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Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies. Also, it’s episode #150 - yay us! Our first episode was on May 27th, 2014, where Coté’s lamp played a prominent role, and we did video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S0_PzuYJJE&index=58&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP). Relevant to your interests Chase Sapphire Reserve (https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/sapphire/reserve), and others in the Sapphire line (https://www.chase.com/personal/credit-cards/sapphire-on-location). AAdvantage Executive card (https://secure.fly.aa.com/citi/direct-exec?anchorLocation=DirectURL&title=citiexecutive). SpringOne Platform videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPQsR_aqYBQxpYTEQZnjhTN6&disable_polymer=true) are all up. Coté went to Puppetizer 2018 Amsterdam. They’re really into being “a portfolio company” (https://www.instagram.com/p/BovoMzaCxsJ/?taken-by=bushwald) now. Lots of stacks presented (http://cote.coffee/2018/10/10/thats-some-stack.html); much discussion on managing Puppet itself. A very well run event. See also Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/09/puppet_data_exhaust/) coverage of their SF event (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/09/puppet_data_exhaust/). Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure (https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-shutting-down-google-plus/) - “90 percent of Google+ user sessions last for less than five seconds.” be like google prd mgmt desertion effect other enterprise props? legacy services OpenOffice watch (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/10/apache_open_office_not_dead/) - ‘Back in 2015, Red Hat developer Christian Schaller called OpenOffice "all but dead."’ Austin Ernest says make sure you don’t cargo cult The SRE (https://theagileadmin.com/2018/10/02/sre-the-biggest-lie-since-kanban/). The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales (https://medium.com/s/story/how-blockbuster-kodak-and-xerox-really-failed-its-not-what-you-think-e0a8c12e863d) - Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. Put yet another way, company executives have a lot less power than you’d think. Related: WTF is “culture” (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1050246624881061889)? This week in IPOs: Elastic has a party, Solarwinds figuring one out (https://www.channele2e.com/business/finance/solarwinds-ipo-plan-update/). Elastic (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/elastic-estc-ipo-stock-makes-debut-on-nyse.html): “The stock closed at $70 per share, representing a 94.4 percent rise.” Close of market on Oct. 10th (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ESTC?p=ESTC): $62.50 per share. 451 on Elastic revenue, Scott Denne (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ipo/elastic-adds-spring-to-the-fall-ipo-market/): “The developer of open source search software for IT log analysis, security analytics and other applications nearly doubled its top line in its fiscal year (ending April 30) to $160m, up from $88m a year earlier, while increasing the share of subscription revenue in its mix.” More: “Judging by Elastic’s offering, the [Q3] dry spell had little impact on investor appetites, setting up a favorable environment for Anaplan and SolarWinds as both look to price this month.” 451 on Elastic’s product, Nancy Gohring: “One of the most important messages that emerged from ElasticOn is that Elastic is positioning its software to serve as a platform for collecting and analyzing a wide array of machine data that can be used in a variety of use cases. With its recently announced APM UI and the forthcoming Infra UI, as well as the Canvas visualization capabilities, SQL-like querying and advancing machine-learning techniques, the Elastic Stack will be usable as a centralized platform for collecting and analyzing logs, events and metrics by constituents within a business including IT ops, security, executive leadership, product management and others.” So, Elastic is…an OSS (presumably) cheaper Splunk, but for general search not just IT? Or, wait, it is just IT stuff? Solarwinds: Coté hasn’t been able to parse out the Solarwinds deal. The big question is/will be, “so, did it make sense to go private, or could that have done whatever they’re doing by staying public?” Serverless and FaaS, survey shows confusion (https://thenewstack.io/add-it-up-serverless-faas/): “Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months.” Coté’s old saw that “serverless” has just come to mean “doing programming on-top of cloud shit.” This is what Pivotal usually means when they say “cloud native,” versus the container kids who mean just “kubernetes,” at broadest, “containers.” Cloudera/Hortonworks follow-up: TPM (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/05/hadoop-needs-to-be-a-business-not-just-a-platform/): “Cloudera has raked in $1.28 billion in revenues in the past six and a half years, while Hortonworks only brought in $808 million. Add in the venture capital of $1.31 billion in venture capital, plus $225 million that Cloudera raised in early 2017 for its IPO and the $100 million that Hortonworks raised in late 2014 from its IPO, and the total pile of cash that has come to the pair is $3.69 billion. Hortonworks still has $86 million of cash and Cloudera still has $440.1 million. But over that same time period, Cloudera has booked cumulative losses of $1.19 billion and Hortonworks has cumulative losses of $979 million, for a total of $2.16 billion. Both separately and together, these companies are burning the wood a lot faster than they can cut it.” TPM’s TAM summary, as suggested by the two companies: “The core market that Hadoop is chasing is comprised of three different segments, according to Cloudera-Hortonworks, and will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent between 2017 and 2022, from $12.7 billion to $32.3 billion. Within that, cognitive and artificial intelligence workloads represent a $14.3 billion opportunity in 2022, $4.9 billion for advanced and predictive analytics software, and $13.2 billion for dynamic data management systems (what we would call modern storage). In addition to that, the Hadoop platform is also chasing relational and non-relational database management systems and data warehouses, which is another $51 billion opportunity in 2022, for a total TAM of $83 billion. Even a small slice of this, which is what Hadoop currently gets today, could be billions of dollars by then.” Forrester on TAM penetration, Noel Yuhanna (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/cloudera-and-hortonworks-merger-a-win-win-for-all/): “We estimate that [just] 7% of organizations have completely migrated their traditional data warehouses to big data platforms. “ That’s 93% more left, assuming 20% capture for a leader, (shoddy percentage math follows)17 to 18%, I guess? Meanwhile, also from Forrester (https://www.forrester.com/report/Digital+Insights+Are+The+New+Currency+Of+Business/-/E-RES119109): “While 74% of global data and analytics decision makers tell us they will have invested in a big data lake by the end of 2017, we find that many of these are being kept on life support by the technology management shops that drove them.” Also, Forrester on HARK (Hadoop & Spark), Noel Yuhanna & Mike Gualtieri (https://www.forrester.com/report/Now+Tech+HadoopSpark+Platforms+Q3+2018/-/E-RES142699): “Distributed computing software and services that are rooted in open source Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark to store, process, and analyze data to find and use insights to improve customer experiences, create timely business intelligence, optimize business processes, and make decision making smarter and faster.” Like traditional analytics, but bigger and with more ML? 451 (Matt Aslett & James Curtis) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95775/Toc?SearchTerms=Cloudera): “Although there are cross-selling opportunities and the two companies share an underlying open source foundation, there are also significant areas of product overlap and competing functionality, as well as a history of animosity to overcome.” Tamped down TAM: “Another way of looking at this is that the Hadoop market hasn't expanded enough to support the growth targets of two independent publicly traded companies, especially with the cloud providers to contend with.” Cloudera is the winner: “While the deal is being described by the companies as a merger, make no mistake that Cloudera is acquiring Hortonworks. After the transaction closes, Cloudera shareholders will own approximately 60% of the combined company, which will do business as Cloudera, with Hortonworks shareholders owning approximately 40%.” Products, Hortnworks: “Its primary product is the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), which consists of core Hadoop and some 20+ open source projects. But in August 2015, the company purchased Onyara, which was based on the Apache NiFi technology, and designed to enable users to collect, process and distribute data.” Products, Cloudera: “To date, Cloudera offers several products and while Hortonworks has adopted a pure 100% open source approach. Cloudera has a hybrid strategy, mixing open source with its proprietary tooling. The company's core offering is the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (CDH) – specifically targeted products are provided for data warehousing, operational database, and data science and engineering. Its cloud offering is Altus, a PaaS available on AWS and Azure.” 451 in another report (Agatha Poon) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95135/Toc?SearchTerms=Cloudera), on Cloudera, June 2018: “At present, data analytics tools and offerings are driving regional opportunities with enterprises slowly but clearly moving out from legacy data warehouse platform to a new generation of data analytics platform, which is highly distributed and open standards based, Cloudera says. For machine learning and advanced data analytics, the company believes that data scientists will be the main users and strategic partners to boost future uptake. While data scientists can make use of algorithms to train the model into production data clusters, it could be a time-consuming and complex endeavor. With that in mind, Cloudera has stepped up its game by acquiring applied machine learning research startup Fast Forward Labs in late 2017, deepening its expertise in applying machine learning to practical business problems. The bigger Cloudera says it is committed to researching new techniques to resolve real-world business problems, building codes as well as providing customers with machine learning advisory services leveraging Fast Forward Labs' domain expertise.” Cloudera strategy: “Cloudera's proposition remains largely unchanged: lead machine learning in the enterprise, disrupt the data warehouse market for analytical and operational data workloads, capitalize on cloud adoption and drive innovation for simplification while mitigating data security risk. With cloud being an agent for digital transformation, the company has publicly announced its intent to lead with cloud innovation as part of the future growth strategy at the company level.” Conferences, et. al. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 22nd - Cloud Native tour in Milan, Italy (https://connect.pivotal.io/milan_cloud_native_advocate_22oct.html). Coté and friends: a half day, a summit on Spring, DevOps, and cloud native programming. Free. Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary). Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations). Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté. Nonsense Costco sought to provide a streaming service to customers (https://www.axios.com/costco-streaming-service-media-walmart-63c67545-67ef-4725-861f-fb70d285eb69.html). Listener Feedback Jermey is professor at a university in Chicago teaching cloud native and "devops" technologies to undergrads. “The Podcast has been a great benefit to the students. Could I get a few stickers to pass out to them?” SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) - new #upvoteplease channel for shameless (self) promotion. Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) - Cote on Tech Evangelism (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75) CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. 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: Dr. Foster (https://www.netflix.com/title/80097034) on Neflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80097034) Matt: Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsRpS6XGiOs&t=). Coté: micro.blog (https://micro.blog/), where Coté now has cote.coffee (http://cote.coffee/) hooked up with some Instagram and Pinboard IFTTT wingdings. Drafts 5 seems fine. Coté needs help figuring out WTF “culture” is from a practical angle (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1050246624881061889).

With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivation for changing up their enterprise software. We also (mostly ignorantly) talk about Cloudera and Hortonworks merging, as well as filing expenses. Relevant to your interests SpringOne Platform news, see podcast (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/everyones-getting-better-at-software-highlights-from-springone-platform-2018). The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects (https://www.wired.com/story/woman-bringing-civility-to-open-source-projects/) Linux now dominates Azure (https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/) Oracle says Kurian has resigned as president three weeks after he left to take time off (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/oracle-says-kurian-has-resigned-three-weeks-after-taking-time-off.html) eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Which Performs Best? (https://www.cmswire.com/content-marketing/ebooks-vs-whitepapers-which-performs-best/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web-rss&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss) Cloudera, Hortonworks Stocks Soar as the Big-Data Rivals Announce a $5.2B Merger (https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/10/03/cloudera-hortonworks-stock-soar-merger) DXC Technology Scoops Up Small Texas Design Firm (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/dxc-technology-scoops-up-small-texas-design-firm) China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=premium) Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Oct 22nd - Milan! Pivotal Cloud Native Tour (https://connect.pivotal.io/milan_cloud_native_advocate_22oct.html) - free to attend! Coté and Jakob get your all cloud natived up! Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary). Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations). Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté. Nonsense Costco's secret weapon: Food courts and $1.50 hot dogs (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/business/costco-food-court-prices/index.html) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) - Cote on Tech Evangelism (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75) CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. 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: What Really Happened (http://jenkspod.com/) Podcast. How Social Security Numbers Became A Form Of National Identification (https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/596180023/how-social-security-numbers-became-a-form-of-national-identification) Coté: Dopper water bottles (https://dopper.com/). AMS security.

We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help with your cloud projects. Relevant to your interests Amazon's 11 new products from its big event - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis (https://staceyoniot.com/amazons-11-new-products-from-its-big-event/) After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside) Software provider Solarwinds files for IPO (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/software-provider-solarwinds-files-for-ipo-2018-09-21) Slack has made its biggest acquisition to date (https://qz.com/work/1392936/slack-has-made-its-biggest-acquisition-to-date/) In praise of SWARMing (https://dannorth.net/2018/01/26/in-praise-of-swarming/) Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release (https://content.pivotal.io/springone-platform-2018/pcf-2-3) Announcing Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure - Chef Blog (https://blog.chef.io/2018/09/25/announcing-chef-automate-managed-service-for-azure/) Microsoft Ignite 2018: Windows Virtual Desktop, Office 2019 and everything else just announced (https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-ignite-2018-windows-virtual-desktop-and-more/) Flexera acquires RightScale to combine software asset, cloud management | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/flexera-acquires-rightscale-to-combine-software-asset-cloud-management/#ftag=RSSbaffb68) Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service (https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/instana-raises-30m-for-its-application-performance-monitoring-service/) Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide (https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/data-world-raises-12m-to-help-fortune-500-companies-close-the-great-data-divide/) PKS 1.2 Adds AWS: More Multi-cloud for Your Kubernetes (https://content.pivotal.io/springone-platform-2018/pks-1-2) Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3, Powered by Industrialized Open Source, Helps You (https://content.pivotal.io/springone-platform-2018/pcf-2-3) Revenge of the PMO | Silicon Valley Product Group (https://svpg.com/revenge-of-the-pmo/) Conferences, et. al. Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/futurestack/london), Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor (https://twitter.com/monkchips) in action at FutureStack on the 2nd. Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup (https://connect.pivotal.io/london-meetup-oct18.html). Oct 4th - ITQ Transform (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_1), Utrecht - Coté talking. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Discount Code (https://ti.to/devopsdays-singapore/2018/discount/MRA_DEVOPS) Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary). Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations). Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) - Cote on Tech Evangelism (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75) CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! All T-Shirts $5.50 T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. 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. 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There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA Relevant to your interests Americano coffee vs long black (http://coffeeofday.com/coffee-answers/americano-vs-long-black/). “Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems (https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/with-emerging-technology-comes-emerging-data-problems/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web-rss&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss) Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/06/enterprise-hits-and-misses-blockchain-is-a-paradox-ai-is-a-customer-service-automater/) Oracle president Thomas Kurian is taking time away from the company (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/oracle-president-thomas-kurian-taking-time-off.html) New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/09/06/pagerduty-funding-billion-dollar-valuation/#2fcdfb4c411d) Atlassian to pay $295M for Boston-based OpsGenie (https://www-bizjournals-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/09/05/atlassian-to-pay-295m-for-boston-based-opsgenie.amp.html) Nancy Gohring and co analyze the deal (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95616/Toc). No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/09/05/no-operations-isnt-going-anywhere-but-its-going-to-look-different/): “The work of operations is changing and the skills required to do that work are changing. The platforms and tools involved are evolving (but don't forget the decades of legacy code that isn't!). Organizational silos are breaking down, and developers and operators are co-mingling as peer engineers.” Jenkins: Shifting Gears (https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/08/31/shifting-gears/) - Coté: recently, I don’t think I’ve heard any one say “yay! Jenkins!” What’s the deal with it? Is Jenkins now bad? Vapor IO Raises PE Funding, Buys Out Nascent Edge Colocation Business from Crown Castle (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/vapor-io/vapor-io-raises-pe-funding-buys-out-nascent-edge-colocation-business-crown-castle) In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/in-a-few-days-credit-freezes-will-be-fee-free/) Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo - sources (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marketo-m-a-adobe-systems-exclusive/exclusive-adobe-in-talks-to-buy-marketing-software-firm-marketo-sources-idUSKCN1LT0EK) “Adobe, which has a market capitalization of $130 billion, has topped analysts’ profit and revenue estimates for the past eight quarters, driven by strength in its digital media business, which houses its flagship product Creative Cloud.” Johnny Leadgen is interested. Adobe really pulled off a successful strategy. Geoffrey More’s systems of interaction (‘member that?), some CMS/marketing analytics engines, and then moving CS to SaaS. Pretty amazing, considering all the other road-kill out there. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint team up to kill passwords (https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/verizon-at-t-t-mobile-and-sprint-team-up-to-kill-passwords) Sysdig raises $68.5 million to boost security and performance for containers and cloud-native apps (https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/12/sysdig-raises-68-5-million-to-boost-security-and-performance-for-containers-and-cloud-native-apps/) Packet Raises $25M Series B, Starts Deployment of Edge Computing Cloud (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/startups/packet-raises-25m-series-b-starts-deployment-edge-computing-cloud) What Is the Point of Mozilla? (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-point-mozilla) - “in 2016 various deals with search engines brought in an astonishing $520 million.” Linus Torvalds taking break (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy+Hv9O5citAawS+mVZO+ywCKd9NQ2wxUmGsz9ZJzqgJQ@mail.gmail.com/) Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase (https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/14/google-is-killing-fabric-in-mid-2019-pushes-developers-to-firebase/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Path is shutting down (https://path.com/about?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Mesosphere revenue, new CEO, etc. (https://mesosphere.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-mesosphere/) - “Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m+ run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest quarter ever, beating our numbers over the last 14 quarters. In fact, according to a recent report from Inc, we are the third fastest-growing software company in the U.S. with a revenue growth of 7,507 percent.” Slow down, Pony Boy! You could round that 7 off the growth percent. Google making private cloud stuff (https://www.ciodive.com/news/the-information-google-to-take-on-microsoft-with-cloud-capabilities-for-on/532526/): ‘Google is responding to enterprise computing needs by making custom-designed computers to run in organizations' own data centers, reports The Information. The computers include server, storage and networking functions specifically for "a handful of large customers," according to two sources close to the project in the report.’ Wut. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Coté isn’t going to see his family until Christmas. GRIND AND STACK. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/futurestack/london), Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor (https://twitter.com/monkchips) in action at FutureStack on the 2nd. Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup (https://connect.pivotal.io/london-meetup-oct18.html). Oct 4th - ITQ Transform (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_1), Utrecht - Coté talking. Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle! Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) - Matt’s presenting! Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) - Matt’s keynoting & igniting! Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary). Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations). Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté. Listener Feedback Eoin from Wellington, New Zealand got a sticker. He thanks us for taking the time and energy to make the show. SDT websites are now secure. The annoying security warning is should be gone SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) - Cote on Tech Evangelism (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75) CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! All T-Shirts $5.50 T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. 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 Matt: Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential (https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Adventures-Culinary-Underbelly/dp/158234082X/); Secret City (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4976512/). Brandon: Amazon Alexa Shopping List (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201549900). Coté: Bikes. They get you places.

This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Relevant to your interests 2018 State of DevOps Report (https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-state-of-devops.html), DORA edition: Coté’s notes (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/DevOps-Report-2018-notes--AMFAauySL95JbMXriSwp5EzSAg-jcQAlt7wo7TqgpgeYj5RB). Effective DevOps (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do). “Thread.” (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1036966455215095808) (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!) VMworld 2018 Recap (http://www.virtubytes.com/2018/09/03/vmworld-2018-recap/). VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/03/vmwares-vision-your-multi-cloud-substrate-for-enterprise-applications/). Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/09/04/atlassian-launches-jira-ops-to-fix-the-fragmented-incident-response-world/). Elastic S-1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000119312518266861/d588632ds1.htm). Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921878). H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin (http://www.texastechpulse.com/h_e_b_plans_new_tech_facility_innovation_lab_in_austin/s-0075909.html). Hopefully Buddy will crush it. https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990 Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by our great friends at DataDog. This week DataDog wants you to know about Logging without Limits. Logging without Limits lets you cost-effectively process and archive all of your logs, and decide on the fly which logs to index, visualize, and retain for analytics in Datadog. Now you can collect every single log produced by your applications and infrastructure, without having to decide ahead of time which logs will be most valuable for monitoring, analytics, and troubleshooting. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table. New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/futurestack/london), Oct 1st and 2nd - Coté on a partner panel, also, come see The Governor. Later that night, Oct 2nd, Coté speaking at a meetup, topic TBD. ITQ Transform (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_4), Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking. DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle. JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/), Oct 17th, near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018). Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/). Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/). Matt’s presenting! Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. Coté’s presenting. SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Also, Toronto, Dec 12th to 13th (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto). Listener Feedback Rob from slack tells how to pronounce Galway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjLWj1J3e3o&feature=youtu.be). Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-galway/welcome/) November 18-20th We are working on the Google Chrome Security thing. Actually, Fireside.fm is working on it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) - Cote on Tech Evangelism (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75) CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) — T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. 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: Ozark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552) Season 2 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552). Matt: StarCraft 2 (https://starcraft2.com/en-us/), free to play! (Not to be confused with StarControl.) Coté: Embedded Netflix, in your TV. Also: Sharp Objects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Objects_(miniseries)) - like all great shows, the end is a massive disappointment of Chekhovian-ease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun), but the rest is great. Anti-recommendation: whatever reasons make it so I have three remotes.

On our 4th Bookends episode, we highlighted another book club located in Lisle, IL, Murder Among Friends. We then interviewed Micheal H. Rubin and talked about his books "The Cottoncrest Curse" and "Cashed Out"

There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud native land. We then discuss Red Hat’s Operators, Chef, and related ways to package up applications and related configuration for deployment onto cloud platforms. Plus, once again, we finally solve how to calendar better. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Kubernetes (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitoring-kubernetes-performance-metrics/). You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt). DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 Housekeeping Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/) if you like Coté shit. Week’s wunderkammer Calendaring - Coté uses BusyCal, anything better? I can’t get behind that Fantastical as I want full visual, not that weird listing thing. Am I wrong? Avengers corner: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets (https://www.racked.com/2018/4/25/17275020/avengers-infinity-war-hair-mantis-black-widow-gamora-scarlet-witch): “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with traditional femininity.” Relevant to your interests Kube news and Kubecon announcements The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment (https://thenewstack.io/top-challenges-kubernetes-users-face-deployment/) Updated CNCF Landscape Slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#trail-map). Serveless is now on its own slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless). (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless) Google, Oracle and others announce new developments at Kubernetes Conference | Computing (https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3031494/google-oracle-and-others-announce-new-projects-at-kubernetes-conferencekubernetes-conference) Oracle Adds New Support for Open Serverless Standards to Fn Project and Key Kubernetes Features to Oracle Container Engine (https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/kubecon-europe-2018-oracle-open-serverless-standards-fn-project-and-kubernetes) Now that Kubernetes has won, DigitalOcean takes a late dip in K8s (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/kubernetes_digitalocean/) Updated CNCF Landscape Slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#trail-map). Serveless is now on its own slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless). (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless) Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/google-stackdriver-kubernetes-monitoring-helps-developers-find-problems-in-kubernetes-apps/) Google open sources gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/google-open-sources-gvisor-a-sandboxed-container-runtime/) Kata Containers/CLEAR Linux (https://katacontainers.io/) VMware’s project Photon (https://vmware.github.io/photon/) Cloud 66 Introduces The Complete Container Delivery Pipeline (https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/18/05/p11624086/cloud-66-introduces-the-complete-container-delivery-pipeline) CNCF, Oracle Boost Serverless Standardization Efforts (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cncf-oracle-boost-serverless-standardization-efforts/2018/05/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral) Product Updates: Habitat goes to KubeCon EU! - Chef Blog (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/02/product-updates-habitat-goes-to-kubecon-eu/) Red Hat Releases a Framework to Easily Package Applications for Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-releases-a-framework-to-easily-package-applications-for-kubernetes/) Red Hat Launches All-In-One Data Center Storage Solution (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/storage/red-hat-launches-all-one-data-center-storage-solution) Oh, Snap! Blockchain is not a big deal The Best VPN Service (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/) You Are Not Google – Bradfield (https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb) The Built to Adapt Benchmark Will Help Companies Set a New Course (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/the-built-to-adapt-benchmark-will-help-companies-to-set-a-new-course) (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/the-built-to-adapt-benchmark-will-help-companies-to-set-a-new-course)- #NotMyTech (https://twitter.com/cote/status/992012964281683968). Maybe blockchain is not such a big deal (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/03/gartner_blockchain_hyped/): ““In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term…. In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent said they had no action planned but the tech was "on the radar" – hardly surprising given that it's thrown into just about every product announcement going.” Snap Inc. again shows why it should not have become a public company (http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-snapchat-20180502-story.html) "Spiegel's performance on the conference call underscored the folly of giving an untested entrepreneur unassailable control over a company." "Sounding like a bargain-basement knock-off of Mark Zuckerberg Spotify stock plunges after reporting earnings for the first time (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/02/spotify-earnings-q1-2018.html) (https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb)# Nonsense Texas teen reveals secret to 'free' H-E-B doughnuts you already know (https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/Texas-teen-tweet-free-H-E-B-doughnuts-11052089.php) Sorry, millennials. The average age of a successful entrepreneur is a lot older than you think. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2018/04/24/sorry-millennials-the-average-age-of-a-successful-entrepreneur-is-a-lot-older-than-you-think/?utm_term=.3c03ce04d4fc) 'Holy grail' of guns made: Company sells $4.5M pistols made from 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/04/26/holy-grail-guns-made-company-sells-4-5m-pistols-made-from-4-5-billion-year-old-meteorite.html) Python could be lurking in Austin Lake Hills neighborhood (http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/neighbors-worry-python-could-be-lurking-in-austin-lake-hills/1152256479) Conferences, et. al. May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/) May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/). Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Recommendations Brandon: When Wolves Bite (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/When-the-Wolves-Bite-Audiobook/B07CJW64BF?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=FAG6BBHAC5A38NZJKJJH&) Matt Ray: S (http://slackthemes.net)lack Themes (http://slackthemes.net). Coté: Noodle bar at Cathy loung in Hong Kong - “The Wing, Business” (https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_US/travel-information/flying-with-us/all-lounges/hong-kong-international-airport-lounges/the-wing.html) in terminal 1 by gates 2, 3, and 4. IT, the new movie. The book - meh?

It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon and Coté discuss that. Also, a detailed HOWTO on eating Texas BBQ. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ec2-monitoring/). You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt). Housekeeping Listen to Brandon and Satish talk about product management on Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/70). Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/) if you like Coté shit. Week’s wunderkammer New MacBook Pro: The touchbar is pretty cool. I do keep hitting “back” because I’m used to resting my fingers on that part of the keyboard. Whatever. The speakers are very nice too, like the iPad Pro. Migrate Utility is either easy to screw up or not fully baked. Dropbox gets a little confused with how long something will take. USB-C: I’m just here so I don’t get fined. How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ Order a plate - two meats (always brisket if it's your first time, then lady's choice), beans, Cole slaw. I’d skip the bread, but load up on onions, and pickles if they’re you’re thing Eat all the BBQ. Eat with your fingers. Don't put sugar on your meat. Don’t tell people how to eat BBQ, or argue about dry rubs and sauce. Just eat. Relevant to your interests HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): “Actian is being acquired in an all-cash deal valued at $330m by a JV in which HCL Technologies owns 80% and Sumeru Equity Partners the remaining 20%” 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): “Actian told us in March [of 2018?] that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled approximately 300." They also own Pervasive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_PSQL) (including Data Junction for ETL/integration soup-to-nuts), y’all: “In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_Software) for $161.9 million. Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time.” Vista buys Logic Monitor from Providence (https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/vista-buys-logic-monitor-providence/#). Meanwhile, AppDynamics seems fine (https://www.zdnet.com/article/appdynamics-touts-the-agility-of-a-startup-with-the-pocket-of-a-global-giant/#ftag=RSSbaffb68). Sensu raises $10M to build a robust monitoring system for all your different operations (https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/sensu-raises-10m-to-build-a-robust-monitoring-system-for-all-your-different-operations/). Microsoft’s Linux Distro, for Azure Sphere (https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4) - IoT, edge device stuff: an edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. More from (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip/) El Reg (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip/). Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (https://blog.docker.com/2018/04/announcing-docker-enterprise-edition-2-0/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1GallqbGhNR0ppWVdZeSIsInQiOiJiSm1ZZ1BtZDQ5b3RicFk2c1VRT09yNlo1ZE50VnRiK3JNbVQ5OThWYXU3NGdKQVpVenZBdkp2QTdQakFKUzYxN1k5VFlWbFdPYWY5TFI4bFhxemc4TWkrcnUyMG02OXdmUVlpVWIwMHdGZUZIdUluaCtCMnJyeTJuRmg3OGZmZyJ9). Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/04/changing-calculus-containers-cloud.html). Database decisions: AWS has changed the game for IT (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3268195/database/database-decisions-aws-has-changed-the-game-for-it.html). The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So (https://www.itjungle.com/2018/04/16/the-platform-matters-more-than-ever-the-operating-system-less-so/) For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux (https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4). OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now). After Months of Development, B3i's Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing (https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2017/09/12/171103.htm). Nonsense KITECH Dual Arm Robot: using scissors (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6u7g-6Ztf0&feature=youtu.be). A sea of Mark Zuckerberg cutouts has taken over the Capitol lawn (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/us/group-places-cutouts-of-mark-zuckerberg-on-capitol-lawn-trnd/index.html). Conferences, et. al. April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/) May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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