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Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix healthcare. 75% of IT decision-makers believe “that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware,” @ripcitylyman & @alsadowski (@451Research). 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. Yes, thank you, I’D LIKE A FREE T-SHIRT, SON! 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! KublaiKash: RedHat Buys CoreOS Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.” $50m in funding, since 2015, but CoreOS was started in 2013. Matt Rosoff: “CoreOS has 130 employee…Docker, meanwhile, has raised more than $240 million.” 451 revenue estimates, July 2017, Jay Lyman: “CoreOS has about 120 employees [up from 75 reported in Sep 2016, “about 30 employees” in April 2015], and estimated annual revenue in the $15-20m range.” Sep 2016 customers: “CoreOS reports more than 1,000 paying customers across its products, with a solid group of CoreOS lightweight Linux clients and a growing number of Quay Enterprise and Tectonic customers.” Plus, Ibid.: “ The company says most revenue is coming from Amazon Web Services deployments, with some bare-metal, VMware and other deployments.” Good perspective on the big picture, from Al & Jay at 451: “Red Hat's efforts will likely be worthwhile because Kubernetes is more than just container management orchestration software and is actually a distributed application framework that is very well timed with enterprise adoption and use of multi and hybrid cloud infrastructures.” Product description from the same: “CoreOS Tectonic wraps services – such as automated operations, application services, governance, monitoring and portability – around the Kubernetes container management and orchestration software. Automated operations have been a key focus of the latest CoreOS Tectonic update, with capabilities such as automated patching, failover and high availability and automated cluster deployment included.” CoreOS describes itself: “CoreOS is the creator of CoreOS Tectonic, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that provides automated operations, enables portability across private and public cloud providers, and is based on open source software. It also offers CoreOS Quay, an enterprise-ready container registry. CoreOS is also well-known for helping to drive many of the open source innovations that are at the heart of containerized applications, including Kubernetes, where it is a leading contributor; Container Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution created and maintained by CoreOS that automates software updates and is streamlined for running containers; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, an application container engine, donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that helped drive the current Open Container Initiative (OCI) standard.” Synergy Corner! All ‘bout that k8s: “Kubernetes is a leading container orchestration tool for organizations of all sizes, on its way to potentially becoming as ubiquitous as Linux….We are thrilled to continue this mission at Red Hat and work to accelerate bringing enterprise-grade containerized infrastructure and automated operations to customers.” But they also throw in that original mission: “our mission to make the internet more secure through automated operations.” 451: “Red Hat will continue to support CoreOS customers as it integrates Tectonic and other CoreOS technology into its own offerings, primarily OpenShift. Red Hat also indicates it will open-source the Tectonic software as it has with previously acquired technologies.” More on what Red Hat will do with it: “Red Hat intends to leverage the CoreOS Tectonic container stack to bolster and enhance OpenShift and RHEL capabilities. In particular, Red Hat says the deal will help it to improve security of container and cluster deployments, enable portability of container applications across hybrid cloud infrastructures and further drive ease of use and automation in its software.” Combined market-share. This is based off early, CNCF surveys and such, but it’s likely a fine wet-finger-in-the-wind, from The New Stack: “Our analysis of a CNCF survey provides some answers. Out of the 34 CoreOS Tectonic users identified, five also use Red Hat’s OpenShift. Thus, the combined entity would still have just 14% of respondents using it to manage containers. Only 4 percent of Docker Swarm users said they also used Tectonic.” Wut?: “According to a 451 Research Advisors project survey of 201 enterprise IT decision-makers at large container-using organizations in April and May 2017, three-quarters [75%] of them indicated that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware. “ Bad day for beards. Coté wrote a the first 451 report on them in 2014 - ain’t he precious! The wikibon crew says little revenue traction, and has a diagram. Some contributor boasting: More coverage: The Register, click-slides at CRN. The Heptio kubernetes distro…or not? Heptio releases it’s managed kubernetes service (I get that right?) - how’d that Bluebox business work out? Or, wait, no: I think in this case, sometimes a distro’s just a distro….plz advise. Official page, with a link to a PDF, even! Multi-cloud positioning (they even italicized it!): “Just as container technology took off in large part to organizations’ move to the cloud, Kubernetes’ continued proliferation can be attributed to the growing importance of multi-cloud. Beyond the threat of lock-in to a single cloud provider — which is real — organizations need the flexibility to deploy applications in the environment where they are best suited. Kubernetes provides the right level of abstraction to deploy applications on a cloud solution and to an environment that looks and behaves the same on-premises.” # TAM: Container Cash Context “451 Research's Market Monitor expects the application container market to be worth $1.6bn in 2018 with a CAGR of 36% through 2021,” Al and Jay in the CoreOS acquisition write-up. Also: We now estimate total app container market revenue at just over $1.1bn for '17, growing at a CAGR of 35% to $1.6bn in '18. And some 451 numbers, from a recent webinar: Narrowing down to “orchestration”: The rest of the taxonomy, numbers not in slides: AWS snubs healthcare industry Not exactly the intended headline, I know. ”They decided their combined access to data about how consumers make choices, along with an understanding of the intricacies of health insurance, would inevitably lead to some kind of new efficiency — whatever it might turn out to be.” And also speculation of lame things like making booking doctors easier. Just lookin’ to make things cheaper, no big deal. No details, but a theory: “Based on the executives who have been named to top roles at the new company, Jefferies & Co. analyst Brian Tanquilut said there is a good chance it will eventually try to negotiate prices directly with health care providers like hospitals, bypassing companies that act as middlemen.” Ben’s on that aggregation theory shit: ‘The key words there are “commoditize and modularize”, and this is where the option I dismissed above comes into play, but not in the way most think: Amazon doesn’t create an insurance company to compete with other insurance companies (or the other pieces of healthcare infrastructure); rather, Amazon makes it possible — and desirable — for individual health care providers to come onto their platform directly, be that doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc…. After all, if Amazon is facilitating the connection to patients, what is the point of having another intermediary? Moreover, by virtue of being the new middleman, Amazon has the unique ability to consolidate patient data in a way that is not only of massive benefit to patients and doctors but also to the application of machine learning.’ The upshot of all of this, at the moment, is that there were no details given and much fan-boy speculation typed up. Which is fine, please fix US healthcare. A perfectly done story from NY Times: lots of context, much speculation, and all sorts of input. Relative to your interests KuCisco - Cisco wants some of that sweet Kubernetes Kash: “The company said the Container Platform takes care of the “setup, orchestration, authentication, monitoring, networking, load balancing and optimization” of containers. Deployment of containers is also simplified through automation, as the platform takes care of the most repetitive tasks in this process. It can also be extended to other important aspects of IT, such as networking, security and more, officials said.” Private cloud boosters have a new URL to point to: “The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close.” Sorry to make you look at this guy, but split view on the iPad is pretty cool, email and Newsify works too! 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. Recommendations Matt: Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky State of the World 2018; New Zealand’s South Island. Brandon: Manhunt UNABOMBER Coté: iPad Pro 10.5”. Yup. 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Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking. Amazon HQ2 The Problem With Courting Amazon, The Atlantic. Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle. Why your city should avoid Amazon HQ2. Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1. The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin. Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location. An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of. Tech ethics elsewhere Facebook hoopla - “Trump 2.0” vs. “Obama 2.0.” Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy. iPhone Addiction. “Owing” something to open source. Work-place culture, diversity. New Economy, Meet Old Continent Digital publishers want platforms to pay up The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought 'Need More Time'? Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a pretty good idea of quarterly earnings 3 years in advance 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 Keep up with the weekly newsletter. For example, a few issues back Coté went over some book recommendations based on what he read in 2017. Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. Buy some t-shirts! Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address. Recommendations Brandon: All the Money in the World and Dark Money. Coté: Friendly Fire podcast.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!

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Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Canceled: Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. Keep up with the weekly newsletter. For example, a few issues back Coté went over some book recommendations based on what he read in 2017. Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. Buy some t-shirts! Stickers - write us in the contact form or email us, send name and address mailing address. Wemo IoT All the devices - plugs, dimmers, HomeKit bridge (HomeKit is kinda garbage). There’s plenty of IFTTT applets that do Wemo things, but…are they useful? Those chip problems - what would you use them for? What’s this mean? Another Y2K? The world didn’t seem to end, so are we good? The Register coverage, lots of gobbly-gook. TPM estimates cost to IT departments to deal with it. Suspicious stock sale, or maybe he just needed a new winter home. What are people doing with exploits? More IT spending in 2018, public cloud use growing 451 and IDC have some cloud forecast numbers out. Ent. software growth. Trad’l IT shrinking, but not too fast 451 days private cloud still the winner, but barely. 451 tracks by survey with plans to put workloads across the different types of infrastructure: PaaS in not included (see a recent round-up of PaaS market-sizings, tho), but for 2019: public cloud totals ~37% (or 46.3% if you included hosted), private cloud 53.6% IDC’s tracks hardware spend: Meanwhile, an analyst says Azure had a gain on AWS in Q4: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier, KeyBanc's Brent Bracelin and other analysts wrote in a note on Thursday. Microsoft Azure jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent, and Google's share increased from 10 percent to 12 percent, they said.” Also, more spending forecasts from Gartner: The move to SaaS continuing: “Organizations are expected to increase spending on enterprise application software in 2018, with more of the budget shifting to software as a service (SaaS). The growing availability of SaaS-based solutions is encouraging new adoption and spending across many subcategories, such as financial management systems (FMS), human capital management (HCM) and analytic applications.” Really, doesn’t that make the most sense for where to spend most of your priority? Clears out the under-brush. Perhaps there should be a split between “innovation” (customer IT) and “keep the lights on.” I often think bi-modal got lost in that distinction. Hey, that sounds like Big Data! ‘"Looking at some of the key areas driving spending over the next few years, Gartner forecasts $2.9 trillion in new business value opportunities attributable to AI by 2021, as well as the ability to recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity," said Mr. Lovelock. "That business value is attributable to using AI to, for example, drive efficiency gains, create insights that personalize the customer experience, entice engagement and commerce, and aid in expanding revenue-generating opportunities as part of new business models driven by the insights from data."’ 451’s surveys show more IT spending too: “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That was the highest reading since 2007, and 13 basis points higher than the average survey response for the month of November for the previous five years” The exciting world of monitoringobservability With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service: “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but has hit a patch of growth recently. As of September, we believe the company was on track to finish 2017 with roughly $10m in billings, up from mid-single digits in 2016. Founded in 2009 with a mission of offering a SaaS-based, easy-to-use logging product with helpful visualizations built using advanced analytics, Loggly had raised $47m in venture capital, including a $11.5m series D round in June 2016.” They estimate ~3,000 paying customers. Microsoft gets serious about monitoring, pulling together it’s different things Nancy at 451 reports: “Microsoft's vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to application architects looking to optimize their software; performance information and debugging capabilities for DevOps and ops pros; insight into KPIs for executives; and information about customer usage to product owners. Microsoft doesn't yet have a cohesive offering for all of the above, but it has the pieces to enable it and has begun delivering on some integrations across products.” You may recall that Datadog acquired Logmatic.io back in the Fall. Relevant to your interests Annual Letter from Planet Earth, Scott Galloway: a pretty good moral tent-pole for tech. Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club: “industry adoption more accurately reflected in 451 Research's survey data that pegs adoption at 27 per cent. Of those 27 per cent of enterprises that have container religion, just 52 per cent are running containers in production, according to the same survey. In other words, a mere 13.5 per cent (or so) of enterprises are running containers in production.” Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership: “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud partnership that Cisco and Google recently announced, where CloudCenter will be used to integrate Google Cloud Platform services with on-premises datacenters. The integrated offering includes Cisco's Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure and Nexus 9k networking. Cisco is also leveraging its networking (CSR) and security (Stealthwatch Cloud) portfolio to ensure a consistent environment across the hybrid cloud. Google's Kubernetes container runtime uses Apigee to consume and manage APIs, as well as Google's range of cloud services, including machine learning and visual recognition. The open source Istio service management platform is key to the offering, supported in CloudCenter, providing traffic management, observability, policy enforcement and service identity and security for microservices. There will also be integrations to AppDynamics. Solution engineering efforts are underway, and Cisco and Google are working on predefined statements of work that can be executed by both companies' direct sales teams and by the partner channels. The joint offering will be fully supported by the Cisco Technical Assistance Center. The Cisco-Google partnership on hybrid cloud is non-exclusive, but Google is working closely with Cisco on the joint engineering work around open hybrid cloud.” Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms: basically, he expects it to all go kubernetes. See also this developer-oriented comparison of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and kubernetes. IBM combining GBS and GTS. This means consulting/outsourcing and hosting, right? Lots of staff shifting and lay-offs, as The Register reported. Dropbox to IPO - “doing over $1B in annualized sales and are cash flow positive,” well with some added nuance: “[i]t’s also been profitable, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. “ $10bn valuation, they say. Speaking of: 20 years of big-ass VC exits. Watch out for the Weka, by Ned Barraud, kid's book. Conferences, et. al. Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. Recommendations Matt: I Contain Multitudes. Goruck Echo Backpack. Brandon: Wind River. Coté: OluKai Moloa Slipper - it says “slipper,” but I feel like it could be an everyday, even EBC shoe. Bit bulbous like those 90s Cadillac boats. 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!

With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land from the CISO Exec Network joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security.Special Guest: Andy Land.

What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations. Pre-roll SDT news & hype If you're not a dude, please take the listener survey - we're all full-up on guys, need more ladies. Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. The newsletter now has two editions, one at the end of this week coming, fools! Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. Predictions Coté, of course, used to do these: the last one, for 2015, at 451; 2009 at RedMonk (boy, I sure was full of piss and vinegar back then); some nonsense from 2014; Coté: DevOps → SRE. Coté: I met someone who described themselves as a “chatbot developer” last week. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades. Ducy’s predictions. Return to monoliths. Survey of predictions from elsewhere Good God, man! - something about the role of AI in appdev. “AIOps” - please, kill me now. (To be fair, I think it down-shifts to ML pretty quick-like. Still) Gartner’s mode-salad: “Through 2020, n-tier bimodal workloads will encompass 50% of existing Mode 1 workloads and 80% of new Mode 2 workloads.” I think this means: “50% of old applications will be n-tier, and 80% of new apps will be n-tier,” where “n-tier” means not “client/server, hosted and peer-to-peer architectures.” Serverless, Gartner: “By 2020, 90% of serverless deployments will occur outside the purview of I&O organizations when supporting general-use patterns.” This decade in kubernetes, Gartner: “By 2020, more than 50% of enterprises will run mission-critical, containerized cloud-native applications in production, up from less than 5% today.” Gartner’s PaaS PDF, someone over there had an SEO-stroke: “Application leaders engaged in digital business transformation must master AI, event-driven design, serverless microservices, IoT and strategic integration to serve their business and customers well. Cloud platform innovation drives business leadership.” A good passage on why private PaaS is hard, from PaaS predictions piece: “These [positive, PaaS] capabilities benefit the organizations and are a positive IT development. But they do not alone amount to a cloud experience. Their challenge is typically organizational. A private cloud requires a division of the IT organization into provider and subscribers, and establishment of a strict separation between them via a cloud services portal and suitable cross-charging model. Without a strict adherence to the isolation of providers and subscribers, there cannot be standardization. The self-service is compromised and without resource use tracking, it is hard to achieve the efficiency of elastic autoscaling and elimination of shelf-ware. In most organizations, the leadership is not committed enough to the vision of private cloud to make the difficult and high-risk investment that can stand up to the right organizational framework, policies and practices. Therefore, these PaaS frameworks have justifed their existence mostly through their support of newer cloud-native development models such as DevOps, rather than cloudiness features.” Relevant to your interests Shameless Self Promotion: best digital transformation joke of the year. Tech M&A prioritization, rough overview from 451: Forrester Researcher: Containers, PaaS And Managed Private Cloud Will Drive Cloud Adoption Next Year And Beyond - "It’s a waiting game for a comprehensive management platform." IDC predicts that in 2018, annual IaaS/PaaS service spending (OpEx) will be equal to new on prem infrastructure spending (CapEx) - “They” say public cloud will over-take private cloud in 2019. Meanwhile: "In 2018, we expect 40% to 50% of business users to have moved their core collaboration and communications systems to cloud platforms. By 2021, more than 70% of businesses will be substantially provisioned with cloud office capabilities.” Last minute gift ideas Brandon: subscriptions like Spotify, NY Times - no one will do it though, no one wants to give this. Matt: experiences. Coté: cash for kids, trialling this year. Conferences, et. al. Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. Recommendations Matt: Sigur Rós live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, other Pitchfork concerts Brandon: United States Postal Service. Coté: Coté’s DIY Home Office Trail Mix (pea-con pieces & raisons); stock CostCo bacon; the only way to suffer through reading a pile of predictions pieces is listening to Yacht Rock Vol. 1. Co-pilot for all the tedious times in life. (Cf. Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.)

We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast. This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon KubeCon - that a thing? As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack! List of announcements, from The Register. “We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home. Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project Datadog survey. Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…” Relevant to your interests You’re not doing agile - Coté’s Christmas bonus column. Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less. Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature Planview buys LeanKit. Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first? Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.” Conferences, et. al. It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left. Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th. Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London. Recommendations Brandon: Long Shot, Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures, Ben Evans. Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive card. Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (still free!). Kubernetes Up and Running. Badass. Paper on ML indexing stuff. Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco. Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon. We’ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Upcoming SDT newsletter. SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit. It’s SpringOne Platform this week. PCF 2.0 - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS. Serverless bundled in, but not GA yet. Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware. Also, use Google Cloud services. Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it. Also, a VMware NSX release, but Coté doesn’t know about that. Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive, etc. Things people use Spring for/with charts. More: Ron Miller at TechCrunch, Paul Krill on serverless, Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE. AWS re:Invent, day 2 Daniel Bryant’s (InfoQ) overview of everything. Alexa for Business “Alexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!” Watson-lite? There’s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn’t work (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle! AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices “He noted that at AWS, security will always be his group's number one investment area.” (well, for one, what’s “his group,” for second, I’m guessing they’ll always be spending more on hardware, real-estate, and electricity than the team of people coding group security.) Cloud9 IDE stuff: Also from Thomas Claburn at El Reg, interesting angle on cost: "Used eight hours a day, it would cost about $48.80 per month on a Linux m4.xlarge instance (4 vCPUs, 16GiB memory) or $5.62 on a less well provisioned t2.small instance. (1 vCPU, 2GiB memory).” “remote pair-programming features” This Week in Kubernetes PKS GA’ed from Pivotal. Kubernetes momeintum piece from George Leopold. EKS - it’s a trap! Says @cloud_opinion. # Misc. Economist tries explaining bitcoin. Economist says VR/AR is a not too hot, business-wise. VMware, still making a lot of money: 3rd quarter "revenue of US$1.98bn... Net profit came in at $443m, up from $319m" Mid-roll SolarWinds Ad This is the last run, so get in there now or you’ll miss your chance to check out SolarWinds Cloud…and get that snazy t-shirt. This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt, sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom. More: AppOptics: All Application and Infrastructure Monitoring in One Place Get a T-shirt from SolarWinds at: https://www.solarwinds.com/sdt Press release on all this. End-roll Conferences Coté’s junk: Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th. Live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018. Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays. Recommendations Brandon: HQ Trivia App Coté: Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diary. Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.

There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals! Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got a new logo! SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack. US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers. We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Upcoming SDT newsletter. Misc. news before re:Invent coverage Changing of the guard at HPE. WeWork buys MeetUp. Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way. EFF write-up Stratechery & follow-up This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway. Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise. Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory. AWS re:Invent AWS Business Update Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year New AWS Services (100+ new total) Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?) AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?) Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?) came out of the VMware work i3.metal instance types c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type) EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking H1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances M5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it! upstream K8s automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed similar to Azure Container Instances apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!) So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up. FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor Glacier/S3 Select - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON) GuardDuty - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?) IoT Analytics - MQTT processing, reporting & storage IoT Device Defender - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets IoT Device Management - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices Kinesis Video Streams - video ingestion/processing service Media Services - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere. Neptune - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?) Rekognition Video - Rekognition now does video SageMaker - framework for building AI services Sumerian - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform? Systems Manager - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools Time Sync Service - AWS NTP Translate - Google & MS already have this Transcribe - speech recognition, we should use this! More: The New Stack, The Register. This kind of over-the-top analysis is kinda our thing. BACK OFF, MAN! AWS Strategy Update On Hybrid Cloud: “In the fullness of time — I don’t know if it’s five, 10 or 15 years out — relatively few companies will own their own data centers. Those that do will have a much smaller footprint. It will be a transition and it won’t happen overnight.” Link More: ‘Is Multi-Cloud Real?: “We certainly get asked about it a lot. Most enterprises, when they think about a plan for moving to the cloud, they think they will distribute workloads across a couple of cloud providers. But few actually make that decision because you have to standardize on lowest common denominator when you go multi-cloud. AWS is so far ahead and you don’t want to handicap developer teams. Asking developers to be fluent in multiple cloud platforms is a lot. And all the cloud providers have volume discounts. If you split workloads across multi-cloud, you’re diminishing those discounts. In practice, companies pick a predominate cloud provider for their workloads. And they may have a secondary cloud provider just in case they want to switch providers.’ AWS re:Invent Preview Review ✔SaaS lunches will be eaten? ✔Amazon Kubernetes Service? This Week in Kubernetes All about AWS this week! Well, GKS did get rid of billing for cluster managers Coté finished up this pile of crap (get a preview!) and right after emailing it in was reminded that Ben wrote this up already, plus an update based on re:Invent this week. End-roll Conferences Coté’s junk: NEXT WEEK, FOOLS! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking. Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th. Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays. Recommendations Matt Ray: Art of War, backlaid by Wu Tang Clan Brandon: Hindenburg audio editor. Coté: Programmed Inequality; drink after the kids go to bed; Mindhunter; Jim and Andy. Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.

With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo! Show Notes: VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene. Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies Bonus Links: Mesosphere, a San Francisco cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate. Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don't be Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, Sign up for a free trial of SolarWinds AppOptics by visiting www.solarwinds.com/sdt and get a free launch t-shirt, Listener Survey & More Get a SDT Laptop Sticker when your fill out the SDT audience survey Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack. Recommendations Matt Ray: Laughing for Days Brandon: Movie: American Made Sponsored By:SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.