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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

Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards private cloud, so we’re looking forward to what happens. On a related topic, by our reckoning, kubernetes to small to have already fallen. Also: the elusive Baltimore accent, Oracle and containers, and recommendations. Meta, follow-up, etc. Where does Matt Ray find all these stories? Patreon for this thing - 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. SDT Slack “Not all ‘guys.’” Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. Also, get $50 off mattresses with the code: horraymattray End-roll DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) The Register’s conference in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something! Matt: July 20th - DevOps Sydney July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group Up there in New England What is the Baltimore accent? Watching The Keepers, and it’s reminding me of John Water movies, but I can’t figure out the patterns of the accent. Season three of The Wire has samples. Oracle Enters the OCI-runtime with Railcar - Oracle, the dark-horse of The Container Wars Link Rust! Also Smith and Sidecar Oracle requires joint copyright assignment though… Azure Stack, coming in September Charges by consumption - how MIPS-y! “Compute charges start at .8 cents per virtual CPU per hour and go up from there, while storage starts at .6 cents per GB per hour. Those charges will be included in customers’ invoices for their overall use of Microsoft’s public cloud platform.” Hardware via partners: “The exact pricing for Azure Stack hardware, including support contracts, will be up to each individual manufacturer. Microsoft is working with Dell EMC, Lenovo, HPE, Cisco, and Huawei to make the hardware available, and the first machines should be available in September.” IDC estimates private cloud HW at $34bn or so runrate (based on 3Q2016 estimates), with 8% q/q growth. So, not too shabby there. This doesn’t include software, Microsoft’s take. Scott Guthrie: “We talked to lots of customers who said, please don’t do that [allow so much customization that it's hard to debug problems]. The model we came up with instead was to work with a large spectrum of hardware providers, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco and Huawei. Those are the five largest server manufacturers in the world. They will have systems that start with three nodes, not massive big purchases, that you can unbox and plug in. And have a fully working cloud in a day or two. Regardless of whom you call, we own the whole solution.” Pivotal Cloud Foundry will run on it Microsoft has a rocky road of delivering on private cloud. But, I’d wager the get it this time. We discussed this on the most recent Pivotal Conversations, along with other delightful ephemera. K8s Days May Be Numbered Matt Asay strikes again! Funny how OpenStack is now a cautionary tale. See Coté’s weasly, non-position on OpenStack in his May Register column. I thought Cote’ was going to write this one up? (see below) “Whitepaper review” a la The Weeds! You have to be careful how you read that 451 survey. On Asay’s 71%, Coté wrote: On that note, it’s easy to misread the widely quoted finding of “[n]early three-quarters (71 percent) of respondents indicated they are using Kubernetes” as meaning only Kubernetes. Actually, people are using many of them at once. The report clarifies this: “The fact that almost 75% of organizations reported using Kubernetes while the same group also reported significant use of other container management and orchestration software is evidence of a mixed market.” Read: they’re trying everything. Nothing has won yet. Proving Asay’s point, but also defanging his link-bait lead. “It seem far-fetched that Kubernetes could be heading for a fall” - there is no fall to be had because ascension hasn’t yet begin. The core base of 201 people are organizations already using containers, so it doesn’t include organizations not using containers. In a broader survey (where, presumably, not every enterprise was already using containers), of 300+ enterprises, production container use was: 19% in initial production, 8% were in broad production implementation. This isn’t to say there hasn’t been huge growth in this space, but it’s the huge growth of small numbers. This survey (though sponsored by CoreOS - I’m always suspicious of sponsored surveys, having worked on them myself!) is definitely worth paying attention to (as well as ongoing 451 and Gartner work here). Just make sure you read it right and don’t get too excited. See Coté’s Notebook for more. (Related: I’ve been thinking we should do special, “paid members only” [in Patreon?] “whitepaper review” episodes. Because, let’s be honest: only people who liked us enough to pay would be interested in that.) Alright, now some vendor-sports: So, can a vendor be successful if they “chase” the standards? Do you need to be in OpenWhisk, and OCI shit to operate in this space? Do you need to be Java EE compliant? There may be no money in OSS, but maybe it’s the kingmaker, to steal O’Grady’s line. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Could Facebook run on AWS? Lots of fun speculation with sizes of services and numbers of servers. From now on, this is the only content to send to people asking about running private cloud. “In the real world it clearly wouldn’t make sense for Facebook to migrate over to AWS.“ First of all... As John Willis would say, “I wanna be Ashlee Vance when I grow up.” Look at that guy: he’s kickin’ it no undershirt with the button-up style. Writes for Bloomberg, and only let’s just enough sass through in his tone to keep his broad, concise appeal but still have style that harkens back to his Register days. And he wrote that Elon Musk book. CASH MONEY! Second: “serverless is someone else’s server” manifest in 3D Third, a lot of people ask me, “Coté, how do I get a job like yours?” Writing a lot of posts like this is one answer. Thriving in a “Post AWS World” Link “Why You Can Have the Advantages and Still Not Win” Touches on some of the previous conversations of anti-trust, how do you operate with a Goliath in your market? Distributions are Becoming Irrelevant Link “The distribution users are, for most of the biggest projects, sysadmins.” Nice history of how developers and distros have long been at odds. Coté: I recall reading this. Did I get the summary right? gems show that people will subvert the gate-keeper of being in the distro, thus, there is no power of a distro: people will just assemble whatever they want. Docker x10’s this. Linux distro people fight too much and are, sort of, bags of dicks that are making the evolution of distros slow and further irrelevant. Hey, guys, “can’t we all just get along?” Future of Serverless? Link - that’s a helluva headline.. Who can take on Lambda? OpenWhisk on K8s? IBM Backing off OpenStack? “Seemingly unable to innovate, IBM allegedly retreats from its OpenStack plans” Lots of BlueBoxers coming back on the market DevOps Insights from RightRelevance Wut? Echo chambers exist, but some folks and events cut through “flocks” IBM/Compuware stuff feels anomalous to me OpenBSD with Randomized Kernels When you really care about security… Recommendations Brandon: Oasis Supersonic Matt Ray: Veep. Also: Visualization of sorting algorithms, it’s hypnotic Coté: thigh and leg chicken, BONELESS!, at CostCo. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy book - old (2006), but really, the topic doesn’t seemed to have change much, despite DevOps &shit. Sponsored By:Casper: Casper is looking for some good, senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. Also, use the code horraymattray for $50 off purchasing Casper mattresses! Promo Code: horraymattrayDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDTPivotal: 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

Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about advertising and antitrust, at least. With Matt Ray on vacation, Brandon and Coté talk about The Attention Merchants and the recent Google EU antitrust ruling. We also discuss several other books, and how to talk to non-tech people at parties. Surprisingly, no container talk! Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. End-roll DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 Show Links The Drunk & Retired Reboot, Charles and Coté return...every two weeks. Attention Merchants, Chaos Monkeys. Slate Monet podcast, #163. Recommendations Brandon: Apple Airpods Coté: Fixing iPad screens, fixin’ to try ATX Cell Repair.

Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how is Amazon advantaged here such that others (like Wal-mart), can’t simply do this themselves. We go over these questions and how they related to M&A in general. Plus recommendations and some podcast meta talk. Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt will be at: DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 Podcast meta-talk Podcasts.app to be able to track what you listen to. Just paying for podcasts. $220m+ estimated TAM. We have a Casper ad! Amazon Buys Whole Foods This was not covered in the Mary Meeker slide-fest. Coté’s notebook on the topic. Stratechery on WF Acquisition Exponent Podcast What exactly are the barriers to entry here for other grocery stores. The business: online, and just the grocery store on it’s own...plus the 460+ physical stores for other goods? Barriers to entry, Amazon buyers (Whole Foods looks good now?), culture clash?, HEB love, private label BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Gartner Magic Quadrant for IAAS is Here! Larry D. Once again, what a change from way back when: CRN The Register Johnny Leadgen can get a copy. On Oracle: “Gartner warns potential customers to be cautious of high-pressure sales tactics.” How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source Link “Chef is used to manage thousands of nodes internally across Azure, Office 365 and Bing.” Amazon Eyeing Slack? Link “Buying Slack would help Seattle-based Amazon bolster its enterprise services as it seeks to compete with rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.” Walmart Buys Bonobo I’ve got a Bonobo suit I really like. They had ModCloth and some others. Their M&A strategy has really shifted of late. Walmart Sez Get Off the AWS Finally a reason for multi-cloud BigCo’s gonna bully that supply-chain. What’s Wrong with Jenkins? Jenkins is the Nagios of CI/CD “No toolchain is perfect, but you can achieve software delivery perfection (or something close to it, at least) when you implement the right culture.” Tools don’t substitute culture. Oracle’s Swinging For the Fences (and missing) Link “He was also unwilling for Specsavers to become a guinea pig for Oracle's cloud.” Ubuntu Mobile Post Mortem Not much strategy… Serverless and the Death of DevOps Link Spoiler: “DevOps is the ultimate reactive, or event-driven, tech use case. It’s not going anywhere” State of DevOps 2017 Report Johnny Leadgen to the rescue! Commercial Open Source Software Companies Link A bit of sourcing on the numbers would be valuable Glad Chef’s not on the list, wouldn’t want to comment on the numbers Cloud Foundry Summit A whole mess of videos! 121 of them. Heptio Out of Stealth Mode with K8s Management Tool TheNewStack covere Official page File under “It didn’t already do that. I see.” Not sure this qualifies as “coming out of stealth”, everyone knows they work on open source K8s. I’m not seeing a monetization strategy yet beyond support & training. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but they raised $8.5 for their A-round BMC Software Exploring Merging with CA STOP THE PRESSES! TERRIBLE MEETS TERRIBLE? So far, no confirmation, but: “While the two companies were once dominant in the systems management industry, the analyst notes that CA and BMC have 7.5% and 8% share respectively as of FY16 which combined would put them on a near even footing with IBM, the largest vendor, at 15%.” “There are also many other vendors in the market including MSFT (7%) and NOW (5%) so anti trust concerns should not be an issue.” High Level Kubernetes Overview Link “Basically Kubernetes is a distributed system that runs programs (well, containers) on computers. You tell it what to run, and it schedules it onto your machines.” More on Service Meshes From James Governor, RedMonk Recommendations Brandon: The Scholar and the Drop Out podcast; Coté’s add-on: Karl Lagerfella’s day, no exercise and long night-shirts. Matt: Commando: Johnny Ramone’s Autobiography Coté: Gulf Shores, Alabama; Hillbilly Elegy and “The Dead Pig Collector.” Sponsored By:Casper: Casper is looking for some good, senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs@casper.com and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs. Also, use the code horraymattray for $50 off purchasing Casper mattresses! Promo Code: horraymattray

The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, with a raft of new container related news we sort out what CoreOS is doing with their Tectonic managed service, what Heptio is (the Mirantis of Kubernetes?), and then a deep dive into the newly announced Istio which seems to be looking to create a yaml-based(!) standard for microservices configuration and policy and, then, the actual code for managing it all. Also, an extensive analysis of a hot-dog display, which is either basting itself or putting on some condiment-hair. Alternate Titles I've seen this hot-dog before. I’ve been doing this since dickity-4 I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th. LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Hot-dog guy in Japan Zoom in on that little fellow. Internet Trends 2017 300 plus slides of charts Computes! Coté’s notebook, summary of summary: Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money. The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner. Voice, image recognition, etc. China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge. India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout. The public/private cloud debate is still far from over. But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won. Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year. Would Amazon sell some private clouds? Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop Coté: Catching up on all this week's container poop & as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so." Managed service for Tectonic as a Service - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc? However, not all done, still working on the complete solution. But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,” Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’ Another etcd description: “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values. So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002. Then there’s Istio: Istio?! Whao! Check out the exec-pitch: “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” And Google: “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.” I love their idea of what a CIO does. “An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“ SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM & Lyft - once you control the network with the “data plane,” you add in the “control plane” which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices. Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.” And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff. Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things. Let’s look at the docs (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?): First of all, these are good docs. Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.” The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.” Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.” Also: Traffic Management, Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security. Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you? So: you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”), which controls the network with SDN shit, Istio-Manager + Envoy does all your load-balancing/circuit breaker/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, service versioning (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), configuring “routes,” what connects to what, I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)? Question: what does this look like in your code? The thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars? And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by ., So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure: Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)? So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware? What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right? Where’ my fucking chart on this shit? Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today. Meanwhile: Oracle’s cool with it, “WTF is a microservice”, compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful, and James Governor tries to explain it all. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore Link New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE Red Hat buys Codenvy Codenvy sets up your developer environments, and has team stuff. Red Hat is really after the developer market. TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate. Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep. Notes from Carl Lehmann report at 451: In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che “Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.” “The company's suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.” Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other 'cloud IDEs,' including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell's Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.” Uber back in Austin Is that a thing? Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me) Anecdotes are the singular of data? More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws Lords of Tech sign a thing “In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.” “Peeing is not political” - recap of the history of the bathroom bill. Still doesn’t really address “is there actually a problem here, backed up with citations.” Without such coverage, it’s hard to understand (and therefore figure out and react to) the hillbilly’s side on this beyond: "It's just common sense and common decency — we don't want men in women's, ladies' rooms." It also highlights the huge, social divide between “city folk” and the hillbillies. A lot more from TheNewStack. ChefConf Retrospective ICYMI Competing in Public Cloud is Crazy Expensive Link Tracks the CAPEX spend over the years for MS, Google and Amazon A Year of Google & Apple Maps Link Comprehensive drill-down into the mapping changes made by Google and the smaller moves by Apple. Probably not content for conversation, but whoa. FAA Flight Delay Tracking Check the map, fool Recommendations Brandon: Beauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker & Company's Tristan Matt: Arrested DevOps #84 Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill Epic rants. Also, Bryan Cantrill sounds like Bob Odenkirk Enjoying Westworld and everything Brandon recommended months ago Coté: Butternut-squash hash. Sponsored By:Pivotal: Pivotal Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, in DC, June 7th. Promo Code: FREEDevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDT

Live-to-tape from ChefConf 2017, in Austin, we talk about what's going on in Chef land now, esp. in relation to compliance/policy and Habitat. We also discuss the Texas bathroom bill and Matt Ray's latest trip report on international travel. There's an important update on Coté's bean position as well. See the video recording, if you're into that kind of thing. Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) No more beans, now on that fruit shit Paleo French Cuisine Stuck in that low 190’s weight zone for over a long time: International Travel Trip Report Matt’s Ray’s international travel experience as Platinum. Traveling as a vegetarian. What’s the plan for all the free booze? Bring a flask... Why Do They Keep Messing With Texas? The Hillbillies are obsessed with bathrooms It's really depressing how aggressively stupid Texas is sometimes. I don't blame anyone avoiding it. Coté’s notebook on the topic ChefConf! Round-up from The New Stack More “Continuous automation, when you do it right, is a bridge between your current environment and where you need to go in the future” Chef 13, InSpec cloud profiles, Habitat build service Consolidating under less brands? Configuring the stuff that goes in the containers: “now includes capabilities for security and compliance checking, as well as the ability to further automate the process of assembling and updating container-based applications.” BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Mirantis getting out of the (pure) OpenStack game So...Coté was right?! “announced that it will end-of-life Mirantis OpenStack support in September 2019” “it’s important to distinguish between popularity and value. Popular kids in high school aren’t always the ones that end up driving a Ferrari when adults. It’s true that OpenStack is no longer the popular kid; Kubernetes is — and customers often like to go with what’s popular.” - Mirantis CMO Boris Renski Getting out of VIM Link “In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about .005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions. That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim.” What’s up with Ukraine? Amazon in Charts SDT catnip Recommendations Matt: Seveneves by Neil Stephenson, almost hesitant to recommend this one given Cote’s reaction to previous books. Containers “Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves.” Coté: The Elephant in the Room. My Register column on OpenStack Coté Show podcast - subscribe already! Anti-recommendation: Outcast of the Islands. Brandon: Everybody Lies book. Matt: TrackMeNot, search fuzzer. Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDTPivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cotePivotal: Pivotal Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, in DC, June 7th. Promo Code: FREE

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion. See the full show notes at http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/94 Mid-roll DevOpsDays MSP, July 25th to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017. 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) New York (June 20th to 21st) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 NEXT WEEK! The news from Australia Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control. $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here. As ever, the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise. Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU. Matt needs a driver's license Health-insurance choices HSA is probably a good idea. Better get a FAX machine. This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware. Donnie Berkholz at Carlson Wagonlit He Tweetered it: "to help them with their DevOps journey." He's a VP! - exec level #AchievementUnlocked He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps." It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does. He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit: "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing." Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel? I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days. Checks out: "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 countries." Their owner, Carlson (yes, of hotel fame, but also used to own things like TGI Friday's [from 1975 to 2014]) is in MN. But then the hotels were bought by a Chinese group, HNA? So now, Carlson Group is mostly just Wagonlit? Canonical Eying an IPO? Coté's notebook on the topic. Link: "in the last year, Ubuntu cloud growth had been 70 percent on the private cloud and 90 percent on the public cloud." In particular, "Ubuntu has been gaining more customers on the big five public clouds." 5? Still, there is "no timeline for the IPO." First, Shuttleworth wants all parts of the slimmed down Canonical to be profitable. Then "we will take a round of investment." After that, Canonical will go public. The S1 filing is going to be fascinating. Mirantis still into OpenStack, Coté was straigh-up wrong: "The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack — or separately." CyberArk Buys Conjur "DevOps" is used 19 times in the press release. Coté: so, is this like "vault" type stuff in cloud-native land? Coté talked with a CyberArk SE at DevOpsDays Austin, they had a booth! 451 report from Garrett Bekker: "privileged access management (PAM)" "Conjur [founded in 2013] marks CyberArk's third acquisition, following the 2015 pickups of endpoint security vendor Cybertinel for an undisclosed sum and Windows least privileged management and application whitelisting firm Viewfinity for $30m. CyberArk paid $42m in cash and we estimate a multiple slightly north of 10x trailing revenue, potentially boosted by a competitive bid. Once the transaction closes, 20 Conjur employees will join CyberArk." Conjur's "three core products are Privileged Access Management for managing 'secrets' such as SSH keys, Dynamic Traffic Authorization for controlling and brokering access to resources, and Compliance Monitoring for real-time reporting." Founded in 1999, CyberArk "went public in September 2014 and is currently valued at about $1.7bn, with 2016 revenue of $216m." JJ on avoiding SSH, Coté Show #21. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in the show. GNU GPL Stands Up In Court Keith Collins, Quartz write-up. Appears willful, embedding GPL software implicitly accepts the license. It's over: "Ghostscript—an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)." It has dual-licensing, a la MySQL and friends. "Hancom issued a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company didn't sign anything, so the license wasn't a real contract." "[Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley] denied the motion, and in doing so, set the precedent that licenses like the GNU GPL can be treated like legal contracts, and developers can legitimately sue when those contracts are breached." This has come up for Artifex as well, back in 2008. Not sure what this lawyer-cant is, but: "A few aspects of the decision are of particular interest to the open source community. For example, Hancom argued that Artifex could not plead breach of contract for violation of GPL and could not request specific performance of the terms of GPL. Hancom also argued that copyright damages were not available because the GPL grants royalty-free rights." More: "Here, in denying a motion to dismiss, the District Court only holds that the claims may proceed on the theories enunciated by Artifex, not necessarily that they will ultimately succeed." More history and context from Kieren McCarthy, at The Register, which Coté didn't really read. DevOpsDays Austin Recap? Coté's main talk ("Not Actually a DevOps Talk"), and then Ignite (not up yet, but here's slides). Also, a rare chance to see me setting up for a talk, with all the cord shit and all. Nicole Forsgren's slides Kelsey Hightower's talk, very personal and a great story. Videos are sort of up, just not cut-up. WannaCry Windows XP still? Realish-time twitter bot watching ransomware payments into the BitCoin accounts. Find it with InSpec and fix it. Linux in the Microsoft Store - Pigs seen flying over Redmond "Straightening" Out the Moby Story Coté: at the end of this, it seems like a pretty small deal to normals, only vendors should care…? From Lee Calcote at TheNewStack. ## Rackspace + Dell EMC Doing OpenStack Partnership Recommendations Brandon: Nobel Sandwich, in Austin, esp. breakfast/brunch. Freakonomics episode: "Why is my life so hard" Matt: Catastrophe Season 3 - profane, realistic comedy with Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan (Amazon/BBC) Fuzzes search engines to prevent them from profiling you. Coté: Early on use, but, Google Photos - the XKCD perspective](https://xkcd.com/1832/) on photo management. Coté's Apple photo management rant in episode 22 of the Coté Show. Also, butterfly your CostCo chicken breasts (eating just one half, or both) and cook to about 150-155 degrees, letting it heat up to 165 on the plate. Much better than figuring out the wicked problem of cooking a full, thick breast. Sponsored By:DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDTPivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cotePivotal: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Promo Code: SpringDays_HalfOffChef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.