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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

This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” (https://www.forrester.com/report/Navigate+The+Kubernetes+Ecosystem/-/E-RES133445) by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/17-07-06-navigate_the_kubernetes_ecosystem/) on the paper, too. Also, because we’re good boys, we added some bonus reading, a similar paper from Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3782167/market-guide-container-management-software). If you like this kind of thing, sign up as a Patreon for $1/month or more (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) and you’ll get about one of these types of exegesis’s a week. See past episodes (https://www.patreon.com/sdt).

It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). We discuss both, including a meandering overview of what PKS is and some theory about what enterprises actually want with all that VMware in public cloud. Also, the tragic story of airline and hotel upgrades, like pearls to tired business travelers. Misc. Australia is bigger than France (http://imgur.com/z02XGzQ). Checks out (http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/how-big-is-texas-compared-to-other-land-masses/). Coté got the SSSS TSA search. What fun! Now you can buy kubernetes from Dell https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIlS4bPUQAEcO6Y.jpg:small VMware/Pivotal/Google make a kubo distro (https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2017/08/29/vmware-pivotal-container-service/). Uses BOSH, NSX, and kubo to setup clusters. Will run on vSphere and Google Cloud, promises to work with other Google Cloud

Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewardship: how will “open source” like this work in a mature market? We also discuss the trend of private equity buying tech firms and GitHib’s write-up of building their own platform with kubernetes and series of small bash scripts. Traveling to China Coté is a terrible work-trip tourist. AA 263, DFW to PEK (https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/American_Airlines/American_Airlines_Boeing_787-8.php?flightno=263&date=), seat 19K. Exit row seat is good, but the front part of the airplane looked good too (rows 8 to 13?). Pack some breakfast tacos. This VPN situation is a mess, rather, I didn’t prepare correctly. Sometimes Cloak works, sometimes it doesn’t. LTE seems better than hotel wifi, but the speeds are high. Amazon Whole Foods update All done on Monday (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArtic

AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea) in this episode, standing in for Brandon. Removing rebel-slaver memorials Good job (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html), Old Bay land. There’s more cities too (https://www.axios.com/what-other-states-are-doing-with-confederate-era-statues-2472806400.html) on the case too. You like white papers? We got white papers Four new Pivotal white papers (https://content.pivotal.io/white-papers/running-microservices-on-pivotal-cloud-foundry): CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH). We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations.

At long last, Amazon joins the CNCF to work on kubernetes and container related projects. While it's not incredibly clear how strong this embrace is, it's pretty high up there. We also discuss if there's any new topics in DevOps and check-in on the anti-trust in tech meme. 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). AWS caves to the kube Press release: “Amazon Web Services Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum Member.” (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amazon-web-services-joins-cloud-native-computing-foundation-as-platinum-member-300501820.html) Does this mean they’ll do Kubernetes stuff? “AWS plans to take an active role in the cloud native community, contributing to Kube

Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organize their global sales regions, the possible emergence of a new private cloud meme, and rumors that BMC is no longer in acquiring CA. Also, be sure to check out this week’s white paper analysis for patrons, on IoT (https://www.patreon.com/posts/trillion-iot-by-13636097). Global expansion tips and tricks “EMEAians.” Open source as the scouts. Microsoft laying off 19,000 people Link (http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-starts-layoffs-with-reportedly-thousands-of-job-cuts/) Who’s hirin’? Microsoft Container Service What’s a “container service” (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/microsoft-launches-new-container-service-joins-cloud-native-group-isolating-aws-kubernetes/)? TechCrunch notices private cloud Link (https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/all-clouds-dont-have-to-be-public/) Vendors have begun offer

“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?” Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems to be shutting down. We discuss the wonders of Snap’s hot dog app, the mystery of Amazon’s lack(?) of brand allegiance, and giving up on kale. “Share price down? I gotcha bro.” Dancing Hot Dog (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/11/snapchat-hotdog-meme-explained/468211001/). Amazon to Start a Messaging App Link (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/16/15978920/amazon-anytime-messaging-app-rumor) I get the whole need to control networks, but it seems like we’ve kinda saturated a lot of these (Allo, is this thing on?). Why not just buy Slack? (Wasn’t that a rumor (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-interested-in-buying-slack-2017-6)? Could this be that diapers.com-style retaliation.) 80m Prime customers Twitch and “Stimpy.” The pair of people doing Minecraft. @profgalloway Uber driver on Whole Food

Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards private cloud, so we’re looking forward to what happens. On a related topic, by our reckoning, kubernetes to small to have already fallen. Also: the elusive Baltimore accent, Oracle and containers, and recommendations. Meta, follow-up, etc. Where does Matt Ray find all these stories? Patreon for this thing (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. SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) “Not all ‘guys.’” Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, che

Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about advertising and antitrust, at least. With Matt Ray on vacation, Brandon and Coté talk about The Attention Merchants and the recent Google EU antitrust ruling. We also discuss several other books, and how to talk to non-tech people at parties. Surprisingly, no container talk! Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm),

Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how is Amazon advantaged here such that others (like Wal-mart), can’t simply do this themselves. We go over these questions and how they related to M&A in general. Plus recommendations and some podcast meta talk. Mid-roll This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm), it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email jobs

The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, with a raft of new container related news we sort out what CoreOS is doing with their Tectonic managed service, what Heptio is (the Mirantis of Kubernetes?), and then a deep dive into the newly announced Istio which seems to be looking to create a yaml-based(!) standard for microservices configuration and policy and, then, the actual code for managing it all. Also, an extensive analysis of a hot-dog display, which is either basting itself or putting on some condiment-hair. Alternate Titles I've seen this hot-dog before. I’ve been doing this since dickity-4 I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out Mid-roll Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th (http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html). LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 2