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  <description>Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced.  Coté  interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.
Show Links
Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VejBzjF2R7JV1TEvvbTtIN2cTynwxY9q/view). 
Appoint and empower a single threaded leader (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_in-phil-le-brun-my-post-last-week-we-shared-activity-7019653493850284033-6Iqv)
Two way door decisions (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phillebrun_aws-activity-7017155613646336001-gyUf/)
Dogs not barking (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_culture-leadership-change-activity-7024735757156155392-iNkm).
Weasel words (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_talked-about-dogs-not-barking-last-week-activity-7029732454575828993-14iE).
If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/250).
Contact Jana Werner
LinkedIn: Jana Werner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/). 
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The Cards
Here's the text of the all the cards:
Mechanism
1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
6. How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
7. How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
8. How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
9. How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
10. How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
11. How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
12. How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
13. How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
14. How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
15. How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?
Culture
How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
How can you start your next meeting with a document read?
Organisation
How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?
Leadership
How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?
SDT News &amp;amp; Hype
Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon,  BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. 
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Jana Werner.
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    <![CDATA[<p>Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That&#39;s the premise of Jana Werner&#39;s organization transformation card game. Sure, it&#39;s not really a &quot;game,&quot; but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that&#39;s too often uncommonly practiced.  Coté  interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.</p>

<h2>Show Links</h2>

<ul>
<li>Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O&#39;Reilly about Tesco Bank, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VejBzjF2R7JV1TEvvbTtIN2cTynwxY9q/view" rel="nofollow">here it is</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_in-phil-le-brun-my-post-last-week-we-shared-activity-7019653493850284033-6Iqv" rel="nofollow">Appoint and empower a single threaded leader</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phillebrun_aws-activity-7017155613646336001-gyUf/" rel="nofollow">Two way door decisions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_culture-leadership-change-activity-7024735757156155392-iNkm" rel="nofollow">Dogs not barking</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_talked-about-dogs-not-barking-last-week-activity-7029732454575828993-14iE" rel="nofollow">Weasel words</a>.</li>
<li>If you&#39;d like to hear more from Jana, <a href="https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/250" rel="nofollow">Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Contact Jana Werner</h2>

<ul>
<li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/" rel="nofollow">Jana Werner</a>. </li>
</ul>

<h2>SDT News &amp; Hype</h2>

<ul>
<li>Join us <a href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack" rel="nofollow">in Slack</a>.</li>
<li>Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to <a href="mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com" rel="nofollow">stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com</a> and we will send you free laptop stickers!</li>
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<li>Use the code SDT to get <a href="https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt" rel="nofollow">$20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF</a>, so $5 total.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads" rel="nofollow">Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk</a>!</li>
</ul>

<h2>The Cards</h2>

<p>Here&#39;s the text of the all the cards:</p>

<p>Mechanism</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?</li>
<li>How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?</li>
<li>How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?</li>
<li>How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?</li>
<li>How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?</li>
<li>How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?</li>
<li>How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?</li>
<li>How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?</li>
<li>How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?</li>
<li>How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?</li>
<li>How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?</li>
<li>How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?</li>
<li>How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?</li>
<li>How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?</li>
<li>How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?</li>
</ol>

<p>Culture</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?</li>
<li>How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?</li>
<li>How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?</li>
<li>How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice &quot;Disagree and Commit as a Principle?</li>
<li>How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?</li>
<li>How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?</li>
<li>How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?</li>
<li>How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?</li>
<li>How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?</li>
<li>How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?</li>
<li>How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?</li>
<li>How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?</li>
<li>How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?</li>
<li>How can you start your next meeting with a document read?</li>
</ol>

<p>Organisation</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?</li>
<li>How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?</li>
<li>How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?</li>
<li>How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?</li>
<li>How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?</li>
<li>[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?</li>
<li>How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?</li>
<li>How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?</li>
<li>How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?</li>
</ol>

<p>Leadership</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.</li>
<li>How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?</li>
<li>How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees&#39; super powers?</li>
<li>How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.</li>
<li>How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?</li>
<li>How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?</li>
<li>How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?</li>
<li>How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations&#39; priorities, vision, and their role in these?</li>
<li>How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?</li>
<li>How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?</li>
<li>How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?</li>
</ol>

<h2>SDT News &amp; Hype</h2>

<ul>
<li>Join us in Slack.</li>
<li>Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to <a href="mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com" rel="nofollow">stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com</a> and we will send you free laptop stickers!</li>
<li>Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon,  BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. </li>
<li>Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.</li>
<li>Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!</li>
</ul><p>Special Guest: Jana Werner.</p>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That&#39;s the premise of Jana Werner&#39;s organization transformation card game. Sure, it&#39;s not really a &quot;game,&quot; but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that&#39;s too often uncommonly practiced.  Coté  interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.</p>

<h2>Show Links</h2>

<ul>
<li>Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O&#39;Reilly about Tesco Bank, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VejBzjF2R7JV1TEvvbTtIN2cTynwxY9q/view" rel="nofollow">here it is</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_in-phil-le-brun-my-post-last-week-we-shared-activity-7019653493850284033-6Iqv" rel="nofollow">Appoint and empower a single threaded leader</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phillebrun_aws-activity-7017155613646336001-gyUf/" rel="nofollow">Two way door decisions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_culture-leadership-change-activity-7024735757156155392-iNkm" rel="nofollow">Dogs not barking</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_talked-about-dogs-not-barking-last-week-activity-7029732454575828993-14iE" rel="nofollow">Weasel words</a>.</li>
<li>If you&#39;d like to hear more from Jana, <a href="https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/250" rel="nofollow">Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Contact Jana Werner</h2>

<ul>
<li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/" rel="nofollow">Jana Werner</a>. </li>
</ul>

<h2>SDT News &amp; Hype</h2>

<ul>
<li>Join us <a href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack" rel="nofollow">in Slack</a>.</li>
<li>Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to <a href="mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com" rel="nofollow">stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com</a> and we will send you free laptop stickers!</li>
<li>Follow us: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast" rel="nofollow">Twitch</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk" rel="nofollow">Mastodon</a>,  <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com" rel="nofollow">BlueSky</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk" rel="nofollow">TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk" rel="nofollow">Threads</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a>. </li>
<li>Use the code SDT to get <a href="https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt" rel="nofollow">$20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF</a>, so $5 total.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads" rel="nofollow">Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk</a>!</li>
</ul>

<h2>The Cards</h2>

<p>Here&#39;s the text of the all the cards:</p>

<p>Mechanism</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?</li>
<li>How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?</li>
<li>How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?</li>
<li>How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?</li>
<li>How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?</li>
<li>How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?</li>
<li>How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?</li>
<li>How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?</li>
<li>How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?</li>
<li>How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?</li>
<li>How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?</li>
<li>How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?</li>
<li>How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?</li>
<li>How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?</li>
<li>How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?</li>
</ol>

<p>Culture</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?</li>
<li>How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?</li>
<li>How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?</li>
<li>How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice &quot;Disagree and Commit as a Principle?</li>
<li>How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?</li>
<li>How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?</li>
<li>How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?</li>
<li>How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?</li>
<li>How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?</li>
<li>How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?</li>
<li>How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?</li>
<li>How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?</li>
<li>How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?</li>
<li>How can you start your next meeting with a document read?</li>
</ol>

<p>Organisation</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?</li>
<li>How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?</li>
<li>How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?</li>
<li>How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?</li>
<li>How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?</li>
<li>[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?</li>
<li>How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?</li>
<li>How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?</li>
<li>How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?</li>
</ol>

<p>Leadership</p>

<ol>
<li>How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.</li>
<li>How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?</li>
<li>How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees&#39; super powers?</li>
<li>How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.</li>
<li>How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?</li>
<li>How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?</li>
<li>How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?</li>
<li>How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations&#39; priorities, vision, and their role in these?</li>
<li>How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?</li>
<li>How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?</li>
<li>How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?</li>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>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 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&amp;amp;)
SpringDays.io
Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff
Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago)
New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york)
Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
Hot-dog guy in Japan
Zoom in on that little fellow (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/35012640896/).
Internet Trends 2017
300 plus slides of charts (http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends)
Computes!
Coté’s notebook (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/analysis-of-mary-meeker-s-internet-trends), summary of summary:
Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money.
The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner.
Voice, image recognition, etc.
China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge.
India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout.
The public/private cloud debate is still far from over.
But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won.
Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year.
Would Amazon sell some private clouds?
Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop
Coté: Catching up on all this week's container poop &amp;amp; as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so."
Managed service for Tectonic as a Service (https://thenewstack.io/coreos-takes-cloud-portability-tectonic-release/) - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc?
However, not all done, still working on the complete solution.
But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,”  Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’
Another etcd description (https://blog.heptio.com/core-kubernetes-jazz-improv-over-orchestration-a7903ea92ca): “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values.
So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002.
Then there’s Istio (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html): 
Istio (https://istio.io/)?!
Whao! Check out the exec-pitch (https://istio.io/blog/istio-service-mesh-for-microservices.html): “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” And Google (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-approach-to-developing-and.html): “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.”
I love their idea of what a CIO does.
“An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“
SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM &amp;amp; Lyft - once you control the network with the “data plane,” you add in the “control plane” (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html#architecture) which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices.
Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.”
And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff.
Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things.
Let’s look at the docs (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html) (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?):
First of all, these are good docs.
Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.”
The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.”
Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.”
Also: Traffic Management (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html), Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security.
Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you?
So: 
you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”), 
which controls the network with SDN shit, 
Istio-Manager + Envoy (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html) does all your load-balancing/circuit breaker (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-failures.html)/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, service versioning (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/request-routing.html#service-model-and-service-versions) (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), configuring “routes,” what connects to what (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/rules-configuration.html), 
I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balancing.html)? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)?
Question: what does this look like in your code? 
The  (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/policy-and-control/mixer.html) thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars?
And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by  (https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html)., 
So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure:
Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)?
So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware?
What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right?
Where’ my fucking chart on this shit?
Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today.
Meanwhile: Oracle’s cool with it (https://thenewstack.io/oracle-joins-kubernetes-fray/), “WTF is a microservice” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414031), compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441150), and James Governor tries to explain it all (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/31/so-what-even-is-a-service-mesh-hot-take-on-istio-and-linkerd/).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore
Link (http://www.enterprisecloudnews.com/author.asp?doc_id=733171&amp;amp;section_id=571)
New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE
Red Hat buys Codenvy
Codenvy sets up your developer environments (https://codenvy.com/developers/), and has team stuff.
Red Hat is really after the developer market.
TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate.
Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep.
Notes from Carl Lehmann report at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92575):
In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che
“Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.”
“The company's suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.”
Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other 'cloud IDEs,' including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell's Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.”
Uber back in Austin
Is that a thing? (https://twitter.com/Uber_ATX/status/867781159178051584)
Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me)
Anecdotes are the singular of data (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/23/how-aws-cloud-is-demolishing-the-cult-of-youth/)?
More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws
Lords of Tech sign a thing (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-tim-cook-texas-gov-abbott-pass-discriminatory-laws)
“In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&amp;amp;M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.”
“Peeing is not political” (https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/28/bathroom-bill-showdown-has-been-building-years/) - recap of the history of the bathroom bill. Still doesn’t really address “is there actually a problem here, backed up with citations.” Without such coverage, it’s hard to understand (and therefore figure out and react to) the hillbilly’s side on this beyond: "It's just common sense and common decency — we don't want men in women's, ladies' rooms." It also highlights the huge, social divide between “city folk” and the hillbillies.
A lot more from TheNewStack (https://thenewstack.io/tech-leaders-ask-texas-governor-halt-discriminatory-legislation/).
ChefConf Retrospective
ICYMI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtF3oScoYqk)
Competing in Public Cloud is Crazy Expensive
Link (http://www.platformonomics.com/2017/04/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes/)
Tracks the CAPEX spend over the years for MS, Google and Amazon
A Year of Google &amp;amp; Apple Maps
Link (https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps)
Comprehensive drill-down into the mapping changes made by Google and the smaller moves by Apple. 
Probably not content for conversation, but whoa.
FAA Flight Delay Tracking
Check the map, fool (http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp)
Recommendations
Brandon: Beauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker &amp;amp; Company's Tristan (http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/masters-of-scale/e/beauty-of-a-bad-idea-with-walker-companys-tristan-walker-50186227)
Matt: 
Arrested DevOps #84 (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/) Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer &amp;amp; Bryan Cantrill Epic rants. Also, Bryan Cantrill sounds like Bob Odenkirk
Enjoying Westworld and everything Brandon recommended months ago
Coté: Butternut-squash hash (http://www.paleorunningmomma.com/butternut-squash-hash-paleo-whole30/). 
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<h1>Alternate Titles</h1>

<ul>
<li>I&#39;ve seen this hot-dog before.</li>
<li>I’ve been doing this since dickity-4</li>
<li>I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out</li>
</ul>

<h1>Mid-roll</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html" rel="nofollow">Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th</a>.</li>
<li>LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: <a href="https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT" rel="nofollow">get 20% off registration with the code SDT</a> (Thanks, Bridget!).</li>
<li>Coté: <a href="https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/" rel="nofollow">CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017</a>.

<ul>
<li>20% off registration code: cfsv17cote</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&" rel="nofollow">Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays</a>

<ul>
<li>SpringDays.io</li>
<li>Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff</li>
<li><a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago" rel="nofollow">Chicago (May 30th to 31st)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york" rel="nofollow">New York (June 20th to 21st)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta" rel="nofollow">Atlanta (July 18th to 19th)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h1>Hot-dog guy in Japan</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/35012640896/" rel="nofollow">Zoom in on that little fellow</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Internet Trends 2017</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends" rel="nofollow">300 plus slides of charts</a></li>
<li>Computes!</li>
<li><a href="https://content.pivotal.io/blog/analysis-of-mary-meeker-s-internet-trends" rel="nofollow">Coté’s notebook</a>, summary of summary:

<ul>
<li>Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money.</li>
<li>The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner.</li>
<li>Voice, image recognition, etc.</li>
<li>China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge.</li>
<li>India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout.</li>
<li>The public/private cloud debate is still far from over.</li>
<li>But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won.</li>
<li>Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Would Amazon sell some private clouds?</li>
</ul>

<h1>Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop</h1>

<ul>
<li>Coté: Catching up on all this week&#39;s container poop &amp; as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/coreos-takes-cloud-portability-tectonic-release/" rel="nofollow">Managed service for Tectonic as a Service</a> - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc?

<ul>
<li>However, not all done, still working on the complete solution.</li>
<li>But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,”  Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.heptio.com/core-kubernetes-jazz-improv-over-orchestration-a7903ea92ca" rel="nofollow">Another etcd description</a>: “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values.</li>
<li>So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Then <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html" rel="nofollow">there’s Istio</a>: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://istio.io/" rel="nofollow">Istio</a>?!</li>
<li>Whao! Check out <a href="https://istio.io/blog/istio-service-mesh-for-microservices.html" rel="nofollow">the exec-pitch</a>: “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-approach-to-developing-and.html" rel="nofollow">And Google</a>: “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.”

<ul>
<li>I love their idea of what a CIO does.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>“An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“</li>
<li>SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM &amp; Lyft - once you control the network with the <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html#architecture" rel="nofollow">“data plane,” you add in the “control plane”</a> which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices.</li>
<li>Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.”</li>
<li>And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff.</li>
<li>Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things.</li>
<li>Let’s look at <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html" rel="nofollow">the docs</a> (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?):

<ul>
<li>First of all, these are good docs.</li>
<li>Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.”</li>
<li>The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.”</li>
<li>Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.”</li>
<li>Also: <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html" rel="nofollow">Traffic Management</a>, Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security.</li>
<li>Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you?</li>
<li>So: 

<ul>
<li>you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”), </li>
<li>which controls the network with SDN shit, </li>
<li><a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html" rel="nofollow">Istio-Manager + Envoy</a> does all your load-balancing/<a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-failures.html" rel="nofollow">circuit breaker</a>/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/request-routing.html#service-model-and-service-versions" rel="nofollow">service versioning</a> (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/rules-configuration.html" rel="nofollow">configuring “routes,” what connects to what</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balancing.html" rel="nofollow">I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service</a>? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)?</li>
<li>Question: what does this look like in your code? 

<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/policy-and-control/mixer.html" rel="nofollow"></a> thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars?</li>
<li>And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by <a href="https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html" rel="nofollow"></a>., </li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure:

<ul>
<li>Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)?</li>
<li>So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware?</li>
<li>What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right?</li>
<li>Where’ my fucking chart on this shit?</li>
<li>Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Meanwhile: <a href="https://thenewstack.io/oracle-joins-kubernetes-fray/" rel="nofollow">Oracle’s cool with it</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414031" rel="nofollow">“WTF is a microservice”</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441150" rel="nofollow">compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful</a>, and <a href="http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/31/so-what-even-is-a-service-mesh-hot-take-on-istio-and-linkerd/" rel="nofollow">James Governor tries to explain it all</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.</h1>

<h2>Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.enterprisecloudnews.com/author.asp?doc_id=733171&section_id=571" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE</li>
</ul>

<h2>Red Hat buys Codenvy</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://codenvy.com/developers/" rel="nofollow">Codenvy sets up your developer environments</a>, and has team stuff.</li>
<li>Red Hat is really after the developer market.</li>
<li>TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate.</li>
<li>Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep.</li>
<li>Notes <a href="https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92575" rel="nofollow">from Carl Lehmann report at 451</a>:

<ul>
<li>In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che</li>
<li>“Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.”</li>
<li>“The company&#39;s suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.”</li>
<li>Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other &#39;cloud IDEs,&#39; including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell&#39;s Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.”</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h2>Uber back in Austin</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Uber_ATX/status/867781159178051584" rel="nofollow">Is that a thing?</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me)</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/23/how-aws-cloud-is-demolishing-the-cult-of-youth/" rel="nofollow">Anecdotes are the singular of data</a>?</li>
</ul>

<h2>More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-tim-cook-texas-gov-abbott-pass-discriminatory-laws" rel="nofollow">Lords of Tech sign a thing</a></li>
<li>“In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&amp;M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/28/bathroom-bill-showdown-has-been-building-years/" rel="nofollow">“Peeing is not political”</a> - recap of the history of the bathroom bill. Still doesn’t really address “is there actually a problem here, backed up with citations.” Without such coverage, it’s hard to understand (and therefore figure out and react to) the hillbilly’s side on this beyond: &quot;It&#39;s just common sense and common decency — we don&#39;t want men in women&#39;s, ladies&#39; rooms.&quot; It also highlights the huge, social divide between “city folk” and the hillbillies.</li>
<li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/tech-leaders-ask-texas-governor-halt-discriminatory-legislation/" rel="nofollow">A lot more from TheNewStack</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>ChefConf Retrospective</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtF3oScoYqk" rel="nofollow">ICYMI</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Competing in Public Cloud is Crazy Expensive</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.platformonomics.com/2017/04/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>Tracks the CAPEX spend over the years for MS, Google and Amazon</li>
</ul>

<h2>A Year of Google &amp; Apple Maps</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>Comprehensive drill-down into the mapping changes made by Google and the smaller moves by Apple. </li>
<li>Probably not content for conversation, but whoa.</li>
</ul>

<h2>FAA Flight Delay Tracking</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp" rel="nofollow">Check the map, fool</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Recommendations</h1>

<ul>
<li>Brandon: <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/masters-of-scale/e/beauty-of-a-bad-idea-with-walker-companys-tristan-walker-50186227" rel="nofollow">Beauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker &amp; Company&#39;s Tristan</a></li>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/" rel="nofollow">Arrested DevOps #84</a> Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer &amp; Bryan Cantrill Epic rants. Also, Bryan Cantrill sounds like Bob Odenkirk</li>
<li>Enjoying <em>Westworld</em> and everything Brandon recommended months ago</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="http://www.paleorunningmomma.com/butternut-squash-hash-paleo-whole30/" rel="nofollow">Butternut-squash hash</a>.</li>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The cat-nip of Mary Meeker&#39;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.</p>

<h1>Alternate Titles</h1>

<ul>
<li>I&#39;ve seen this hot-dog before.</li>
<li>I’ve been doing this since dickity-4</li>
<li>I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out</li>
</ul>

<h1>Mid-roll</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html" rel="nofollow">Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th</a>.</li>
<li>LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: <a href="https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT" rel="nofollow">get 20% off registration with the code SDT</a> (Thanks, Bridget!).</li>
<li>Coté: <a href="https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/" rel="nofollow">CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017</a>.

<ul>
<li>20% off registration code: cfsv17cote</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&" rel="nofollow">Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays</a>

<ul>
<li>SpringDays.io</li>
<li>Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff</li>
<li><a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago" rel="nofollow">Chicago (May 30th to 31st)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york" rel="nofollow">New York (June 20th to 21st)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta" rel="nofollow">Atlanta (July 18th to 19th)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h1>Hot-dog guy in Japan</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/35012640896/" rel="nofollow">Zoom in on that little fellow</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Internet Trends 2017</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends" rel="nofollow">300 plus slides of charts</a></li>
<li>Computes!</li>
<li><a href="https://content.pivotal.io/blog/analysis-of-mary-meeker-s-internet-trends" rel="nofollow">Coté’s notebook</a>, summary of summary:

<ul>
<li>Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money.</li>
<li>The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner.</li>
<li>Voice, image recognition, etc.</li>
<li>China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge.</li>
<li>India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout.</li>
<li>The public/private cloud debate is still far from over.</li>
<li>But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won.</li>
<li>Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Would Amazon sell some private clouds?</li>
</ul>

<h1>Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop</h1>

<ul>
<li>Coté: Catching up on all this week&#39;s container poop &amp; as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/coreos-takes-cloud-portability-tectonic-release/" rel="nofollow">Managed service for Tectonic as a Service</a> - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc?

<ul>
<li>However, not all done, still working on the complete solution.</li>
<li>But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,”  Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’</li>
<li><a href="https://blog.heptio.com/core-kubernetes-jazz-improv-over-orchestration-a7903ea92ca" rel="nofollow">Another etcd description</a>: “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values.</li>
<li>So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Then <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html" rel="nofollow">there’s Istio</a>: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://istio.io/" rel="nofollow">Istio</a>?!</li>
<li>Whao! Check out <a href="https://istio.io/blog/istio-service-mesh-for-microservices.html" rel="nofollow">the exec-pitch</a>: “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-approach-to-developing-and.html" rel="nofollow">And Google</a>: “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.”

<ul>
<li>I love their idea of what a CIO does.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>“An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“</li>
<li>SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM &amp; Lyft - once you control the network with the <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html#architecture" rel="nofollow">“data plane,” you add in the “control plane”</a> which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices.</li>
<li>Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.”</li>
<li>And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff.</li>
<li>Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things.</li>
<li>Let’s look at <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html" rel="nofollow">the docs</a> (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?):

<ul>
<li>First of all, these are good docs.</li>
<li>Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.”</li>
<li>The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.”</li>
<li>Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.”</li>
<li>Also: <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html" rel="nofollow">Traffic Management</a>, Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security.</li>
<li>Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you?</li>
<li>So: 

<ul>
<li>you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”), </li>
<li>which controls the network with SDN shit, </li>
<li><a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html" rel="nofollow">Istio-Manager + Envoy</a> does all your load-balancing/<a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-failures.html" rel="nofollow">circuit breaker</a>/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/request-routing.html#service-model-and-service-versions" rel="nofollow">service versioning</a> (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/rules-configuration.html" rel="nofollow">configuring “routes,” what connects to what</a>, </li>
<li><a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balancing.html" rel="nofollow">I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service</a>? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)?</li>
<li>Question: what does this look like in your code? 

<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://istio.io/docs/concepts/policy-and-control/mixer.html" rel="nofollow"></a> thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars?</li>
<li>And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by <a href="https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html" rel="nofollow"></a>., </li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
</ul></li>
<li>So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure:

<ul>
<li>Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)?</li>
<li>So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware?</li>
<li>What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right?</li>
<li>Where’ my fucking chart on this shit?</li>
<li>Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Meanwhile: <a href="https://thenewstack.io/oracle-joins-kubernetes-fray/" rel="nofollow">Oracle’s cool with it</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414031" rel="nofollow">“WTF is a microservice”</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441150" rel="nofollow">compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful</a>, and <a href="http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/31/so-what-even-is-a-service-mesh-hot-take-on-istio-and-linkerd/" rel="nofollow">James Governor tries to explain it all</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.</h1>

<h2>Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.enterprisecloudnews.com/author.asp?doc_id=733171&section_id=571" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE</li>
</ul>

<h2>Red Hat buys Codenvy</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://codenvy.com/developers/" rel="nofollow">Codenvy sets up your developer environments</a>, and has team stuff.</li>
<li>Red Hat is really after the developer market.</li>
<li>TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate.</li>
<li>Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep.</li>
<li>Notes <a href="https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92575" rel="nofollow">from Carl Lehmann report at 451</a>:

<ul>
<li>In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che</li>
<li>“Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.”</li>
<li>“The company&#39;s suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.”</li>
<li>Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other &#39;cloud IDEs,&#39; including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell&#39;s Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.”</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h2>Uber back in Austin</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Uber_ATX/status/867781159178051584" rel="nofollow">Is that a thing?</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me)</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/23/how-aws-cloud-is-demolishing-the-cult-of-youth/" rel="nofollow">Anecdotes are the singular of data</a>?</li>
</ul>

<h2>More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-tim-cook-texas-gov-abbott-pass-discriminatory-laws" rel="nofollow">Lords of Tech sign a thing</a></li>
<li>“In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&amp;M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/28/bathroom-bill-showdown-has-been-building-years/" rel="nofollow">“Peeing is not political”</a> - recap of the history of the bathroom bill. Still doesn’t really address “is there actually a problem here, backed up with citations.” Without such coverage, it’s hard to understand (and therefore figure out and react to) the hillbilly’s side on this beyond: &quot;It&#39;s just common sense and common decency — we don&#39;t want men in women&#39;s, ladies&#39; rooms.&quot; It also highlights the huge, social divide between “city folk” and the hillbillies.</li>
<li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/tech-leaders-ask-texas-governor-halt-discriminatory-legislation/" rel="nofollow">A lot more from TheNewStack</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>ChefConf Retrospective</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtF3oScoYqk" rel="nofollow">ICYMI</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Competing in Public Cloud is Crazy Expensive</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.platformonomics.com/2017/04/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>Tracks the CAPEX spend over the years for MS, Google and Amazon</li>
</ul>

<h2>A Year of Google &amp; Apple Maps</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>Comprehensive drill-down into the mapping changes made by Google and the smaller moves by Apple. </li>
<li>Probably not content for conversation, but whoa.</li>
</ul>

<h2>FAA Flight Delay Tracking</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp" rel="nofollow">Check the map, fool</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Recommendations</h1>

<ul>
<li>Brandon: <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/masters-of-scale/e/beauty-of-a-bad-idea-with-walker-companys-tristan-walker-50186227" rel="nofollow">Beauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker &amp; Company&#39;s Tristan</a></li>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/" rel="nofollow">Arrested DevOps #84</a> Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer &amp; Bryan Cantrill Epic rants. Also, Bryan Cantrill sounds like Bob Odenkirk</li>
<li>Enjoying <em>Westworld</em> and everything Brandon recommended months ago</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="http://www.paleorunningmomma.com/butternut-squash-hash-paleo-whole30/" rel="nofollow">Butternut-squash hash</a>.</li>
</ul><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html">Pivotal Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, in DC, June 7th.</a> Promo Code: FREE</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-minneapolis/welcome/">DevOpsDays</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-minneapolis/welcome/">DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT.</a> Promo Code: SDT</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 88: Docker is just cheap VMware, right?</title>
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  <itunes:title>Docker is just cheap VMware, right?</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and some recommendations.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <itunes:explicit>yes</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company.
Old folk jokes
Steve Gillmor (https://twitter.com/stevegillmor)
Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's (http://giphy.com/gifs/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW).
"The Southern Cross" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw)
Follow-up
No call yet from papercall (https://twitter.com/cote/status/832260016346431488)
JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on Coté Show #21 (http://www.cote.show/21).
It was Hooch, Turner was the human (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_%26_Hooch).
Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJE0c7kY8rg). Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at cote.io/not-devops (http://cote.io/not-devops)
Slack executes the perfect Freemium
Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product
Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500
Don't apologize that you don't support Markdown (https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages) or other power user features. 
Mid-roll
Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/), March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal's sponsoring, no Coté, tho.
Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and email us up that you did so (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact), and we'll semi-randomly select a winner.
Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/)
Matt: 
DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code
ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode.
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform).
Jassy Talks About the Competition
Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company (http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-cloud-leader-andy-jassy-sizes-competition-rare-public-remarks-rivals/)
"I don't think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we'd have a six- to seven-year head start"
When people say lock-in, it's dog-whistling for "Oracle."
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
AI &amp;amp; the Middle Class
Link (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/)
"If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do."
"He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth"... we (the US) are so screwed
Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I'm sure that "study" is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit.
Grim. Really, really, really grim (https://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/).
2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries
Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin (https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017).
"In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities."
"...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne's average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco."
Don't Trust the Status Page
FAKE STATUS! (https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90)
"We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved"
Reminder: https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/
Chef Joins the CNCF
Link (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2017/02/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-11-new-members-annual-open-source-leadership-summit)
Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium
Link (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/next_superdome_cpu_chips_amble_into_hpe/)
"HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025"
Recommendations
Matt: 
Spoon in Sydney! (http://www.frontiertouring.com/spoon)
http://atlasobscura.com I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for Tasmazia (http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tasmazia-and-the-village-of-lower-crackpot)
(Sub-req: Political Gabfest (http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html), The Weeds (http://www.vox.com/the-weeds), Kara Swisher (https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU).)
Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" (https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/832247845302521856/photo/1) Also, Bragg's (http://amzn.to/2ls48v0) and Hindenberg audio editor (https://hindenburg.com).
Brandon: The Upstarts (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/The-Upstarts-Audiobook/B01MU30HTG) 
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    <![CDATA[<p>There&#39;s tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad &quot;cloud-native stuff.&quot; We discuss that idea, plus &quot;the enterprise cloud wars,&quot; and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company.</p>

<h1>Old folk jokes</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/stevegillmor" rel="nofollow">Steve Gillmor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://giphy.com/gifs/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW" rel="nofollow">Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson&#39;s</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw" rel="nofollow">&quot;The Southern Cross&quot;</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Follow-up</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cote/status/832260016346431488" rel="nofollow">No call yet from papercall</a></li>
<li>JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on <a href="http://www.cote.show/21" rel="nofollow">Coté Show #21</a>.</li>
<li>It was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_%26_Hooch" rel="nofollow">Hooch, Turner was the human</a>.</li>
<li>Coté: follow-up, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJE0c7kY8rg" rel="nofollow">my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up</a>. Also, finally learned how to spell &quot;Charlotte.&quot; - See it at <a href="http://cote.io/not-devops" rel="nofollow">cote.io/not-devops</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Slack executes the perfect Freemium</h1>

<ul>
<li>Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product</li>
<li>Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500</li>
<li>Don&#39;t apologize that you <a href="https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages" rel="nofollow">don&#39;t support Markdown</a> or other power user features. </li>
</ul>

<h1>Mid-roll</h1>

<ul>
<li>Coté: we&#39;re a media sponsor for <a href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/" rel="nofollow">DevOpsDays Baltimore</a>, March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal&#39;s sponsoring, no Coté, tho.

<ul>
<li>Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and <a href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact" rel="nofollow">email us up that you did so</a>, and we&#39;ll semi-randomly select a winner.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: Come <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/" rel="nofollow">see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd</a></li>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/" rel="nofollow">DevOps Melbourne March 28th</a> Talking Compliance as Code</li>
<li><a href="https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/" rel="nofollow">ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin,</a> Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we&#39;ll likely record a &quot;live-to-tape&quot; episode.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: check <a href="http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform" rel="nofollow">out Pivotal&#39;s DIY platform paper</a>. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn&#39;t match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out <a href="http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform" rel="nofollow">http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Jassy Talks About the Competition</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-cloud-leader-andy-jassy-sizes-competition-rare-public-remarks-rivals/" rel="nofollow">Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company</a></li>
<li>&quot;I don&#39;t think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we&#39;d have a six- to seven-year head start&quot;</li>
<li>When people say lock-in, it&#39;s dog-whistling for &quot;Oracle.&quot;</li>
</ul>

<h2>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.</h2>

<h2>AI &amp; the Middle Class</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>&quot;If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do.&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth&quot;... we (the US) are so screwed</li>
<li>Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I&#39;m sure that &quot;study&quot; is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit.</li>
<li>Grim. <a href="https://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/" rel="nofollow">Really, really, really grim</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017" rel="nofollow">Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin</a>.</li>
<li>&quot;In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities.&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne&#39;s average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco.&quot;</li>
</ul>

<h2>Don&#39;t Trust the Status Page</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90" rel="nofollow">FAKE STATUS!</a></li>
<li>&quot;We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved&quot;</li>
<li>Reminder: <a href="https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Chef Joins the CNCF</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2017/02/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-11-new-members-annual-open-source-leadership-summit" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/next_superdome_cpu_chips_amble_into_hpe/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>&quot;HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025&quot;</li>
</ul>

<h1>Recommendations</h1>

<ul>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.frontiertouring.com/spoon" rel="nofollow">Spoon in Sydney!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://atlasobscura.com" rel="nofollow">http://atlasobscura.com</a> I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tasmazia-and-the-village-of-lower-crackpot" rel="nofollow">Tasmazia</a></li>
<li>(Sub-req: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html" rel="nofollow">Political Gabfest</a>, <a href="http://www.vox.com/the-weeds" rel="nofollow">The Weeds</a>, <a href="https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU" rel="nofollow">Kara Swisher</a>.)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/832247845302521856/photo/1" rel="nofollow">&quot;Don&#39;t tell me what to do!&quot;</a> Also, <a href="http://amzn.to/2ls48v0" rel="nofollow">Bragg&#39;s</a> and <a href="https://hindenburg.com" rel="nofollow">Hindenberg audio editor</a>.</li>
<li>Brandon: <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/The-Upstarts-Audiobook/B01MU30HTG" rel="nofollow"><em>The Upstarts</em></a></li>
</ul><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/">Chef</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/">ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform">Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/">Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/">DevOpsDays</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/">March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE.</a> Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/">Chef</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/">DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>There&#39;s tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad &quot;cloud-native stuff.&quot; We discuss that idea, plus &quot;the enterprise cloud wars,&quot; and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company.</p>

<h1>Old folk jokes</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/stevegillmor" rel="nofollow">Steve Gillmor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://giphy.com/gifs/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW" rel="nofollow">Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson&#39;s</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw" rel="nofollow">&quot;The Southern Cross&quot;</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Follow-up</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cote/status/832260016346431488" rel="nofollow">No call yet from papercall</a></li>
<li>JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on <a href="http://www.cote.show/21" rel="nofollow">Coté Show #21</a>.</li>
<li>It was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_%26_Hooch" rel="nofollow">Hooch, Turner was the human</a>.</li>
<li>Coté: follow-up, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJE0c7kY8rg" rel="nofollow">my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up</a>. Also, finally learned how to spell &quot;Charlotte.&quot; - See it at <a href="http://cote.io/not-devops" rel="nofollow">cote.io/not-devops</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Slack executes the perfect Freemium</h1>

<ul>
<li>Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product</li>
<li>Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500</li>
<li>Don&#39;t apologize that you <a href="https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages" rel="nofollow">don&#39;t support Markdown</a> or other power user features. </li>
</ul>

<h1>Mid-roll</h1>

<ul>
<li>Coté: we&#39;re a media sponsor for <a href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/" rel="nofollow">DevOpsDays Baltimore</a>, March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal&#39;s sponsoring, no Coté, tho.

<ul>
<li>Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and <a href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact" rel="nofollow">email us up that you did so</a>, and we&#39;ll semi-randomly select a winner.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: Come <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/" rel="nofollow">see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd</a></li>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/" rel="nofollow">DevOps Melbourne March 28th</a> Talking Compliance as Code</li>
<li><a href="https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/" rel="nofollow">ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin,</a> Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we&#39;ll likely record a &quot;live-to-tape&quot; episode.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: check <a href="http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform" rel="nofollow">out Pivotal&#39;s DIY platform paper</a>. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn&#39;t match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out <a href="http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform" rel="nofollow">http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Jassy Talks About the Competition</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-cloud-leader-andy-jassy-sizes-competition-rare-public-remarks-rivals/" rel="nofollow">Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company</a></li>
<li>&quot;I don&#39;t think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we&#39;d have a six- to seven-year head start&quot;</li>
<li>When people say lock-in, it&#39;s dog-whistling for &quot;Oracle.&quot;</li>
</ul>

<h2>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.</h2>

<h2>AI &amp; the Middle Class</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>&quot;If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do.&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth&quot;... we (the US) are so screwed</li>
<li>Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I&#39;m sure that &quot;study&quot; is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit.</li>
<li>Grim. <a href="https://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/" rel="nofollow">Really, really, really grim</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017" rel="nofollow">Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin</a>.</li>
<li>&quot;In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities.&quot;</li>
<li>&quot;...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne&#39;s average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco.&quot;</li>
</ul>

<h2>Don&#39;t Trust the Status Page</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90" rel="nofollow">FAKE STATUS!</a></li>
<li>&quot;We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved&quot;</li>
<li>Reminder: <a href="https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Chef Joins the CNCF</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2017/02/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-11-new-members-annual-open-source-leadership-summit" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/next_superdome_cpu_chips_amble_into_hpe/" rel="nofollow">Link</a></li>
<li>&quot;HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025&quot;</li>
</ul>

<h1>Recommendations</h1>

<ul>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.frontiertouring.com/spoon" rel="nofollow">Spoon in Sydney!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://atlasobscura.com" rel="nofollow">http://atlasobscura.com</a> I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tasmazia-and-the-village-of-lower-crackpot" rel="nofollow">Tasmazia</a></li>
<li>(Sub-req: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html" rel="nofollow">Political Gabfest</a>, <a href="http://www.vox.com/the-weeds" rel="nofollow">The Weeds</a>, <a href="https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU" rel="nofollow">Kara Swisher</a>.)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/832247845302521856/photo/1" rel="nofollow">&quot;Don&#39;t tell me what to do!&quot;</a> Also, <a href="http://amzn.to/2ls48v0" rel="nofollow">Bragg&#39;s</a> and <a href="https://hindenburg.com" rel="nofollow">Hindenberg audio editor</a>.</li>
<li>Brandon: <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/The-Upstarts-Audiobook/B01MU30HTG" rel="nofollow"><em>The Upstarts</em></a></li>
</ul><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/">Chef</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/">ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform">Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/">Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/">DevOpsDays</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/">March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE.</a> Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE</li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/">Chef</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/">DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 82: Attack of the two-pizza teams</title>
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  <itunes:title>Attack of the two-pizza teams</itunes:title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.
...That sweet OpEx.
..."Easy to stay."
Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.
Footware
Kenneth Cole slip on shoes (http://amzn.to/2gH6OzD).
Keen Austin shoes, slip-on (http://amzn.to/2h2gveX) and lace (http://amzn.to/2ggll4y).
The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ).
Mid-roll
Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 (http://cote.io/cloud2) or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro), and dealing with legacy (https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz).
Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo (https://connpass.com/event/46308/)
AWS re:Invent
Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.
Richard has a write-up as well (https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/aws-reinvent-recap).
RedMonk re:Cap (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/12/07/the-redmonk-reinvent-recap/)
Global Partner Summit
Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners" (http://www.zdnet.com/article/andy-jassy-warns-aws-has-no-time-for-uncommitted-partners/)
"10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months" (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-global-partner-summit-report-from-reinvent-2016/)
Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"
Amazon Lightsail (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/)
Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage &amp;amp; static IP
Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean &amp;amp; Linode
Amazon Athena (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/)
S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine
JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others
Coté: this seems pretty amazing.
Amazon Rekognition (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-image-detection-and-recognition-powered-by-deep-learning/)
Image detection &amp;amp; recognition
Amazon Polly (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages/)
Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
Coté: Makes transcripts?
Amazon Lex (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-build-conversational-voice-text-interfaces/)
Conversational voice &amp;amp; text interface builder (ie. chatbots)
Coté: make chat-bots and such.
AWS Greengrass (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-greengrass-ubiquitous-real-world-computing/)
Local Lambda processing for IoT
Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?
AWS Snowball Edge &amp;amp; Snowmobile (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-edge-more-storage-local-endpoints-lambda-functions/)
Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp
Not just me (https://twitter.com/CTOAdvisor/status/806320423881162753)
More on it (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/)
Move exabytes in weeks (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/)
"Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center."
Coté: LEGOS!
More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora
High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/)
Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/)
More! (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/)
F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/)
RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?
Day 2
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate (https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/)
Chef blog (https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/01/chef-automate-now-available-fully-managed-service-aws/)
Fully managed Chef Server &amp;amp; Automate
Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks"
Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy (https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/804374597449584640)
EC2 Systems Manager
Tools for managing EC2 &amp;amp; on-premises systems (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/)
AWS Codebuild
Managed elastic build service with testing (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-codebuild-fully-managed-build-service/)
AWS X-Ray (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-your-distributed-application/)
Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?
"easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services"
AWS Personal Health Dashboard (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-personal-health-dashboard-status-you-can-relate-to/)
Personalized AWS monitoring &amp;amp; CloudWatch Events auto-remediation
Disruptive to PAAS monitoring &amp;amp; APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)
AWS Shield (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-shield-protect-your-applications-from-ddos-attacks/)
DDoS protection
Amazon Pinpoint
Mobile notification &amp;amp; analytics service (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-pinpoint-hit-your-targets-with-aws/)
AWS Glue
Managed data catalog &amp;amp; ETL (extract, transform &amp;amp; load) service for data analysis
AWS Batch
Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-batch-run-batch-computing-jobs-on-aws/)
C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions
Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd"
Lambda Edge (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/) for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close"
More (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/)
Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions
More (https://serverless.zone/faas-is-stateless-and-aws-step-functions-provides-state-as-a-service-2499d4a6e412)
BLOX (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-blox-from-amazon-ec2-container-service/): EC2 Container Service Scheduler
Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments
Blox.github.io
Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff
Jesus! I couldn't read it all!
So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.
What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Docker for AWS
"EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS." (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3145696/application-development/docker-for-aws-whos-it-really-for.html)
Docker gets paid on usage?
Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?
Time to Break up Amazon?
Someone has an opinion (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-study-compares-amazon-19th-century-robber-barons-urges-policymakers-break-online-retail-giant/)
HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud"
Hybrid it up! (http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-updates-its-converged-infrastructure-hybrid-cloud-software-lineup/)
Killed "The Machine" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/29/hp_labs_delivered_machine_proof_of_concept_prototype_but_machine_product_is_no_more/)
HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)
Not great timing for a conference
Sold OpenStack &amp;amp; CloudFoundry bits to SUSE (http://thenewstack.io/suse-add-hpes-openstack-cloud-foundry-portfolio-boost-kubernetes-investment/), the new "preferred Linux partner": 
How Google is Challenging AWS
Ben on public cloud (https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/)
"open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google's attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company's equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning."
Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS (http://exponent.fm/episode-097-google-versus-aws/)
Recommendations
Brandon: 
Apple Wifi Calling (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032) &amp;amp; Airplane mode (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234).
Westworld worth watching (http://www.hbo.com/westworld).
Matt: 
Backyard Kookaburras (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNn7P59HcQ).
Magpies too! (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/)
This gif (https://media.giphy.com/media/wik7sKOl86OFq/giphy.gif).
Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas (http://www.wlasvegas.com/) and lobster eggs benedict (https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxAyQbjKCQ/) at Payard's in Ceasers'
Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position (http://genius.com/Soul-position-i-need-my-minutes-lyrics). 
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    <![CDATA[<p>...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.</p>

<p>...That sweet OpEx.</p>

<p>...&quot;Easy to stay.&quot;</p>

<p>Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.</p>

<h1>Footware</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/2gH6OzD" rel="nofollow">Kenneth Cole slip on shoes</a>.</li>
<li>Keen Austin shoes, <a href="http://amzn.to/2h2gveX" rel="nofollow">slip-on</a> and <a href="http://amzn.to/2ggll4y" rel="nofollow">lace</a>.</li>
<li>The Doc Martin&#39;s Coté used to wear, <a href="http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ" rel="nofollow">Hickmire</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Mid-roll</h1>

<ul>
<li>Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at <a href="http://cote.io/cloud2" rel="nofollow">cote.io/cloud2</a> or, just check out some excerpts on <a href="https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l" rel="nofollow">working with auditors</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro" rel="nofollow">selecting initial projects</a>, and <a href="https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz" rel="nofollow">dealing with legacy</a>.</li>
<li>Matt: Presenting at the <a href="https://connpass.com/event/46308/" rel="nofollow">CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>AWS re:Invent</h1>

<ul>
<li>Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/aws-reinvent-recap" rel="nofollow">Richard has a write-up as well</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/12/07/the-redmonk-reinvent-recap/" rel="nofollow">RedMonk re:Cap</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Global Partner Summit</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/andy-jassy-warns-aws-has-no-time-for-uncommitted-partners/" rel="nofollow">Don&#39;t hedge your bets, &quot;AWS has no time for uncommitted partners&quot;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-global-partner-summit-report-from-reinvent-2016/" rel="nofollow">&quot;10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months&quot;</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Day 1 - &quot;I&#39;d like to tell you about…&quot;</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Lightsail</a>

<ul>
<li>Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage &amp; static IP</li>
<li>Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean &amp; Linode</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Athena</a>

<ul>
<li>S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine</li>
<li>JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others</li>
<li>Coté: this seems pretty amazing.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-image-detection-and-recognition-powered-by-deep-learning/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Rekognition</a>

<ul>
<li>Image detection &amp; recognition</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Polly</a>

<ul>
<li>Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages</li>
<li>Coté: Makes transcripts?</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-build-conversational-voice-text-interfaces/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Lex</a>

<ul>
<li>Conversational voice &amp; text interface builder (ie. chatbots)</li>
<li>Coté: make chat-bots and such.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-greengrass-ubiquitous-real-world-computing/" rel="nofollow">AWS Greengrass</a>

<ul>
<li>Local Lambda processing for IoT</li>
<li>Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-edge-more-storage-local-endpoints-lambda-functions/" rel="nofollow">AWS Snowball Edge &amp; Snowmobile</a>

<ul>
<li>Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I&#39;m thinking easy hybrid on-ramp

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/CTOAdvisor/status/806320423881162753" rel="nofollow">Not just me</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/" rel="nofollow">More on it</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/" rel="nofollow">Move exabytes in weeks</a></li>
<li>&quot;Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center.&quot;</li>
<li>Coté: LEGOS!</li>
</ul></li>
<li>More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/" rel="nofollow">High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/" rel="nofollow">Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/" rel="nofollow">More!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/" rel="nofollow">F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace</a></li>
<li>RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h2>Day 2</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/" rel="nofollow">AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/01/chef-automate-now-available-fully-managed-service-aws/" rel="nofollow">Chef blog</a></li>
<li>Fully managed Chef Server &amp; Automate</li>
<li>Previous OpsWorks now called &quot;OpsWorks Stacks&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/804374597449584640" rel="nofollow">Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>EC2 Systems Manager

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/" rel="nofollow">Tools for managing EC2 &amp; on-premises systems</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>AWS Codebuild

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-codebuild-fully-managed-build-service/" rel="nofollow">Managed elastic build service with testing</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-your-distributed-application/" rel="nofollow">AWS X-Ray</a>

<ul>
<li>Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?</li>
<li>&quot;easy way for developers to &quot;follow-the-thread&quot; as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services&quot;</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-personal-health-dashboard-status-you-can-relate-to/" rel="nofollow">AWS Personal Health Dashboard</a>

<ul>
<li>Personalized AWS monitoring &amp; CloudWatch Events auto-remediation</li>
<li>Disruptive to PAAS monitoring &amp; APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-shield-protect-your-applications-from-ddos-attacks/" rel="nofollow">AWS Shield</a>

<ul>
<li>DDoS protection</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Amazon Pinpoint

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-pinpoint-hit-your-targets-with-aws/" rel="nofollow">Mobile notification &amp; analytics service</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>AWS Glue

<ul>
<li>Managed data catalog &amp; ETL (extract, transform &amp; load) service for data analysis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>AWS Batch

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-batch-run-batch-computing-jobs-on-aws/" rel="nofollow">Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions

<ul>
<li>Werner Vogels: &quot;serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/" rel="nofollow">Lambda Edge</a> for running in response to CloudFront events, &quot;&quot;intelligent&quot; processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/" rel="nofollow">More</a></li>
<li>Step Functions a visual workflow &quot;state machine&quot; for Lambda functions</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.zone/faas-is-stateless-and-aws-step-functions-provides-state-as-a-service-2499d4a6e412" rel="nofollow">More</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-blox-from-amazon-ec2-container-service/" rel="nofollow">BLOX</a>: EC2 Container Service Scheduler</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments</li>
<li>Blox.github.io</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h2>Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff</h2>

<ul>
<li>Jesus! I couldn&#39;t read it all!</li>
<li>So, what&#39;s the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.</li>
<li>What&#39;s the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you&#39;d go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn&#39;t flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)</li>
</ul>

<h1>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.</h1>

<h2>Docker for AWS</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/3145696/application-development/docker-for-aws-whos-it-really-for.html" rel="nofollow">&quot;EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS.&quot;</a></li>
<li>Docker gets paid on usage?</li>
<li>Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?</li>
</ul>

<h2>Time to Break up Amazon?</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-study-compares-amazon-19th-century-robber-barons-urges-policymakers-break-online-retail-giant/" rel="nofollow">Someone has an opinion</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>HPE Discover, all about the &quot;Hybrid Cloud&quot;</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-updates-its-converged-infrastructure-hybrid-cloud-software-lineup/" rel="nofollow">Hybrid it up!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/29/hp_labs_delivered_machine_proof_of_concept_prototype_but_machine_product_is_no_more/" rel="nofollow">Killed &quot;The Machine&quot;</a></li>
<li>HPE&#39;s Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)</li>
<li>Not great timing for a conference</li>
<li><a href="http://thenewstack.io/suse-add-hpes-openstack-cloud-foundry-portfolio-boost-kubernetes-investment/" rel="nofollow">Sold OpenStack &amp; CloudFoundry bits to SUSE</a>, the new &quot;preferred Linux partner&quot;: </li>
</ul>

<h2>How Google is Challenging AWS</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/" rel="nofollow">Ben on public cloud</a></li>
<li>&quot;open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google&#39;s attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company&#39;s equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="http://exponent.fm/episode-097-google-versus-aws/" rel="nofollow">Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Recommendations</h1>

<ul>
<li>Brandon: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032" rel="nofollow">Apple Wifi Calling</a> &amp; <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234" rel="nofollow">Airplane mode</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hbo.com/westworld" rel="nofollow">Westworld worth watching</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNn7P59HcQ" rel="nofollow">Backyard Kookaburras</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/" rel="nofollow">Magpies too!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/wik7sKOl86OFq/giphy.gif" rel="nofollow">This gif</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="http://www.wlasvegas.com/" rel="nofollow">W Hotel in Las Vegas</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxAyQbjKCQ/" rel="nofollow">lobster eggs benedict</a> at Payard&#39;s in Ceasers&#39;</li>
</ul>

<p>Outro: <a href="http://genius.com/Soul-position-i-need-my-minutes-lyrics" rel="nofollow">&quot;I need my minutes,&quot; Soul Position</a>.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://cote.io/cloud2/">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cote.io/cloud2/">Check out Coté's work in progress, the ~50 page cloud native journey, edition two book. It coverers the common questions, best practices, and snarky takes on doing better software in large organizations.</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.</p>

<p>...That sweet OpEx.</p>

<p>...&quot;Easy to stay.&quot;</p>

<p>Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.</p>

<h1>Footware</h1>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/2gH6OzD" rel="nofollow">Kenneth Cole slip on shoes</a>.</li>
<li>Keen Austin shoes, <a href="http://amzn.to/2h2gveX" rel="nofollow">slip-on</a> and <a href="http://amzn.to/2ggll4y" rel="nofollow">lace</a>.</li>
<li>The Doc Martin&#39;s Coté used to wear, <a href="http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ" rel="nofollow">Hickmire</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h1>Mid-roll</h1>

<ul>
<li>Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at <a href="http://cote.io/cloud2" rel="nofollow">cote.io/cloud2</a> or, just check out some excerpts on <a href="https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l" rel="nofollow">working with auditors</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro" rel="nofollow">selecting initial projects</a>, and <a href="https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz" rel="nofollow">dealing with legacy</a>.</li>
<li>Matt: Presenting at the <a href="https://connpass.com/event/46308/" rel="nofollow">CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>AWS re:Invent</h1>

<ul>
<li>Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/aws-reinvent-recap" rel="nofollow">Richard has a write-up as well</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/12/07/the-redmonk-reinvent-recap/" rel="nofollow">RedMonk re:Cap</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Global Partner Summit</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/andy-jassy-warns-aws-has-no-time-for-uncommitted-partners/" rel="nofollow">Don&#39;t hedge your bets, &quot;AWS has no time for uncommitted partners&quot;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-global-partner-summit-report-from-reinvent-2016/" rel="nofollow">&quot;10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months&quot;</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Day 1 - &quot;I&#39;d like to tell you about…&quot;</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Lightsail</a>

<ul>
<li>Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage &amp; static IP</li>
<li>Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean &amp; Linode</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Athena</a>

<ul>
<li>S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine</li>
<li>JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others</li>
<li>Coté: this seems pretty amazing.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-image-detection-and-recognition-powered-by-deep-learning/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Rekognition</a>

<ul>
<li>Image detection &amp; recognition</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Polly</a>

<ul>
<li>Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages</li>
<li>Coté: Makes transcripts?</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-build-conversational-voice-text-interfaces/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Lex</a>

<ul>
<li>Conversational voice &amp; text interface builder (ie. chatbots)</li>
<li>Coté: make chat-bots and such.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-greengrass-ubiquitous-real-world-computing/" rel="nofollow">AWS Greengrass</a>

<ul>
<li>Local Lambda processing for IoT</li>
<li>Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-edge-more-storage-local-endpoints-lambda-functions/" rel="nofollow">AWS Snowball Edge &amp; Snowmobile</a>

<ul>
<li>Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I&#39;m thinking easy hybrid on-ramp

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/CTOAdvisor/status/806320423881162753" rel="nofollow">Not just me</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/" rel="nofollow">More on it</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/" rel="nofollow">Move exabytes in weeks</a></li>
<li>&quot;Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center.&quot;</li>
<li>Coté: LEGOS!</li>
</ul></li>
<li>More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/" rel="nofollow">High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/" rel="nofollow">Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/" rel="nofollow">More!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/" rel="nofollow">F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace</a></li>
<li>RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h2>Day 2</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/" rel="nofollow">AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/01/chef-automate-now-available-fully-managed-service-aws/" rel="nofollow">Chef blog</a></li>
<li>Fully managed Chef Server &amp; Automate</li>
<li>Previous OpsWorks now called &quot;OpsWorks Stacks&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/804374597449584640" rel="nofollow">Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>EC2 Systems Manager

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/" rel="nofollow">Tools for managing EC2 &amp; on-premises systems</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>AWS Codebuild

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-codebuild-fully-managed-build-service/" rel="nofollow">Managed elastic build service with testing</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-your-distributed-application/" rel="nofollow">AWS X-Ray</a>

<ul>
<li>Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?</li>
<li>&quot;easy way for developers to &quot;follow-the-thread&quot; as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services&quot;</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-personal-health-dashboard-status-you-can-relate-to/" rel="nofollow">AWS Personal Health Dashboard</a>

<ul>
<li>Personalized AWS monitoring &amp; CloudWatch Events auto-remediation</li>
<li>Disruptive to PAAS monitoring &amp; APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-shield-protect-your-applications-from-ddos-attacks/" rel="nofollow">AWS Shield</a>

<ul>
<li>DDoS protection</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Amazon Pinpoint

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-pinpoint-hit-your-targets-with-aws/" rel="nofollow">Mobile notification &amp; analytics service</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>AWS Glue

<ul>
<li>Managed data catalog &amp; ETL (extract, transform &amp; load) service for data analysis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>AWS Batch

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-batch-run-batch-computing-jobs-on-aws/" rel="nofollow">Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions

<ul>
<li>Werner Vogels: &quot;serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/" rel="nofollow">Lambda Edge</a> for running in response to CloudFront events, &quot;&quot;intelligent&quot; processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close&quot;</li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/" rel="nofollow">More</a></li>
<li>Step Functions a visual workflow &quot;state machine&quot; for Lambda functions</li>
<li><a href="https://serverless.zone/faas-is-stateless-and-aws-step-functions-provides-state-as-a-service-2499d4a6e412" rel="nofollow">More</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-blox-from-amazon-ec2-container-service/" rel="nofollow">BLOX</a>: EC2 Container Service Scheduler</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments</li>
<li>Blox.github.io</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<h2>Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff</h2>

<ul>
<li>Jesus! I couldn&#39;t read it all!</li>
<li>So, what&#39;s the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.</li>
<li>What&#39;s the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you&#39;d go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn&#39;t flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)</li>
</ul>

<h1>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.</h1>

<h2>Docker for AWS</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/3145696/application-development/docker-for-aws-whos-it-really-for.html" rel="nofollow">&quot;EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS.&quot;</a></li>
<li>Docker gets paid on usage?</li>
<li>Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?</li>
</ul>

<h2>Time to Break up Amazon?</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-study-compares-amazon-19th-century-robber-barons-urges-policymakers-break-online-retail-giant/" rel="nofollow">Someone has an opinion</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>HPE Discover, all about the &quot;Hybrid Cloud&quot;</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-updates-its-converged-infrastructure-hybrid-cloud-software-lineup/" rel="nofollow">Hybrid it up!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/29/hp_labs_delivered_machine_proof_of_concept_prototype_but_machine_product_is_no_more/" rel="nofollow">Killed &quot;The Machine&quot;</a></li>
<li>HPE&#39;s Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)</li>
<li>Not great timing for a conference</li>
<li><a href="http://thenewstack.io/suse-add-hpes-openstack-cloud-foundry-portfolio-boost-kubernetes-investment/" rel="nofollow">Sold OpenStack &amp; CloudFoundry bits to SUSE</a>, the new &quot;preferred Linux partner&quot;: </li>
</ul>

<h2>How Google is Challenging AWS</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/" rel="nofollow">Ben on public cloud</a></li>
<li>&quot;open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google&#39;s attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company&#39;s equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning.&quot;</li>
<li><a href="http://exponent.fm/episode-097-google-versus-aws/" rel="nofollow">Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Recommendations</h1>

<ul>
<li>Brandon: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032" rel="nofollow">Apple Wifi Calling</a> &amp; <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234" rel="nofollow">Airplane mode</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hbo.com/westworld" rel="nofollow">Westworld worth watching</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Matt: 

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNn7P59HcQ" rel="nofollow">Backyard Kookaburras</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/" rel="nofollow">Magpies too!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/wik7sKOl86OFq/giphy.gif" rel="nofollow">This gif</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Coté: <a href="http://www.wlasvegas.com/" rel="nofollow">W Hotel in Las Vegas</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxAyQbjKCQ/" rel="nofollow">lobster eggs benedict</a> at Payard&#39;s in Ceasers&#39;</li>
</ul>

<p>Outro: <a href="http://genius.com/Soul-position-i-need-my-minutes-lyrics" rel="nofollow">&quot;I need my minutes,&quot; Soul Position</a>.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://cote.io/cloud2/">Pivotal</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cote.io/cloud2/">Check out Coté's work in progress, the ~50 page cloud native journey, edition two book. It coverers the common questions, best practices, and snarky takes on doing better software in large organizations.</a></li></ul>]]>
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