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By Adam Turteltaub Clara Becerra Campos, Senior Compliance Analyst-Europe for TD SYNNEX, and Dr. Tobias Kruis, Head of Corporate Compliance, Giesecke+Devrient, will be addressing the new EU whistleblowing requirements at the 2024 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute, which takes place in Amsterdam March 18-20. In this podcast, they delve into the challenges posed by the directive, which significantly expands the number of EU-based and non-EU-based companies that must comply. The directive not only provides protections for whistleblowers, they explain. It also establishes procedures and deadlines for handling reports. As significantly, it leaves the door open to variations among EU member states, which complicates the picture considerably. So what should you do? If your organization does not have a whistleblower line already in place they recommend you: Implement an internal reporting channel Be sure it's aligned with legal and data privacy Consider who will manage the system and conduct the investigations Ensure confidentiality Communicate with your workforce For those with a helpline already they recommend starting with a gap analysis to determine if your existing efforts are meeting the new requirements. Listen in to learn more, then join them in Amsterdam at the 2024 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute.

By Adam Turteltaub As environmental expectations keeps rising and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) metrics gain more importance to investors, some organizations will be tempted to greenwash, which is best described as making an environmental footprint look far better than it actually is. That's a serious risk and one that will be addressed by Elena Durante, ESG Risk Audit Manager, ING Corporate Audit Services, Risk & Finance, at the SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute, which takes place in Amsterdam March 20-22. As she explains in this podcast, at its roots greenwashing is about misleading information supplied to investors and customers, taking advantage of the fact that these outsiders cannot fully tell if what the organization is saying is true. While greenwashing is still relatively unregulated, she tells us, that has started to change.  In the EU there have been an increasing number of efforts to combat it. Plus, there is severe reputational damage to companies caught greenwashing. Compliance teams need to be on the lookout at their organizations to ensure the integrity of their organizations' environmental statements. That starts with ensuring that what regulations that currently exist are followed. It also means keeping an eye out for new regulations. Compliance should also be working to develop and implement ESG protocols within the organization. These should identify clear rules and policies to ensure sufficient checks and balances are in place. A training element will also be needed to help the business people understand that environmental statements need to accurately reflect the  organization's actual activities, not just its aspirations. Listen in and then keep an eye out for greenwashing in your organization.

Everyone loves white papers Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension. Mood board: “A Quote from the episode…” Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. “I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.” We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’ Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring? Crank up the YouTube Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch Garbage trash proposals Uniquely sourced Why are we still doing this? They’re busy running their business. “Can you write me a business case.” PDFs a Plenty The White Paper Album Speaking of BS phrases The white paper to take down white papers “Walking into the door feeling” The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever. Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon. The Idempope. Relevant to your interests Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? (https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html) - related, from 2006 (http://econobonics.blogspot.com/). The secret sauce graphics (http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/10/operations-is-a-competitive-ad.html), 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update (http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/operations-as-the-secret-sauce.html). White papers (best one ever (https://www.chef.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Chef-Standard-Bank-WhitePaper.pdf): “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef) Collateral. Sales tools. Case studies. Thought-leadership/definition. Education. Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers). Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore. How it effects the business. Have opinions. Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them! (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1232545180013731840) Amazon AMI thing. Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity (https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/salesforce-secures-13b-deal-for-vlocity), also co-CEO left (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/keith-block-steps-down-as-salesforce-co-ceo-marc-benioff-is-chair-and-ceo-301011142.html) (what’s up with two CEOs?) VMware, Tanzu Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security. The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle (https://gizmodo.com/oracle-ceos-trump-fundraiser-incites-employee-work-stop-1841791696) Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers (https://www.wsj.com/articles/morgan-stanley-is-buying-e-trade-betting-on-littler-customers-11582201440) Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses (https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology) Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7b0cc14c-ef6d-4211-813f-6a2400e1869b.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-cloud-president-tariq-shaukat-vacating-his-role) DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/digitalocean-raises-100m-in-debt-as-it-scales-towards-revenue-of-300m-profitability/) HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hp-m-a-xerox-hlngs/hp-adopts-poison-pill-after-xeroxs-buyout-attempts-idUSKBN20E2XZ) VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/02/vmware-pivotal-tanzu-merger/) Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot (https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/02/23/2043239/oracles-allies-against-google-include-scott-mcnealy-and-americas-justice-department) Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plots-course-to-overtake-cloud-rivals-11582383601) Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-20/apple-weighs-loosening-restrictions-on-rival-iphone-music-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/the-ars-technica-semi-scientific-guide-to-wi-fi-access-point-placement/) Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability (https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/24/google-cloud-beefs-up-chronicle-recaptcha-enterprise-and-web-risk-api-hit-general-availability/) When Speakers are Ears (https://moniotrlab.ccis.neu.edu/smart-speakers-study/) Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing (https://thenewstack.io/why-those-gaps-in-kubernetes-are-really-a-good-thing/) Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/24/redhat_launches_openstack_16/) Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce (https://cloudwars.co/google-jumps-4-cloud-wars-top-10/) MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/25/what_mwcs_cancellation_means_for_smaller_firms/) Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US (https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/25/firefox-dns-over-https-default-us/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAANMCttaVUn7q3tSVj58X3_a_3l3AceIJjxzxOTi3Psv6gBOVQOP7rmb7sk0yKtKUQ8RpzQMfjabXr4phF509Bakuyw_5nqibjt0bQRgxIOXvjKD5FAHQM7tJyDZtG6JN-z9ADZ1r0oZGY1lzgtPs8bYXxmHaAUqns7p1CoeSqeK) Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace' (https://slashdot.org/story/367584) Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/keith-block-steps-down-as-salesforce-co-ceo-marc-benioff-is-chair-and-ceo-301011142.html) Non Sense Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/inno-news/report-austin-ranks-no-1-in-the-nation-for-jobs/) The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/25/21147389/jif-peanut-butter-giphy-settle-gif-pronunciation-debate) Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60 (https://slickdeals.net/article/news/costco-food-courts-deals-and-news/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=595532-Adobe%20Newsletter%20DM15903%20-%202020-02-25%2009%3A50%3A05&utm_source=29000-adobe_editorial_content&utm_term=cmsarticle&sdxt00=19473079) Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/). Conferences, et. al. QCon London (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/178127-the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-aren-t-supposed-to-use-it), March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking on March 2nd. Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions (https://www.agilescotland.com/sessions), tickets (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-scotland-dynamic-earth-march-2020-tickets-81226262939). KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off. VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop (https://kccnceu20.sched.com/event/ZJZE) DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4 Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st. Listener Talk Ryan Kitchens (https://twitter.com/this_hits_home) talk “The Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdMMLPBMnw&list=WL&index=8&t=0s)a (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdMMLPBMnw&list=WL&index=8&t=0s)t of It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdMMLPBMnw&list=WL&index=8&t=0s).” 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 free laptop stickers! 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. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (https://www.netflix.com/title/80148180) on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80148180). Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (https://www.harrypottertheplay.com/). Coté: Hild (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332243-hild). SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP (https://springone.io/cfp). My book, The Business Bottleneck (https://cote.io/books/), is out for free (https://cote.io/books/). Outro: “Hey Now.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdHpQW-pEs)

We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats. Relevant to your interests Google Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-targeting-five-industries-c-suite.html) Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating (https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1229513048378888193?s=21) “People frequently conflate "open governance" and "neutral IP ownership." It depends greatly on the foundation, but in the case of the CNCF, there are literally zero governance requirements enforced on projects. CNCF projects can be (and are) single vendor governed.” Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-completes-looker-acquisition) Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans (https://www.techradar.com/news/google-cloud-reveals-major-restructuring-plans) Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/19/google-cloud-acquires-mainframe-migration-service-cornerstone/) Security The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/?stream=technology&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter) The CIA’s ‘coup of the century (https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-cias-coup-of-the-century/)’ Podcast (https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-cias-coup-of-the-century/) The End of Privacy as We Know It? (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/facial-recognition-surveillance.html) Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout (https://www.zdnet.com/article/average-tenure-of-a-ciso-is-just-26-months-due-to-high-stress-and-burnout/) DOJ charges four China-backed hackers with Equifax breach – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/justice-department-breach-equifax/) Ring enables mandatory two-factor authentication and new privacy controls in response to scandals (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/18/21141948/ring-two-factor-authentication-default-mandatory-data-sharing-third-party-analytics-advertising) The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony (https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/) Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/13/iana_dnssec_ksk_delay/) M&A and Going Bust Dell Nears Deal to Sell RSA Security Business to Private-Equity Firm STG (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-nears-deal-to-sell-rsa-security-business-to-private-equity-firm-stg-11581996327?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/04/koch-industries-acquires-infor-in-deal-pegged-at-nearly-13b/) Xerox raises takeover offer for HP (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hp-m-a-xerox-hlngs/xerox-raises-takeover-bid-for-hp-idUSKBN2041J2) Android founder's next phone company goes bust (https://www.axios.com/android-founder-phone-company-essential-shut-down-73b83ef8-921f-4acd-b4c6-f43f5b4abcef.html) HQ, maker of the once-popular HQ Trivia, is shutting down (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/14/21138408/hq-trivia-shutting-down-employee-layoffs-app-game) Rancher Labs Achieves 169% Revenue Growth, Doubles (https://rancher.com/press/momentum-announcement) Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/14/alibaba-cloud-revenue-reaches-1-5b-for-the-quarter-on-62-growth-rate/) dgarros/netdevops-survey (https://github.com/dgarros/netdevops-survey/) The History of Git: The Road to Domination (https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-history-git) Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/amazon-gets-restraining-order-to-block-microsoft-work-on-pentagon-jedi.html) Amazon lawyers want to depose Trump (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/amazon-lawyers-want-depose-trump-it-s-hard-blame-them-n1134331) Your .com could soon cost you more .cash (https://thehustle.co/02132020-verisign-namecheap-domains/) Wi-Fi 6E isn’t here yet—but Broadcom is clearly banking on it (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/wi-fi-6e-gets-a-little-closer-to-reality-with-broadcoms-new-chipset/) New Relic: New Report: For the Love of Serverless - New Relic Blog (https://blog.newrelic.com/product-news/for-the-love-of-serverless/) GSMA cancels Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/12/gmsa-cancels-mobile-world-congress-due-to-coronavirus-concerns/) Red Hat kicks off long goodbye for CoreOS Container Linux • DEVCLASS (https://devclass.com/2020/02/06/red-hat-kicks-off-long-goodbye-for-coreos-container-linux/) Meet JJ Asghar - DevRel.net (https://devrel.net/dev-rel/meet-jj-asghar) Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/amazon-empire/) ## Nonsense How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html) My travel habits (https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2019/11/25/my-travel-habits/) Private equity, explained — The Weeds (https://overcast.fm/+FOOTjqFjI) They recorded the Seinfeld theme separately for EVERY EPISODE (https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1229378614824701958?s=21) Chasing Colombia's 'cocaine hippos' (https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-02-09/uc-san-diego-biologist-colombia-cocaine-hippos-pablo-escobar) Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/). Conferences, et. al. HashiTalks (https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2020) Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech) QCon London (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/178127-the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-aren-t-supposed-to-use-it), March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point. Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions (https://www.agilescotland.com/sessions), tickets (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-scotland-dynamic-earth-march-2020-tickets-81226262939). KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off. DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4 Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st. Book Giveaway Free digital copy of Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership (https://www.amazon.com/Code-Your-Way-Challenge-Leadership/dp/1777076501/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Code+Your+Way+Up%3A+Rise+to+the+Challenge+of+Software+Leadership&qid=1582139704&sr=8-1) to the first person to direct message bwhichard in the SDT Slack (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/bwhichard). 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 free laptop stickers! 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. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: McMillions (https://www.hbo.com/mcmillions) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/mcmillions) Matt: Casey Handmer’s Blog (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/) space-related blog posts are fascinating Subscribe to Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com/) for space news

With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.) (Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.) Mood board: Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right? Digital transformation is bad. Did they decide that the kids are all right? Thought leader me into happiness. You are so much more cynical than me. What does IBM do? Reverse halo effect. Surviving the trough of disillusionment. We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No! For the rest of your life, do better. Minor bread talk. Relevant to your interests IBM IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down, Arvind Krishna to take over (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-down-arvind-krishna-to-take-over.html) 1 big thing: Ginni Rometty out at IBM (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-5a7bbb49-ba2e-448b-92b1-997a5006be88.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0) IBM’s Lost Decade (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/) IBM didn’t spent much CAPEX (https://www.platformonomics.com/2018/05/follow-the-capex-separating-the-clowns-from-the-clouds/), three others did. Coté: what’s there to say that’s new? Cloud wasn’t executed well (I guess?) and Watson was a poor choice for such a high priority. Thoma Bravo to Explore $2 Billion Sale of Compuware (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/thoma-bravo-is-said-to-explore-2-billion-sale-of-compuware?srnd=deals) So, did Thoma Bravo do well here? “could value the mainframe software provider at around $2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.” “Thoma Bravo took Compuware private in 2014 in a deal valued at $2.5 billion. It carved out Compuware’s application performance management division, renamed it Dynatrace Inc. and took it public last year.” Dynatrace market cap is ~$9.1bn (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DT?p=DT&.tsrc=fin-srch), was ~$6.7bn on IPO day (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GrEhTb9AZgUJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/thoma-bravo-controlled-dynatrace-s-ipo-raises-570-million+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl) (August 2019). Brenon@451 on the IPO (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/infrastructure-software/dynatraces-dynamic-debut/), August 2019: “Post-offering, the PE firm still owns about 70% of Dynatrace.” And: “Dynatrace raised roughly $570m in its offering, some of which will go toward paying down its nearly $1bn in debt.” 451’s note on the 2014 going private (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/thoma-bravo-gets-better-than-face-value-from-compuware/). So, if Thoma Bravo still owns 70%, then have ~$6.37bn worth of equity (70% of market cap of $9.1bn)…sounds… really good for laying for laying down $2.5bn, plus you might get $2bn more from the rest of Compuware. That’s crazy, right? That Compuware was sitting on that much extra value? This week in cloud architecture patterns tl;dr: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ The State of Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/) This is just about AWS Lambda. (That said, what else is there?) “Among the companies with the largest infrastructure footprints, more than three quarters have adopted Lambda.” Lots of node.js and python use, not much Java and .Net use. Java and python were added in the same year (2015), node.js since the start in 2014. Coté’s summary of their analysis: Lambda used with lots of data processing, primarily with python and node, at mostly large orgs. Not used by Java devs. Modular Monolithic Architecture, Microservices and Architectural Drivers (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/monolith-architectural-drivers/) “Monoliths are the future,” (https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future) Kelsey Hightower. “Now that our industry is finally recovering from the mass delusion that microservices was going to be the future, it's surely time to for the even bigger delusion that serverless is what's going to provide the all-purpose salvation.” @dhh (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1225117740962181120?s=21) Also: his 2016 suggestion (https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/) that monoliths work best for small teams, microservices for huge orgs. Related: Reframing and Retooling for Observability, James Governor (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/02/05/reframing-and-retooling-for-observability/) - overview of observability, in serious James mode. JRebel Java survey: Over 60% use Java 8 or older. Java 8 was released in March 2014, no more updates to Java 8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history). Tomcat dominates app server use at 60%+. Free and works is a hell of a combination (https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/46d6e34c-6a40-4edb-bead-f7132543ff82). Spring and Spring Boot very dominate. “It was very surprising to see how many of our survey respondents are paying for Oracle JDK. I fully expected the open source options to have a much larger market share.” (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/)- 1 big thing: Software disaster sinks Iowa caucus (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-bf16b6d8-a2f7-4493-99d5-221968175e2a.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0) Google Numbers Google parent Alphabet Q4 earnings: Revenue disappoints (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-google-q4-earnings-191155754.html) Alphabet discloses YouTube ad revenues of $15.15 billion, Cloud revenues of $8.92 billion for 2019 (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-discloses-youtube-cloud-revenues-for-the-first-time.html) Related: Instagram brought in an estimated (https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-20-billion-ad-revenue-2019-report-2020-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T) $20bn in 2019. That’s a lot of money. Security Google releases open-source 2FA security key platform called OpenSK (https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/30/google-releases-open-source-2fa-security-key-platform/) Apple Engineers Propose Standardized Format for SMS One-Time Passcodes (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/31/apple-standardized-format-sms-one-time-passcodes/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9fb8b1f9a9-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+321&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-9fb8b1f9a9-70424493&mc_cid=9fb8b1f9a9&mc_eid=288b3f86c8) HPE acquires identity management startup Scytale (https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/03/hpe-acquires-identity-management-startup-scytale/) Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120248/microsoft-teams-down-outage-certificate-issue-status) Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances (https://multipass.run/) Nonsense Podcast app Overcast adds automatic intro skipping and overhauled Voice Boost feature (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117380/overcast-podcast-app-new-features-voice-boost-2-intro-skipping) I Have a Costco Credit Card. I Never Use It at Costco. Here’s Why. (https://thewirecutter.com/money/credit-cards/co-branded-costco/) Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21123904/spotify-bill-simmons-ringer-deal) Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/). Conferences, et. al. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off. DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th QCon London (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/178127-the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-aren-t-supposed-to-use-it), March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point. Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions (https://www.agilescotland.com/sessions), tickets (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-scotland-dynamic-earth-march-2020-tickets-81226262939). ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4 Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st. HashiTalks (https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2020) Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech) 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 free laptop stickers! 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. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: NeverSSL (http://neverssl.com/). Matt: Code the Classics (https://store.rpipress.cc/products/code-the-classics). Faith No More’s coming to Australia & New Zealand (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP9BfLIXsAAH7Mr.jpg) Cote: Beyond the Phoenix Project (https://amzn.to/31v2CeJ), from 2018 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38714647-beyond-the-phoenix-project).

How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos. Relevant to your interests Privacy “Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software” (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1222285606635614208?s=21) Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal) Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21111865/scroll-ad-free-website-subscription-launches) Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/27/avast-antivirus-harvested-user-data-then-sold-to-google-microsoft) Disruption Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/business/clayton-christensen-dead.html) How to Compete With AWS (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/01/24/how-to-compete-with-aws/) After Kubernetes’ Victory, Its Former Rivals Change Tack (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/business/after-kubernetes-victory-its-former-rivals-change-tack) Slack Stock Could Be One of the Biggest Opportunities in Software, Analyst Says (https://www.barrons.com/articles/slack-stock-opportunity-in-software-51580231541) Acquired | WhatsApp (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/whatsapp) Chef Habitat Gains a Foothold in the Enterprise, Streamlines Packaging (https://thenewstack.io/chef-habitat-gains-a-foothold-in-the-enterprise-streamlines-packaging/) Google Google aims to unify its workplace tools and messaging apps into one service (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112596/google-messaging-communications-app-hangouts-chat-meet-g-suite) Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021 (https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/27/google-will-shut-down-app-maker-on-january-19-2021/) Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products (https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/29/google-record-reward-researchers-hack-security-bug-bounty/) Apple The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team (https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/the-10th-anniversary-of-the-ipad-a-perspective-from-the-windows-team-eaca7f94c5cc) The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_10) Apple Holiday Results Top Estimates on Rebounding iPhone Demand (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUWh0dHBzOi8vZmluYW5jZS55YWhvby5jb20vbmV3cy9hcHBsZS1ob2xpZGF5LXJlc3VsdHMtdG9wLWVzdGltYXRlcy0yMTQ1MzA4NjMuaHRtbNIBWWh0dHBzOi8vZmluYW5jZS55YWhvby5jb20vYW1waHRtbC9uZXdzL2FwcGxlLWhvbGlkYXktcmVzdWx0cy10b3AtZXN0aW1hdGVzLTIxNDUzMDg2My5odG1s?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) A new chapter for Kohsuke (https://jenkins.io/blog/2020/01/23/a-new-chapter-for-kohsuke/) COBOL on Kubernetes - stackconf (https://stackconf.eu/talks/cobol-on-kubernetes/) VMware’s vRealize $236M Patent Infringement Loss: 5 Things To Know (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/virtualization/vmware-s-vrealize-236m-patent-infringement-loss-5-things-to-know) VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/28/vmware_layoffs_confirmed/) LastPass is discontinuing its native Mac app and replacing it with a more universal web app (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21113505/lastpass-native-mac-app-store-replacement-web-safari-extension-update) Nonsense Google caves on unpopular favicon change in Search and promises to test more designs (https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/24/google-caves-on-unpopular-favicon-change-in-search-and-promises-to-test-more-designs/) Old Bay hot sauce is here: McCormick launches new way to season wings ahead of Super Bowl (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/29/old-bay-hot-sauce-now-thing-and-heres-where-buy/4607149002/) Internal Monologue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_monologue) vs. Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech (https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/pristine-inner-experience/201110/not-everyone-conducts-inner-speech) Australia slips further in internet speed rankings (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2020/australia-slips-further-in-internet-speed-rankings.html) Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/). Conferences, et. al. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off. DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4 Devopsdays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st. HashiTalks (https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2020) Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech) 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 free laptop stickers! 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. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Matt Levine’s Money Stuff Newsletter (http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-signup&hash=54223001ca3ffcf40f2629c25acea67a) The Animal Spir (https://animalspiritspod.libsyn.com/)i (https://animalspiritspod.libsyn.com/)ts Podcast (https://animalspiritspod.libsyn.com/) The Compound YouTube Channel from Josh Brown and Michael Batnick (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBRpqrzuuqE8TZcWw75JSdw) Matt: A16Z Podcasts (https://a16z.com/podcasts/) Daniel Suarez’s Freedom (https://amzn.to/2RG0cGD), the sequel to Daemon

Denise Huth is a day-to-day executive producer on global hit 'The Walking Dead.' At Promax Europe in Amsterdam March 26, she will teach a master class on the zombie drama. Here, she provides a sneak peek of that session and brings listeners deep into the world of the zombie drama.

Upcoming shows - NEMROMEDY.COM - LONDON Feb 22, PARIS Feb 26, AMSTERDAM March 2, BERLIN March 7 Follow me: twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nemrcomedy instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nemrcomedy facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nemrcomedy #NEMR #VFP

Upcoming shows - NEMROMEDY.COM - LONDON Feb 22, PARIS Feb 26, AMSTERDAM March 2, BERLIN March 7 Follow me: twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nemrcomedy instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nemrcomedy facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nemrcomedy #NEMR #VFP

Upcoming shows - NEMROMEDY.COM - MIAMI Feb 17, LONDON Feb 22, PARIS Feb 26, AMSTERDAM March 2, BERLIN March 7 Follow me: twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nemrcomedy instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nemrcomedy facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nemrcomedy #NEMR #VFP

Upcoming shows - NEMROMEDY.COM - MIAMI Feb 17, LONDON Feb 22, PARIS Feb 26, AMSTERDAM March 2, BERLIN March 7 Follow me: twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nemrcomedy instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nemrcomedy facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nemrcomedy #NEMR #Podcast #Funny #VFP The guy on twitter I mentioned in the podcast that gives out the advice for Stand Up Comics is @GaryGulman!

This week we have an extra long show with Secret Cinema recorded live at Thuishaven Amsterdam. This year round festival location is home to some of the best parties in the city. Enjoy episode 48 of Gem FM! TRACKLIST Pleasurekraft - G.O.D. (Gospel of Doubt) part 1 Noemi Black - From The Dark Synebot - X-press (Damon Wild rmx) CNCPT - Peonia 1 Sama - We Thought (Hatzler Remix) Hedrome - Waingro A Morgan - New Dimensions ARKVS - Lack of Transparancy Pfirter, Monoloc - Trucker 1 2pole - Dopamine (Original Mix) Alex Bau – Shakalak Ferdinand Dreyssig - Shades Of Prey (unreleased) Olivier Giacomotto – Bipolar Star (Victor Ruiz Remix) Secret Cinema - Testing... Ilario Alicante – Figure Of Ra CNCPT - Peonia 4 Kas:St – A2-Base 4 HP SOURCE - Closer (Halvy Remix) Janice – BB Secret Cinema & Reinier Zonneveld – Shifting Sand (unreleased) Sama – We Didn’t Know ARKVS - Endorphine Mathame - Striker (Cassegrain remix) Eitan Reiter & PRZ – Flux Andre Winter – Lucide Secret Cinema – Ex-Drummer Alexander Kowalski & Raz Ohara – All I Got To Know (Alexander Kowalski Rework)

Big General and Bramsterdam are getting ready for Spring! It’s a SUPERweekend in Amsterdam March 19 to 21. Kicking off on Friday with Furball the Kilt Edition in the Westerunie, Saturday Supersize(d) in Club Church and Sunday the Pozandproud Amen T-dance in Club Church. Join the boys! www.weloveyourears.com Tracklist Don’t say a word – Sharam ft. Anoushe Kahlili Elixir – Christian Smith and Reset Robot Play – Phil Fuldner Electronic Love – Christian Weber BT – Rose of Jericho Disclaimer – Cedric Gervais I said - Chris Lake and Deadmau5 My friend – Nicky Romero The sun – Stefano Noferini South beach shuttle – Oliver Moldan Models on cocaine – Ticon Sweet disposition – The temper trap