a culture clash seems high. As a side-effect, expect grocers to be trying out new computer stuff more, and observe their experience. How will the razor thin margin set cope with Amazon who’s been consistently rewarded for loosing money? Walmart and Google Hub thing, Andrew on the AI winter. The Undying J(2)EE Oracle looking to open source it, move it to a foundation. This worked out relativly OK for Java proper. It was hella weird, though, and I’m not sure the OSS version ever gained traction: maybe for, like, whatever Google, AWS, and Azure’s JRE is. Using this as a competitive ¯_(ツ)_/¯ is dicey, most people who compete here do open core themselves…so you can’t really say it’s bad; and if Oracle’s goal is to move it away from Oracle, you can’t say that Oracle is mismanaging it, etc. John Waters’ round-up of opinions, pretty predictable. Steve Yegge’s Kotlin Writeup, The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2017. Kubernetes at GitHub Just a few bash scripts, eh? Here, hold my beer. Real world discussion about moving one of their most popular services to Kubernetes. Sounds like the real deal, but there are a few bumps in the road. # PE to do 25% of tech M&A At least the analysis confirms this notion. That said, the underlying numbers are weird: “Between direct acquisitions and deals done by portfolio companies, PE firms are on pace to purchase roughly 900 tech companies in 2017.” Who exactly are these 900 tech companies? Speaking of, a PE firm bought ThoughtWorks. ICO stuff, Coté is confused. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Alibaba Dwarfs Amazon That’s a lot of revenue growth. Not on the cloud computing side yet, but definitely on the retail side. Coté: what’s the deal with Alipay being so hard to setup for Yankees? They really, really want a bankcard. Also, I don’t speak Chinese. Rescuing Open Source from Failed Startups bet365 buying and open sourcing Basho stuff. “It is our intention to open source all of Basho's products and all of the source code that they have been working on."Hi See previously RethinkDB by the CNCF Pivotal news - build pipelines Concourse is out, see also CRN coverage. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga, also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium. Coté will also be at Devoxx Belgium, Nov 6th and 10th, in Antwerp. The train station there is nutty-balls awesome, y’all. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group November 6-7 - AgileNZ Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore (so will Matt) October 25-26, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum. Recommendations Brandon: TRUECar. Matt Ray: Baby Driver. Coté: Taco Deli. Michael Christmas, not too shabby.

AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer in this episode, standing in for Brandon. Removing rebel-slaver memorials Good job, Old Bay land. There’s more cities too on the case too. You like white papers? We got white papers Four new Pivotal white papers: CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH). We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations. Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit. Amazon Summit NYC There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen? Machine learning, and such. Deep dive blog post. Interview with Amazon exec, Matt Wood. AI Winter. Maths. Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon. “Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?” Building out Azure HPC Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing. A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics: “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years” What about the GreenButton acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014. Excellent chart showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show Docker raising more cash-money, container land items Lizette Chapman & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg: “HPC is about three to five years behind enterprise computing when it comes to new technology adoption – the applications are generally more sophisticated, and engineers are conservative…. Business software company Docker Inc. is raising fresh funds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.” Also, check out this ADP using Docker case, moderated by Alex Williams, pretty good: 1,000 containers in Nov 2016 to 3,771 in April 2017 (I think these were across dev and prod). MIPS rule everything around me. Docker Enterprise feature matrix: Also, putting Oracle in a container, over there in European banking. Hold my beer platforms - It’s easy, just build out all the platform things you need yourself. Yaml all the things! Also, Bash, puppet, terraform, go for log draining(!) and more! Bare-metal, what’s the deal? Oracle got it. What’s Twitter got to say? “You get my deck? Let me check Outlook. Who’s doing meeting notes in Word?” Cloud’s cool, but PowerPoint is the shit: “$25.4 billion in revenue in Microsoft’s 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year” Hot Dog Watch Ever vigilant, we’re keeping an eye on the future. The future is stiching together videos for 360 panorama things. See the underside of The Hot Dog. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. Mid-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga, also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup, August 17th, 2017. See slides. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum. # Recommendations Andrew: SLOs, three chapters from the Google SRE book. Matt Ray: Run Bootcamp Windows 10 on a USB Stick The secret rhythm in Radiohead’s Videotape Coté: bacon grease in a mug by the stove, that’s how we was livin’. Speaking of saving bacon grease: Spyderco ParaMilitary 2 G-10 Plain Edge Knife; works well for camping; I got a good deal. WOCStock - mix up them pasty white-boy slides. Outro from Angela Rye, on Here & Now, August 16th, 2017.Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.Sponsored By:Casper: Get a comfortable, well priced Internet mattress, delivered right to your door. Coté has two. And get $50 off your order with the code hooraymattray. Promo Code: hooraymattrayDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Nashville is October 17th and 18th. Coté will be keynoting. $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays. Promo Code: 2017NashDevOpsDaysDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Kansas City 2017 is Sep 21st and 22nd this year. Coté will be speaking, and many other great speakers. Get a special discount when register with the code SDT2017. Promo Code: SDT2017Pivotal: Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they've improved their organization's approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration! Promo Code: S1P200_Cote

At long last, Amazon joins the CNCF to work on kubernetes and container related projects. While it's not incredibly clear how strong this embrace is, it's pretty high up there. We also discuss if there's any new topics in DevOps and check-in on the anti-trust in tech meme. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. AWS caves to the kube Press release: “Amazon Web Services Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum Member.” Does this mean they’ll do Kubernetes stuff? “AWS plans to take an active role in the cloud native community, contributing to Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies such as containerd, CNI, and linkerd.” Adrian is all like: “we doin’ the open sourcery.” Heptio release: Ark and such. What’s the deal with Andy Rooney? By the way, what’s “cloud-native” meaning now-a-days. We got the way Coté uses it, we got CNCF (straight up containers?), and then we got whatever this type of thing is (think it’s the Coté/Pivotal definition). Thought Lord Problems Is DevOps tired? What are the new topics in DevOps Disruption vs. the Government Google and Facebook. Amazon and Whole Foods. The Best Buy pain trade. “Why the grim reaper of retail hasn't come to claim Best Buy.” Amazon doesn't kill everyone (yet) All your svn and stories belong to us Collabnet and VersionOne merge. End-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City, September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register. PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga and DevOps Kansas City. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup, August 17th, 2017. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Check out this cool animated gif. Matt’s on the Road! August 17th - Sydney Chef Meetup August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Recommendations Matt Ray: exa, a modern replacement for ‘ls’; Sed & Awk 2nd Edition! Brandon: Sleeping Gods and Walking Gods. Coté: CostCo Saint Louis ribs. I feel like these are not healthy at all, but they sure are good. Also, the three European cheese plate. And use this good scallop recipe. Andy Rooney picture from Stephenson Brown.Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Kansas City 2017 is Sep 21st and 22nd this year. Coté will be speaking, and many other great speakers. Get a special discount when register with the code SDT2017. Promo Code: SDT2017DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Nashville is October 17th and 18th. Coté will be keynoting. $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays. Promo Code: 2017NashDevOpsDaysPivotal: Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they've improved their organization's approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration! Promo Code: S1P200_CoteCasper: Get a comfortable, well priced Internet mattress, delivered right to your door. Coté has two. And get $50 off your order with the code hooraymattray. Promo Code: hooraymattray

Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organize their global sales regions, the possible emergence of a new private cloud meme, and rumors that BMC is no longer in acquiring CA. Also, be sure to check out this week’s white paper analysis for patrons, on IoT. Global expansion tips and tricks “EMEAians.” Open source as the scouts. Microsoft laying off 19,000 people Link Who’s hirin’? Microsoft Container Service What’s a “container service”? TechCrunch notices private cloud Link Vendors have begun offering a variety of approaches that give the feel of the public cloud, but inside the comfort zone of a customer’s data center. Oracle cited rather large customers like AT&T and Bank of America using the Cloud at Customer product. Oracle cloud news picking up. That Antitrust Meme in Tech As you know, I’m not a lawyer How would it make sense? What’s the justification? “Google and Facebook Account For Nearly All Growth in Digital Ads.” Coté looking down the barrel of getting taxed at way high? BMC not buying CA Too much regulation CA financials. Flash, he gone Link BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. GoDaddy dumps OpenStack cloud The cloud business is hard More from 451 HEB was an Amazon Option? Not really, just some dude talking. Containers are Linux Link. “DevOps is more suitable for containerisation compared to other traditional approaches” Operating system vendors have something to sell you say? A History of Docker/Linux Containers Link. Red Hat maintainer breaking down the short but convoluted history of containers. ## Slack Getting Paid Link. Slack is raising another $500 million — and has attracted interest from a range of big buyers like Amazon # Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack. End-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga and DevOps Kansas City. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup, August 17th, 207. The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 8th - Canberra Infracoders August 10th - Sydney AWS Security Meetup August 17th - Sydney Chef Meetup August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Recommendations Brandon: Netflix’s Ozark. Matt Ray: Mr. Robot. Coté: BaseIQ microSD adaptor. Ikea STUNSIG World t-shirt. Also: not giving a shit. Sponsored By:Pivotal: Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they've improved their organization's approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration! Promo Code: S1P200_CoteCasper: Get a comfortable, well priced Internet mattress, delivered right to your door. Coté has two. And get $50 off your order with the code hooraymattray. Promo Code: hooraymattrayDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Kansas City 2017 is Sep 21st and 22nd this year. Coté will be speaking, and many other great speakers. Get a special discount when register with the code SDT2017. Promo Code: SDT2017DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Nashville is October 17th and 18th. Coté will be keynoting. $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays. Promo Code: 2017NashDevOpsDays

“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?” Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems to be shutting down. We discuss the wonders of Snap’s hot dog app, the mystery of Amazon’s lack(?) of brand allegiance, and giving up on kale. “Share price down? I gotcha bro.” Dancing Hot Dog. Amazon to Start a Messaging App Link I get the whole need to control networks, but it seems like we’ve kinda saturated a lot of these (Allo, is this thing on?). Why not just buy Slack? (Wasn’t that a rumor? Could this be that diapers.com-style retaliation.) 80m Prime customers Twitch and “Stimpy.” The pair of people doing Minecraft. @profgalloway Uber driver on Whole Foods acquisition. Google Transfer Appliance Snowball envy? So, by “data,” they mean not only CSV files, but also VM images? HRM! Data gravity, from Dave McCrory. Someone finally made a data gravity chart: Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, etc. Brandon Butler summerizes Techcrunch on the announcement List of core stuff: Management of upgrades, releases, and integration of services. Multiple cloud options with Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry across private clouds and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack. Support and service level agreements with 99.99 percent uptime and 15 minute response on emergency issues. PCF services put another way: “...on any public or private cloud as well as on customer-owned infrastructure…. The Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution will feature 24/7 management for troubleshooting, managing updates, feature releases, and integration with various services; multi-cloud capability; and on-demand expertise for handing version updates, feature enhancements and other technical updates.” Check out dem success numbers: “Fortune 500 customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to build, deploy, and run their legacy and cloud-native apps have experienced 2,000 percent increase in developer productivity, as well as a 50 percent reduction in IT costs due to platform automation” Basho Shuts it Down “The Reg was obviously keen to put the claims in this story to Basho, but we’ve struggled to find anyone still working at the company to answer us.” Kafka, Casandra - WTF is going on in NoSQL-land, is this shit done yet? Sep. 2016 451 profile: “While open source did not fully disappear, the company's primary focus moved from a support and services model to a subscription-based model. Today, Basho reports that support and services make up 10-12% of total revenue, with subscriptions taking up the rest.” “In 2015 Basho cited more that 200 customers and approximately 120 employees. Basho reports similar numbers this time around, except with a higher average deal size among its customer base. Average deal size is greater than $100,000, with high single-digit-customer deals exceeding $1m in total contract value. From 2014-2015, Basho reported a 50% increase in total contract value, a 45% increase in billings and a 50% increase in growth revenue.” Let’s do math...so...oh wait, left my Monte Carlo simulator in my other car. Products: “While both products share some underlying commonalities, they both address certain use cases. Riak KV is a key-value-based NoSQL database promoted generally to address use cases for content storing of session data, log file data, profile data and chat messaging data, particularly with gaming and gambling applications. Basho points out the product's resiliency and scaling capabilities, with integrations to Spark and Redis. Riak TS, on the other hand, is a database geared toward time-series data, with an emphasis on IoT use cases. Specifically, Riak TS can be used for gathering weather, seismic and traffic data, as well as for financial trading data. Time-series data has more structure, so Basho has added functionality to describe the data schema and the ability to query the data with SQL.” Coté was on Speaking in Tech Listen in BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. CREAM for one Remember When Martin Shkreli Bought the Wu Tang Album? “This wasn’t just calamitous—this was Calamity walking into a bar, sweet-talking Catastrophe, getting really drunk together, smoking some crack, punching Fiasco in the face, then going on a shooting spree while eating orphans and setting fire to kittens.” ## AWS’s private cloud stuff The short pointer-piece also has some mention of VMware partnership for THE HYBRID. Coté doesn’t know anything about VMware. In-depth Dive into Schedulers Something Coté didn’t read, but probably should have. Probably not a great conversation topic, but a really great article on the use of schedulers and why they chose Nomad over K8s Misc. chuckles #areyounormal from @SPEAKINGinTech. CostCo Pizza @vennsplain Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Current status: 8 people, driving $14 a month. TIME TO QUIT OUR JOBS, BOYS! But, more seriously, thanks to the folks who've signed up! It's encouraging. We’ll do our first members only episode. See overly-detailed noted here; it might be giving away too much for free, but you’ll at least get a sense of what we’re doing here. SDT Slack End-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray Looks sold out. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). The Register’s conference in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Matt’s on the Road! July 20th - DevOps Sydney July 24th - Chef Meetup Singapore July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 8th - Canberra Infracoders August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Recommendations Brandon: The Defiant Ones. Matt Ray: Western Australia and Bali (photos soon); Sriracha on scrambled eggs. Coté: some local flavor this week: The Tigress; Veterans Park Pool. Sponsored By:Pivotal: Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they've improved their organization's approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration! Promo Code: S1P200_CoteDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDTCasper: Get a comfortable, well priced Internet mattress, delivered right to your door. Coté has two. And get $50 off your order with the code hooraymattray. Promo Code: hooraymattray