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Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies. Also, it’s episode #150 - yay us! Our first episode was on May 27th, 2014, where Coté’s lamp played a prominent role, and we did video. Relevant to your interests Chase Sapphire Reserve, and others in the Sapphire line. AAdvantage Executive card. SpringOne Platform videos are all up. Coté went to Puppetizer 2018 Amsterdam. They’re really into being “a portfolio company” now. Lots of stacks presented; much discussion on managing Puppet itself. A very well run event. See also Register coverage of their SF event. Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure - “90 percent of Google+ user sessions last for less than five seconds.” be like google prd mgmt desertion effect other enterprise props? legacy services OpenOffice watch - ‘Back in 2015, Red Hat developer Christian Schaller called OpenOffice "all but dead."’ Austin Ernest says make sure you don’t cargo cult The SRE. The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales - Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. Put yet another way, company executives have a lot less power than you’d think. Related: WTF is “culture”? This week in IPOs: Elastic has a party, Solarwinds figuring one out. Elastic: “The stock closed at $70 per share, representing a 94.4 percent rise.” Close of market on Oct. 10th: $62.50 per share. 451 on Elastic revenue, Scott Denne: “The developer of open source search software for IT log analysis, security analytics and other applications nearly doubled its top line in its fiscal year (ending April 30) to $160m, up from $88m a year earlier, while increasing the share of subscription revenue in its mix.” More: “Judging by Elastic’s offering, the [Q3] dry spell had little impact on investor appetites, setting up a favorable environment for Anaplan and SolarWinds as both look to price this month.” 451 on Elastic’s product, Nancy Gohring: “One of the most important messages that emerged from ElasticOn is that Elastic is positioning its software to serve as a platform for collecting and analyzing a wide array of machine data that can be used in a variety of use cases. With its recently announced APM UI and the forthcoming Infra UI, as well as the Canvas visualization capabilities, SQL-like querying and advancing machine-learning techniques, the Elastic Stack will be usable as a centralized platform for collecting and analyzing logs, events and metrics by constituents within a business including IT ops, security, executive leadership, product management and others.” So, Elastic is…an OSS (presumably) cheaper Splunk, but for general search not just IT? Or, wait, it is just IT stuff? Solarwinds: Coté hasn’t been able to parse out the Solarwinds deal. The big question is/will be, “so, did it make sense to go private, or could that have done whatever they’re doing by staying public?” Serverless and FaaS, survey shows confusion: “Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months.” Coté’s old saw that “serverless” has just come to mean “doing programming on-top of cloud shit.” This is what Pivotal usually means when they say “cloud native,” versus the container kids who mean just “kubernetes,” at broadest, “containers.” Cloudera/Hortonworks follow-up: TPM: “Cloudera has raked in $1.28 billion in revenues in the past six and a half years, while Hortonworks only brought in $808 million. Add in the venture capital of $1.31 billion in venture capital, plus $225 million that Cloudera raised in early 2017 for its IPO and the $100 million that Hortonworks raised in late 2014 from its IPO, and the total pile of cash that has come to the pair is $3.69 billion. Hortonworks still has $86 million of cash and Cloudera still has $440.1 million. But over that same time period, Cloudera has booked cumulative losses of $1.19 billion and Hortonworks has cumulative losses of $979 million, for a total of $2.16 billion. Both separately and together, these companies are burning the wood a lot faster than they can cut it.” TPM’s TAM summary, as suggested by the two companies: “The core market that Hadoop is chasing is comprised of three different segments, according to Cloudera-Hortonworks, and will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent between 2017 and 2022, from $12.7 billion to $32.3 billion. Within that, cognitive and artificial intelligence workloads represent a $14.3 billion opportunity in 2022, $4.9 billion for advanced and predictive analytics software, and $13.2 billion for dynamic data management systems (what we would call modern storage). In addition to that, the Hadoop platform is also chasing relational and non-relational database management systems and data warehouses, which is another $51 billion opportunity in 2022, for a total TAM of $83 billion. Even a small slice of this, which is what Hadoop currently gets today, could be billions of dollars by then.” Forrester on TAM penetration, Noel Yuhanna: “We estimate that [just] 7% of organizations have completely migrated their traditional data warehouses to big data platforms. “ That’s 93% more left, assuming 20% capture for a leader, (shoddy percentage math follows)17 to 18%, I guess? Meanwhile, also from Forrester: “While 74% of global data and analytics decision makers tell us they will have invested in a big data lake by the end of 2017, we find that many of these are being kept on life support by the technology management shops that drove them.” Also, Forrester on HARK (Hadoop & Spark), Noel Yuhanna & Mike Gualtieri: “Distributed computing software and services that are rooted in open source Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark to store, process, and analyze data to find and use insights to improve customer experiences, create timely business intelligence, optimize business processes, and make decision making smarter and faster.” Like traditional analytics, but bigger and with more ML? 451 (Matt Aslett & James Curtis): “Although there are cross-selling opportunities and the two companies share an underlying open source foundation, there are also significant areas of product overlap and competing functionality, as well as a history of animosity to overcome.” Tamped down TAM: “Another way of looking at this is that the Hadoop market hasn't expanded enough to support the growth targets of two independent publicly traded companies, especially with the cloud providers to contend with.” Cloudera is the winner: “While the deal is being described by the companies as a merger, make no mistake that Cloudera is acquiring Hortonworks. After the transaction closes, Cloudera shareholders will own approximately 60% of the combined company, which will do business as Cloudera, with Hortonworks shareholders owning approximately 40%.” Products, Hortnworks: “Its primary product is the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), which consists of core Hadoop and some 20+ open source projects. But in August 2015, the company purchased Onyara, which was based on the Apache NiFi technology, and designed to enable users to collect, process and distribute data.” Products, Cloudera: “To date, Cloudera offers several products and while Hortonworks has adopted a pure 100% open source approach. Cloudera has a hybrid strategy, mixing open source with its proprietary tooling. The company's core offering is the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (CDH) – specifically targeted products are provided for data warehousing, operational database, and data science and engineering. Its cloud offering is Altus, a PaaS available on AWS and Azure.” 451 in another report (Agatha Poon), on Cloudera, June 2018: “At present, data analytics tools and offerings are driving regional opportunities with enterprises slowly but clearly moving out from legacy data warehouse platform to a new generation of data analytics platform, which is highly distributed and open standards based, Cloudera says. For machine learning and advanced data analytics, the company believes that data scientists will be the main users and strategic partners to boost future uptake. While data scientists can make use of algorithms to train the model into production data clusters, it could be a time-consuming and complex endeavor. With that in mind, Cloudera has stepped up its game by acquiring applied machine learning research startup Fast Forward Labs in late 2017, deepening its expertise in applying machine learning to practical business problems. The bigger Cloudera says it is committed to researching new techniques to resolve real-world business problems, building codes as well as providing customers with machine learning advisory services leveraging Fast Forward Labs' domain expertise.” Cloudera strategy: “Cloudera's proposition remains largely unchanged: lead machine learning in the enterprise, disrupt the data warehouse market for analytical and operational data workloads, capitalize on cloud adoption and drive innovation for simplification while mitigating data security risk. With cloud being an agent for digital transformation, the company has publicly announced its intent to lead with cloud innovation as part of the future growth strategy at the company level.” Conferences, et. al. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 22nd - Cloud Native tour in Milan, Italy. Coté and friends: a half day, a summit on Spring, DevOps, and cloud native programming. Free. Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. Nonsense Costco sought to provide a streaming service to customers. Listener Feedback Jermey is professor at a university in Chicago teaching cloud native and "devops" technologies to undergrads. “The Podcast has been a great benefit to the students. Could I get a few stickers to pass out to them?” SDT news & hype Join us in Slack - new #upvoteplease channel for shameless (self) promotion. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Dr. Foster on Neflix Matt: Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail. Coté: micro.blog, where Coté now has cote.coffee hooked up with some Instagram and Pinboard IFTTT wingdings. Drafts 5 seems fine. Coté needs help figuring out WTF “culture” is from a practical angle.

With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivation for changing up their enterprise software. We also (mostly ignorantly) talk about Cloudera and Hortonworks merging, as well as filing expenses. Relevant to your interests SpringOne Platform news, see podcast. The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects Linux now dominates Azure Oracle says Kurian has resigned as president three weeks after he left to take time off eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Which Performs Best? Cloudera, Hortonworks Stocks Soar as the Big-Data Rivals Announce a $5.2B Merger DXC Technology Scoops Up Small Texas Design Firm China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Oct 22nd - Milan! Pivotal Cloud Native Tour - free to attend! Coté and Jakob get your all cloud natived up! Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. Nonsense Costco's secret weapon: Food courts and $1.50 hot dogs SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: What Really Happened Podcast. How Social Security Numbers Became A Form Of National Identification Coté: Dopper water bottles. AMS security. 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!

We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help with your cloud projects. Relevant to your interests Amazon's 11 new products from its big event - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside Software provider Solarwinds files for IPO Slack has made its biggest acquisition to date In praise of SWARMing Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release Announcing Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure - Chef Blog Microsoft Ignite 2018: Windows Virtual Desktop, Office 2019 and everything else just announced Flexera acquires RightScale to combine software asset, cloud management | ZDNet Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide PKS 1.2 Adds AWS: More Multi-cloud for Your Kubernetes Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3, Powered by Industrialized Open Source, Helps You Revenge of the PMO | Silicon Valley Product Group Conferences, et. al. Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor in action at FutureStack on the 2nd. Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup. Oct 4th - ITQ Transform, Utrecht - Coté talking. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Discount Code Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Buy some t-shirts! All T-Shirts $5.50 T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: Annihilation Movie, Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Review Sonic Youth’s Youth Against Fascism Brandon: That Moment, Episode 9 with the Cote ad read at 13:11 Cloud Rankings from Liftrnews

There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA Relevant to your interests Americano coffee vs long black. “Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater Oracle president Thomas Kurian is taking time away from the company New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round Atlassian to pay $295M for Boston-based OpsGenie Nancy Gohring and co analyze the deal. No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different: “The work of operations is changing and the skills required to do that work are changing. The platforms and tools involved are evolving (but don't forget the decades of legacy code that isn't!). Organizational silos are breaking down, and developers and operators are co-mingling as peer engineers.” Jenkins: Shifting Gears - Coté: recently, I don’t think I’ve heard any one say “yay! Jenkins!” What’s the deal with it? Is Jenkins now bad? Vapor IO Raises PE Funding, Buys Out Nascent Edge Colocation Business from Crown Castle In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo - sources “Adobe, which has a market capitalization of $130 billion, has topped analysts’ profit and revenue estimates for the past eight quarters, driven by strength in its digital media business, which houses its flagship product Creative Cloud.” Johnny Leadgen is interested. Adobe really pulled off a successful strategy. Geoffrey More’s systems of interaction (‘member that?), some CMS/marketing analytics engines, and then moving CS to SaaS. Pretty amazing, considering all the other road-kill out there. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint team up to kill passwords Sysdig raises $68.5 million to boost security and performance for containers and cloud-native apps Packet Raises $25M Series B, Starts Deployment of Edge Computing Cloud What Is the Point of Mozilla? - “in 2016 various deals with search engines brought in an astonishing $520 million.” Linus Torvalds taking break Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase Path is shutting down Mesosphere revenue, new CEO, etc. - “Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m+ run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest quarter ever, beating our numbers over the last 14 quarters. In fact, according to a recent report from Inc, we are the third fastest-growing software company in the U.S. with a revenue growth of 7,507 percent.” Slow down, Pony Boy! You could round that 7 off the growth percent. Google making private cloud stuff: ‘Google is responding to enterprise computing needs by making custom-designed computers to run in organizations' own data centers, reports The Information. The computers include server, storage and networking functions specifically for "a handful of large customers," according to two sources close to the project in the report.’ Wut. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Coté isn’t going to see his family until Christmas. GRIND AND STACK. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor in action at FutureStack on the 2nd. Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup. Oct 4th - ITQ Transform, Utrecht - Coté talking. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture. Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté. Listener Feedback Eoin from Wellington, New Zealand got a sticker. He thanks us for taking the time and energy to make the show. SDT websites are now secure. The annoying security warning is should be gone SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Buy some t-shirts! All T-Shirts $5.50 T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential; Secret City. Brandon: Amazon Alexa Shopping List. Coté: Bikes. They get you places. Sponsored By:Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!

This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Relevant to your interests 2018 State of DevOps Report, DORA edition: Coté’s notes. Effective DevOps. “Thread.” (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!) VMworld 2018 Recap. VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications. Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world. Elastic S-1. Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN. H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin. Hopefully Buddy will crush it. https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990 Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by our great friends at DataDog. This week DataDog wants you to know about Logging without Limits. Logging without Limits lets you cost-effectively process and archive all of your logs, and decide on the fly which logs to index, visualize, and retain for analytics in Datadog. Now you can collect every single log produced by your applications and infrastructure, without having to decide ahead of time which logs will be most valuable for monitoring, analytics, and troubleshooting. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table. New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Oct 1st and 2nd - Coté on a partner panel, also, come see The Governor. Later that night, Oct 2nd, Coté speaking at a meetup, topic TBD. ITQ Transform, Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking. DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle. JDriven Managers summit, Oct 17th, near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11. Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12. Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25. Matt’s presenting! Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. Coté’s presenting. SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Also, Toronto, Dec 12th to 13th. Listener Feedback Rob from slack tells how to pronounce Galway. Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway November 18-20th We are working on the Google Chrome Security thing. Actually, Fireside.fm is working on it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism CashedOut.coffee podcast. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) — T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Ozark Season 2. Matt: StarCraft 2, free to play! (Not to be confused with StarControl.) Coté: Embedded Netflix, in your TV. Also: Sharp Objects - like all great shows, the end is a massive disappointment of Chekhovian-ease, but the rest is great. Anti-recommendation: whatever reasons make it so I have three remotes.

This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections. Relevant to your interests Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices Michael Coté from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump? What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative? Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations Slack just raised a whopping $427 million to become a $7.1 billion company. Now, it has to defeat Microsoft. Apple Pay Now Accepted at All Costco Warehouses in United States. 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey. Announcing resource-based pricing for Google Compute Engine. DevOps Report 2018 released. Will talk about it next week. Until then, enjoy 78 pages of landscape PDF glory. Spoiler alert: elite high performers are elite high performers. Pivotal has a webinar on Oct 11th about it. Community management is a career cul-de-sac. See interview next week. Good example of corpdev thinking, in the US (legal) drugs market. “Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community.” Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses. VMworld NA 2018 VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management - Carl@451: “Primarily a cost management and analysis platform, it has roughly 3,500 users and has also grown to cover automation, security and governance with a broad, API-based management platform for the major public clouds: AWS, Azure and GCP. CloudHealth mainly operates in the US, meaning VMware will have to square overseas operations and data management with other jurisdictions – primarily the EU GDPR regulations – going forward.” Est. $500m valuation. They monitor your cloud costs. Cf. Dr. Cloud Pricing Guy at 451. Still that MoM in the Clouds vision. “With CloudHealth, VMware not only gets the multi-cloud management solution, it gains its 3000 customers which include Yelp, Dow Jones, Zendesk and Pinterest.” VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best Place to Run Kubernetes. Cameo from the Hill Country’s favorite systems management (former) analyst. VMware's Software-Defined Vision. Coté remember when he met with Kit Colbert at DockerCon EU 2014, and Coté had no idea what this “cloud native” stuff was. Now, it seems like it’s slowly moving to be the new word for PaaS, but more like the under-girding of PaaS. Also, went back to the NEMO recently. They no longer have the closet of dead things, sadly. Project Dimension - on-demand private clouds, driven by SDDC stuff. Pat’s Pillars: ‘“Superpowers” that are unlocking game-changing opportunities on a global scale – Cloud, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things.’ Redis stinkup - the mysteries of making money by actually selling something Coté: now, what’s the deal here? They closed source some stuff that maybe others had contributed to, taking advantage of good will, and/or they’re just now charging for what used to be free? (Are there other open source scandal scenarios?) Joab and Lawrence at The New Stack: “While the core of Redis itself remains under the permissive BSD license, the company has reworded the licensing for some of its add-on modules, in effect blocking their use by third parties offering commercial Redis-based services — most notably cloud providers. Redis Labs was able to make this change because it retains the copyright to the open source code.” Commons Clause, Redis Labs. Adam Jacob Twitter thread on commons clause. SUSE Revenue Watch Somehow, this has become a bit in the show. Blame Coté. Something like ~$360m based on trailing 6 months runrat’ed to 12 trailing. Also, likely non-GAAP reporting (not clear if it’s ACV vs. TCV), but whatever. Grind and stack: “EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.” So: ~$112m profit, ~31% margins. That’s the kind of stable (they claim to run 70% of SAP apps), growing cash-throw-off that should make PE people drool on their Patagonia puffy vests: “Following last week's shareholder approval of Micro Focus' proposed sale of SUSE to EQT Partners for $2.535 billion, the transaction is expected to complete in the first quarter of calendar 2019, subject to customary regulatory approvals.” If my math is right (it’s established that I don’t know how numbers work), clawing in all profits would pay that $2.5bn off by 2026: 8 or 10 years of holding growth and profit %. Of course, you’d sell it off before that. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th. DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11. Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12. Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25. DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6. Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Listener Feedback Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway November 18-20th DevOps Days Singapore wanted us to let folks know it’s October 11-12! Camille sent us some feedback and really liked Matt’s Red Atlas recommendation because she lives near a missile site. Joshua built a service that creates an RSS feed of podcasts based on keywords. Here’s an example: https://prod.mypod.online/feed?q=kubernetes Try it out. Soon to be Honey Ninja subscribes to SDT, citing host “wit” as driver. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast Dustin on Linux and Google Cloud Rachel Stephens from RedMonk on Numbers Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Acquired Podcast. Matt: Blindsight by Peter Watts; The Good Fight. Coté: Friendly Fire podcast, the intros. Ikea knives.

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more conversations like this one. Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. Links: Dustin’s Blog Dustin on Twitter Dustin’s presentation at Google Next Run-one Vasa Museum Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” The title says it all. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Observations on Observability https://medium.com/@copyconstruct This GDPR madness has to stop, son! AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined AWS Serverless Application Repository Taking Tesla Private CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 - not too bad so far. Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS? A developer’s view of getting up and running with kubernetes. “Progressive delivery,” see also James Governor on the term. Nonsense It’s raining tacos AWS icon quiz To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume “I took the cool out of Cool Rick.” Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th. DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11. DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12. DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25. DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6. Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Listener Feedback Andy from Netflix send me a LinkedIn request and got a sticker SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast Chris Donaldson on Automation Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Westworld. Matt: Dune fandom. As heard on Song Exploder: Jon Hopkins Singularity. The Red Atlas. Coté: Hemingway app. Slate Podcast Plus. PodCTL on registries. 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!

After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just moved to Amsterdam, there’s some Amsterdam talk. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Everyone’s favorite Outlook feature, now in G Suite. Do we know what “serverless” is yet? Someone named that got some funding. Related, Istio 1.0: “It is aiming to be a control plane, similar to the Kubernetes control plane, for configuring a series of proxy servers that get injected between application components. It will actually look at HTTP response codes and if an app component starts throwing more than a number of 500 errors, it can redirect the traffic.” MUST BE THIS HIGH TO RIDE! Follow-up: Brenon at 451 says Broadcom is gonna have to sell off some stuff to make it’s margin targets. The mainframe profits are too high, while distributed is low enough to throw the margins out of whack. So, sell off distributed to Micro Focus? To PE BMC? Or a bad analysis. Austin Regional Clinic is in Apple Health records. Pretty nifty that it sucks them all in...sort of. Robots make your pizza. Featured in that OKR book. For real. AWS: still makes lots of money, market-leader by revenue. See also Gartner on the topic: “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.” Gartner estimates that AWS is ~4 times as big as the next, in 2017. Tibco might be sold off: “Vista took Tibco private in 2014 in a deal valued at about $4.3 billion including debt. The company, based in Palo Alto, California, makes software that clients use to collect and analyze data in industries from banking to transportation. It currently has about $2.9 billion of debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.” Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Duo Security, $2.35bn. What’s this ABN e.dentifier thing? Apprenda shuts down. SASSY! Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! - DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 Listener Feedback Lindsay from London got a sticker an tell us: “Really enjoy the podcast, just the right level of humour, sarcasm and facts for a cynical Brit like me.” SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Masters of Doom. Matt: Deadpool 2. If you liked the first, you’ll like the second. Coté: 1980’s Action Figure tumblr - now that I have fast Internet, tumblr is workable. Mask, Cops, sweet Dune figures, generic GI Joe figures. Dutch Internet, son! SHIT DOG! 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!

"Harness that peer pressure for good” This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes. Relevant to your interests Google Next GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (Supports AWS and GCP) Matt’s skeptical https://deltacloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://github.com/fog/fog Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers IBM stock rises after earnings beat SolarWinds | SolarWinds Acquires Trusted Metrics Cisco, networking stocks drop on a report Amazon Web Services is considering selling network devices Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt This week DataDog is pleased to announce that Datadog APM has officially released support for monitoring Node.js applications, which joins our existing support for Java, Ruby, Python and Go. Read their announcement blog. Important nonsense I got the beer you asked for Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: The Sinner on Netflix Home Depot text message shortcut: Text the this message “121 hammer” to 24564 and you will get a link to the a map of the store showing the section for hammers. Replace "121” with the store number you are in and replace “hammer” with the item you are searching for to make new queries. You will likely have to ask a Home Depot Associate what the store number is or find it online. This is an internal tool used by Home Depot Associates to find stuff when customers ask them. Matt: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ photo creditSponsored By:Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!