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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 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 Ma...

See title. Google Cloud Diane Greene steps down as Google's cloud chief Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along Longer CNBC piece on the switch . Ray Wang : “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 reso...

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 “The Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS enables configuration of the Kubernetes-based Cisco Co...

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 unif...

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 otherw...

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 betwe...

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 appli...

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 s...

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...

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 After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linu...

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 s...

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 , DORA edition: Coté’s notes . Effective DevOps . “Thread.” (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!) VMworld 2018 Recap . VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate...

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 Michael Cot é from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHer...

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews 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 stor...

“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 bu...

After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just mov...

"Harness that peer pressure for good” This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes. Relevant to your interests Google Next GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle Knative Enables Portable Serverle...

We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.” Important nonsense Vinsanto is the Greek wine Coté was talking about . No more hot-dogs at Le C...

For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids. Meet us in Austin Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks & Socializing # Important nonsense Coté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation . What do you call that stuff? Relevant to your interests Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE f...

Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts. Meet us in Austin Get your invite — July 11th 5:30...

GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announced the first live in person Software Defined Talk meetup in July somewhere in Austin. Don’t miss it. GitHub got bought Price: $7.5bn in stock. Getting Microsoft stock now is probably good, should have go...

There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt This week Datadog also wa...

“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is spo...

We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless , it’s amazingly good and helpful. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www....

Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon. Relevant to your interests Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT,...