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This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices. Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods vs. H-E-B that’s what will divide families! H-E-B buys Favor. (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/inno-news/texas-grocery-giant-h-e-b-is-acquiring-favors-on-demand-delivery-business/) Amazon extends 5% back Prime credit card benefits to Whole Foods purchases (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-extends-5-back-prime-credit-card-benefits-whole-foods-purchases/) Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion Brandon interviews JJ on this weeks Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/63). (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/63) Make sure to subscribe Email us at stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com for free stickers. 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 eng

It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Coté complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs. Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion Software Defined Interviews interview with Nancy Gohring (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/62). Brandon has a JJ interview coming up, Feb 19th, 2018 (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). 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—

Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Also, if you’re interested in the Datadog write-ups on monitoring RabbitMQ (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/rabbitmq-monitoring/) and Java (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/java-monitoring-apm/), check those out as well in addition getting a free t-shirt when you making your first

Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix healthcare. The kubernetes market be like… https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_43192D9FD6DAEF29DA5AB89086C0521853B35FD68E4CC1C22FDD3869AFF34E5E_1517508894758_ricky+and+morty+thunderdome.jpg 75% of IT decision-makers believe “that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware,” @ripcitylyman & @alsadowski (@451Research) (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m). This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastr

Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking. Amazon HQ2 The Problem With Courting Amazon (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-hq2-20-cities/550790/), The Atlantic. Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-myth-leads-cities-to-scramble-for-hq2-2018-1). Why your city should avoid Amazon HQ2 (https://lifehacker.com/why-you-shouldn-t-wish-for-amazon-s-hq2-in-your-town-1822234280). Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1 (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/two-texas-cities-named-finalists-race-amazons-hq2/). The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin (http://austin.culturemap.com/news/innovation/01-22-18-local

This week, regular Software Defined Talk listeners get a free episode of our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). If you like this, sign-up to get access to these extra episodes, about every week (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). We do a deep reading and analysis of various types of tech content, marketing, and other ephemera from press releases, books, presentations, and white papers. Plus, as with this episode, we just talk about tech ideas and news in general, in the course of being a critic. DO IT NOW! BECOME A PATRON! GET MORE AWESOME CONTENT FROM US! (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling

Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Canceled: Jan 16th, first Live Recording (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnyxcbvb/) in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). For example, a few issues back (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=29bf1e3560) Coté went over some book recommendations based on what he read in 2017. Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack), subscribe the newsletter (https://so

With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylandtx) from the CISO Exec Network (https://www.cisoexecnet.com/) joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security. Special Guest: Andy Land.

What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations. Pre-roll SDT news & hype If you're not a dude, please take the listener survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SSCKN86) - we're all full-up on guys, need more ladies. Jan 16th, first Live Recording (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnyxcbvb/) in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul. The newsletter now has two editions (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21), one at the end of this week coming, fools! Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack), subscribe the newsletter (https://softwaredefinedtalk.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21), and pay-up for our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). Pred

We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea). There is no co-host shortage. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Jan 16th, first Live Recording (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnyxcbvb/) in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul (https://twitter.com/pczarkowski). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack), subscribe the newsletter (https://softwaredefinedtalk.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21), and pay-up for our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon KubeCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-north-america) - that a thing? As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/kubernetes-matures-cloud-native-movement-turns-attention-service-mesh/) - climb the stack! List of announcements

It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco. Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon. (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-north-america) We’ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/). Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Ex (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)e (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)g (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)esi (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)s (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Upcoming SDT newsletter (http://eepurl.com/dbM2_X). SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News New Marketecture https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_37C5B9D70

There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals! Pre-Roll SDT News SDT got a new logo! SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away! You can get a sticker but completing this survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SSCKN86) or sending us your address in Slack. US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers. We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/). Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Ex (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)e (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)g (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)esi (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)s (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) podcast Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack

With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo! Show Notes: VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene (https://overcast.fm/+I6DDWoxy4). Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies (https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-not-actually-strategies) Bonus Links: Mesosphere, a San Francis (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ceo-reveals-50-million-run-rate-2017-11)c (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ceo-reveals-50-million-run-rate-2017-11)o cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate. (https

With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk and some contemplation of using Rick and Morty references in (supposedly) professional talks, we discuss how impossible keeping everyone happy with product management decisions as a product gets older. We close out talking about the recent OpenStack Summit and Mirantis. This week’s exegesis OpenStack User Survey, probably. # Fuckin’ with PowerPoint, or, “these slides will compile, no matter what” David Byrne loves PowerPoint (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/08_byrne.shtml). History of PowerPoint (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint), best $14m acquisition ever! Dive even deeper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhAdlNtfiQ)! Is Rick and Morty (https://twitter.com/cote/status/928370494537117696) safe for slides? # 280 Characters of Bullshit(?) Pr

This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.” This week’s exegesis The Corporate Podcast, plus EBC’ing - sign-up and listen (https://www.patreon.com/posts/corporate-ebcing-15181785)! Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson (https://www.patreon.com/posts/lone-wolf-15073204). This week in kubernetes Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?) Cisco and Google https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_209EE5C7BA94C1300EA3F28BFEF5BA18054817A141C02AC7895880D0A1E4AA6D_1509630972019_image.png Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing i (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/10/25/cisco-google-join-forces-hybrid-cloud/)s. What does Cisco bring to the table? “Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other

Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’. This week’s exegesis We’ll be looking at (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) The Four (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) this week in the exeges (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)i (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)s podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯ $1 Class-action settlements Got my Apple iBooks pay-day (https://twitter.com/cote/status/920720718639370247)! It was $1.14. For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money. Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that? Soon we’ll all bow to kubernetes Docker adds in support (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/17/docker_ee_kubernetes_support/), official web-page with

Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors - even Oracle! - have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also, Chef and Puppet have new suites of tools, Docker sets its sites clearly on reducing VMware costs, and there’s some new momentum stats on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Do people actually do the DEV-ops? DevOps sounds cool, but, SREs? See discussion over on Coté Show (http://www.cote.show/40). Chef launches Habitat Builder SaaS Habitat Builder for the People (https://www.habitat.sh/blog/2017/10/Habitat-Builder-for-the-People/) Adam Jacob’s commentary (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/917417673960644608) James Governor’s take (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/10/10/whats-on-your-plate-twelve-factortraditional-hybid-apps-and-habitat/) TNS coverage (https://thenewstack.io/chef-launches

This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-1-8-arrives-improvements-simplicity-stability-security-storage-improvements/). Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter. See the much more detailed notes on this piece (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP009-Just-another-kubernetes-article-3Ycdt0BnCTwnhHGzhVI7O). This week, the episode is free since we’ve been neglecting mainline Software Defined Talk. We hope you enjoy this sample. If you like this, sign up as a member (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) for $5/month (or, if you’re cheap, $1) to get about 4 episodes like this a month. Check it all out over at in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sdt (https://www.patreon.com/sdt).

Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers (https://twitter.com/devopsdayskc/status/910968813218394113) from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced, mentoring and filling the tech pipeline, security, and other topics, including Kansas City BBQ. The guests: @ChloeCondon, @wickett, @kantrn, and Julie Stark. Plus, of course, @cote. The audio quality is a little weird, so sorry about that.

The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Write-up (https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/monitoring-and-observability-8417d1952e1c) from Cindy Sridharan. This guy (https://medium.com/@steve.mushero/observability-vs-monitoring-is-it-about-active-vs-passive-or-dev-vs-ops-14b24ddf182f): “Thinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about