RIA Weekly

On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite. The Rundown Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/) Conferencing Verizon will buy video conferencing company BlueJeans (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/verizon-will-buy-video-conferencing-company-blue-jeans.html) The Zoom fatigue is real (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-fd52acf6-65aa-4dab-9a2e-528aa392852d.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0 9:46 https://www.protocol.com/google-cloud-kurian-istio-foundation) Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/google-meet-launches-improved-zoom-like-tiled-layout-low-light-mode-and-noise-cancellation/) Introducing Splunk Remote Work Insights: Our Solution for the New Work-from-Home Reality (https://www.splunk.com

On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review. The Rundown Contact Tracing Apple, Google Will Require Case Verification for Coronavirus Contact Tracing Tech (https://gizmodo.com/apple-google-will-require-case-verification-for-corona-1842859127) How Google Plans to Push Its Coronavirus Tracing Feature to Android Phones (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygbmj/how-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing-feature-update) Apple and Google launch a joint contact-tracing system for iOS and Android (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216484/google-apple-coronavirus-contract-tracing-bluetooth-location-tracking-data-app) Answering the 12 biggest questions about Apple and Google’s new coronavirus tracking project (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21216803/apple-google-coronavirus-tracking-app-covid-bluetooth-secure) Fargate AWS revamps Fargate serverless contain

Brandon interviews Professor Jeremy Hajek from Illinois Tech (https://www.iit.edu/) about what it's like to teach Information Technology in today's rapidy changing IT landscape. Plus, we offer advice to new grads on how to get a job and what cloud certifications are most valuable. Jermey's Links: Twitter: @JeremyHajek (https://twitter.com/JeremyHajek) Illinois Tech Contact (https://www.iit.edu/directory/people/jeremy-hajek) Illinois Tech Admissions Information (https://www.iit.edu/admissions-aid) Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/8CqDvPuo_kI) Special Guest: Jeremy Hajek.

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM. Relevant to your interests Unikernels are unfit for production (https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production) Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways) (https://thenewstack.io/knative-crowds-out-other-serverless-software-packages-and-other-cncf-survey-takeaways/) Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/bottlerocket-a-special-purpose-container-operating-system/) Slack, Teams and Conferencing Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/slack-is-working-on-microsoft-teams-calling-integration-says-ceo.html) DHH is not happy with Zoom (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1245097507488583681?s=21) Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all (https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoo

This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure (https://www.cnibook.info/). They discuss all things "Cloud Native" and what it's like to be a software engineer who helps make movies. Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/dxtEFmAfkOk) Special Guest: Justin Garrison .

We discuss micoVMs vs. Containers and Intel vs. ARM. Plus, Matt offers advice on when to teach your children about Github. Big congrats to Coté and his wife on their new baby!!! Relevant to your interests Containers are Not the Future (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/containers-future-ian-eyberg/) Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances - Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observations-on-arm64-awss-amazon-ec2-m6g-instances/) No more O’Reilly Conferences (https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html) Lightspeed-backed WorkOS launches to help startup services become enterprise-ready (https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/lightspeed-backed-workos-launches-to-help-startup-services-become-enterprise-ready/) The Demise Of Symantec (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2020/03/16/the-demise-of-symantec/amp/) Ex-Uber engineer pleads guilty to trade secret theft from Google (https://www.axios.com/ex-uber-engineer-guilty-trade-secret-theft-google-b83051eb-0

Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker. Plus, Miles tells us a story about Warren Buffet. Links: * Container Hereos (https://www.containerheroes.com/) * @miles_matthias (https://twitter.com/miles_matthias) * Miles talk at Spinnaker Summit 2019 (https://www.containerheroes.com/appearances/spinnaker-summit-2019) Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/GYQl88LcLok) Special Guest: Miles Matthias.

Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves. Mood Board: Blur my foreground, that’s what I want. No Yodas Lot of rubber gloves in your youth? I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book. Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix. I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life. It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class. As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams. Why can’t they make it 100% OK? You’ve got a big TV, put me on it! Relevant to your interests Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pentagon-reconsider-jedi-microsoft-amazon-web-services-2020-3?r=US&IR=T) HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable! HashiCorp Scores $1

Self quarantining with half-baked bread Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDqRlMeJ4U)! Spring Live (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/Spring_Live_Q221.html) next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend! Mood Board: Fresh Bread Talk I’ve mentioned this before You’re suppose to listen Hamthrax? A tall glass of ice-tea. The most Dutch thing ever. Half-baked bread. American’s tea innovation lead. Strong opinions loosely held is canceled. Relevant to your interests VMware If you run (VCF) VMware stuff, you can have kubernetes now. TAS/PAS will be moved to run on that sometime later - same stack as we’ve had at Pivotal is still, of course, alive and well. Interview with Pat Gelsinger on VMware (http://www.kbcmtech.com/podcasts/key10%20-%20Keynote%20-%20The%20Evolution%20of%20the%20Enter

Coté probably messed up his math on the Thoma Bravo profit from Compuware. Maybe it's more like $5bn (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/they-found-5-billion-in-the-couch/). But, obviously, he's just farting around with incomplete information. He apologies and will sit in the corner for awhile. For entertainment only! With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.) Hey! If you want to understand VMware’s new strategy and portfolio around application development, tune into the March 10th webinar on the topic (https://

Everyone loves white papers Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension. Mood board: “A Quote from the episode…” Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. “I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.” We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’ Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring? Crank up the YouTube Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch Garbage trash proposals Uniquely sourced Why are we still doing this? They’re busy running their business. “Can you write me a business case.” PDFs a Plenty The White Paper Album Speaking of BS phrases The white paper to take down white papers “Walking into the door feeling” The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever. Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon. The Idempope. Relevant to your interests Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? (https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-s

We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats. Relevant to your interests Google Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-targeting-five-industries-c-suite.html) Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating (https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1229513048378888193?s=21) “People frequently conflate "open governance" and "neutral IP ownership." It depends greatly on the foundation, but in the case of the CNCF, there are literally zero governance requirements enforced on projects. CNCF projects can be (and are) single vendor governed.” Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-completes-looker-acquisition) Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans (https://www.techradar.com/news

"I don't care about networking...and load balancing." There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell (https://twitter.com/cowboyd) about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise. If you need some excellent app coding, check out Charle's company, Frontside (https://frontside.io/)! They also have a podcast (https://frontside.io/podcast) where they discuss recent programming frameworks and idea, and relating coding cool stuff. You may recall that Charles was the co-host of Coté's first podcast empire, DrunkAndRetired.com (https://archive.org/details/DrunkAndRetired). Special Guest: Charles Lowell.

With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.) (Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.) Mood board: Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right? Digital transformation is bad. Did they decide that the kids are all right? Thought leader me into happiness. You are so much more cynical than me. What does IBM do? Reverse halo effect. Surviving the trough of disillusionment. We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No! For the rest of your life, do better. Minor bread talk. Relevant to your interests IBM IBM CEO Ginni Rome

How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos. Relevant to your interests Privacy “Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software” (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1222285606635614208?s=21) Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal) Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21111865/scroll-ad-free-website-subscription-launches) Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/27/avast-antivirus-harvested-user-data-then-sold-to-google-microsoft) Disruption Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67 (https://www.nytimes

Coté proposes that there’s three types of apps to pay attention to in enterprises. Or something like that. Also, he has a magical method for doing digital transformation: actually do it. We open up discussing the delightful adventure of doing analyst feature matrixes. Also, some brief discussion of Apple Watches in the impeachment trial. Mood board: The game is won or lost before the spreadsheet it sent. Incrementally updating apps, vs. making new businesses (digitizing) - like, maybe there just needs to be more programmers. It’s not “stupid,” it’s “antiquated.” Don’t make them think it is a big deal, or they’ll be afraid. Finding business case loopholes, or ignoring them. Can you base practices on loopholers? Wearing Apple Watches to senate hearings - a real ok boomer moment - gadgets in meetings in general. Audio books. I just made myself a sandwich, wow. Relevant to your interests Google AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace (https://www.theregist

This week the title says it all. There’s also some more bread talk. Mood board: “I love the talk about bread, can I get some stickers.” Do they have markdown in Intranets now? Kicking to fit use cases. Porting of Ports Crapplications, aka, “Crappity crap” Relevant to your interests Microsoft will stop supporting millions of computers running Windows 7 on Tuesday — here's what you need to know (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/microsoft-windows-7-support-ends-jan-14.html) “According to Net Applications (https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx) figures from December, 32.74% of all laptops and desktops still run Windows 7, behind Windows 10. Windows 10 runs on more than 900 million devices (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/microsoft-rolls-out-november-2019-windows-10-update.html).” Now It's Really, Truly Time to Give Up Windows 7 (https://www.wired.com/story/time-give-up-windows-7/) Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud (http://axios.link/JlHc) Check out that

We discuss weird speculation that Google Cloud would buy Salesforce. It seems like bullshit, mostly, but it gives us a good jumping off point to talk cloud strategy. Also, Coté talks about being part of the VMware Tanzu team, how kubernetes could become the white box of the PC market (this is a good thing), that being #3 in a market is probably just fine, and we discuss poisoning-by-bread. Mood board: This is a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind: it’s time to just give up on some stuff. Man, this coffee is bad. Carbohydrate Coté is angry. Coté gets his birthday wrong. You’re really just pretty negative. Our man in Tanzu-land Cotem. After the headline, that article didn’t need to be written more. I’m not going to get into it, so here I go. The Turn the hydra head into a nanny acquisition strategy. Man, I should have just started with the bread. Relevant to your interests Tanzu Coté - VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/30/vmware-completes-2-7-billion-pivo

This is an episode from the Exegesis Back Catalog (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/exegesis). Coté and Brandon review Scott Galloway's book the "The Four." (https://www.amazon.com/Four-Hidden-Amazon-Facebook-Google/dp/0735213658/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgKzwBRCjARIsABBbFugrOnbdMnyhxM9LXtYArj_3FjNK1-md988P3lCIqNIqmliQrVUMLHsaAsslEALw_wcB&hvadid=241637079254&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9028322&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8997952574338927722&hvtargid=aud-840076997981%3Akwd-345132176336&hydadcr=22563_10354960&keywords=the+four+scott+galloway&qid=1577817711&sr=8-1) The Pivot Podcast (https://plinkhq.com/i/1073226719?to=page) Photo by Makarios Tang on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/lIWQbx3Lw8U)

Holiday Special! Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef. Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) Special Guest: Adam Jacob.