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Do you have an automation test that requires you to test the sending emails and create user accounts workflows? How about testing SMS? In this episode, Jack Lawrence, a cofounder of Mailinator, and Brooks Nelson, the head of Mailinator's Business Development, will share how to test your email delivery systems without risking sending them to a real-life audience. Discover how to use the Mailinator API to send emails and to send and receive SMS to test code at the development and QA Testing stages, using frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer, and more.
IFTTT (event triggers simplified), restoring a currupted thumb drive, bufferbloat (what is it, how to eliminite it), Profiles in IT (Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of Spotify), Spotify business model, using Amazon Echo as a PA, Facebook On This Day (stopping painful reminders), creating anonymous email accounts (anonymous browsing, Hushmail, Guerrilla Mail, Mailinator, ProtonMail), Zuckerberg in Congress (what was accomplished), and SCADA devices (make critical infrastructure vulnerable to hacking). This show originally aired on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).
IFTTT (event triggers simplified), restoring a currupted thumb drive, bufferbloat (what is it, how to eliminite it), Profiles in IT (Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of Spotify), Spotify business model, using Amazon Echo as a PA, Facebook On This Day (stopping painful reminders), creating anonymous email accounts (anonymous browsing, Hushmail, Guerrilla Mail, Mailinator, ProtonMail), Zuckerberg in Congress (what was accomplished), and SCADA devices (make critical infrastructure vulnerable to hacking). This show originally aired on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).
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Paul Tyma. He’s the founder and creator of a tool called Mailinator which is an email system. He’s also a startup veteran and has focused on 4 Silicon Valley startups including Preemptive Solutions, Manybrain Inc which owns Mailinator, Home-Account.com which was acquired by Bills.com, and Refresh Inc which was acquired by LinkedIn. He’s a frequent speaker, writer and author of one of the original books on Java called Java Primer Plus. Dr. Tyma has received his PhD from Syracuse University focused on Java/.Net performance. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Influence What CEO do you follow? – Amy Errett and Bradley Kam Favorite online tool? — Linode How many hours of sleep do you get?— 8.5 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “How to talk to girls” Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:53 – Nathan introduces Paul to the show 01:48 – Paul started his first company during his PhD 01:56 – After getting his PhD, Paul worked for Google 02:12 – Paul is still part of the board for Preemptive Solutions 02:18 – Refresh had a very visible exit and is currently at LinkedIn icebreakers 02:37 – The acquisition was in 2015 02:45 – Acquisition price 02:54 – Refresh was a consumer application 03:10 – Refresh has raised $10M in total 03:20 – The first round was a priced round 03:53 – Refresh had 100K users 04:30 – Refresh built its own identity from scratch 04:40 – The technology of Refresh 05:40 – Home-Account.com was built prior to Refresh 05:59 – Paul was a minor founder 06:15 – Option pool 07:23 – Selling a company and staying with the company who acquired it is a cliché in Silicon Valley 08:19 – Mailinator was a side project Paul built 13 years ago 08:30 – It was a receive only mail service 08:50 – Mailinator lets you create a disposable email 10:17 – Mailinator had some ads which paid for the server 11:30 – Mailinator now makes money from affiliates 11:47 – Mailinator’s brand became strong 11:56 – There was a high usage from QA departments who tested their signups process and welcome email 12:11 – They asked Mailinator for additional features 12:40 – Hundreds of QA teams now are using and paying Mailinator 13:16 – Mailinator also has a private paid domain 13:40 – Pricing is $29 for single user and $129 for a team 13:56 – Average RPU is $35 14:31 – Average MRR 14:57 – Paul is now turning Mailinator into a business 15:21 – Churn is pretty high 15:48 – Less paid advertising 16:16 – Mailinator has 45K unique users a day 16:44 – 25K new inboxes are set up everyday 16:58 – “This is not a DAU product” 17:21 – Mailinator has not raised money 18:09 – Team size is 3 18:30 – Gross margin 18:59 – Server cost 19:53 – The Famous Five 3 Key Points: A side project can definitely turn into something more—don’t underestimate its potential. An email does NOT reflect one’s identity. There are thousands of emails being made and sent every day—having a disposable one is almost a necessity. Resources Mentioned: The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives
We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it tactically. Then we close out discussing the rumor that Oracle is considering buying Accenture and how the enterprise software plus services model seems to be panning out. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote. Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot (http://www.cote.show/22), hopefully. Matt: AWS Summit Sydney next week (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/) DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/) Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th (https://events.chef.io/events/hands-habitat-tokyo/) Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html) ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84), early-bird pricing through March 31st Brandon Try Contextual Sync (http://www.contextualsync.io/) New Meetup - Microservices Austin (https://www.meetup.com/Microservices-Austin/). EBay Replaces native OpenStack Container Manager with Kubernetes-based one Still OpenStack though Link (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3154936/open-source-tools/kubernetes-tool-saves-ebay-from-its-openstack-woes.html) "It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum." ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (https://twitter.com/cote/status/844996693284343812) "It's not clear if Tess.io can or will be released as open source" - what's the point of open sourcing something if a vendor isn't going to make it more accessible for consumption? Do they really expect anyone else to use something built for Ebay by Ebay and find use? Rip out Magnum in OpenStack and toss it in there? I'm always skeptical about adoption when I hear about non-software companies open sourcing a big project. -Matt There can only be one Netflix. A software company that just happens to be an auction company. What's the deal with OSS now? Companies open sourcing software for the sake of open sourcing it...but not for a revenue reason. Is open source about tactically creating standards? Pivotal can deploy k8 with BOSH, thus manage it and such Blog post on it, in alpha (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/meet-kubo-bosh-powered-web-scale-release-engineering-for-kubernetes). Rackspace Replacing Docker-based CaaS Carina with Kubernetes Get Carina (https://getcarina.com/) EOL (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7X1zsfVoAAaJMi.jpg) IBM InterConnect BlueMix Container Services (http://containerjournal.com/2017/03/20/ibm-launches-managed-kubernetes-service/) And a vulnerability scanner! How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach? Will Smith?!? (https://twitter.com/AyleeNielsen/status/843885300027805696/video/1) Peyton Manning previously. Remember Bill Clinton at DellWorld? Coté's Analyst-hack: Watch keynotes from your hotel room. containerd & rkt donated to the CNCF Something was contributed (https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-container-runtime-to-the-cncf.html) More... (https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-donates-containerd-to-cncf/) Boring part of the stack commoditized & foundationed "Container-D or Contai-Nerd" is the real question "contaiNERD" - GET IT?!?!! Oracle Eyeing Accenture From The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/oracle_doing_due_diligence_on_accenture_yep_you_heard_that_right/) Everybody wants to be IBM Global Services Coté'd tl;dr: financial aside (which I don't know), probably makes sense. While we might bemoan EDS and GBS downsizing, there's endless money in the "solution" sales (tech + meatware). And - I'm sure the deal decks are saying - with SaaS penetration at 20-30%, there's a shit-ton of churn in IT in the next 10-20 years, all requiring services. Most importantly, the G2000 and governments will want to hire "trusted" brands, like Accenture, to help them. On the other hand, maybe that goofy Accenture touch screen in ORD will now be a way to touch-screen up Oracle wares: God help us. HP EDS, IBM GBS, Dell Services (Perot), etc. "Accenture has a market cap of $77.5bn, and shareholders will expect a premium offer." HPE Services and CSC, it's a thing (http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/614361/combined-csc-hpe-enterprise-services-company-named-dxc-technology/). BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Chef Survey 2017 Results Analysis (https://blog.chef.io/2017/03/15/chef-survey-2017-results/), Infographic (https://pages.chef.io/rs/255-VFB-268/images/chef-survey-2017.pdf) Reads really well if you imagine bullet points as spinning newspaper headlines: "Workloads are increasing faster than headcount" More: "61% are automating infrastructure, 30% are automating compliance, and only 27% are automating container management." "Of those users, 73% wait to assess compliance after development work has begun and new features have been implemented. 59% assess compliance once code is already running in production, possibly resulting in additional rework as change is re-architected to meet Information Security standards." On the one hand, this is a bummer. On the other hand: "hey, you 59% lot: you call yourself auditors?" Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs "Containers on the other hand are not real things" Down in the weeds on containers vs. everything else (https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/) SoundCloud I don't understand it (http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-may-run-out-of-cash-this-year-as-it-posts-e51m-loss/) Newsletters! Monitoring Love (http://weekly.monitoring.love/). Last Week in AWS (https://lastweekinaws.com/). Recommendations Coté: Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html), and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer (https://cote.io/2017/03/20/pivotal-conversations-running-like-google-the-cre-program-pivotal-with-andrew-shafer/). Also: The Economist Espresso app (http://www.economist.com/digital). Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3041&SWAQ=63EP&PS=LGEN_AA_DNAD_CGGL_TPRP) by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders. Brandon: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (http://amzn.to/2oeLN75) Homo Deus (http://amzn.to/2nPic31) Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari (http://www.vox.com/2017/2/28/14745596/yuval-harari-sapiens-interview-meditation-ezra-klein). Matt: New Spoon album Hot Thoughts (http://www.spoontheband.com/) Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (https://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect), a Brandon retro-recommendation (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/66). Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YosUQjIaVBs) Fighting Johnny Leadgen (https://www.10minutemail.com) and Mailinator (https://www.mailinator.com/) Cover-art from You Had One Job (https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/844302886486130689).
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Mailinator.com – Let them eat spam! Mailinator is a website that allows for all students to have a valid email address with no registration or sign-up necessary. There are number […]
In this episode, we'll feature 4 fantastic web-based applications that can have you and your students using some incredibly-functioning, feature-rich applications without the need to install anything. As the episode title suggests, these applications and tools run right in your web browser and are all FREE.Applications featured in this episode:Writely - the web word processorGliffy - a web-based concept-mapping/diagram-creating tool similar to InspirationProtopage - create feature-rich web pages instantly without any programming (or program)Gabbly - a chat application window that can appear with ANY website instantly (records your chat transcript too)Mailinator - instant and disposable email addresses for those who love these web services but don't want to give an email address to register for these services with a real email addressGoogle Video - larger versionMPEG-4 Version (48MB, 320x240 - Right-click 'Save Target As...' to download)Windows Media Version (59MB, 640x480)