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Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time. Connect with Jake: * @moilanen (https://twitter.com/moilanen) * LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemoilanen/) For more interview like this subscribe to Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Special Guest: Jake Moilanen .

Brandon interviews Coté about what it's like to be a tech evangelist. Call it "developer advocacy," "developer relations," being a "thought leader," or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of. Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists. For more interviews likes this subscribe to the Software Defined Interviews (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) podcast. This episode is sponsored by Datadog. Sign up for a free trial today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.

Should cloud providers be able to host open source software? Exactly, what does the Australia Assistance Act mean for employees? What is Melbourne Cup Day? We answer these questions and more. Enjoy! More on the Australia Assistance and Access Act Australia's encryption laws are 'highly unlikely' to dragoon employees in secret (https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-encryption-laws-are-highly-unlikely-to-dragoon-employees-in-secret/) What's actually in Australia's encryption laws? Everything you need to know (https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-actually-in-australias-encryption-laws-everything-you-need-to-know/) Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? | 1Password (https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/) Relevant to your interests Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/chef-co-founder-adam-jacob-launches-new-effort-define-sustainable-open-source-software/) W

This week we recap all the news and announcements from the KubeCon Keynotes and discuss the repercussions of Australia’s new encryption-busting law. Plus, Brandon offers his review of “The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes“ and Phippy. Relevant to your interests Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy (https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-impact/) Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/07/red_hat_cuts_openshift_cost/) Docker's top deck stands by Swarm in face of Kubernetes storm (https://devclass.com/2018/12/07/docker-top-deck-standby-swarm-amidst-kubernetes-storm/) The 15-Year Odyssey Behind VMware's Ascent To Corporate Greatness (http://bwhichard [10:42 AM] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2018/12/10/the-windy-road-behind-vmwares-15-year-road-to-corporate-greatness/#1e1e00e166eees-15-year-road-to-corporate-greatness/#1e1e00e166ee) IBM Sells Software for Once (https://b

Istio comes to GKE, Kubernetes needs to be patched, Microsoft & Docker announce a standard and what is going on at Faceback. We talk about all this and give you some tips for your next QBR. Relevant to your interests Kubernetes' first major security hole discovered (https://www.zdnet.com/article/kubernetes-first-major-security-hole-discovered/). The Story of the First Kubernetes Critical CVE (https://rancher.com/blog/2018/2018-12-04-k8s-cve/). Google Integrates Istio Service Mesh into Kubernetes Service (https://thenewstack.io/google-integrates-istio-service-mesh-into-kubernetes-service/). Nearly 250 Pages of Devastating Internal Facebook Documents Posted Online By UK Parliament (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59vwez/nearly-250-pages-of-devastating-internal-facebook-documents-posted-online-by-uk-parliament). Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging and running cloud-native applications easier (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/microsoft-and-docker-team-up-to-make-packaging-and-running-cloud

It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”? AWS Announcements AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 (https://aws.amazon.com/#Explore_All_Product_Announcements) Analytics AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure data lake in days Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK): Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service Blockchain Amazon Managed Blockchain: Create and manage scalable blockchain networks Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database Compute Amazon EC2 A1 Instances: Optimized for scale-out workloads Amazon EC2 C5n Instances: Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances: Optimized for distributed ML training AWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/aws-outposts-a-new-dimension-to-aws-cloud/) (Hybrid Cloud with VMware), Run AWS infrastructure on-premises This is VMware? Database Amazon RDS on

See title. Google Cloud Diane Greene steps down as Google's cloud chief (https://www.axios.com/diane-greene-steps-down-as-googles-cloud-chief-1542390453-6335b289-b216-4584-a615-ddb9114a47f5.html) Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along (https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/18/google-looks-to-former-oracle-exec-thomas-kurian-to-move-cloud-business-along) Longer CNBC piece on the switch (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/kurian-has-to-overcome-a-bitter-feud-between-google-and-oracle.html). Ray Wang (https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-leadership/who-is-thomas-kurian-new-google-cloud-ceo-3687161/): “Enterprise customers need a different level of care, and Google hasn't been able to deliver to date. So the resources available to Diane may not have always been allocated in the right place, but the resource is there and he has to sit down and see what partners and customer are saying.” More: ‘This might take the form of a growth of the sales or go-to-market teams at Google Cloud, but es

Hybrid cloud and kubernetes with Cisco, and the latest beard analysis from the OpenStack community, and some spontaneous ERP and ethics of Facebook meandering - all this week in our power episode! Relevant to your interests Cisco Introduces First Hybrid Kubernetes Platform Support For Amazon EKS (https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2018/11/08/cisco-introduces-first-hybrid-kubernetes-platform-support-for-amazon-eks/#426d8894cf62) “The Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS enables configuration of the Kubernetes-based Cisco Container Platform optimized for ease of deploying applications on Kubernetes across either Cisco-based on-premises infrastructure or the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).” I’m pretty sure this (https://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/simplifying-container-orchestration) means Active Directory now works with k8s: AWS and Cisco. https://alln-extcloud-storage.cisco.com/ciscoblogs/5bea023b0b27b.png The style, diction, and tone of this piece is some classic power-ma

More consolidation in the kubernetes community, plus the X Windowing System and Canonical. Related: “I’m not waiting for an answer, I’m just going to go on.” Sponsored by SolarWinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and this week SolarWinds wants you to know about their DevOps tool: AppOptics. Today, there is a divide between application and infrastructure health metrics—and the lack of unified dashboards, alerting, and management. With SolarWinds AppOptics you get a bird’s-eye view across all your resources on a single pane of glass—but can also drill quickly into the details. AppOptics includes built-in integrations for over 150 cloud-first applications, instant visibility into server and infrastructure performance, robust custom metrics dashboards, and automated APM request tracing. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Over 275,000 customers trust SolarWinds for the performance data they need, and AppOptics lets developers and operations get back to doing what they love: delighting

IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired. 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. IBM and Red Hat Acquisition IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Software Maker Red Hat (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat) IBM To Ac

There’s all sorts of cloud stuff coming out of Oracle OpenWorld this week, so Brando and Coté talk about the mouth-feel of the news. Related, Amazon’s attempts to get off Oracle in Ohio, iCloud dropping out, and JEDI problems. Sponsored by SolarWinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and this week SolarWinds wants you to know about their DevOps tool: AppOptics. Today, there is a divide between application and infrastructure health metrics—and the lack of unified dashboards, alerting, and management. With SolarWinds AppOptics you get a bird’s-eye view across all your resources on a single pane of glass—but can also drill quickly into the details. AppOptics includes built-in integrations for over 150 cloud-first applications, instant visibility into server and infrastructure performance, robust custom metrics dashboards, and automated APM request tracing. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Over 275,000 customers trust SolarWinds for the performance data they need, and AppOptics lets de

Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or not, there’s something for you in this episode: serverless vs. FaaS, Docker’s funding, Crossing the Chasm revisited, and GitHub actions. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevan

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://creditcar

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/c

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/sp

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-automat

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-fragmente

Related image https://media1.tenor.com/images/e83b2b5aef8c8af0dd36a0d33d3046a4/tenor.gif?itemid=5038124 This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections. Relevant to your interests Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/15/istio-aims-to-be-the-mesh-plumbing-for-containerized-microservices/) Michael Cot (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)é (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz (https://theninehertz.com/blog/becoming-an-iot-developer/) Has Bezos Become More Powerful in

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) for more conversations like this one. Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. Links: * Dustin’s Blog (http://blog.dustinkirkland.com) * Dustin on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland) * Dustin’s presentation at Google Next (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rkYV4Chfw&feature=youtu.be) * Run-one (http://launchpad.net/run-one) * Vasa Museum (https://www.vasamuseet.se/en) Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” The title says it all. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Observations on Observability (https://posts.google.com/bulletin/share/MXKJKfKL/E16dl-/) ht