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Apr 12, 2018 • 1h 30min
Episode 130: CROSS-OVER BONUS! Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio - Software Defined Interviews
Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.
Also, Coté helps you turn eating sugar-encrusted pecans into a Buddhist moment.
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Apr 6, 2018 • 52min
Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you!
“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.”
We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and compliance area. Plus, Cloudflare’s new consumer DNS service, The Man in the High Castle, and Oracle goes after those sweet government cloud contracts. And, Coté gets a little too angry about Google Fiber giving his neighborhood the finger.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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 at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they provide APM and distributed tracing for Java applications. You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
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Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Auditing - what you do after AD integration. AWS aggregating compliance gunk.
AWS Summit SF: Most definitely not a sales event, nuh uh, no way
AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
AWS Config Rules Update: Aggregate Compliance Data Across Accounts and Regions
Oracle’s Safra Catz Raises Amazon Contract Fight With Trump
Simon Wardley’s Serverless Tea Bet
Microsoft’s Windows chief departs as the company pushes further toward AI and the cloud
The End of Windows
State of DevOps Report now DORA + Google - not doing it with Puppet. Puppet layoffs not related!
Zenoss Announces Partnership With Google Cloud
Apple hires Google’s former AI boss to help improve Siri
Nonsense
The Man in the High Castle, which is not really anything like the original book.
80’s neon in tumblr.
Conferences, et. al.
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit.
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
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Listener Feedback
Tim says he really enjoys the show and asks if we send stickers to the U.K.? Damn right, we do and he got one! Email name and mailing address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Ray from California thanks us for “ all of the effort that goes into this podcast” an got sticker
Ryan got his sticker in mangled envelope but the Postmaster apologized and the sticker was fine !
In-house illustrator for Docker.
Recommendations
Matt: MuseScore for learning piano and writing music
Brandon: Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift with course assignments
Coté: Au Bon Pain in DFW, the little “protein” packs, gate A34.
Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: Get 20% off a Software Defined Talk t-shirt. You know you want one! BUY NOW AND FINALLY BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! Promo Code: SDTFSGDatadog 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!

Mar 30, 2018 • 1h 6min
Episode 128: “Mark’s home, actually, it costs about the same as this”
Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the Google/Oracle case around Java’s copyright.
Listener Feedback
Eric Larson says Coté is wrong there is no zen in pulling weeds.
Craig from Ontario says we are doing a great job and emailed for a sticker
John Mitchell from Duke Energy got a sticker and did an interview with us here.
That French steak house.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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 at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they provide Container Monitoring. You try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Relevant to your interests
Oracle's Founder Larry Ellison Says Austin Campus is Going to Grow to 10,000
Google-Oracle high-stakes dustup returns to court — with billions on the line
Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case
Pivotal Software files for IPO
Finally, a more coherent IBM story?
Facebook confirms it records users' call history, stoking furor
Getting acquainted with Kubernetes 1.10, CoreOS
Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off
Apollo Is Considering IPO of Cloud-Hosting Firm Rackspace
$13 billion Atlassian explains how the 'joy of missing out' led it to totally reinvent one of its core products
As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy
GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub and deeper Kubernetes integration
Docker, a $1 billion software start-up, has lost its founder a year after new CEO joined
Solomon Hykes Departs from Docker - The New Stack
Nonsense
Honest Status Page
Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Slips on Banana Peel
NPR reviews Pacific Rim “Mech & Cheese”
Conferences, et. al.
April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour.
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Recommendations
Matt: Disrupting Dystopia - The Bruce Sterling Talk - SXSW 2018 by SXSW
rainbow-delimiters for Emacs
Brandon: Netflix The Gift.
Coté: Blue Diamond Smoke House Almonds.
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Mar 24, 2018 • 47min
Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook
We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall.
Matt Ray’s Facebook links
BIG SNAKE
Matt Ray’s son and a dog..?
Kangaroo vs. Bicyclist
Matt’s Coterie of Browser Plugins:
TrackMeNot
uBlock Origin
Ghostery
Privacy Badger
KB SSL Enforcer
TamperMonkey
Relevant to your interests
The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be.
The Facebook Brand
Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts
Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal
Salesforce buys a mule, but pays for a horse
Salesforce’s $6.5b acquisition of Mulesoft: what it means for the cloud ecosystem
Update: Red Hat could be a Google takeover target – a deal wouldn't be cheap
IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads
IBM's Watson Assistant is coming to IFTTT
Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling
Oracle's New Licenses Sales Drop While Revenue Meets Estimates
Don’t Anthropomorphize Larry the Lawnmower
Docker Cloud is shutting down • r/docker
Introducing Windows Server 2019 – now available in preview
Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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 at www.datadog.com/sdt
Datadog wants you to know they monitor Kubernetes performance metrics. You try it by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt.
Exegesis
Want more talk about FANG? Then Listen to Cotê and Brandon review Scott Galloway’s book The Four on Episode of 52 of Software Defined Interviews from awhile back. Even more relevant today!
Nonsense
Jeff Bezos has a robot dog
WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
Conferences, et. al.
April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour.
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Recommendations
Matt: Earworm video series from Vox
Brandon: Metrex II Black Mesh Task Chair from Costco
Coté: Le Relais de Venise - l’Entrecôte
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!Software Defined Talk: Get 20% off a Software Defined Talk t-shirt. You know you want one! BUY NOW AND FINALLY BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! Promo Code: SDTFSG

Mar 16, 2018 • 53min
Episode 126: “Broad, but an inch deep.”
This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and recommend never ordering the Bison Ribs.
Fabric Solutions
Service Fabric is going open source.
“There’s a bit of history to this. We've been developing Service Fabric internally for Windows for close to a decade, and most of that time it was a Microsoft-internal platform, which means we have close to a decade's worth of internal Microsoft tools to migrate and processes to refine before we can put something usable out on GitHub.”
Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take.
Relevant to your interests
Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS?
IBM launches bare metal Kubernetes
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
Moogsoft Secures $40 Million in Series D Funding
RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z
Palo Alto Networks to acquire CIA-backed Evident.io for $300 million
a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith — From Microservices to DevOps
Nonsense
Toys R Us to Close All 800 of Its U.S. Stores
VIM Clutch
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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.
Datadog announces the general availability of log processing and analytics part of the their Unified Log Management that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial.
Conferences, et. al.
March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference - Melbourne Matt speaking.
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Recommendations
Matt:
Dicte (Danish crime reporter drama, on Netflix)
Chef policyfiles
Brandon: Netflix Altered Carbon
Coté: anti, bison ribs at Salt Lick. Garmin vívosmart 3.[
Photo CreditSponsored By:Software Defined Talk: Get 20% off a Software Defined Talk t-shirt. You know you want one! BUY NOW AND FINALLY BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! Promo Code: SDTFSGDatadog 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!

Mar 9, 2018 • 1h 15min
Episode 125: Kubernetes was never for developers…probably. Hold on…hrm.
Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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.
Datadog announces the general availability of log processing and analytics part of the their Unified Log Management that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial.
CFP Spray
Coté’s new talks, Were’s Waldo ‘em!
DevOpsDays CFPs.
Events in papercall.io.
Bridget is organized AF.
Relevent to your interests
Coté’s Register piece on process and such changes that DevOps &co. brings.
The Kubernetes Lesson - O’Grady gives credit to developers for driving kubernetes interest. Nerd fight ensues.
Mesosphere DC/OS adds hybrid and multicloud management features.
Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups - people always be freaking out about companies making money off open source. I’d wager they pay the wages of most people who write and commit the code, and would happily do so if those folks wanted a job.
Related: Open Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software.
From Facebook to the Unabomber. So called “tech companies” have their problems, to be sure, but this kind of absurd shit has got to end.
Related: people are quickly thinking tech is bad.
Announcing the Flatcar Linux project - “an immutable Linux distribution for containers.”
JEE renamed to JEE, at Eclipse.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2018.
OpenStack Queens release, 17th release!
SUSE, a Micro Focus company
Tera Holdings — Warren Buffet of Software
Conferences, et. al.
March 9th to 13th, SXSW - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks.
March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference - Melbourne Matt speaking
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Recommendations
Matt: Mastering Emacs
Anti pick - someone trying to sublet my house for SXSW
JJ on Dovrk.
Brandon: T-Mobile.
Coté: weeding; Amazon Treasure Truck - steaks!
Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: Get 20% off a Software Defined Talk t-shirt. You know you want one! BUY NOW AND FINALLY BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! Promo Code: SDTFSGDatadog 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!

Mar 2, 2018 • 57min
Episode 124: “These pants are all too small,” or Dropbox and all the great public clouds
Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? Well, probably a lot more than where Apple, Spotify, and Dropbox run their stuff in - or out! - of the cloud, a topic we also discuss. Also, sheep-skin shoes are hot, too hot. Also, something about dtrace and zfs, I don’t know - just listen to it.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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.
Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts, which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/
What even is a “Dropbox”?
Now that we know they generated $1.1bn in revenue in CY2017 (with -10% op margins, translating to a loss of $111.7m and actual cash flow)…we should probably contemplate how they fit in.
451 estimates a valuation at $8bn+. More: “Dropbox has taken just over 10 years to go public since its founding in 2007, which we attribute to anxiety over its high private valuation, a sizable profitability gap, and the dour outlook often associated with the EFSS segment.”
More from 451: “Its net loss ($111m) shrank by nearly half from 2016 – a faster pace than its topline growth. Its relative sales and marketing costs are lower than most of its peers. The vendor spent 28% of its revenue on sales and marketing – half the level of Box, a fellow FSS compatriot that's half the size as Dropbox." Man, think of the shit-per diem an travel policies for last year.
E.g., who knew they were so widely used by normals?! 11m+ paying users, they says. (But, it’s 45 to 1 free to pay.)
Do we think GDrive/G Suite is this big? I mean, it must be at least once you throw in Docs and GMail.
Gartner’s 2016 estimates: “$1.3 billion in G Suite sales ranked a distant No. 2 behind Office’s $13.8 billion, according to 2016 data from Gartner.” Checks out.
Tech Co.’s using Google Cloud
Apple on Google for iCloud (but also AWS for the same), Spotify on Google, Dropbox on their own cloud (see Ben’s “turns out!” analysis).
Does this matter for normals?
“Dropbox is likely an outlier with its successful cloud data migration off AWS.”
Wired’s write-up on the migration from 2016
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Pants are sized wrong.
DTrace going GPL-compatible
Arrested DevOps talking with Andrew Shafer and Bryan Cantrill
The ongoing nothingburger of blockchain-beyond-bitcoin:
“The only mass-market use of blockchain technology right now is bitcoin, and you can certainly debate just how widespread a market that really is. Lots of people are interested in blockchain’s distributed ledger system as a potential way to cut out the middleman in transactions between manufacturers or retailers and their suppliers, but the number of people actually using blockchain technology for those types of services right now is quite small.”
More: “The entire market for blockchain services in 2017 — and not necessarily cloud vendor-provided blockchain services — sits at $708 million, according to a report from WinterGreen Research cited by The Information. By comparison, Gartner said last September that it expects cloud services revenue will have reached $260.2 billion in 2017.”
WinterGreen, sittin’ in hot tubs, smokin’ those L’s: “In that report, WinterGreen also predicts astounding growth of 757 percent in that blockchain market by 2024 to $60.7 billion, which is among the most dramatic forward-looking statements I’ve seen in a while.”
The concept of the millennial is dead. Time to start complaining and belly-aching about how simpering and fucked up the current generation of The Kids are.
Conferences, et. al.
March 9th to 13th, SXSW - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks.
March 22-23 - DevOps Talks Conference, Melbourne Matt speaking
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Recommendations
Matt: Bose QuietComfort 20 headphones
Brandon: Version Control.
Coté: Starbuck’s Blonde roast; low-sodium Kirkland bacon - turns out! - no sugar.
Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: Get 20% off a Software Defined Talk t-shirt. You know you want one! BUY NOW AND FINALLY BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! Promo Code: SDTFSGDatadog 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!

Feb 22, 2018 • 58min
Episode 123: Mesh, Monitoring & Compliance
This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices.
Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods vs. H-E-B that’s what will divide families!
H-E-B buys Favor.
Amazon extends 5% back Prime credit card benefits to Whole Foods purchases
Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion
Brandon interviews JJ on this weeks Software Defined Interviews. Make sure to subscribe
Email us at stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com for free stickers.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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.
Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts, which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/
Compliance, Monitoring, Mesh & Design, Oh my!
Chef Software bids to automate compliance with new InSpec 2.0 release
Networking ruins everything! History of Service Mesh.
The RED Method: A New Approach to Monitoring Microservices
A print button? Mmkay. Let's explore WHY you need me to add that
xMatters snares $40 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing
The Road To 400G Ethernet Is Paved With Bechtolsheim’s Intentions
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
DevOpsDays Jakarta - April 26-27 Matt will be there
Derek Mazzone from KEXP
ChefConf 2018 - May 22-25 in Chicago
SxSW — Brandon in Austin giving out stickers
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
Recommendations
Matt: Oceanic by Greg Egan
Brandon: How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story related Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner declares Snapchat dead
Cover Art CreditSponsored 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!

Feb 15, 2018 • 57min
Episode 122: Don’t get wasted at sales kick-off, & Coté needs to stop being so pessimistic
It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Coté complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs.
Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion
Software Defined Interviews interview with Nancy Gohring.
Brandon has a JJ interview coming up, Feb 19th, 2018.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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 (and get a free Datadog T-shirt) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.
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Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ, and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications.
Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt!
Kubernetes Korner
Bluebox turned out well. Real A-Team over there.
Jay@451 has some Heptio packaging and pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported configuration, unlimited tickets and up to 25 nodes; Professional, intended for organizations that are growing their deployments, with up to three supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 250 nodes; Enterprise, for large, mission-critical environments that covers up to five supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 750 nodes; and a Custom version, intended for the largest web-scale environments of more than 750 nodes. Pricing starts at $24,000 per year for the Starter tier.”
Pivotal Container Services (PKS) is GA.
Kubernetes is a bully?
Oh, and also, you’re not supposed to be excited about kubernetes any more…?
Bonus: Is DevOps still a thing?
Coté is negative
Matt Ray could probably write this abstract with more rainbow.
See the other punch in the gut talks Coté has.
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New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business - “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of $4.9 million for the same period last year. Revenue was $91.8 million for the third quarter, up 35% year-over-year.”
Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics - Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner's 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics…. 60% of respondents…rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.”
Jenkins-Based CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Fill Out CI/CD Portfolio.
Architect.io Newsletter is back!
Brief Solarwinds buying Loggly analysis.
Q&A: Snap book author on the app's challenges
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Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, according to a new report
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Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell
Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass
The Enemy within
Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches
Apple intern reportedly leaked iPhone source code
Uber quits GitHub for in-house code after 2016 data breach - didn’t have 2FA on, used AWS credentials. But, caught it in 24 hours.
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
ChefConf 2018 - May 22-25 in Chicago
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
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Coté: Apple Pencil plus GoodNotes - blow your mind, bruh!Sponsored By:Software Defined Talk: Get 20% off a Software Defined Talk t-shirt. You know you want one! BUY NOW AND FINALLY BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS! Promo Code: SDTFSGDatadog 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!

Feb 8, 2018 • 29min
Episode 121: Does GDPR work? Cisco/AppDynamics, Solarwinds, & Honeycomb
Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews. There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/
Also, if you’re interested in the Datadog write-ups on monitoring RabbitMQ and Java, check those out as well in addition getting a free t-shirt when you making your first dashboard by going to https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.
We’ll see you next week!
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts!
Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address.
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!


