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“What choice do we have?” At the end of the year, we answer listener questions. From middle-names, to athletes, to advice to startups. Also, we talk open source in 2020 predictions, that NYTimes story on Amazon, and Twinkies. Mood board: As they say “a dot w dot s.” Twinkies are better after the Apocalypse Does he know something we don’t know? They could have been the paper of record on “A.M.I.” Judgemental open source. The Three C’s. “CTO Edge.” CTOs don’t go to DevOps Days I try to show up to most conferences I’m speaking at. “I love the way they’re kicking that ball.” They didn’t consider “Motel 6” for Matt’s middle name. It’s safe to watch The Watchmen. Relevant to your interests Amazon is Launching a Home Internet Service - Here is Everything You Need to Know About It (https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-is-launching-a-home-internet-service-here-is-everything-you-need-to-know-about-it/). 8 of the worst open source innovations of the decade (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/8-of-the-worst-open-sou

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition. Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week. Mood board: #asksdt Remember the Law of Hammarabi. They’re not the Poynter institute or anything. Are we going to be blamed for all the problems? Kubernetes on the barby. It’s all the same broken stuff. Broken ankle con. I’ve never broken a bone. A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going! The Carl Weathers Cluster. I’m really good at thinking while I talk. Just ignore the baby yoda. Relevant to your interests The 100 most important gadgets of the decade (https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/20997215/best-gadgets-decade-2010s-list-roundup-apple-iphone-tesla-amazon-samsung). Broken ankle conference. S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc-300970643.html). Ubuntu pro. Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Ad

It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt. Mood board: #asksdt “Where are you thought-lording us to?” Pepernoot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot). Always pack a back-up croissant. Here’s the thing with bread. I thought he hated the swans. Dogs clearly rank as humanities number one friend. Then it’s bread/alcohol. Everyone knows when Bastille Day is Coté. Halloween in London grocery stores: not this shit again. They got a pee-jug back there? Relevant to your interests AWS re:Invent AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Sunday, December 1st (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-launches-previews-at-reinvent-2019-sunday-december-1st/) AWS DeepRacer Update – New

Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally re (https://buttondown.email/cote)v (https://buttondown.email/cote)ved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Mood board: Now we’ve got two topics. The sweet and sour sauce was just pineapple juice. Every culture has its tortilla. Well, definitely, everything just tasted sort of brown. This is where I learned about organized crime. I learned how to use the meat slicer. “There was hiding in the meat freezer.” I have a lot of stories from my time at the Mongolian BBQ. Nobody wants to go update the MIBs or something 9

We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally re (https://buttondown.email/cote)v (https://buttondown.email/cote)ved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Mood board: One. “I am not upgrading.” “Nothing ever good comes out of upgrades.” “I need someone with 35 years experience to run the internal blog.” “Shut the doors on your way out.” Planning makes us professional Tech news sucks nowadays, where’s the good news? Put that gravy on your shorts. It’s the Sanka of hot sauces. The problem is, there’s only one size of tortilla: giant. ah tortillas (https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi173410/ah-tortilla-wraps-voordeel). They have really good lighting. Prove me wrong, Kubecon 2020. “Their negotiation with the underlying platform.” I’m not a technical person, I’m a toga person. The Oxnard Comma. Stop not g

Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Mood board: Coté is gobsmacked by slides. Let’s turn these earnings upside down. It’s not just turtles all the way down, they’re all the way up too! Where are my turtles? Clearly you know what you’re doing, because you’ve got billions of dollars. Clearly these people have missed the point of distributed version control. Put your code in the Phantom Zone. Is there a new April Fool’s in November? They probably had some good slides. Relevant to your interests WeWork The Best Slides From SoftBank's WeWork-Focused Earnings Report (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-best-slides-from-softbanks-wework-focused-earnin

We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Relevant to your interests The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/the-7-most-important-announcements-from-microsoft-ignite/) Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, Stack Edge, and new virtual machine instances (https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/04/microsoft-unveils-azure-arc-stack-edge-and-new-virtual-machine-services/) Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview | Visual Studio Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-online-public-preview/) IBM, Bank of America Team Up on Pub

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey. Mood board: Stroke City. QBR times four. Travel costs. We need a better word than “politics.” Corporate virtue signaling. Never ask anything. There’s going to be Werner Hertzog! There’s a difference between making a point and making money. Are you just fillin’ a seat? The fixie of IDEs. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.” Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverg

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Executive Shuffles Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hired-former-microsoft-exec-javier-soltero-vp-g-suite-2019-10) and Javier Soltero’s Bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Soltero) Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928856/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-revenue-cloud-services-surface-gaming-xbox) ServiceNow Announces Bi

"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is. Mood board: Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots. We can educate Coté. Learning from each other, the more you know! There’s a lot of kube shit. Non-subjugating windows. Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash. What’s a ‘fixie’? HOT LINKEDIN ETHICS DEBATE. You’re probably using the Twitter webpage and following the “Suggested Follows.” There have been reports in social media. It’s the chaos monkey for business models. We can Armchair Product Management this thing. I've been asked if crocodiles are considered "pescatarian-friendly." It’s kind of like the yaml version of the Rational dream. The whole rest of the world was putting together best of breed tools. If you say so, Grammerly. “Monty-python simulation” Stay out of the room Mr. AI!

The mystery of the 2,000 Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk. Mood board: The East India Company and Kodak I just want your best 5 hours. Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes. I’m in for a panel. I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting. Ten year journey with billions of burn. We’re talking about trillion dollar companies. You can’t have enough storage for your podcasts. Fired 2,000 people…and now hiring 2,000 people. First-gen cloud building people are often a handful. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). See the archives (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/how-to-moderate-a-panel/) for more. Relevant to your interests How to moderate a panel (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/how-to-

Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Go to buttondown.email/cote (https://buttondown.email/cote) or cote.io/newsletter (https://cote.io/newsletter/) and do it! Mood board: It’s probably more of a figurative figurative phrase, not a literal figurative phrase. I should probably start the recording again. Don’t be so precise. Kids these days. There’s lots of issues with the Salt Lick. Here’s a napkin. You’re better off getting a Porche from Germany. Let me translate that from Dutch to American. 15 meters of cereal. Tradeless Commissions Some basis points. Well, I don’t know that, but I’m gonna look it up later. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newslett

Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Relevant to your interests GitLab opens: Jenkins: One year later (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/20/jenkins-one-year-later/) CloudBees responds: GitLab's Confusion (https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/gitlabs-confusion) What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? (https://bravenewgeek.com/whats-going-on-with-gke-and-anthos/) Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to-be-made-in-texas/) Briefing: Facebook Buys Mind-Reading Startup For Close to $1 Billion (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/89ce70) Containership sinks after being blown of

The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: The Christmas Greenwich Meantime. The Salary Vortex. Podcast Google Alert. Overnight he is growing 7 inches. Throwing fish at a growing seal. I want to be 63. We’re way too top heavy. Hot in the sun, cold in the shade. Is this because of the Federal Reserve? The chaos monkey of IPOs. What happened to SVNLab? College phrases from random places. War Birds and Red Tides. Relevant to your interests VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-ceo-ibm-paid-too-much-for-red-hat/2019/09/) Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux (https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-announces-oracle-autonomous-linux/) CentOS release (https://twitter.com/CentOSPr

Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: Buying something different to try something new. Australian bagels. “Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.” “Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.” More fools giving their software away for free I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap. Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure. Matt’s little bit of glue. How much simpler can you get than straight code? General Container’s army of yamlites. Developer tools = vomi

Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity to football fans. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/#gated-form) with Coté’s notes (https://cote.io/2019/08/26/devops-report-2019/) “The proportion of our elite performers has almost tripled, showing that excellence is possible—it just requires execution.” OSS Dear Searched Guard Users (https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users) Why doesn't anyone weep for Docker? (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-doesnt-anyone-weep-for-docker/) Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2

This week, the title says it all. Mood board: Jandels and togs That’s why they call it The Lucky Country. Decoding “Fly-Wheel.” 1 part synergy and 10 parts how business is done. Unlocking value. It’s always fun to see value created. I bet they got RBAC. The Funny Name Startup Strategy to Success. Brandon looks at The Business End. The Platform of the Future. Brisket for the last Fortune 500. It’s too complicated. You could put a million containers on this one box. I bet the Oracle field has some really cool spreadsheets. Bespoke nachos. Knowing stuff is dangerous. He’s going to Roko’s Basilisk me for his inheritance. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/#gated-form) - Coté’s notes (https://cote.io/2019/08/26/devops-report-2019/). VMware VMware acquires applic

“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show. SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.” Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/splunk-acquire-cloud-monitoring-leader-200100373.html) VMware says it’s looking to acquire Pivotal (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/14/vmware-says-its-looking-to-acquire-pivotal/) Microsoft Screws Customers and its Own Advocates Alike - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/microsoft-screws-customers-and-its-own-advocates-alike/) Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-

We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing. Mood board: You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florida? I could be like the 35 year old Andy Rooney. Hey Google, where are my keys? We’re driving off hosts at this point Herbalife. Funny logs. Was it real money? It’s probably cheaper than severance. I am not following any of it. Where’s Tim Wu when you need him? This is Tumblr all over again. Nothing but insects please. Oh Andy Rooney, save me! Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests Apple Card Review: The Credit Card of the Future Is No Card At All (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-card-review-the-credit-card-of-the-future-is-no-card-at-all-11565528401) - Banking. Matt Asay goes to AWS (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1161008574589308928

Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Mood board: Have either of you ever eaten dog meat? He easily slides into meataterian. Skype would be terrible if it weren’t so great! Follow the foot-stones Going up the well I like dogs, what I don’t like is additional responsibility. My life is mostly avoiding more responsibility Sorry about your dog… Oyster and Opals. Dogs and trains Once you get to Atlanta, trains be like, fuck that shit. I’m going to write that down and look at it when I’m depressed. Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere? Not investment advice. 2 to 3 yards of J2EE books. If you put it into a container, you’ll probably be OK. Relevant to your interests Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/05/mesosphere-changes-name-to-d2iq-s