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Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos! Relevant to your interests ChefConf Highlights Habitat in your dashboards, Habitat + Chef/InSpec and chef.io/migration DJ Darek Mazzone Mudhoney + Deep Sea Diver Kube stuff At...

I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles. Opening comments: The intersection between business books and dog vomit. Democracy sausage. Coté can’t get extra pickles . Let me close out this topic of pickles. It’s not Burger King. Enterprise Salespeople don’t get tattoos T-shirt currenc...

Putting together the M&A case for Docker, Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Oracle’s cloud grudge. Plus: The Most Expensive Free Dog in the World. Dead frogs tell no tales. It’s just me and the dog. Smart enough not to go up the stairs, dumb - enough to think the eggs are coming back. Is Docker the new MySQL. Most valuable, unrealized container brand: Google. JEDI grudge. Nihilism, greatly unde...

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 ? Microsoft, Dell unveil new Azure-VMware integrations Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership with new VMware Solutions The Apache Software Foun...

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 . IBM is preparing to close its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, but Wall Street has 'real question marks' after its 'mediocre' quarter . IBM pull...

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 custom...

With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs , 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 Anthos | Google Cloud Anthos docs New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that he’s borrowing from the O...

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 ta...

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 . 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 th...

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 . Yes, these ones . Relevant to your interests S U SE is once again an independent company The Clou...

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 Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch Free Software is the only winner in Elastic NV vs AWS Intr...

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. Relevant to your interests Red Hat launches Operator Hub, a repository of quality-tested Kubernetes Operators Bitbucket Simplifies Building CI/CD Pipelines with Pipes - The New Stack DevOps consolidation continues wi...

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...

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 Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma Google emits a beta of Cloud Service Platform to entice hold-outs with hybrid goodness Google's .dev domains...

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 With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches CNCF Dev Stats Dashboards CNCF Annual Report Amazon...

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 . What was Java treated like way back in the mid-2000s Sun d...

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 . Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data . The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS . ' Opinion | The Facts About Facebook . Google asks Supreme Court to rule...

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 Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open ’ Morgan Stanley Downgrades Oracle Stock on Dim...

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 ....

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 The Cyclical Theory of Open Source community, you keep using that word – Drew Clay Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform c...

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 LinkedIn For more interview like this subscribe to Software Defined Interviews. 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...

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 What's actually in Australia's encryption laws? Everything you need to k...

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 Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with...

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 . The Story of the First Kubernetes Critical CVE . Google Integrates Istio Service Mesh into Kubernetes Service . Nearly 250 Pages...