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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Aronchick, CEO and founder of Expanso, about luck and timing, building into universal truths and the reasons for Kubernetes' success. Before David founded Expanso (which is behind the project Bacalhau), he was the first non-founding PM on the Kubernetes project, and we kicked off by talking a bit about what made Kubernetes so successful… and you probably can guess that it didn't have to do with having the most awesome technology. A big part of it was that it was the right time and a number of factors in the larger ecosystem were aligned in favor of making Kubernetes a success. It comes down to luck and building to where the puck is going… so how do you know where the puck is going to be a year from now? David talks about selling into basic truths. If you're pegged to a specific technology, you're putting yourself at huge risk. But if you are solving a problem that has always been a problem and is likely to continue to be a problem, you are more likely to be successful. We also talked about Adam Jacob's talk on building a business around open source that he gave at KubeCon Salt Lake City, which you should definitely listen to. Adam Jacob also came on this podcast a year ago, and you should also listen to the episode he did. Lastly, we talked about how hard GTM is, and how David would invest way more into GTM, starting much earlier, if he could start over again. David was at Open Source Founders Summit this year, and you should come next year too!
Last week the kerfuffle between Synadia and CNCF, tussling over the ownership and futures of NATS, bled into the public. The outcome may cast a long shadow for open source and for the CNCF. Bryan and Adam were joined by Rachel Stephens and Adam Jacob to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rachel Stephens Adam Jacob, and Eliza Weisman.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Goats in sweatersCNCF Slide: Why You Should Host Your Project at CNCFCNCF NATS documentsNATS GitHub discussionThe uncashed $10k checkCNCF landscapeCNCF blog on NATS / SynadiaSynadia response to the CNCFPostscript:The CNCF updated its blog with proof that the ACH transfer of $10,000 was completed [still very funny! -ahl].Derek Collison--as reported by Runtime News--has agreed to transfer the NATS trademark to the CNCF "because we just feel that the damage to the ecosystem and the ugliness is not worth it for anyone."If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, CEO/Founder @thesysteminit) talks about the evolution and intersection of DevOps 2.0, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and what's nextSHOW: 907SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #907 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:Try Postman AI Agent Builder Todaypostman.com/podcast/cloudcast/SHOW NOTES:System Initiative websiteAdam on The Cloudcast #729Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke mid-2023. For those that missed that show, tell us about your background…Topic 2 - When we last spoke, we talked about DevOps 2.0. Give everyone an update on the state of the industry. DevOps 2.0, IaC, etc. Where are we at in that journey? For instance, what's broken with IaC in the existing approaches and why a new approach?Topic 3 - One thing I've noticed in research for this topic is the move to visual and UI to conceptualize the environment and the corresponding actions. APIs and command lines will always have a place but what are your thoughts on this trend? I personally fall asleep every time someone gives a talk an industry conference and they pull up the command line for their demo. But, I'm also a visual learner.Topic 4 - When I've thought about both DevOps and IaC in the past, my mind immediately jumps to both complexity and dependencies. What do developers today have to consider and have we made any advances here?Topic 5 - Are there new metrics for success? With DevOps is was number of code commits, with IaC it was number of seamless deployments and actions. What do development teams look for today as the consider new platforms and tools?Topic 6 - I can see this being an area that could be impacted by AI in a few ways: 1. the summarization of large amounts of data 2. Digital Twins and simulations and 3. Agentic AI performing tasks based on conditions. What are your thoughts on AI here?Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, what's the best way to get started?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod
Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative, discusses a shift in infrastructure automation—moving from writing code to building models that enable rapid simulations and collaboration. In The New Stack Makers, he compares this approach to Formula One racing, where teams use high-fidelity models to simulate race conditions, optimizing performance before hitting the track.System Initiative applies this concept to enterprise automation, creating a model that understands how infrastructure components interact. This enables fast, multiplayer feedback loops, simplifying complex tasks while enhancing collaboration. Engineers can extend the system by writing small, reactive JavaScript functions that automate processes, such as transforming existing architectures into new ones. The platform visually represents these transformations, making automation more intuitive and efficient.By leveraging models instead of traditional code-based infrastructure management, System Initiative enhances agility, reduces complexity, and improves DevOps collaboration. To explore how this ties into the concept of the digital twin, listen to the fullNew Stack Makers episode.Learn more from The New Stack about System Initiative:Beyond Infrastructure as Code: System Initiative Goes LiveHow System Initiative Treats AWS Components as Digital TwinsSystem Initiative Code Now Open SourceJoin our community of newsletter subscribers to stay on top of the news and at the top of your game.
In the last episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at KubeCon Salt Lake City, I spoke with Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of Aserto. Aserto has two open source project that it maintains, one of which it donated to the CNCF. In this episode, we talked about the decision to donate a project to the CNCF — both what the process entailed and what is in for Aserto in having a project at the CNCF. But of course Aserto also has another project, Topaz, which it has not donated to the CNCF. We also talked about why Topaz wasn't donated to the CNCF. A couple things to pull out of this conversation: The complicated calculus of deciding whether to donate a project to a foundation, and how the dynamics of the market change over the years and you have to think very critically about the specifics of your situation before making the decision to donate to a foundationHow every company has slightly different market pressures — sometimes the market pushed you to donate to a foundation, sometimes the market doesn't care. The importance of thinking not just about market share when you're open source, but also how you are going to monetize! It's possible to have vastly smaller market share but make vastly more money. Why being an open source company does not have to mean that your paid solution has to be cheaper than your competitors. Why you don't have to start selling into startups — sometimes your best customers will always be either mid-market or enterprise from the very beginning. We talked about the panel I moderated at CloudNative StartupFest at KubeCon. If you missed it, here's the link to see the replay. We also talked about Adam Jacob's talk at the same event, which you can see here. If you're building a company around an open source project and aren't sure how to manage the relationship between the project and product, you might want to work with me or come to Open Source Founders Summit this May.
In episode 6 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John are joined by Adam Jacob, co-creator of Chef and CEO of System Initiative, to discuss the philosophical and business intersections of open source. Adam shares insights on the evolution of free software, the challenges of monetizing open source projects, and the future of collaborative development in an increasingly commercialized tech ecosystem.
System Initiative is a new product that aims to improve on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). On today’s episode we talk with System Initiative creator Adam Jacob to find out why he wanted to improve on IaC, how System Initiative works, how it compares to other platforms in the market, how it handles key features such... Read more »
System Initiative is a new product that aims to improve on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). On today’s episode we talk with System Initiative creator Adam Jacob to find out why he wanted to improve on IaC, how System Initiative works, how it compares to other platforms in the market, how it handles key features such... Read more »
System Initiative is a new product that aims to improve on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). On today’s episode we talk with System Initiative creator Adam Jacob to find out why he wanted to improve on IaC, how System Initiative works, how it compares to other platforms in the market, how it handles key features such... Read more »
In this conversation, Adam Jacob discusses his journey in the tech industry, focusing on the development of his company, System Initiative, and the evolution of DevOps and automation. He shares insights from his early experiences with computers, his unconventional education, and the challenges faced in the ISP era. The discussion also touches on the impact of cloud computing and AI on modern development, emphasizing the importance of understanding underlying technologies to innovate effectively. In this conversation, Adam Jacob discusses the evolution of technology and workflows in the context of DevOps and infrastructure management. He reflects on his journey from consulting to product development, highlighting the creation of Chef and its impact on the industry. Adam introduces System Initiative, a new approach to infrastructure management that emphasizes real-time collaboration and automation. He also addresses pricing strategies and the importance of aligning value with customer needs, while identifying the target audience for System Initiative as innovative DevOps engineers looking for better solutions.00:00 Introduction01:15 What is Adam Doing Today05:26 First Memories of a Computer07:30 Early Interests / Life Growing Up20:06 Early ISP work35:20 Dealing with Scale in Tech47:15 New Age Dev Work59:30 The Birth of Chef 1:15:00 Starting System Initiative1:17:30 Revolutionizing Infrastructure Management1:26:20 Deciding on Pricing1:33:40 Target Audience for System Initiative1:50:15 Contact infoConnect with Adam: Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjacob/Twitter: https://x.com/adamhjkMentioned in today's episode:System Initiative: https://www.systeminit.com/Want more from Ardan Labs? You can learn Go, Kubernetes, Docker & more through our video training, live events, or through our blog!Online Courses : https://ardanlabs.com/education/ Live Events : https://www.ardanlabs.com/live-training-events/ Blog : https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog Github : https://github.com/ardanlabs
System Initiative is set to change DevOps automation. Focusing on real-time simulations, digital twins, and collaborative infrastructure management, System Initiative offers a revolutionary approach to managing complex cloud environments, solving challenges like stack drift, feedback delays, and cumbersome DevOps workflows. In Episode 92 of Great Things with Great Tech, Adam Jacob, co-founder and CEO of System Initiative, shares insights on his journey from creating Chef to building System Initiative. This groundbreaking platform allows engineers to model infrastructure with high fidelity, enabling real-time simulations, multiplayer collaboration, and safer, faster deployments. Adam explains how digital twins and the “Living Architecture” approach allow engineers to work collaboratively in a game-like environment, eliminating the slow feedback loops associated with traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Key Topics Adam Jacob's Vision: From Chef to System Initiative and the Future of DevOps System Initiative Features: Digital twins, living architecture, and high-fidelity infrastructure modeling The “200% Problem”: Why high-level abstractions don't always simplify DevOps, and how System Initiative tackles this with real-time infrastructure modeling Real-Time Collaboration: How System Initiative's multiplayer interface redefines DevOps workflows Open Source Strategy: Why System Initiative is committed to transparency and accessibility in DevOps Future Roadmap: Plans to expand System Initiative to AWS, on-premises, and beyond Links: ☑️ Web: https://systeminitiative.com ☑️ Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-system-initiative ☑️ Sign Up: Do it. Generous free tier https://auth.systeminit.com/signup ☑️ Support the Channel: https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt ☑️ Be on #GTwGT: Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or visit https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️ Subscribe to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GTwGTPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Check out the full episode on our platforms: YouTube: https://youtu.be/kmB_pjGb5Js Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2l9aZpvwhWcdmL0lErpUHC?si=x3YOQw_4Sp-vtdjyroMk3Q Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries-with-jack-rhysider-episode-83/id1519439787?i=1000654665731 Follow Us: Website: https://gtwgt.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/GTwGTPodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/GTwGTPodcast ☑️ Music: https://www.bensound.com
Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.
DevOps is a powerful model for managing the building and operational aspects of modern applications. Most developers are now familiar with DevOps, and the adoption of DevOps practices is widespread and growing. Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He's now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an The post Building a Collaborative DevOps Platform with Adam Jacob appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
DevOps is a powerful model for managing the building and operational aspects of modern applications. Most developers are now familiar with DevOps, and the adoption of DevOps practices is widespread and growing. Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He’s now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an The post Building a Collaborative DevOps Platform with Adam Jacob appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
This week, we discuss our AI usage, recap key announcements from VMware Explore, and examine RedMonk's analysis of how open-source licensing impacts revenue and market cap. Plus, some thoughts on power bricks. 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Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of "Friends" for you. Enjoy.
Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of "Friends" for you. Enjoy.
Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the internet that was bulletin based. He likes music, specifically heavy metal. He was raised on 80's hair metal, but also enjoys modern and Swedish metal, of which your host is very familiar. He also loves cats, and at one point, had a bengal, which is a cross between a tiger and a domestic cat.Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control.This is the creation story of System Initiative.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www.systeminit.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjacob/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
In this episode of Hacking Open Source Business, co-hosts Avi Press and Matt Yonkovit are joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and co-founder of Chef. They delve into the complexities of open source commercialization, discussing Adam's experiences and opinions on the subject. Adam shares insights into building a successful open source business, balancing the ideals of open source with business needs, and his vision for System Initiative. Tune in to learn about effective open source strategies, the difference between software and products, and the role of trademarks in open source business.Adam Jacob's LinkedIn: / adamjacob System Initiative: https://www.systeminit.com/Chef: https://www.chef.io/Checkout our other interviews, clips, and videos: https://l.hosbp.com/YoutubeDon't forget to visit the open-source business community at: https://opensourcebusiness.community/Visit our primary sponsor, Scarf, for tools to help analyze your #opensource growth and adoption: https://about.scarf.sh/Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite app:Spotify: https://l.hosbp.com/SpotifyApple: https://l.hosbp.com/AppleGoogle: https://l.hosbp.com/GoogleBuzzsprout: https://l.hosbp.com/Buzzsprout
This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Reshma Khilnani, CEO and founder of Medplum. Medplum is an open source electronic health record development platform, and one of the things I loved about this conversation is that Reshma is so focused on the healthcare industry — a level of focus that I find relatively rare in open source companies. And not only that, when I asked her if she thought the company's focus was too narrow, she responded that actually she often worries that it's too broad. Another thing I really liked about this episode is that open source, for Medplum, is about trust and transparency, not growth. Medplum's customers, Reshma said, just don't mess around with free software that doesn't come with compliance certificates and some kind of support guarantees. It's a great episode to come on the heels of the episode with Adam Jacob, who talked about the difference between code, software and a product — that is a distinction that Medplum has clearly nailed. Other takeaways if you're running an open source company: Reshma is clearly really passionate not just about developing software, but about building software for the healthcare industry. She can also clearly articulate why her customers are not well served by the standard, off the shelf development platforms that can be used by any industry. This industry-specific expertise is really powerful, and quite frankly something I don't encounter very often. Even though there are different legal regimes in different countries, the underlying needs are pretty similar, so even for something as specific as healthcare companies it's not particularly challenging to provide a solution that meets the needs of customers around the worldMedplum is Reshma's third company, but her first open source company. She talked about how one of the key differences between building an open source company and a her previous companies that that the company has to pay incredible attention to the implementation details that at any other company no one would care about. Yes, you're building a product company… but that doesn't mean you should never sell professional services. Reshma says that one mistake she made was being too rigid about not selling any professional services at all, and ultimately they ended up offering packages of services to help customers get their implementations running. One last bit of info: Reshma compared the conversation around open source startups now with “internet startups' in 2013. Will all startups be open source startups in 10 years? I guess we'll see.
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, founder and CEO of System Initiative and formerly the CTO and co-founder at Chef. We had a wide-ranging conversation that at times veered into the philosophical (what is the meaning for ‘strategy'?) but also has plenty of concrete, practical insights. We talked about:The difference between being the CTO and being the CEO of a startup, even if you're a founder in both cases (and why Adam wanted to try out the CEO role this time)How Chef started out open source primarily because Adam and his co-founder really believed in open source values How they figured out a business model for Chef, but that it really felt like they were just making it up was they went along — and how he suspects that's what most people doGetting disrupted four times, and trying out many different business models along the wayWe also talked a lot about total addressable markets, serviceable available market and serviceable obtainable market in the context of open source companies. Three key takeaways: The software is not the product. A product is the entire experience of using the software, including how it is installed, how the team is onboarded, what compliance certifications you have, what happens if you have a problem, etc. As a vendor of open source software, you need to focus on creating and selling a whole product and take the focus away from the code. You can have 100% open source code and still sell a product, because they want to have a complete experience with support and compliance paperwork etc — and because they value buying those things from the same people who are writing the code. The way to calculate TAM is to multiply the number of people who want to buy a product by the average selling price of the product. When you phrase it this way, it becomes obvious that the TAM for any open source software is zero, because the average selling price is zero. If you enjoy this podcast, please share with other founders and leadership in open source companies! And if you like the idea of open source lawyer trading cards, reach out to Adam and he'll start a physical product company next :).
Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent “open source meets business” drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent “open source meets business” drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
This week, we discuss OpenTofu's response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Yvt-NtjVc) 463 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Yvt-NtjVc) Runner-up Titles The fun run was fun. You don't have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts. The Phish are biting Everything's cool zone Words that rhyme with “acquisation” Maybe AI can find it The market for products that start with “K” I like hotdogs Don't do the values, just the fun facts Rundown An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google's Enterprise AI Strategy (https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-about-googles-enterprise-ai-strategy/) OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/) Matt Asay response Tweet (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1778454498664690108) Adam Jacob take (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1778470920094691625) Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica (https://www.wsj.com/tech/salesforce-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-informatica-ba9ec09c?mod=tech_lead_story&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) 451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/203924/Toc?ref=PCN%20email) Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/akamai-acquisition-talks-noname-security/) Relevant to your Interests Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta (https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-next-generation-infrastructure-for-ai/?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124) ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances (https://www.engadget.com/isps-roll-out-mandatory-broadband-nutrition-labels-that-show-speeds-fees-and-data-allowances-103832369.html) How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue (https://twitter.com/treiner5/status/1778403310871179678) Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag (https://platformonomics.com/2024/04/follow-the-capex-the-clown-car-race-checkered-flag/) Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License (https://cybersecuritynews.com/splunk-vs-cribl-lawsuit/) It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome (https://www.businessinsider.com/waymo-self-driving-robotaxi-cars-without-drivers-amazing-tech-review-2024-4) Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation (https://www.thestack.technology/citi-data-transformation-2024/) Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/technology/microsoft-g42-uae-ai.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack (https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/widely-used-putty-ssh-client-found.html) Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/metas-oversight-board-probes-explicit-ai-generated-images-posted-on-instagram-and-facebook/?_hsmi=302971940) New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/uk-seeks-to-criminalize-creation-of-sexually-explicit-ai-deepfake-images-without-consent/?_hsmi=302971940) Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe (https://www.theverge.com/24100464/altstore-pal-dma-eu-launch-delta-nintendo-emulator-clip-clipboard-manager) Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/linux_foundation_opinion/) Enterprise Nonsense How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis (https://youtu.be/FBvQRpZYSXw?si=BAtYDg4ImZDgYxea) Listener Feedback Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SJ8SQ6Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DVCCWXH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger? (http://All> American Burger - Tucson, AZ) Conferences Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt's speaking. NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/). SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté's book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393) Civil War (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/civil_war_2024) Matt: Ostrich travel pillow (https://amzn.to/3Jm4ixF) H (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)- (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)E (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)- (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)B Pro-Sleep Mask (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002) Coté: Continuity Camera (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102546), kibbeling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbeling). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/six-black-and-yellow-fishing-rod-in-boat-UivGzIDhVyw) Artwork (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/)
This week, we discuss whether or not Kubernetes is boring, Winglang's attempt to simply cloud deployments and Linkerd status as a graduated CNCF project. Plus, a few thoughts on frogs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXssLonmkEw) 457 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXssLonmkEw) Runner-up Titles Blame the seagulls Speaking of lizards in our houses Burying people under B-trees Compiler for the Cloud I'm tired of speaking French We need a big pie If we stop shooting each other we can sit down and eat some pie. The Jacob Principle Has there every been a config file format love affair? Rundown Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong (https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-predictions-were-wrong/) Wing Programming Language for the Cloud (https://www.winglang.io/) #1262 Health of Linkerd project (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262) Craig Box X Thread (https://twitter.com/craigbox/status/1760370351828320539) Adam Jacob's X Thread (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1761051900215275760) Five Cloud News Trends for February (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/03/five-cloud-news-trends-for-february.html) Relevant to your Interests X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/23/x-adds-support-for-passkeys-on-ios-after-removing-sms-2fa-support-last-year/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABw_QgA37nl432nhb6Gn3krzLFMb5OvmaZr6thvov5iGJ8UrvQec-jpGjenN-KUP-cSFa4MRW9DXVXJ3_u87Z0-zfC2mR708qqm34sAhBT-mAcL5pP8L04T54Mqn-xnUCDNXYBJFr2Y4oHXFjkIWgTU_iwJ4vqK52MC4hYtaAC9W) CACM Is Now Open Access (https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/) Now Apple says it won't disable iPhone web apps in the EU (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087666/apple-disable-iphone-web-apps-eu-reversal) A Few Jelly Beans and a World of Disappointment at Willy Wonka Event (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/europe/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow.html) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of nonprofit AI mission | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-court/) Meta says it's deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087855/meta-delete-oculus-accounts) Snowflake CEO Steps Down From Post Richer Than Tim Cook or Satya Nadella (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-04/snowflake-ceo-frank-slootman-steps-aside-richer-than-tim-cook-or-satya-nadella) RISC-V launch (https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-launches-its-risc-v-servers-in-the-cloud-a-world-first-and-a-firm-commitment-to-technological-independence/) Amazon goes nuclear, acquires atomic datacenter for $650M (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/04/amazon_acquires_cumulus_nuclear_datacenter/) Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html) It's Time to Give Up on Email (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/email-nightmare-just-give-up/677615/) Nonsense When a funeral is clickbait (https://www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-obituary-spam-generative-clickbait) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté's hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). If you're an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Palo Alto. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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Recommendations Brandon: Dune Part 2 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dune_part_two) Matt: Our Band Could Be Your Life (https://amzn.to/49G2Ulg) Conan O'Brien in Australia (https://conanclassic.com/australia/conan-becomes-a-bondi-beach-lifeguard) Coté: Bruce Sterlings new-ish blog (https://toshareproject.it/artmakerblog/), especially the color scheme. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photography-of-brown-frog-hHDMQqP4jPU) Gemini
This week, we discuss open source forks, what's going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwXvnb53iY) 455 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwXvnb53iY) Runner-up Titles I live my life one iCal screen at a time We always have sparklers Meta-parenting Everyone is always tired Cheaper version of Red Hat This week in “Do we need to be angry?” All we get is wingdings. I'm in a Socialist mood this week Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff Those dingalings bought my boat Dingalings of the mind Rundown CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace (https://ciq.com/press-release/ciq-offers-long-term-support-for-rocky-linux-8-6-8-8-and-9-2-images-through-aws-marketplace/) Will CIQ's new support program alienate the community (https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/will-ciqs-new-support-program-alienate-the-community-it-built-on-an-objection-to-subscriber-only-fb58ea6a810e) NGINX fork (https://narrativ.es/@janl/111935559549855751)? freenginx.org (http://freenginx.org/en/) Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/struggling-database-company-mariadb-could-be-taken-private-in-a-37m-deal/) Tofu (https://opentofu.org) So Where's That New OpenAI Board? (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/so-wheres-that-new-openai-board?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz) The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn't its new website use it? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/04/direct-file-irs-taxes/) Relevant to your Interests Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/) Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#apple-has-effectively-banned-all-third-party-browsers) Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird's-eye view of your data (https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-column-explorer/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=294232392&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vobC3nom9chsGc_Y8KM9pO75KKvrGTtL7uS-sfcNQ1sNd8ThaMnP5KsfbSUWCWW2KOjlPpa3AwC4ToYbaCmYOAMva0rvKIZ2jkB461YKJX2TLQtg&utm_content=294233055&utm_source=hs_email) Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix (https://spyglass.org/its-not-tv-its-apple-tv-plus/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Sora: Creating video from text (https://openai.com/sora) Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech (https://climateaction.tech/blog/sustainability-kpi-greenops-survey-results/) Slack AI has arrived (https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/slack-ai-has-arrived) What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob (https://youtu.be/gAYMg6LNEMs?si=9PRiK1BBHaBGSypy) Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24074455/apple-generative-ai-xcode-spotlight-testing) Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft's GitHub Copilot (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-15/apple-s-ai-plans-github-copilot-rival-for-developers-tool-for-testing-apps) VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon (https://kccnceu2024.sched.com/event/1YhIE/sponsored-keynote-a-cloud-native-overture-to-enterprise-end-user-adoption-fabian-deutsch-senior-engineering-manager-red-hat-michael-hanulec-vice-president-and-technology-fellow-goldman-sachs) Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/?comments=1&comments-page=1) Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/microsoft_retires_azure_iot_central/) The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future (https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future) Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster (https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1759071289401368635?s=20) 1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/1password-expands-its-endpoint-security-offerings-with-kolide-acquisition/) Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-21/microsoft-will-use-intel-to-manufacture-home-grown-processor) In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint (https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/apple-captures-top-7-spots-in-global-top-10-best-selling-smartphones/) Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/technology/google-open-source-ai.html) Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-20/apple-shuffles-leadership-of-team-responsible-for-audio-products?srnd=premium) Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/signal-now-lets-you-keep-your-phone-number-private-with-the-launch-of-usernames/) How Google is killing independent sites like ours (https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/) VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/vmware_kvm_converter/) (https://narrativ.es/@janl/111935559549855751)## Nonsense An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds (https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/an-ordinary-squirt-of-canned-air-achieves-supersonic-speeds-engineer-spots-telltale-shock-diamonds) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté's hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). If you're an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). 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In this episode, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder of System Initiative, joins the podcast to discuss the reasons behind less than ideal results in DevOps. He explains the failure rates and highlights important insights to look for in reports. Adam also discusses the second wave of DevOps tools and their impact. The conversation delves into the work of System Initiative. This company has reimagined the workflow for DevOps work by creating a collaborative power tool that removes the challenges faced in current DevOps practices. The goal is to enhance collaboration, shorten feedback loops, and create high-fidelity models while allowing for higher-level abstractions. Highlights [00:00:23] Rethinking DevOps workflow. [00:03:46] Ideal implementation of DevOps. [00:08:35] Collaboration in remote culture. [00:10:19] Collaboration in remote work. [00:14:35] What's wrong with our DevOps outcomes? [00:17:46] Lead time for cloud infrastructure. [00:21:19] Transparency and collaboration. [00:24:08] Collaboration and complexity in deployments. [00:27:14] Second wave of DevOps. [00:31:18] Second wave DevOps and change. [00:36:02] Building something better than mediocrity. [00:38:03] Building new deployment automation scripting language. [00:41:15] Fixing Bad Outcomes. Guest: Adam Jacob is an engineering and product innovator with decades of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. He is the CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder of System Initiative. Adam previously co-founded Chef Software was the original author of Chef, served as CTO, and was on the board of directors. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjacob/ --- Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek, and we would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)
Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: fastmail.com/twit
Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: fastmail.com/twit
Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: fastmail.com/twit
Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: fastmail.com/twit
In this episode with Adam Jacob, we discuss Adam's role in the history of the DevOps movement, from creating Chef to becoming CEO of Systems Initiative. You'll learn about configuration management frameworks vs infrastructure as code, how DevOps workflows have evolved over time, and what's next for the industry. Tune-in today!Adam Jacob is an engineering and product innovator, with decades of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. Adam is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of System Initiative.Adam previously co-founded Chef Software, was the original author of Chef, served as CTO, and on the board of directors. Chef grew out of HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy responsible for helping build some of the earliest large-scale production cloud infrastructures. A systems administrator at heart, Adam has also been responsible for internal corporate automation, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts, and a whole lot of systems automation.
Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob joined Adam and Bryan to continue their panel discussion with Bryan following up his p99conf talk revisiting open source anti-patterns. Notably, open source has accelerated the distribution of value… without clarity on how contributors can capture that value. Has open source accelerated unequal distribution?In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by friends of the show Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Bryan's Talk, Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: A Decade Later by Bryan Cantrill, Oxide Subsequent panel with Adam J. and Ashley Oxide and Friends: Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower from August 28th, 2023 Oxide and Friends: Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph from September 13th, 2021 If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
This info-packed episode of TWiET dives into the hidden dangers of Google hosted ads with malware. Guest Adam Jacob shares his vision for a "second wave" of DevOps to achieve better collaboration and outcomes. Patch Winrar right now The most used IT Admin passwords Cisco reports 10,000 network devices backdoored with unpatched 0-day The global chip talent shortage and partnerships addressing it The risks of malicious Google ads using punycode to disguise fake URLs Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-founder of Chef talks about his vision for improving and rebuilding DevOps from the ground up. Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curtis Franklin Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
This info-packed episode of TWiET dives into the hidden dangers of Google hosted ads with malware. Guest Adam Jacob shares his vision for a "second wave" of DevOps to achieve better collaboration and outcomes. Patch Winrar right now The most used IT Admin passwords Cisco reports 10,000 network devices backdoored with unpatched 0-day The global chip talent shortage and partnerships addressing it The risks of malicious Google ads using punycode to disguise fake URLs Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-founder of Chef talks about his vision for improving and rebuilding DevOps from the ground up. Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curtis Franklin Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
This info-packed episode of TWiET dives into the hidden dangers of Google hosted ads with malware. Guest Adam Jacob shares his vision for a "second wave" of DevOps to achieve better collaboration and outcomes. Patch Winrar right now The most used IT Admin passwords Cisco reports 10,000 network devices backdoored with unpatched 0-day The global chip talent shortage and partnerships addressing it The risks of malicious Google ads using punycode to disguise fake URLs Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-founder of Chef talks about his vision for improving and rebuilding DevOps from the ground up. Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curtis Franklin Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
This info-packed episode of TWiET dives into the hidden dangers of Google hosted ads with malware. Guest Adam Jacob shares his vision for a "second wave" of DevOps to achieve better collaboration and outcomes. Patch Winrar right now The most used IT Admin passwords Cisco reports 10,000 network devices backdoored with unpatched 0-day The global chip talent shortage and partnerships addressing it The risks of malicious Google ads using punycode to disguise fake URLs Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-founder of Chef talks about his vision for improving and rebuilding DevOps from the ground up. Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curtis Franklin Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Adam Jacob is CEO of DevOps platform System Initiative and Co-Founder of infrastructure automation platform Chef. This is Adam's second time on the Open Source Startup Podcast, and this episode is packed with learnings. We discuss the distribution benefits of open source and why some products should be open source and others should not, challenges with the Open Core business model, HashiCorp's license change and the community's response to fork Terraform to create OpenTofu, and much more!
In this episode, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder at System Initiative, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the evolution and potential future directions of DevOps and managing infrastructure. Topics covered included the challenges remaining within the DevOps movement, how to model and manage infrastructure, and how to increase collaboration between developers and operators. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ZzWCiM Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon London https://qconlondon.com/ April 8-10, 2024 Follow InfoQ: - Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@infoq - Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq Write for InfoQ - Join a community of experts. - Increase your visibility. - Grow your career. www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq/?u…aign=writeforinfoq
Adam Jacob (creator of Chef and the System Initiative) and Matty talk about what DevOps has gotten right, what has been wrong, and where we go from here.
Adam Jacob (creator of Chef and the System Initiative) and Matty talk about what DevOps has gotten right, what has been wrong, and where we go from here.
Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and it became a massively popular DevOps tool. But despite Chef's success, Adam constantly battled self-doubt and finding his footing as a leader. In this raw episode, Adam shares how the pressure of going from sysadmin to startup CEO caused an identity crisis. He opens up about the motivational speech that left him in tears, realizing his self-worth was too tied to Chef's outcomes. Episode Page Support The Show Subscribe To The Podcast Join The Newsletter
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This week we're joined by Adam Jacob and we're talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what's possible from DevOps. It's an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments.
This week we're joined by Adam Jacob and we're talking about his mission at System Initiative to rebuild DevOps. They are out of stealth mode and ready to show off their transformative new power tool that reimagines what's possible from DevOps. It's an intelligent automation platform that allows DevOps teams to build detailed interactive simulations of their infrastructure and use them to rapidly update their production environments.
Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, Founder/CEO of @thesysteminit) talks about the potential for DevOps 2.0. What's new, what needs to be started from scratch, and the formation of new ecosystems.SHOW: 729CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Equinix Global Data Centers and Networking Learn more and signup at https://deploy.equinix.com/. Use the coupon code CLOUDCAST to get $500 in credits to get started.Datadog Security Solution: Modern Monitoring and SecurityStart investigating security threats before it affects your customers with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.SHOW NOTES:System Initiative (homepage)System Initiative (demo)Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.Topic 2 - Before we dive into the announcements from today, let's go back in time a little bit. What worked well at Chef, what worked well with DevOps 1.0, and what was broken?Topic 3 - Let's talk about your philosophy with DevOps 2.0. What's new, what needs to be started from scratch, and how do you see the ecosystem potentially forming around this new model?Topic 4 - Walk us through the new system. Obviously demos and visuals will be available, but paint us a picture or a day (or week/month) with this new model?Topic 5 - You've been working on this for a few years, and we suspect you're getting feedback from people you trust and potential users. What sort of feedback are you hearing? What didn't you expect to hear?Topic 6 - What's the best way for people to get started?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnet
The Rust Foundation caused a fracas with their proposed new trademark rules. Bryan and Adam were lucky enough to be joined by Ashley Williams, Adam Jacob, and Steve Klabnik for an insightful discussion of open source governance and communities--in particular as applied to Rust.Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from April 17th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Ashley Williams, Adam Jacob, and Steve Klabnik.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Succession The Simpsons (explaining the title of this episode) The Wire The Wire at 20 Podcast The Register: Rust Foundation Apologizes for Trademark Policy Jomboy (our aspiration) Ice Weasel Pamela Chestek Bryan's talk from Node Summit 2017: Platform as a Reflection of Values Linux Foundation form 990 Rust Foundation Board Rust Foundation participation rules If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
This week we take a critical look at DHH's plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402 (https://youtube.com/live/C1KDU0QdrMY?feature=share) Runner-up Titles Cycled the Power The Principles are Amazing The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog Does this mean the public cloud is over? Where was the Oracle rep? We fear change SaaS for me, not for you The author of this text does not like Amazon Adventure-driven development You've got great a manifesto Intolerable! 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This week we discuss Ubisoft's woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. 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Oxide and Friends: November 28th, 2022Leaving Twitter with Tim BrayWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from November 28th, 2022.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Tim Bray. Other speakers on November 28th included Adam Jacob, Toasterson, and raggi. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Bye, Twitter by Tim Bray jwz: PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet jwz: Mastodon stampede "Federation" now apparently means "DDoS yourself." Tim Bray On Algorithms On terrible Twitter ads: @intelnews: "Moore's Law only stops when innovation stops.” PRs needed! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
Adam Jacob is the Cofounder & CTO of Chef, the infrastructure automation platform, and CEO of System Initiative. In this episode, we discuss the Chef journey, where open source shines (and where it can be problematic), and predictions on the future of open source.
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) hosts Ben Haynes (@benhaynes), CEO and co-founder of Directus. Directus is an open-source data platform that layers on SQL databases to provide an instant API, and includes a no-code data studio interface. Listen in to find out how Directus is aiming to democratize the modern data stack for everyone. Subscribe to Contributor on Substack for email notifications, and join our Slack community! In this episode we discuss: The inspiration to create an “admin interface on steroids” Reflecting on Directus' unusual linear growth trend How Directus powers digital experiences, applications, and internal dev tools Ben's thoughts on maintaining a sustainable, premium open-source experience Automated data processing with Directus Flows Links: Directus Supabase Other episodes: Chef with Adam Jacob
About “Matty”Matt Stratton is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke. Matt is the keeper of the Thought Leaderboard for the DevOps Party Games online game show and you can find him on Twitter at @mattstratton.Links Referenced Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/ Arrested DevOps: https://www.arresteddevops.com/ 8bits.tv: https://8bits.tv Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattstratton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstratton/ speaking.mattstratton.com: https://speaking.mattstratton.com twitch.tv/Pulumi: https://twitch.tv/Pulumi 8bit.tv: https://8bit.tv duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. 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Starting with pricing as low as $2.50 a month for Vultr cloud compute they have plans for developers and businesses of all sizes, except maybe Amazon, who stubbornly insists on having something to scale all on their own. Try Vultr today for free by visiting: vultr.com/screaming, and you'll receive a $100 in credit. Thats V-U-L-T-R.com slash screaming.Corey: Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service is flexible, full-featured and fully managed with built in access via key-value, SQL, and full-text search. Flexible JSON documents aligned to your applications and workloads. Build faster with blazing fast in-memory performance and automated replication and scaling while reducing cost. Capella has the best price performance of any fully managed document database. Visit couchbase.com/screaminginthecloud to try Capella today for free and be up and running in three minutes with no credit card required. Couchbase Capella: make your data sing.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Returning today for yet another round on the Screaming in the Cloud podcast is my dear friend, and hopefully yours as well, Matty Stratton. Since the last time we spoke, you've changed jobs, Mattie; you're now a staff developer advocate at Pulumi. I don't believe you were the last time you were on this show, but memory escapes me.Matty: You know, I was just wondering that myself, and I guess we'll have to go back to the archives.Corey: Yes, but that sounds like work, so we're going to roll with it anyway.Matty: Everyone who's listening, go do the homework for us. And, like, just tweet and let us know what my job was last time.Corey: And yell at us if we get it wrong, of course.Matty: Yell at us if we get it right.Corey: In the interest of being, well, I guess a little on the judgey side—because why not I tend to be good at that.Matty: I was hoping to be on the judgey side on this show.Corey: Oh, absolutely. You have a very strange career trajectory, in that—the companies you work for and how that winds up going back and forth. But when we first met, you were at Chef; and Chef, great company. And after that it was PagerDuty; great company.Matty: [laugh].Corey: And then it was IBM Hat, which I—was it Red Hat, was it IBM side?Matty: For me, it was Red Hat.Corey: So, it went from Chef, which is great, and a company that was doing a lot of things on the container side of the world became a thing and mutable infrastructure did sort of change Chef's business model. And then you went to PagerDuty, the wake-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night service named after some legacy technologies. And should be very direct in the popular consciousness, IBM views pagers as newfangled technology in some circles, in some areas, so it feels like you were traveling back in time a bit, again and again and again. On the federal side as well which, for excellent reasons, is not usually the absolute bow wave of innovation because you don't usually want your government doing that in some ways. And now you've leapfrogged into Pulumi, which is sort of the bleeding edge of the modern way we think about provisioning cloud infrastructure.It feels like it's a very interesting trajectory. Now, this is speaking as a complete outsider, I'm going to assume that's not how you view basically any characterization of any of those companies I've just named. How do you view it?Matty: You know, I don't know that I necessarily disagree with the way that you've put everything, but there's some nuance and some interesting stuff when it comes to that. So, I'm going to specifically talk about the Red Hat thing; why did I leave PagerDuty? And one of the interesting things is, I actually had an offer from Pulumi at the time that I took the job from Red Hat. So, it actually took me a year to come and work at Pulumi. And the little bit of the short answer is Red Hat backed up a big truck of money. And we all have a price.Corey: Yeah, the dulcet tones of a dump truck full of gold bricks emptying itself into your backyard, it's hard to say no to.Matty: The reason that I want to bring that up is that has nothing to do with specifically Red Hat the company versus other companies. It was the role. It was a sales-oriented role, so if you don't know, sales gets paid a lot of money and there's good reason. One of the reasons—again, if you don't work in sales, you don't necessarily know this—is, the last day of the quarter, you will have your VP of sales talking, he'll be like, “Corey, you are amazing. I love you. Look at this big deal you brought in.” Twenty-four hours later, “What have you done for me lately?”Corey: Mm-hm.Matty: That didn't matter, right? And I remember the CEO of PagerDuty—so Jen Tejada—at one of the sales kickoffs I was at, she said—you know, because salespeople, like, you might know this, like, the top sales reps in the company, they go on trips, they have all this stuff—and Jen said, you know, “I've got engineers here that are like, well, I don't understand.” It's like, “How come the salespeople get to go to Bermuda or do whatever?” And she's like, “Would you like your paycheck to change every quarter based upon specifically what you did and have the stress of what have you done all this stuff? No? Okay, cool. Then you can keep”—you know, there's a trade-off. So, the point of that was—Corey: And as your paycheck gets smaller, you're getting closer and closer to losing your job because a salesperson needs to perform to keep. It's very feast or famine. It's a heck of a role, and I have nothing but respect for people who can do it.Matty: And people can do it well. And I do feel like a lot of people don't understand how sales works, especially in a larger organization, and I think it's really important. So, one of the things that was interesting is we've all—I shouldn't say all, but many of us have worked in jobs that have some form of variable compensation, some kind of annual bonus. So, let's say for example, at x company I'm working at, they're like, “Mattie, your bonus is equal to 10% of your paycheck.” Well, the most it could be, generally speaking, it's like, let's say that your bonus would be, I'm just going to make up a number and say it's a $10,000 bonus.That's the most it could be, and that's if everything is amazing. Maybe I'll get a little more. Now, your commission, your what they call your on-target earnings and sales, they'll tell you a number and they'll say, “Okay, Corey, you're on-target earnings are, say $200,000.” And you're like, “Oh.” But whatever.The thing is, if you're only getting you're on-target earnings, you probably are needing to look for another job. So, you remember, like, we hear it differently, those of us that have done bonuses in a non-sales way. We're like, “But that's not a lot.” You're like, “No, but what they tell you your commission is, it's actually… it better end up being more or else you have trouble.” Anyway, point is—Corey: And in some cases, it could be a significant multiple of that number as well, for top performers.Matty: Absolutely.Corey: The upside is always interesting, and calculating out the nuances of the sales plan is always a challenge, speaking as a business owner. It is a very specific field that has a bunch of nuance to it. Something I learned very early on is that if you manage salespeople as if they were engineers, or manage engineers as if they were salespeople, you are going to have an absolutely terrible time.Matty: I think one of the things that, along those lines, I've have had conversations with people who work in different parts of technology, different parts of the business, who their long-term desire is to be a CEO, and I'm like, you really should go spend some time working in sales because most CEOs—again, this is blunt, but it's true—if you think about it, what is the area of the business that they pay the most attention to? And I don't mean, they don't care about the other stuff, but who is the person on the executive team that the CEO is mostly joined at the hip with, and it's your chief revenue officer, it's your head of sales because you have to understand that, you have to understand pipeline, how that—you have to understand a lot of things as a CEO, but if you don't know how sales works—it doesn't mean know how to sell but know the ideas behind it. I mean, you should know how to sell, but you know what I mean?Corey: Yeah, I think every CEO is selling. It is a sales job, whether that is selling the company to prospective employees, whether it is selling strategic partnerships, whether it's being brought in to help close strategic deals, et cetera, you're always selling in that role.Matty: That's a very good point. I should rephrase that, where I wasn't saying you don't need to know—Corey: CEO who has no idea how to sell [unintelligible 00:07:42] the fundamentals of—like, you put them in a meeting, and they wind up saying the wrong thing and pooching the deal, yeah, they're not CEO for very long.Matty: It's not just knowing how to sell, it's understanding how a sales process works. That's sort of the thing.Corey: I'll take it one step further beyond that, and that is that I believe that every professional is working in sales and is selling something, but not everyone's aware of it“. Well, I'm an engineer, and I don't do any sort of sales work.” Well, I hear about that from folks who are—“I have all these great ideas, but none of them ever get implemented.” Well, you're not doing an effective job of selling the idea. “I keep getting put up for promotion and not getting it,” or, “I'm not doing well in job interviews.” Or, “I'm trying to get a raise and it just isn't working for me.” And every job has elements of sales to it. I'd argue a lot of facets of modern life have sales elements to it.Matty: They do and I think the reason that people get hung out—I agree with you; I could not agree with you more. I have a talk I used to give called “The Five Love Languages of DevOps” but it was really a talk about effecting organizational change, and you have to be a salesperson, right? But I think we have this—and this is a much larger topic because it comes into how people always want to distance themselves from sales—we have this thing in our head that when we think of sales, we think of tricky people. Shysters, right? Someone that's trying to, like, pull a fast one on us, like the used car salesperson thing.And I'm like, that's not most salespeople. Like, salespeople want you to—because when we talk about learning how to sell, it's not learning how to trick somebody. It's actually learning about how to—I mean, here's the biggest thing. You want to know—we talk about DevOps all the time and stuff like that, you know, and empathy. You want to know one of the most important skills of a salesperson is? Freaking empathy.Because you need to be able to understand what your prospect—and that's if you've, you know, there's the book, The Challenger Sale, which like all business books can be summarized in a blog post, right, so you can just go read the blog post about The Challenger Sale; that'll tell you everything you need to know, but a good salesperson that's a challenger-style salesperson knows the customer better than they know themselves and knows there problems they might have that they're not aware of. And it's not because they're smarter; they have a different perspective. So, the same thing is true. So, to Corey's point, we're always selling. And even whether it's figuratively, like, conceptually—but I used to say when I was a Chef I said, the two best sales—most effective salespeople at Chef were Adam Jacob, the founder, and Nathan Harvey, the VP of community.Sales engineers are powerful because a customer will tell things to a sales engineer they won't tell the rep because they think the rep is trying to take advantage of them, which isn't true. Most important conversations that happen are on the walk from the front desk to the conference room. How many conversations would I have with the SRE, or whatever, who was the one who came to get me from reception, and we're just walking to the conference room. I learned so much there than in any other discovery session? You know, and then you use that to be—Corey: And there's not such thing as an easy sale either. And I think that gets overlooked a lot. Like, here at The Duckbill Group, if you bring us in on a consulting engagement to fix your AWS bill, you will turn a profit on that engagement. That has always been true. And we are quite literally selling money.It is effectively one of the easiest possible sales you can make; it is incredibly easy to calculate out what the ROI looks like on any of these things, and it's great, and we still have a full-on enterprise sales force because that is what it takes to wind up getting deals done when you're selling business-to-business. These are not selling t-shirts to the masses. It is a nuanced field, and honestly, when I'm interviewing people, one of the easiest ways for me to discount someone as a potential hire is that they start talking smack about sales because it is clear, first, they lack empathy, and secondly, they don't understand what sales does.Matty: One of the things that I think people who are not connected with it don't understand that again, back to Corey's point about because selling is hard, and selling internally is hard. So, this is the thing. So, you can have a champion inside your prospect who's, like, “I'm all about hiring Duckbill.” But they have to convince other people. So, what are salespeople really good at doing? They're really good at helping you build your business case to be able to get your thing that you want.Corey: How to turn your champion into an effective advocate for the thing that's going to make their job easier because they're not the person that signs off on it.Matty: And they're not the expert. Like, this used to happen when I was at Chef and I would have a customer who was like, “Okay.” They go and buy a bunch of licenses, and they're like, “Well, it didn't get deployed.” And we're like, “Well, how can we help you?” And they're like, “Well, no, it's just internal stuff. We got to convince people or whatever.”And I was like, “So, what you need to do is what you're telling me, what you need to do is sell Chef, right?” “Uh-huh.” There is nobody on this planet better at selling Chef than Chef. So, that's where that comes in because again, that's how everybody wins. So anyway, I went there because I was getting paid like a salesperson.Also, I one thing I wanted to touch on. So, you're right, usually, public sector is not seen as the most cutting edge. One of the things that's interesting at Red Hat, especially on the sales side—and friends of mine who are working on the commercial side may disagree with this, but it's generally not been true—what they call NAPS, so the North America Public Sector, I used to say I was a NAPS specialist, which sounded awesome. Because that was my title, I was NAPS specialist; I specialized in NAPS—is actually—Corey: Your status in the internal messaging system should always be sleeping at that point, why not?Matty: Sleeping. Yeah. But it's sort of known that actually the kind of emergent tech group and sales inside of the public sector, inside Red Hat, is very innovative compared to other ones. So, a lot of stuff was created there. So, it was we were doing something around a transformation office that wasn't being done in the same way anywhere else, so it was very exciting.So, I—also was the opportunity to go and work with people like Andrew Clay Shafer and John Willis and people that were—you know, it was all the people I was going to get to work with. So, that got me excited to be there. And then Covid happened, and I got news for you. Like, my job was to have challenging conversations with people about how they should do work differently. It's pretty easy to tune somebody out on the Zoom, it's a lot harder to tune somebody out when they're challenging you in a room.So, it was very hard to do this job during Covid, so our team really kind of disbanded towards the end of the year. I was really on the fence to join in the first place, and the person who was referring me to come work on the team who wanted to convince me said, you know, “What's holding you back?” And I said, “Well, it's not”—I said, “I really like developer advocacy. I like DevRel. That's not this job.” And he said, “Hey. Come try this for a year, and… if it turns out you didn't like it or wasn't for you, then go back and do DevRel.”And so that's sort of what happened. And I have seen though I am much happier in a smaller organization that's creating—you know, like, I like to feel my impact. I think everybody should spend some time in a large org because if you're going to be working with other people—right, you know what I mean—especially if you're a vendor, if you work on the vendor side like I do and stuff, Corey, you and I've talked before about background and doing developer advocacy, and I always say that, like, I do DevRel on easy mode because it's very easy for me to have empathy for my prospects and community because I did the job for 20 years. It's not impossible to be effective doing this job if you haven't literally done it. It's just that much harder. So, I [crosstalk 00:15:04]—Corey: It's a lot harder. And there's a credibility question and the rest. Yeah.Matty: I do this on easy mode. I can sit there and I can say, “Yes, I feel your pain. I literally did it for 20 years.”Corey: And you're at a point, too, let's be clear here, that you have a gravitas to you. I use you as my default example when I talk about, like, the expression of DevRel in that if you—like back when you were at PagerDuty, which I guess dates the reference a bit, but it was, okay. If you sit down and say you're doing on-call wrong, now I've been around this industry at that point 15 years or so, and I'm pretty sure I'm not. But if you're going to say that you have already got my attention in a constructive way, not in a, “Well, let me just tear this apart.” It's, no, no. I'm about to learn something by whatever it is you're about to say. And it's very hard to have that level of credibility without having done the role.Matty: That's true. Without doing it in that way. I mean, this is [crosstalk 00:15:59]—Corey: In the practitioner way of practicing the thing for which you are advocating. Like, someone telling me that I'm doing on-call wrong, who has never themselves been in a role where they themselves were on call is a little lacking in the authenticity department. It's not impossible and it can't be overcome.Matty: And you have to do it in a different way, right?Corey: Yes.Matty: And this goes back to another thing that I say a lot—my pithy Stratton quote is, “DevRel contains multitudes,” right? So, this is one of the things that we ran into, like, when we're building out our advocacy team at PagerDuty, it was seeing sort of my boss was an amazing dude and everything like that. I love him, but like, we don't scale horizontally. Our team was made up of enough of different kinds of people that, like, the way that I was able to do it because I had a certain experience, you couldn't expect that out of another one of my teammates because they actually had a different way of doing it that was just as effective, but in a different way because they have a different background, they have a different—so that's—Corey: And there's so many ways to do DevRel. Oh, yeah. Like, I'm going to call it my own bias here where when I think about DevRel, I think about it through a lens of the way I approach things, and when I give conference talks, of how I present myself, and the rest. And my approach would absolutely be aligned with what I just described, “So, you're doing AWS billing wrong.” And based upon who I am, and what I do, I can make that claim with some credibility.If I were relatively new to the industry and giving a talk about AWS billing, I would not lead that way because it does not present nearly as well, and it's going to call into question a whole bunch of skepticism. I would instead approach it as, “Here are some interesting facets about AWS billing that you may or may not be aware of.” There are different ways to approach it. Let's also be clear that it's not just conference talks; it can be blog posts, it can be documentation, it can be writing sample code, it can be Twitter, it could be TikTok of all things. There are so many ways to communicate with an audience, and your audience is wherever you happen to find them.Ideally, not in line at the Starbucks harassing the poor person in front who's just trying to order their coffee, but you know, as long as it's all consensual, talk to people who are interested in this stuff, wherever they happen to be.Matty: I think that's a really important statement you said there towards the end, which is meet people where they are, whether that's where you want them to be or not. And this comes up, it's interesting because one of the things—I'm a big believer in repurposing of content, and that's just partially because of effectiveness, but it's like, hey, if I give a talk, I should make that a blog post, I should make it a video, I should do a code example. And it's not so much because then I can hit all my OKRs with my boss.—I mean, that's part of it, right?—but not everybody likes the same kind of content.You know, there are people who really like videos, and there are people who are like, “I don't want to learn from a video at all.” And there's two ways you can approach that. One is you can say, “You're wrong. Videos are better. You should watch all my videos.” And take a guess about how well that's going to work with them getting your information or say, “I'll meet you where you are.”And I learned this even well before doing DevRel when I just thought about internal communication at an organization I was at when I was at Apartments.com and I was like, how do we get information? And you can't just say, like, well, we have this email we send to everybody. Well, everybody doesn't read email, right? So, it could be, maybe some people like RSS feeds, they want to capture it there. And the example I always gave was the most effective way that I ever saw that information was communicated inside our organization was signs in the restroom.Corey: Oh, yeah. That's a well-renowned way of doing it. That I think that Google pioneered this for a while. They had these all these things up about interesting things going on inside the—Matty: Oh—Corey: —company, about the way some systems worked—Matty: —I was at Google office and using the restroom, and I was standing there, and right in front of me with a whole good practice on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. I guarantee they probably sent that email to everybody, it's probably been in meetings, and the people who saw it, [unintelligible 00:19:53] they saw it in the restroom.Corey: Now, of course, I'm sure they probably sell ads on those sheets, but okay.Matty: Yeah. You know, a little bit of that. When I was at Apartments.com, the floor that I worked on, the main restroom I used was a shared restroom with another office, which meant corporate never put anything up in there, and there was actually a fair amount of stuff that I didn't know about because I ignored it everywhere else and [unintelligible 00:20:14] anyway. So, the point is, back—if you will do work in person, which who is doing that anymore and why bother?—your most effective way to communicate. So, if you can figure out how to do DevRel in signs in a restroom at a conference—ohh, conferences should sell sponsorship of restroom signs.Corey: The jokes write themselves and almost certainly violate the code of conduct of at least four different [unintelligible 00:20:38], but it works. It works.Matty: [laugh]. We'll take those to Twitter.Corey: You've been around the industry for a while. You are one of the cohosts of the Arrested DevOps podcast; you've been instrumental in organizing a number of DevOps Days… or Devs-Ops days, however you want to mis-pluralize that is fine by me; roll with it. Ant—Matty: We argue more about the capitalization than the pluralization.Corey: Very fair. I want to talk to you a little bit of how the DevOps movement slash community slash role has evolved. For a long time now, it's been, “Great. So, where are the DevOps people sitting?” And then when you hear the shouted response of, “It's not a job. It's a culture,” good work. You found them. Now, you can go talk to them and all. What has changed over the past few years in the world of DevOps?Matty: So, I am fond of saying you can't buy DevOps, but I can sell it to you.Corey: Oh, absolutely. You're an exemplary DevOps salesman.Matty: Yeah. So, what happened? When we think back across the decade-plus, you know, back since 2009, one of the things I think that's interesting is, when we look at things like DevSecOps, or the other portmanteaus that are being created. It's a little bit like that meme, right, with the astronaut: “Wait. You mean, it's been DevSecOps all along?” You know, it's, “Yes, always has.”That's the thing. Like, for those who don't know, Andrew Clay Shafer is best known as coining the term. And I love Andrew, but wow, is it the worst name in the world for what we're talking about. Because it makes us all think that it's only about development and operations. And it's always been about cross-functional across all of those things. And if it helps us to give it a different name, great.Corey: It's replacing dysfunction with cross-function.Matty: Yes. There we go. That's DevOps right there. That's the best definition of DevOps I've heard. You heard it here.Corey: That one coins a phrase, in case you wondered.Matty: So, we still use the term CALMS to say what is about: It's about Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing. That's held up for a reason. For something that was scrawled on a napkin in 2010, there's a reason we still talk that way. It sounds like we talk about culture more than anything else, and it's not because it's more important. It's because it's the one that we have to scream from the rooftops.You don't have to convince engineers to play with automation tools; they're going to do it. That's fine, right? So, they're all equal. Now, that said, what's changed is we have definitely found DevOps to feel a lot more that it's about automation. It's about the technology. We've veered away from the people to your statement about, like, “Oh, it's a culture, not a ti”—well, it's all of these things.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle Cloud. 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Visit snark.cloud/oci-free that's snark.cloud/oci-free.Corey: Well, one thing I do want to call out because the whole point of having you on the show, of course, is to embarrass you with proof-positive, for example, that you are in fact, a good person at heart despite, you know, your dubious friendship with people like me, is we both used to be adamant about the idea of DevOps is not a role, not a job title, and we both stopped, but for different reasons. The reason that I stopped was that I took a job as the director of DevOps at a company because I was trying to solve about five or six different things that were important for me to negotiate for, and job title did not make the cut of impactful changes. You had a far less self-serving reason for no longer picking that particular fight. What was it?Matty: [laugh]. I do want to call out one of my favorite jokes which is not supposed to be gatekeeping, but it's making fun of Corey so it's okay—Corey: Hmm.Matty: —Nathan Harvey said years ago, and it was actually I think, intended as a shot at our friend Pete Cheslock, who also has had the title of director of DevOps, which said, “The only DevOps tool is a person that calls themselves director of DevOps.”Corey: Oh, absolutely. It's super lucrative. I was really insulted by that and cried all the way to the bank.Matty: Uh-huh. Now, I'll tell you there's two reasons that I've changed my tune on—you know, I used to say it's not a tool, title, or team. I still will agree that it's not a tool. The title and team—and the reason for that is twofold, and neither of which are self-serving other than I don't want people to think I'm a jerk. The first reason that deviated me from a little bit was again, to go back to your friend and mine, Pete Cheslock, he gave a talk, I don't remember where it was, but he made the point where he said, “You look at it, the title ‘DevOps engineer' is a 30 to 35% pay bump, so it's like, I don't care what you call yourself. Go get paid.” So, that's that.Corey: Yes.Matty: So, first of all, I was like cool—Corey: J. Paul Reed did a whole talk-pay thing that shined a light on that.Matty: Absolutely. The one that I think is more empathetic and probably was… is maybe a little more important—or equally so—Ian Coldwater has pointed out before, and this really resonated with me, is that when we get on Twitter and are like, “Oh, my God. DevOps engineer is not a real title, blah, blah, blah.” The people that hear that are the people who have that title. They did not give themselves that title. It's very exclusionary, and all that will happen out of that is it doesn't eff—Corey: “I'm going to go quit my job and not be able to make rent this month.” “Why?” “Because Twitter said that my job title was bad.”Matty: Yeah.Corey: All the reasons to quit a job, I promise you job title is not one of them. Unless it is something horrifying, as into the territory of discriminating or belittling. There are always exceptions to every rule, but by and large, “That's a ridiculous job title,” is not the reason to quit a job. Says the self-proclaimed chief cloud economist.Matty: Totally yeah. I mean, like, you know what is very similar? There's a meme about, like, every time people want to make fun of a political figure or something and they'll make fun of them being overweight, or any kind of thing, and the meme is like, the only people who hear that are your friends that have a similar condition, not the actual person you're making fun of, so all you're doing there is hurting people who… so that's a similar thing.Now, I will say—and I think you and I might disagree about this a little bit, so that'll be fine—Corey: I hope so.Matty: So, when I hear—and actually the title doesn't do this, for me; it's actually very specifically a DevOps team. When people say, “We have a DevOps team.” This is not a perfect analogy when I say it's a code smell; I call it an organizational smell. And what I mean by that—it's not as bad as a code smell—what it does is it makes me ask more questions. If it's relevant to me to ask questions. It might be none of my damn business. If you tweet that I'm on the DevOps team, I'm not going to come into your mentions and start questioning your existence, but—Corey: Oh please, I have way better personal attacks than that.Matty: Oh, yeah. But if I'm working with you and we're working on that, or we're having a conversation, and it comes up that you have a team called DevOps Team, I'm going to ask questions because that could be, okay or it could be, [sigh] I want to use the word dangerous lightly; it's not, but like, counter-effective. And the reason for that is if the DevOps team is the one who does all your automation and you haven't really enabled other squads and all you've done is move a silo around, doesn't make you a bad person, but that's not the most effective way you could be. So, it makes me start to ask questions, right? But sometimes DevOps teams are people who lead in the organization, they are empowerment teams, maybe they run dojo, maybe they are subject matter experts that help.As long as there are good bridges still being built, it's not bad, right? So, it just—again, it raises questions. It's not inherently wrong. I am sure that… Pulumi where wo—actually, many of the tools I've worked with have been called DevOps tools; I will still tell you there's no tool that gives you DevOps, right? You can't—Corey: But when other people—like, read as ‘buyers'—refer to you as the ‘DevOps tool company,' well, you can be right or you can make a sale, in some cases.Matty: [laugh]. Yeah, I'm not going to tell you—Corey: On some level, you have to meet people where they are, and this is a part of that. I say that in full sincerity. Same story with the idea of culture. I hear this question all the time, “How do we wind up making all of our engineers aware of AWS billing issues?” And to a point, you should have understanding that when you turn something on it runs forever, bigger things cost more than smaller things, but the knowledge fits on an index card.You shouldn't have every engineer wanting to—or needing to—become deep experts in this space. Having a centralized team that specializes in that, at a sufficient level of org size and maturity, makes an awful lot of sense, and they can float around. But yeah, having the AWS bill team, in some cases is the right answer and others it's the complete wrong answer, and it really does depend. I think the way that we solve this problem, authoritatively, is a way that neither you nor I can argue with it because the only source for authoritative DevOps answers is from the source itself, and that is, of course, Emily Freeman, whose treatise on the subject, DevOps for Dummies, despite the weird title, is absolutely fantastic work that gives insight into all of this. And are you prepared to tell her she's wrong? Because I'm certainly not.Matty: Well, there are plenty of people who will. As we know.Corey: Yes. And we call them shitheads if we're being perfectly honest with you.Matty: Yeah. [laugh].Corey: The internet what a ple—no, Emily is an absolute treasure in the space and I'm continuing to watch her meteoric rise with nothing other than pure admiration. It is just spectacular to see her succeed.Matty: I could not agree more. This is something I struggle with a little bit. I don't think Emily would mind me saying it this way. This is the thing where you don't want to sound condescending, but I always love when I look at people and it's not—it's going to come off a little bit about, like, “I knew them when,” and it's not like I was a Corey Quinn fan before he went pop, but I love to see and remember where we all came from, and it's true of myself and it's true of other people, but that's one of my favorite things is I love to see my friends succeed.Corey, I love to see what you've done. Like, I think back to when we knew each other. I'm not saying you weren't successful, but it's funny, this [unintelligible 00:30:08] sounds a little condescending to be like, oh, I'm so proud of you, but I am. And I'm impressed. It's great to see.And Emily's another example. Like, I remember when I first met Emily, and not like I was any big deal, either, but it's like, everybody comes from somewhere, right? Like Jacquie Grindrod who just recently left Hashi, I remember when she started to get into DevRel and I was talking to her because she's like, “I may be thinking I want to do this thing.” And you look and you see these people. And it's not supposed to be like, “Oh, I remember when you were like the cute little baby DevRel.” It's not like that.And it's like, it's just impressive to see—and not even impressive. It's you like to see people who do good work and have a good heart and want to help people grow and be successful. And I'll tell you something, here—we're going to get real for a second—you can be jealous of them. It's okay. And I'm going to be honest, there are times that—Emily and Corey are both good friends of mine, and there are times that I'm like, “Wow. I'm a little jealous of you. Sometimes I'm a lot jealous of you. Sometimes I'm not at all.” So, I'm telling everybody, it's okay to be jealous. [laugh].Corey: I agree with the sentiment that I changed the word ‘envious' because envy is one of those, like—Matty: Okay.Corey: —“I want that, too,” whereas jealousy is a lot more a shade of, “I want to have it and I don't want them to.” And I don't believe that's the direction you're heading in. [laugh].Matty: No. Thank you. No, you're exactly right. Envy is the better one yeah because it's never—Corey: Now, I recently learned the distinction there by getting very wrong and saying things I didn't intend to imply, which is why I bring it up. Again, let my mistake be something others can learn from. Sometimes the best purpose I can serve in this industry is as a counter-example.Matty: Example. I was going to say, you know, just for everybody, I remember at the beginning, you know, Corey said, “Maybe we'll learn something.” I'm like, I guess that's what we learned [laugh] is the difference between envy and jealousy.Corey: Yeah.Matty: [unintelligible 00:31:50] gotta say, you know, it took us half an hour to get there. But you know.Corey: No no. And I appreciate your friendship throughout the years. Like, you were one of those people that has been something of a guiding star, where it's, sometimes I get it right, sometimes I get it wrong, and you've always been someone who has been very willing to share which side of the divide you think I'm on with anything that I've done. And for lack of a better term, you knew me before I basically bought ink by the barrel. And back when I was just the conference speaker that had to follow one of your ridiculous talks, like, “Oh, God. Those are big shoes to fill. I'd better learn how to give a conference talk.” So, most of what I become is your fault. But I do want to thank you for your guidance over the years on these things.Matty: Can we tell the real story about how I claim ownership of The Duckbill Group?Corey: By all means, take it away.Matty: Oh, okay. So, [[laugh]] I honestly still think that I should have a part ownership in The Duckbill Group because for those of you who don't know, Corey mentioned that I had worked at PagerDuty, and actually that job came down between the two of us and Corey didn't get it. And then went and started his own company and became famous and amazing. So really, it's because of me is what I'm trying to get at. I—Corey: To be fair, they made the right hire. Which one of us do you think makes the better employee, let's be very clear?Matty: [laugh].Corey: And yeah, I am thrilled to deal in you in on ownership of The Duckbill Group because the way we're structured, you cannot have ownership without also assuming liability. So yeah—Matty: [laugh].Corey: I would love to dump legal responsibility for my shenanigans on someone else. Come on in. Yeah, there's always a cutting edge to everything else. But no, you're right. I always wonder what would have happened if that decision had gone differently.And I'm very glad it played out the way that it did. You were the right hire for the company in a way that I never would have been. But I would have given it a good try for a while before they begrudgingly had to fire me or I sensed the axe was coming and left on my own. That is the nature of me as an employee. You have a very different perspective because you're good at things that I'm terrible at.Matty: And vice versa. It was interesting. You just talked about, like, how would things go different? So I—yesterday—just recorded—I don't know when it's going to come out—I was on a podcast called 8 Bits—so it's 8bits.tv—and it's really a show about people's journey through tech.And what was interesting that came out of that conversation was, first of all, how much of how I got to where I am is because of spite. Which you're going to have to go back and listen to the episode to hear the whole story of all the spite. But we did talk about, like, those junction points that happen that seem innocuous. And it's like, I made this one choice that wasn't even necessarily a choice and you follow all the forking logic that gets you to, Corey, you and I are sitting here on a podcast right now. How many decisions that weren't even decisions? There's the alternate universe where this doesn't happen where this doesn't exist, right?Corey: It's weird how this stuff all works. Years before I'd met either one of you, you videotaped my wife's law school musical and burned it to CD. We found that out when you were here over dinner one night.Matty: That was my favorite thing.Corey: It was surreal.Matty: Yeah, I was at dinner with Corey and his wife and we got into a conversation about that she had gone to law school in Chicago. And I was like, “Oh, funny thing. Like, I produced the video of the law school mu”—and she was like, “Wait, what was that?” And I couldn't even remember. I had to, like, dig back into, like, an old blog post. And was that and then yeah, and Bethany, like—Corey: She walks into the other room and comes back with a DVD that you burned, your handwriting on it.Matty: Yeah.Corey: Yeah.Matty: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. The world is small. Be nice to everybody.Corey: It never hurts. I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to basically tell stories once again. It's always good to talk to you. If people want to learn more about who you are, what you're up to, where's the best place they can find you.Matty: So, really the best place is Twitter. You know, so I'm at @mattstratton on Twitter. If you're not a Twitter person, that's okay. LinkedIn is not great for fi—I don't always remember to post stuff there. If you want to know about upcoming, you know, so if you go to speaking.mattstratton.com, that has all my previous talks, my upcoming talks, and things as hopefully we'll have more and more of that.And yeah, and every week, I stream on twitch.tv/Pulumi on Thursdays. And it's not webinars, it's not slick demos, it's just me screwing around and sometimes having fun people on, and sometimes just proving how little I know about coding. So yeah, good times. Thank you for having me on, again, Corey. It's always fun.Corey: Of course. Links to all that's going on in the [show notes 00:36:20]. And as always, it's a pleasure.Matty: Also, I will say, Corey, I'll give you the link to that 8bit.tv, if you want to put that in the [show notes 00:36:28]—Corey: Oh, of course, we will.Matty: —if people want to go and find that. Because I think it's similar, connected to what we talked about.Corey: Good. I look forward to listening to it myself. Mattie Stratton, staff developer advocate at Pulumi. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with a long angry comment detailing that DevOps is in fact a role and here's what it means, and then go ahead and describe a sysadmin.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. 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This week we're joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-Founder of Chef, about open source business models and the model he thinks is the right one to choose, his graceful exit from Chef and some of the details behind Chef's acquisition in 2020 for $220 million…in cash, and how his perspective on open source has or has not changed as a result. Adam also shared as much stealth mode details as he could about System Initiative.
This week we're joined by Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative and Co-Founder of Chef, about open source business models and the model he thinks is the right one to choose, his graceful exit from Chef and some of the details behind Chef's acquisition in 2020 for $220 million…in cash, and how his perspective on open source has or has not changed as a result. Adam also shared as much stealth mode details as he could about System Initiative.
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin) delve into the history of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database born and bred around cloud over a decade ago. Patrick is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, and a member of the Cassandra Project Management Committee. On today's episode, Patrick shares his philosophy on developer advocacy and experience in open-source. In this episode we discuss: Behind the NoSQL explosion that made Cassandra the darling of the valley Comparing different eras of commercializing open-source, then and now How Patrick became a pioneer in evangelizing and community-building The two kinds of people to recruit for developer relations Why Patrick says open-source is going to “start eating clouds” Links: Apache Cassandra Datastax Datastax Astra People mentioned: Avinash Lakshman (@HedvigEng) Prashant Malik (@pmalik) Adrian Cawcroft (@adrianco) Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) Other episodes: Chef with Adam Jacob
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 17, 2021golang asserts and the PLATO terminalWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Adam Jacob, Matt Ranney, Nima Johari, Antranig Vartanian, Joshua Clulow, Tom Lyon, and Bob Mader (and thanks to Jeremy Morris for catching Bob's profile!).(Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)We recorded the space, but we had some challenges, and we lost the recording when the first Twitter Space died at around 5:30p. We recorded the second half though; the recording is here.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Khan Academy blog entry on Go Adam's blog entry, I Love Go, I Hate Go > I found novelty in the strictures, but objected to some of the specifics [@2:40](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=160) Go's assertion assertion The Elm Language [@4:40](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=280) Lionizing Unix > 7th edition is amazing, incredible, a break through.. > and it's also kind of a shitty engineering artifact that needed a lot of work. [@6:32](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=392) Core dumps [@7:03](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=423) Impromptu PSA: Happy 81st Birthday Alan Kay! Alan Kay tribute video to Ted Nelson, including the story of how Alan Kay and his wife – Bonnie MacBird – were brought together by Ted Nelson, and how PARC inspired her to write TRON (!) Bedknobs and Broomsticks (WAT) [@13:18](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=798) Brian Dear's The Friendly Orange Glow The PLATO Terminal Control Data Corp (CDC) Dr. David Gräper's Grapenotes Empire game [@20:05](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=1205) Write your own lessons in TUTOR Dartmouth BASIC SNOBOL [@23:12](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=1392) Dr. David Gräper's Grapenotes started in 1977 Xerox Alto computer (Did we miss anything? PRs always welcome!)Our next Twitter Space will be on May 24th, 2021 at 5p Pacific! We'll be kicking off the discussion with Silicon Cowboys (aka the real and sexless Halt and Catch Fire) on the rise of Compaq – and their aspiration to be a different kind of company. Join us; we always love to hear from new speakers!
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the community, we have been watching this very closely. Here’s the tldr for context. On January 21st, Elastic posted a blog post sharing their concerns with Amazon/AWS misleading and confusing the community, saying “They have been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse.” This lead them to relicense Elasticsearch and Kibana with a dual license, a proprietary license and the Sever Side Public License (SSPL). AWS responded two days later stating that they are “stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch,” and shared their plans to create and maintain forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana based on the latest ALv2-licensed codebases. There’s a ton of detail and nuance beneath the surface, so we invited a handful of folks on the show to share their perspective. On today’s show you’ll hear from: Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef), Heather Meeker (open-source lawyer and the author of the SSPL license), Manish Jain (founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs), Paul Dix (co-founder and CTO at InfluxDB), VM (Vicky) Brasseur (open source & free software business strategist), and Markus Stenqvist (everyday web dev from Sweden).
This week on The Changelog we’re talking about the recent falling out between Elastic and AWS around the relicensing of Elasticsearch and Kibana. Like many in the community, we have been watching this very closely. Here’s the tldr for context. On January 21st, Elastic posted a blog post sharing their concerns with Amazon/AWS misleading and confusing the community, saying “They have been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse.” This lead them to relicense Elasticsearch and Kibana with a dual license, a proprietary license and the Sever Side Public License (SSPL). AWS responded two days later stating that they are “stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch,” and shared their plans to create and maintain forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana based on the latest ALv2-licensed codebases. There’s a ton of detail and nuance beneath the surface, so we invited a handful of folks on the show to share their perspective. On today’s show you’ll hear from: Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef), Heather Meeker (open-source lawyer and the author of the SSPL license), Manish Jain (founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs), Paul Dix (co-founder and CTO at InfluxDB), VM (Vicky) Brasseur (open source & free software business strategist), and Markus Stenqvist (everyday web dev from Sweden).
Secure RPC issue - Netlogon Domain Controller Enforcement Mode is enabled by default beginning with the February 9, 2021 Security Update, related to CVE-2020-1472 – Microsoft Security Response Center How to manage the changes in Netlogon secure channel connections associated with CVE-2020-1472 (microsoft.com) Netlogon Domain Controller Enforcement Mode is enabled by default beginning with the February 9, 2021 Security Update, related to CVE-2020-1472 – Microsoft Security Response Center Elastic Search https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-now-business-risks “There are those who will point to the FAQ for the SSPL and claim that the license isn’t interpreted in that way because the FAQ says so. Unfortunately, when you agree to a license you are agreeing to the text of that license document and not to a FAQ. If the text of that license document is ambiguous, then so are your rights and responsibilities under that license. Should your compliance to that license come before a judge, it’s their interpretation of those rights and responsibilities that will hold sway. This ambiguity puts your organisation at risk.” Doubling down on open, Part II | Elastic Blog - license change affecting Elastic Search and Kibana MongoDB did something similar in 2018: mjg59 | Initial thoughts on MongoDB's new Server Side Public License (dreamwidth.org) Hacker News Discussion: MongoDB switches up its open source license | Hacker News (ycombinator.com) @vmbrasseur: (1) VM (Vicky) Brasseur on Twitter: "With today's relicensing to #SSPL, Elasticsearch & Kibana are no longer #OpenSource but are instead business risks: https://t.co/XNx2EMLNfH" / Twitter (1) Adam Jacob on Twitter: "Yeah, come on - how can this be "doubling down on open"? Some true duplicity here. https://t.co/rlJVnLxYwP - we're taking two widely used, widely distributed, widely incorporated open source projects and making them no longer open source. But we're doubling down on open!" / Twitter [License-review] Approval: Server Side Public License, Version 2 (SSPL v2) (opensource.org) “We continue to believe that the SSPL complies with the Open Source Definition and the four essential software freedoms. However, based on its reception by the members of this list and the greater open source community, the community consensus required to support OSI approval does not currently appear to exist regarding the copyleft provision of SSPL. Thus, in order to be respectful of the time and efforts of the OSI board and this list’s members, we are hereby withdrawing the SSPL from OSI consideration.” (could be ‘open-source’, but negative feedback on mailing lists and elsewhere made the remove it from consideration from OSI) Open Source license requirements: The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative What does this mean? If you have products that utilize ElasticSearch/MongoDB/Kibana in some way, talk to your legal teams to find out if you need to divest your org from them. These are not ‘opensource’ licenses… they are ‘source available’ It might not affect your organization and moving to SSPL might be feasible. 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Cote and Brandon discuss Chef being acquired, the Private Equity Operating Model and Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant. Plus, Cote offers advice on peanut better and jelly sandwiches. The Rundown Chef Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef | Progress Software Corporation (https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-announces-acquisition-chef) Adam Jacob on Chef’s acquisition (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1303405859557355520) Progress snags software automation platform Chef for $220M – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/progress-snags-software-automation-platform-chef-for-220m/?guccounter=1) The Fourth Chapter of Chef Has Arrived: Progress to Purchase Chef - Chef Blog (https://blog.chef.io/the-fourth-chapter-of-chef-has-arrived-progress-to-purchase-chef/) Chef launched careers (https://twitter.com/lusis/status/1303439819843022858?s=21) Gartner MQ Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-242R58F3&ct=200902&st=sb) Relevant to your Interests JEDI Oracle loses $10B JEDI cloud contract appeal yet again – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/oracle-loses-10b-jedi-cloud-contract-appeal-yet-again/) Pentagon Awards JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft for the Second Time (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/09/pentagon-awards-jedi-cloud-contract-microsoft-second-time/168259/) Epic v. Apple Tim Sweeney on Fortnite's Metaverse ambitions (from Epic's Friday filings in Epic v Apple) (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1302746785933398016?s=21) Apple will seek damages from Epic Games for breach of App Store contract (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/8/21427779/apple-epic-games-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-fortnite-app-store) Netflix Culture Work from home? (https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1303063102225702912?s=21) Reed Hastings on Netflix's ‘Hunger Games’ culture: Only focus on employees you'd fight to keep (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/netflix-co-ceo-reed-hastings-focus-on-employees-you-would-fight-to-keep.html) JFrog JFrog sets terms for Nasdaq IPO at valuation of over $3b (https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-jfrog-plans-nasdaq-ipo-at-valuation-of-over-3b-1001342041) JFrog Video (https://www.retailroadshow.com/presentation/#/?presid=743834&isretail=true) Security Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/09/snyk-bags-another-200m-at-2-6b-valuation-9-months-after-last-raise/) Giving developers the tools to do security checks (https://cote.io/2020/09/10/giving-developed-the-tools-to-do-security-checks/) Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAV36x-ezjIt6DyB9TVwRt8qFggEKg4IACoGCAow3O8nMMqOBjD38Ak?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) Kube Corner No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. 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(https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/5414/should-you-run-a-database-in-docker/) Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to plow more than $550 million into Snowflake when the cloud-data company goes public | Markets Insider (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-invest-550-million-snowflake-ipo-2020-9-1029571458) CloudBees Supports General Public License (GPL) Cooperation Commitment (https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/general-public-license-issue) Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic | APNIC Blog (https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/) SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation (https://www.moritzplassnig.com/saas-and-moving-downmarket-mongodbs-transformation/) TikTok plans Los Angeles "transparency center" to assuage critics (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-los-angeles-china-6b4be5e0-a7ac-4a5c-a929-8538382d4bd3.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Red Hat Launches an OpenShift-Based Marketplace to Aid Multicloud Portability (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-launches-an-openshift-based-marketplace-to-aid-multicloud-portability/) Nonsense These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/2/21419012/edgenuity-online-class-ai-grading-keyword-mashing-students-school-cheating-algorithm-glitch) CNCF Landscape Puzzle | Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/listing/854562986/cncf-landscape-puzzle) Carol Baskins Recommends Emacs (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/igitos/carol_baskins_recommends_emacs/) Sponsors strongDM (http://strongdm.com/SDT) — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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Fear is a soul issue most certainly at play in everyone's life whether we realize it or not. Join Tammy and her guest, Adam Jacob, in a wide-ranging, varied conversation of breadth and authenticity, exploring the many facets of fear and how it manifests itself in our lives. These fun, compelling moments will not disappoint, as we all are asking God for help in living beyond fear's reach every day. Is there anything more frustrating than fear?
Join Tammy and her guest, Adam Jacob, in a wide-ranging, varied conversation of breadth and authenticity, exploring the many facets of fear and how it manifests itself in our lives.
Full show notes and transcript. Eric Anderson (@ericmander) welcomes Chef co-founder Adam Jacob (@adamhjk) to talk about the popular open source service. He and co-founder Nathan Haneysmith originally started the company as a way to sell automation services to startups, but wanted to expand their abilities to serve more clients. From naming the company to governance and engaging with contributors, Adam dives into why it was important to him to go the open source route and how the business model works. In this episode we discuss: How Chef got started The decision to be open source What the business model looks like Contributors and community members Where Chef is today and where it’s headed Links Chef Puppet The Apache Software Foundation Docker Perl
"Curriculum Design in Regional Anesthesia Education: Survey of United States Residency Programs," by Melanie Donnelly, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; and Adam Jacob, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. From ASRA News, November 2019, pp. 34-36. See original article at www.asra.com/asra-news for figures and references. This material is copyrighted.
Adam Jacob co-founded Chef Software and created Chef, a platform that helps DevOps teams ship software faster. Though he still serves on Chef’s board, Adam has a new role these days: serving as CEO and co-founder of a new startup called The System Initiative. For more than a decade, Adam has been designing, building, and managing large production systems. He has more than 20 years of experience working in tech. Join Corey and Adam as they explore the pros and cons of taking venture capital, why Adam believes VC money unfairly gets a bad rep, how great 1Password is and why Adam believes the company’s $200 million raise makes sense, when to take VC money and when to turn it down, how expanding from a tool that performs a specific function to a platform business can be a scary thing for end users, how not all VCs are alike, how “bad founders” exist, why the people who tend to dislike venture capitalists usually aren’t the ones making the tough decisions, and more.
Holiday Special! Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef. Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
What became the punk rock genre may be a harbinger of what is in store for the open source movement — but hopefully not. At any rate, open source's popularity can certainly be compared to punk rock's rise. When Linux began to be seen as a powerful and very practical alternative to Unix, and especially, Windows, during the 1990s, the movement then felt very...well, underground. Trading discs of Linux distros and sharing tips on how to hack “Doom” (okay, the hacks were open source but Doom's code was obviously wasn't). But hopefully, open source will take a different path than what became of punk rock, especially for enterprises, as open matures, or to take the punk rock analogy further, become corporate musak. The punk rock comparison was one a main theme of this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded during VMware World San Francisco, with guests Tom Petrocelli, a research fellow at Amalgam Insights, and Adam Jacob, CEO at The System Initiative and former CTO of Chef Software. They described what the open source movement has become and where it's heading, and more importantly, what it all means for enterprises.
What became the punk rock genre may be a harbinger of what is in store for the open source movement — but hopefully not. At any rate, open source's popularity can certainly be compared to punk rock's rise. When Linux began to be seen as a powerful and very practical alternative to Unix, and especially, Windows, during the 1990s, the movement then felt very...well, underground. Trading discs of Linux distros and sharing tips on how to hack “Doom” (okay, the hacks were open source but Doom's code was obviously wasn't). But hopefully, open source will take a different path than what became of punk rock, especially for enterprises, as open matures, or to take the punk rock analogy further, become corporate musak. The punk rock comparison was one a main theme of this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded during VMware World San Francisco, with guests Tom Petrocelli, a research fellow at Amalgam Insights, and Adam Jacob, CEO at The System Initiative and former CTO of Chef Software. They described what the open source movement has become and where it's heading, and more importantly, what it all means for enterprises.
Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled “The war for the soul of open source.” We talked about what made open source great in the first place, what went wrong, the pitfalls of open core models, licensing, and more. By the way, we’re at OSCON this week so if you make your way to the expo hall, make sure you come by our booth and say hi.
Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) joins the show to talk about the keynote he’s giving at OSCON this week. The keynote is titled “The war for the soul of open source.” We talked about what made open source great in the first place, what went wrong, the pitfalls of open core models, licensing, and more. By the way, we’re at OSCON this week so if you make your way to the expo hall, make sure you come by our booth and say hi.
This is audio from our very first Discipleship Panel Conversation + Q&A, hosted by Rooted, our monthly women's gathering. Thanks to Adam Jacob, Ruthie Wallace, Katie Stephenson, Scott O'Donohoe, and moderator Kelly O'Donohoe for leading the evening!
With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview), but who has time for that? 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(https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2019/04/collaboration-with-anaconda-inc/) "Open source" companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure (https://boingboing.net/2019/04/04/open-ish.html) Jeff Bezos retains control of Amazon after divorce (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295609/jeff-bezos-amazon-mackenzie-voting-power-control-blue-origin) Microsoft Introduces Azure Front Door, a Scalable Service for Protecting Web Applications (https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/Azure-Front-Door) (https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html)- Pinterest sets IPO terms below last private valuation (https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html) AWS CEO Andy Jassy Drills Down On Cloud Adoption And Amazon’s Culture (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-ceo-andy-jassy-drills-down-on-cloud-adoption-and-amazon-s-culture) Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English (https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/) Netflix axes Apple AirPlay support (https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-kills-apple-airplay-support/) Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports massively overstate broadband adoption (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/) Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations (https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-04-04-tech-company-drops-conference-swag-in-favor-of-13-000-school-donations) Slack integration with Office 365 one more step toward total enterprise integration (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/slack-integration-with-office-365-one-more-step-toward-total-enterprise-integration/) Nonsense Japanese Hotel Launches Unnecessary $900 Burger to Celebrate New Emperor (https://www.eater.com/2019/4/3/18293431/grand-hyatt-tokyo-oak-door-expensive-burger) Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today (http://www.righto.com/2019/04/iconic-consoles-of-ibm-system360.html?m=1) GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/06/gps-rollover-is-today-heres-why-devices-might-get-wacky/) Interview Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) on this week’s Software Defined Interviews (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com). Great discussion about his experience starting Chef and Chef’s decision to make 100% of products open source. Sponsors To learn more or try it free for 14 days visit http://appoptics.com/sdt (http://appoptics.com/sdt). Conferences, et. al. ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019). April 11th, 2019 (https://www.enterprise-cio.com/) - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/) ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a free laptop sticker! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Coté: The Tick (https://www.amazon.com/The-Tick/dp/B01J776HVW), season 2. Brandon: Apple iPad Pro First Gen (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FLMP2LL/A/Refurbished-97-inch-iPad-Pro-Wi-Fi-32GB-Silver?fnode=d85254fd5d3b07671c8897146a62e29357b455f205e12cb229cd884a5104fa2103009c40cd05032029a9eced87bec0c6e4dd7dc16983300eb67d1bdeabb19bc9eaabaaa8d39f5152cd918bb148d97a42) Outro: Can't fix the car without a whole lotta milka (https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g), Kids in the Hall (https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g).
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam's career, what led him to start Chef and Chef's recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive. Links Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-ae3355316494) We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619) Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://sfosc.org/) Follow Adam at @adamhjk (https://twitter.com/adamhjk) Check out the Software Defined Talk Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) for the latest news in Enterprise Tech. Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam's career, what led him to start Chef and Chef's recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive. Links Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-ae3355316494) We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619) Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://sfosc.org/) Follow Adam at @adamhjk (https://twitter.com/adamhjk) Check out the Software Defined Talk Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) for the latest news in Enterprise Tech. Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob the co-founder of Chef. We discuss Adam's career, what led him to start Chef and Chef's recent decision to open source 100% of its Software. Plus, Adam give us some tips on Dungeons & Dragons and transitioning from being a founder to an executive. Links Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/goodbye-open-core-good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish-ae3355316494) We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619) Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://sfosc.org/) Follow Adam at @adamhjk (https://twitter.com/adamhjk) Check out the Software Defined Talk Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/) for the latest news in Enterprise Tech. Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
Ride The On-Call Lightning with Adam Jacob Adam Jacob is a Board Member, CTO and founder of Chef. Adam joins us this week to discuss his world as an on-call engineer. Find out what happens when they call in the "Mr. Wolf" of Oracle on a private jet to get the database back online. Learn about Adam's passion for Open Source while we interject our mutual interest in heavy metal.
Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s live a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids. Relevant to your interests The Non-Compete Software Movement (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/the-non-compete-software-movement-46996a86e9ca) The Cyclical Theory of Open Source (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/12/21/cycles-oss/) community, you keep using that word – Drew Clay (https://medium.com/@drewmusing/community-you-keep-using-that-word-61f038a7dbea) Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company (https://medium.com/@mattklein123/optimizing-impact-why-i-will-not-start-an-envoy-platform-company-8904286658cb) The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines (http://tech.paulcz.net/blog/future-of-kubernetes-is-virtual-machines/) Dell returns to market with NYSE listing (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dell-ipo-idUSKCN1OR14E) GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/01/05/github-now-gives-free-users-unlimited-private-repositories/) This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/07/github_free_private_repos/) GitLab Uses TriggerMesh to Offer Knative-Based Serverless Workflows (https://thenewstack.io/gitlab-uses-triggermesh-to-offer-knative-based-serverless-workflows/) Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR) (https://triggermesh.com/2019/01/09/announcing-triggermesh-knative-lambda-runtime-klr/) CloudCast Episode Serverless Management and Knative (http://www.thecloudcast.net/2018/12/serverless-management-and-knative.html) (https://m.subbu.org/contemporary-views-on-serverless-and-implications-1c5907c611d8)- Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications (https://m.subbu.org/contemporary-views-on-serverless-and-implications-1c5907c611d8) The Results are in … The State of K8s 2018 – Heptio (https://blog.heptio.com/the-results-are-in-the-state-of-k8s-2018-d25e54819416) Here's What VMware Paid for Kubernetes Startup Heptio (https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/infrastructure-and-platform/heres-what-vmware-paid-for-kubernetes-startup-heptio/d/d-id/748317) Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors (http://Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors) Sponsors Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit http://appoptics.com/sdt. Arrested DevOps Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/. Conferences, et. al. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte (https://springonetour.io/2019/charlotte). Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis). Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking. Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100. Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk/id893738521?mt=2) Send an email to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States Listener Feedback Justin Garrison help make Ralph Breaks the Internet (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1072267318464401408) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/) Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: The Dream Podcast (https://www.thedream.fm/) Matt: Tombstone (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/) and the Making of Tombstone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBzNOpIn7Cc)
Should cloud providers be able to host open source software? Exactly, what does the Australia Assistance Act mean for employees? What is Melbourne Cup Day? We answer these questions and more. Enjoy! More on the Australia Assistance and Access Act Australia's encryption laws are 'highly unlikely' to dragoon employees in secret (https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-encryption-laws-are-highly-unlikely-to-dragoon-employees-in-secret/) What's actually in Australia's encryption laws? Everything you need to know (https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-actually-in-australias-encryption-laws-everything-you-need-to-know/) Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? | 1Password (https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/) Relevant to your interests Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/chef-co-founder-adam-jacob-launches-new-effort-define-sustainable-open-source-software/) We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (http://bwhichard [11:57 AM] https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619) License Changes for Confluent Platform | Confluent (https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-platform) Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/concerned-cloud-providers-confluent-becomes-latest-open-source-company-set-new-restrictions-usage/) Open source confronts its midlife crisis by Bryan Cantrill (http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/) A Quick Comment On Bryan Cantrill’s Blog On Licensing (https://medium.com/@jaykreps/a-quick-comment-on-bryan-cantrills-blog-on-licensing-8dccee41d9e6) GE to Sell Part of Digital Business (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-to-sell-part-of-digital-business-11544707732) 1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years - Geek.com (https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/) A is for Austin (https://apple.substack.com/p/a-is-for-austin?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter) 3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/16/3d-printed-heads-unlock-cops-hackers/) MIPS Goes Open Source (https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334087) You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/18/red_hat_oracle_calendar_q3_2018/) (https://stratechery.com/2018/tumblrs-app-store-ban-tumblrs-nsfw-deadline-verizon-writes-down-oath/)- Tumblr’s App Store Ban, Tumblr’s NSFW Deadline, Verizon Writes Down Oath (https://stratechery.com/2018/tumblrs-app-store-ban-tumblrs-nsfw-deadline-verizon-writes-down-oath/) Nonsense Chase Sapphire Banking (https://accounts.chase.com/sapphire/brand?mklSoc=t) Melbourne Cup Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Cup) Sponsors Solarwinds Over 275,000 customers worldwide and 499 of the Fortune 500 trust and rely on SolarWinds for their monitoring software. To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit http://solarwinds.com/devops. Arrested DevOps Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/ or by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in your favorite podcast app. Conferences, et. al. 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers! ## Get a Free SDT T-Shirt Write an iTunes review of SDT and get a free SDT T-Shirt. Write an iTunes Review on the SDT iTunes Page. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk/id893738521?mt=2) Send an email to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and include the following: T-Shirt Size (Only Large or X-Large remain), Preferred Color (Gray, Black) and Postal address. First come, first serve. while supplies last! Can only ship T-Shirts within the United States SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/) Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Apple Music to work on other Alexa-enabled devices (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/apple-music-will-soon-work-on-third-party-alexa-devices-too/) Matt: Emacs Tramp Mode (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode): transparent access to files and remote access. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_into_the_spider_verse/)
In this episode Grant interviews Adam Jacob, founder and CTO of Chef. Adam has been building Chef for over 10 years and during that time he has learned a LOT about how to deliver software that enterprises love. He has an incredible perspective and we were so glad to have him as one of our first guests. The post Ep. #1, Delivering Software That Enterprises Love with Chef’s Adam Jacob appeared first on Heavybit.
In this episode Grant interviews Adam Jacob, founder and CTO of Chef. Adam has been building Chef for over 10 years and during that time he has learned a LOT about how to deliver software that enterprises love. He has an incredible perspective and we were so glad to have him as one of our first guests.
In episode 4 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity ask Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO of Chef, how the culture of DevOps has evolved both for system administrators and the companies they help build. The post Ep. #4, Systems Administration with Adam Jacob of Chef appeared first on Heavybit.
In episode 4 of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity ask Adam Jacob, co-founder and CTO of Chef, how the culture of DevOps has evolved both for system administrators and the companies they help build.
Welcome back to the Tech Fugitives podcast. No Safe spaces today. Straight talk from the “No A-hole” zone with Chef CTO, Adam Jacob. Just because you’re infrastructure is code, doesn’t mean you’re not an A-Hole. Don’t be that person…Listen to Adam Jacobs. Chef was clearly the tip of the sword during the birth of DevOps. […] The post Episode 35 – Interview with Tech Icon Adam Jacob, CTO of Chef appeared first on The Tech Fugitives Show!.
In this episode of the ARCHITECHT Show, Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob talks about the evolution of his company and its product as user demands have evolved (or not) over the past decade. He tackles the benefits and shortcomings of technologies such as containers and cloud computing, as well as the difficulty of doing security right and nailing the open source business model. In the news segment, Derrick Harris (ARCHITECHT) and Barb Darrow (Fortune) discuss Apple new HomePod smart speaker, IBM's next big thing in chip design, and the cratering server market.
Adam Jacob, the CTO of Chef, will walk through what a DevOps Culture really means, explaining the most important concepts through examples and stories from the trenches. We'll talk about how to build empowered organizations, design delightful products, run effective operations, and more.
...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie ...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?. ...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-conversations/features/045-cloud-native-at-home-depot-with-tony-mcculley). They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps. Feedback & Follow-up The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ). Thanks to Chris Short (https://twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/808339167604338688). The DevOps App dev vs. IT service delivery. DevOps Kung Fu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEToXsgrPc), Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps? AWS Managed Services Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-managed-services-infrastructure-operations-management-for-the-enterprise/) "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." (http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/12/amazon-launches-aws-managed-services-to-help-more-big-companies-adopt-cloud/) "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." (https://twitter.com/cote/status/809205833586409472) More like: changing their minds. "Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption" AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!" Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right? Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort. Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg Don't Sleep on Microsoft Damn, that's a monstrous URL (https://pages.email.microsoftemail.com/page.aspx?qs=773ed3059447707dab3a47fc5c2937dcbf750d2a6d7e8feab247991209f258cd86e8606f2837501c341831b6f3896ebcb5673dff86feb6303e458a94181db250c28f58237fd3b737cd39c6339094ff6800649c38da065423db508d0369c1992e) GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI. Cisco Shutting Down Their InterCloud Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED $1 Billion isn't enough (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-claims-another-victim-cisco-kills-its-1-billion-cloud-2016-12), "score another body bag win for the unstoppable Amazon Web Services" "Meanwhile, the cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren't using a lot of Cisco gear. They are increasingly using a new style to build networks that relies more on software and less on high-end, expensive hardware." Sharwood@ElReg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/13/cisco_to_kill_its_intercloud_public_cloud_on_march_31st_2017/): "OpenStack public clouds have an unhappy history: Rackspace felt it could build a business on the platform, but has since changed tack. HP pulled out of its own Helion public cloud. If Cisco is indeed changing direction, the OpenStack Board has some interesting matters to ponder." Theory: AWS means on-premise IT is over-serving. You actually don't need all that. Incumbent vendors succumbed to the strategy aphasia of the disruptor's' dilemma (weren't willing to sacrifice/take eye off the ball of existing success and revenue) and lost to Amazon's lower capabilities, lower price approach. WHEN WILL TECH PEOPLE LURN? There was this talk several years ago that was all like: "well, obviously, we shouldn't compete strategy-to-strategy with Amazon. We should provide the enterprise version!" Apparently, that was dead wrong. People confused Apple's ability to sell at an insane premium with the market not caring about x86 &co. Docker Contributes Containerd Docker-engine standardized container runtime for the industry (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/introducing-containerd/) Engine vs. Machine (https://docs.docker.com/machine/overview/#/whats-the-difference-between-docker-engine-and-docker-machine) Check out this TheNewStack story for a new strategy slide (http://thenewstack.io/docker-spins-containerd-independent-open-source-project/): Containers in Production! Round-up of some container survey poking (http://redmonk.com/fryan/2016/12/01/containers-in-production-is-security-a-barrier-a-dataset-from-anchore/) n=338 respondents Sidenote: Jenkins win. Good job biffing that one Oracle. But then again: is there any money in it? "This leads us to a very difficult operational problem – how do we ensure security, and understand the makeup of an application while still allowing developer velocity to increase." More Docker usage numbers from DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/3-clear-trends-in-ecs-adoption/)! "ECS adoption has climbed steadily from zero to 15 percent of Docker organizations using Datadog. (And more than 10 percent of all Datadog customers are now using Docker.)" How do I read this? Does it mean adoption is fast after an initial tire-kicking? "In the 30 days after an organization starts reporting ECS metrics, we see a 35 percent increase in the number of running containers as compared to the 60-day baseline that came before. Using the same parameters, we see a 27 percent increase in the number of running Docker hosts." CoreOS Tectonic Goes Freemium Erryone's favorite business model (https://coreos.com/blog/tectonic-self-driving.html) Kubernetes 1.5 coming soon Shipping upstream version3 Renamed their distro to Container Linux They have attempted to coin the phrase "self-driving Kubernetes" -- God help us. BONUS LINKS! Not discussed on show. More AWS Followup Missed a talk (https://gist.github.com/stevenringo/5f0f9cc7b329dbaa76f495a6af8241e9)? Open sourced a Deep Learning library (https://github.com/amznlabs/amazon-dsstne/blob/master/FAQ.md): AWS is still really new to contributing to OSS, Cockcroft has been pushing them. Also see the Blox.github.io stuff we didn't talk about last show AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Q&A (https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/08/rule-the-cloud-with-chef-automate-and-aws/) AWS Canada & London! Strange Brew Region (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/canada-central-region-now-open/) hello hello hello what's all this then region (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/) "brings our global footprint to 16 Regions and 40 Availability Zones, with seven more Availability Zones and three more Regions coming online through the next year" Docker Acquires Distributed Storage Startup Inifinit "the Infinit platform provides interfaces for block, object and file storage: NFS, SMB, AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, iSCSI, FUSE etc." (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/docker-acquires-infinit/) To be open-sourced Extends the stateful application story CA Buys Automic for $635 million "CA fights legacy status with DevOps automation tools buy" (http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/450404297/CA-fights-legacy-status-with-DevOps-automation-tools-buy) - that's not a good headline for your Christmas cards. $635 million, Crunchbase says they were founded in 1985(?) Hey look, it's my man Carl Lehmann at 451! New CEO at BMC Beauchamp goes to board, Polycom dude steps in a CEO (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maribellopez/2016/12/12/bmc-adds-peter-leav-as-ceo-prepares-for-new-growth-chapter/#1b2662bc4651) "Beauchamp said many of BMC's products are achieving double digit growth and double-digit profitability." Red Hat OpenShift on GCE and JBoss on OpenShift In case you need more management on your GCE (http://www.cio.com/article/3148671/cloud-computing/red-hat-brings-openshift-to-google-cloud-platform.html)? AWS is already there, probably Azure soon. I wonder if there's a deficiency in Google's offering that it's more of a consumed resource than a platform a la AWS? Plenty of management in AWS already? JBoss on it (http://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-brings-full-jboss-software-stack-to-openshift/) Dell Q3 "Dell Technologies Posts $2B Loss, But EMC Deal Already Boosting Revenue" (http://austininno.streetwise.co/2016/12/08/dell-technologies-q3-earnings-report-revenues-and-losses/) Stonic, (not) An Ansible Fork? Stonic (https://blog.stonic.io/0000-it-is-not-a-fork-c0b03c33e408) will be licensed under AGPL-3.0 :facepalm: Coté: why is AGPL bad? Australian 2016 Word of the Year: "Democracy Sausage" (saved you a click) Democracy Sausage (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-14/democracy-sausage-snags-word-of-the-year/8117684) Google Makes So Much Money It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline - Until Now Candy, not CREAM (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline) Brandon called this way back when. But what about Google Fiber in my neighborhood? Best shruggie use of th eyear (https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i2yPkZEJdBec/v0/1000x-1.jpg) NVIDA $129k computer. "Fewer than 100 companies and organizations have bought DGX-1s since they started shipping in the fall, but early adopters say Nvidia's claims about the system seem to hold up." (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603075/the-pint-sized-supercomputer-that-companies-are-scrambling-to-get/) Does it pass the Coté AI Test? I.e.: can it fix scheduling meetings across different organizations? Recommendations Brandon: Mobile eating the world (http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world). Matt: Jenn Schiffer's "No One Expects The Lady Code Troll" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewAC5X_CZ8) Coté: Senso bluetoother headphones (http://amzn.to/2hLC0lF). Trapper hats (http://amzn.to/2hAupDi) all winter long (https://www.instagram.com/p/BODJGTPjv2b/).
Matt and Bridget chat with Tim Gross (Joyent) and Adam Jacob (Chef) about configuration that travels with the application, diving into Habitat and ContainerPilot.
Matt and Bridget chat with Tim Gross (Joyent) and Adam Jacob (Chef) about configuration that travels with the application, diving into Habitat and ContainerPilot.
Jez Humble, Adam Jacob, and Mike McGarr join us to discuss Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Integration.
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