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Microsoft and VMware made peace, Java goes native, Apache goes to Github and Red Hat gets a new logo. Plus, Matt Ray explains why the Internet in Australia is slow. Relevant to your interests Can Google Cloud Revenues Reach $20 Billion by 2020 (http://bwhichard [12:51 PM] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/04/29/why-cloud-could-be-a-game-changer-for-google/#75de93371694)? Microsoft, Dell unveil new Azure-VMware integrations (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-dell-unveil-new-azure-vmware-integrations/) Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership with new VMware Solutions (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/04/29/dell-technologies-and-microsoft-expand-partnership-with-new-vmware-solutions/?ranMID=43674&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-qoCOVXPsfE0DDwKnPw9gNA&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-qoCOVXPsfE0DDwKnPw9gNA&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7795_1243925&tduid=(ir__wp2vvbuc2skfr1cy0eg9c3096n2xmrvie6wj306s00)(7795)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-qoCOVXPsfE0DDwKnPw9gNA)()&irclickid=_wp2vvbuc2skfr1cy0

Airports, the challenges of the CI/CD market, authentication woes. Plus: “Why don’t you just do this.” 86.1 degrees. The cold side of the pillow. Relevant to your interests Apple Watch authentication expanding beyond unlocking your Mac in macOS 10.15 (https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/18/apple-watch-mac-password/). IBM is preparing to close its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, but Wall Street has 'real question marks' after its 'mediocre' quarter (https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-prepares-red-hat-acquisition-wall-street-has-questions-2019-4). IBM pulls the plug on drug-discovering Watson AI (https://futurism.com/the-byte/ibm-watson-ai-drug-discovery). Fastly Going Public — Here is the S1 (http://FASTLY, INC.). How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer) Jessie Frazelle on Anthos (https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1117962623226531840?s=21). Check out Weird Trick Mafia podcast (https

With Matt Ray out sick, Coté and Brandon discuss what the Pentagon’s JEDI contract means for cloud vendors, PagerDuty going public and what exactly do developers need to know about Kubernetes. Plus, Coté offers parenting advice on how to handle the no “free drink refills” policy in Europe. Relevant to your interests Simplifying identity and access management of your employees, partners, and customers (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/simplifying-identity-and-access-management-of-your-employees-partners-and-customers) Expanding Google Cloud AI to make it easier for developers to build and deploy AI (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/expanding-google-cloud-ai-to-make-it-easier-for-developers-to-build-and-deploy-ai) Powering enterprise transformation: Announcing new additions to Google Cloud Networking (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/powering-enterprise-transformation-announcing-new-additions-to-google-cloud-networking) Enterprise databases, m

With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview), but who has time for that? Relevant to your interests A 3-year-old boy repeatedly entered the wrong password, locked up his dad’s iPad until 2067 (https://fox4kc.com/2019/04/09/a-3-year-old-boy-repeatedly-entered-the-wrong-password-locked-up-his-dads-ipad-until-2067/) Anthos | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/) Anthos docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview) New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook to help catch up to Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-oracle-strategies-2019-4) Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/googles-anthos-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-coming-to-aws-and-azure/) Analysts get hot under collar as ex-

IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries. Plus: My dog’s in a cone right now. I gotta go play some video games. This is not premium content. There’s a Ted talk in here. I like my science fiction truck-stoppy. You can go nuts with the code, where ever you like. You are taco-eating hologram. Molemite is the worst. Relevant to your interests How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumFullText/~3/LQn41TVX2Zc/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care) Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-product-citing-inability-to-meet-its-high-standards-for-hardware/) BMC brings back Beauchamp as interim CEO (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/bmc-brings-back-beauchamp-as-interim-

There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers. Plus: USB-C. Fuck that shit. Don’t read the comments (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1110845648813916160). Don’t throw out the executives with the bathwater. They’re using 1/24th of their ass Sometime in the future, I am going to be awesome! If I have a rock question I’ll ask you. Things aren’t too expensive, you’re just not getting enough value from them. Light a fire in an air-tight room. Outrun the bear. Relevant to your interests Zoom IPO (https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/zoom-ipo-s-1-breakdown-119249acadd3) Oracle Trims Staff During Difficult Transition to Cloud Services (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-26/oracle-trims-staff-amid-difficult-transition-to-cloud-services) Oracle reportedly axes hundreds or more staff from its engineering teams (https://siliconangle.com/2019/03/24/oracle-reportedly-axed-hundreds-staff-engineering-teams-last-week/) Kubernetes 1.14 Adds Wind

Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed with business, is back once again: Coté craves some intellectual closer. Also, Google announced some big game platform thing. So. Chips? Tradies! Not these ones (https://www.tradie.com/us/mens.html). Yes, these ones (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Wear-Uniforms/b?ie=UTF8&node=1731206031). Relevant to your interests S (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/)U (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/)SE is once again an independent company (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/) The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/15/cloud-open-source-powder-keg/) Coté’s still not sure what the tidy-bow story is here. AMD stock spikes after Google confirms partnership for new video game streaming service (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/19/a

Look what you made me do Elasticsearch NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch are fighting, and why are there so many tech foundations? All this and more on this week’s episode. Plus, Matt Ray tells us how he survived the Facebook outage. Relevant to your interests NGINX to Join F5 (https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/) Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch (http://ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-open-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/) Free Software is the only winner in Elastic NV vs AWS (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/free-software-is-the-only-winner-in-elastic-nv-vs-aws-9416f2a0a7f5) Introducing the Continuous Delivery Foundation, the new home for Tekton, Jenkins, Jenkins X and Spinnaker (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-continuous-delivery-foundation.html) The Linux Foundation Launches New CommunityBridge Platform to Help Sustain Open Source Communities - The Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/03/the-lin

Nobody’s going to take it over, sorry startups! The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management They need Java in Cincinnati. The Mongols have no wine. Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf. https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_496DF11063CDFDD5ADCDE2994265DC79C0316721C26F879BC276FEB51BCD7829_1551997391988_image.png Relevant to your interests Red Hat launches Operator Hub, a repository of quality-tested Kubernetes Operators (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENvILOykuSzXahegtrj67r0qEwgEKgwIACoFCAowsGkw8AYwgxM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) Bitbucket Simplifies Building CI/CD Pipelines with Pipes - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/bitbucket-simplifies-building-ci-cd-pipelines-with-pipes/) DevOps consolidation continues with JFrog and Shippable (https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/news/252458615/DevOps-consolidation-continues-with-JFrog-and-Shippable) The Digital Maginot Line (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/) Former Kaspersky Lab Expert Sentenced in Russia for Treason (

There’s a lot of notions about what IT executives actually want to hear in a presentation. It turns out that, like all of us, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Also, is kubernetes really a platform for building platforms, or just a platform? More topics: We can’t talk about blockchain until you’ve done your digital transformation. The Car Wash EBC. Dutch bread. The outcome is that my daughter is no longer hungry. No one ever likes the website. DevRel is Standup. I never get to the part where I deprecate myself. This sandwich is shelf-ware. She looks Australian. Relevant to your interests Now Available – Five New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances: M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and z1d | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-five-new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-m5-m5d-r5-r5d-and-z1d/) Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition (https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2018-edition/) Add It Up: C-suite Doesn't Have a Clue About App Dev (h

Google goes enterprise, Time to upgrade Win 2008, Redis changes licenses again. All this and more in this episode. Plus, Matt explains good parenting to Brandon. Relevant to your interests Google makes $13 billion worth of cloud plans for 2019 (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUWh0dHA6Ly90ZWxlY29tcy5jb20vNDk1NTM3L2dvb2dsZS1tYWtlcy0xMy1iaWxsaW9uLXdvcnRoLW9mLWNsb3VkLXBsYW5zLWZvci0yMDE5L9IBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/google-acquires-cloud-migration-platform-alooma/) Google emits a beta of Cloud Service Platform to entice hold-outs with hybrid goodness (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/21/google_cloud_service_platform/) Google's .dev domains now available for a cool $11k, sensible pricing due later this month (https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/02/19/googles-dev-domains-now-available-for-a-cool-11k-sensible-pricing-due-later-this-month/) Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never sup

Matt makes his return! What do vendors mean by “multi-cloud” and “digital transformation.” Could Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory apply to the public cloud? We discuss all of this and offer more advice on tacos. Relevant to your interests Google open sources ClusterFuzz (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/google-open-sources-clusterfuzz/) With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches (https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/05/google-looks-reduce-impact-data-breaches-new-security-tools/) CNCF Dev Stats Dashboards (https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/12/dashboards?refresh=15m&orgId=1) CNCF Annual Report (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CNCF_Annual_Report_2018.pdf) Amazon Dropping out of NYC (https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/amazon-drops-new-york-hq2-plan.html) Ultimate Software Sells for $11 Billion - Workforce (https://www.workforce.com/2019/02/07/ultimate-software-sells-for-11-billion/) The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy (https://qz.com/1

Should you pay for Java support? Now you get to decide! It’s more kindle for the lock-in fire. Also, some uninformed commentary on “surveillance capitalism.” Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Relevant to your interests Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019 (https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-will-charge-for-java-starting-in-2019/). What was Java treated like way back in the mid-2000s Sun days? Should you pay for this kind of thing? It seems like the answer is just to run an OpenJDK version (Oracle even has one) or pay for support. With OpenJDK you have to do updates/patches yourself…but, then, that’s why you don’t have to pay for it. Pay for it, and you’re paying someone else to worry about that. Forrester Report (https://www.forrester.com/report/Weighing%20The%20Options%20To%20Oracles%20New%20Java%20SE%20Subscription/-/E-RES147596): “The new subscription's prices for Oracle Java SE support — $25 a month per server core and

This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,. Relevant to your interests Confluent’s meteoric rise (https://www.indexventures.com/blog/confluents-meteoric-rise). Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-open-source-database-start-up.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top). The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS (https://thenewstack.io/the-u-s-department-of-defense-on-how-to-detect-agile-bs/). (https://thenewstack.io/the-u-s-department-of-defense-on-how-to-detect-agile-bs/)' (https://thenewstack.io/the-u-s-department-of-defense-on-how-to-detect-agile-bs/) Opinion | The Facts About Facebook (http://Opinion | The Facts About Facebook). Google asks Supreme Court to rule on when code can be copyrighted (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18196419/google-supreme-

Coté has a late night, mental breakdown about scorecards. Can Brandon save him? Also, kafka, Travis CI, and snow. Relevant to your interests Atlassian surpassed $1B in calendar-year revenue in 2018 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-surpassed-1b-in-calendar-year-revenue-in-2018/) Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-remains-the-top-open-source-contributor-to-cncf-projects/) Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/)’ Morgan Stanley Downgrades Oracle Stock on Dim Growth Prospects (https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-morgan-stanley-downgrades-51547572633) Vodafone signs $550m deal with IBM to offload cloud biz (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/vodafone_signs_550m_deal_with_ibm_to_offload_cloud_biz/) Insiders say that Google's new cloud boss is

Are we still on that open source licensing thing? Yes. “The most boring topic of all time.” Also, Slack's logo and long term support software monetization models: how do they work? Summary: “Diapers.com buster (AKA Amazon)” “What is someone really selling with LTS?” “Artful genitals.” “It’s not butt ducks” “I’ve had three dogs since then…” Microsoft laughed. This week’s cover art from TheNextWeb (https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/01/16/slack-has-a-new-logo-and-umm-you-be-the-judge/). MONGO, MONGO, MONGO! MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server (https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-public-license-for-mongodb-community-server) MongoDB not in RHEL 8.0 (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html/8.0_beta_release_notes/new-features#web_servers_databases_dynamic_languages_2) MongoDB "open-source" Server Side Public License rejected (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/)

Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s live a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids. Relevant to your interests The Non-Compete Software Movement (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/the-non-compete-software-movement-46996a86e9ca) The Cyclical Theory of Open Source (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/12/21/cycles-oss/) community, you keep using that word – Drew Clay (https://medium.com/@drewmusing/community-you-keep-using-that-word-61f038a7dbea) Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company (https://medium.com/@mattklein123/optimizing-impact-why-i-will-not-start-an-envoy-platform-company-8904286658cb) The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines (http://tech.paulcz.net/blog/future-of-kubernetes-is-virtual-machines/) Dell returns to market with NYSE listing (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dell-ipo-idUSKCN1OR14E) GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories (https://thenex