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• Matt:
  • ChefConf May 22-24 NEXT WEEK!

• Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control. $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here.
• As ever, the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise.
• Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU.
• Matt needs a driver's license

• HSA is probably a good idea.
• Better get a FAX machine.
• This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware.

• He Tweetered it: "to help them with their DevOps journey."
• He's a VP! - exec level #AchievementUnlocked
• He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps."
• It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does.
• He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit: "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing."
• Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel?
• I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days.
• Checks out: "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 countries."
• Their owner, Carlson (yes, of hotel fame, but also used to own things like TGI Friday's [from 1975 to 2014]) is in MN.
  • But then the hotels were bought by a Chinese group, HNA?
  • So now, Carlson Group is mostly just Wagonlit?

• Coté's notebook on the topic.
• Link: "in the last year, Ubuntu cloud growth had been 70 percent on the private cloud and 90 percent on the public cloud." In particular, "Ubuntu has been gaining more customers on the big five public clouds." 5?
• Still, there is "no timeline for the IPO." First, Shuttleworth wants all parts of the slimmed down Canonical to be profitable. Then "we will take a round of investment." After that, Canonical will go public.
• The S1 filing is going to be fascinating.
• Mirantis still into OpenStack, Coté was straigh-up wrong: "The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack — or separately."

• "DevOps" is used 19 times in the press release.
• Coté: so, is this like "vault" type stuff in cloud-native land?
• Coté talked with a CyberArk SE at DevOpsDays Austin, they had a booth!
• 451 report from Garrett Bekker:
  • "privileged access management (PAM)"
  • "Conjur [founded in 2013] marks CyberArk's third acquisition, following the 2015 pickups of endpoint security vendor Cybertinel for an undisclosed sum and Windows least privileged management and application whitelisting firm Viewfinity for $30m. CyberArk paid $42m in cash and we estimate a multiple slightly north of 10x trailing revenue, potentially boosted by a competitive bid. Once the transaction closes, 20 Conjur employees will join CyberArk."
  • Conjur's "three core products are Privileged Access Management for managing 'secrets' such as SSH keys, Dynamic Traffic Authorization for controlling and brokering access to resources, and Compliance Monitoring for real-time reporting."
  • Founded in 1999, CyberArk "went public in September 2014 and is currently valued at about $1.7bn, with 2016 revenue of $216m."
• JJ on avoiding SSH, Coté Show #21.

GNU GPL Stands Up In Court

• Keith Collins, Quartz write-up.
• Appears willful, embedding GPL software implicitly accepts the license.
• It's over: "Ghostscript—an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)." It has dual-licensing, a la MySQL and friends.
• "Hancom issued a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company didn't sign anything, so the license wasn't a real contract."
• "[Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley] denied the motion, and in doing so, set the precedent that licenses like the GNU GPL can be treated like legal contracts, and developers can legitimately sue when those contracts are breached."
• This has come up for Artifex as well, back in 2008.
• Not sure what this lawyer-cant is, but: "A few aspects of the decision are of particular interest to the open source community. For example, Hancom argued that Artifex could not plead breach of contract for violation of GPL and could not request specific performance of the terms of GPL. Hancom also argued that copyright damages were not available because the GPL grants royalty-free rights."
• More: "Here, in denying a motion to dismiss, the District Court only holds that the claims may proceed on the theories enunciated by Artifex, not necessarily that they will ultimately succeed."
• More history and context from Kieren McCarthy, at The Register, which Coté didn't really read.

DevOpsDays Austin Recap?

• Coté's main talk ("Not Actually a DevOps Talk"), and then Ignite (not up yet, but here's slides).
  • Also, a rare chance to see me setting up for a talk, with all the cord shit and all.
• Nicole Forsgren's slides
• Kelsey Hightower's talk, very personal and a great story.
• Videos are sort of up, just not cut-up.

WannaCry

• Windows XP still?
• Realish-time twitter bot watching ransomware payments into the BitCoin accounts.
• Find it with InSpec and fix it.

Linux in the Microsoft Store

- Pigs seen flying over Redmond

"Straightening" Out the Moby Story

• Coté: at the end of this, it seems like a pretty small deal to normals, only vendors should care…?
• From Lee Calcote at TheNewStack. ## Rackspace + Dell EMC Doing OpenStack
• Partnership

• Brandon:
  • Nobel Sandwich, in Austin, esp. breakfast/brunch.
  • Freakonomics episode: "Why is my life so hard"
• Matt:
  • Catastrophe Season 3 - profane, realistic comedy with Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan (Amazon/BBC)
  • Fuzzes search engines to prevent them from profiling you.
• Coté:
  • Early on use, but, Google Photos - the XKCD perspective](https://xkcd.com/1832/) on photo management. Coté's Apple photo management rant in episode 22 of the Coté Show.
  • Also, butterfly your CostCo chicken breasts (eating just one half, or both) and cook to about 150-155 degrees, letting it heat up to 165 on the plate. Much better than figuring out the wicked problem of cooking a full, thick breast.

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• Matt: ChefConf May 22-24

• 5 different airlines in a month.
• Emirates is the best.
• This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay.

• Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more.
• Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum.

• As summarized by Derrick (via CNBC:
  • AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter.
  • Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year.
  • Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion.
• What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008.
• Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM.

• LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers.
• “Moby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system”
• Moby = open source development
• Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
• Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE
• Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE
• Letter about Mobyan-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/
• Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec.
• Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such
• Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO.

EngineYard done!

• Press Release
• A snarky Tweet
• Another Press Release
• Jay Lyman at 451: “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue.

“Native” Windows Server Support for Docker

• Link
• “Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology”

Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017

• Link 1
• Link 2
• Always fun to read “real” numbers
• 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front

Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak

• Link
• Patch your servers and run modern versions people.

Amazon’s Coming to Australia

• Link
• “The moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. “

Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center

• Link
• 30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack

Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray

• Link
• Everybody wants a piece of AWS

Microsoft buys Deis

• Coté’s notebook on the topic.

Oracle Buys Wercker

• Link
• “container lifecycle management” - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition?

How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide

• Link
• Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru
• Re: Oracle “if you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?”
• “2+1 redundancy is cheaper than 1+1 and, when there are 3 facilities, a single facility can experience a fault without eliminating all redundancy from the system. Consequently, whenever AWS goes into a new region, it’s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.”
• “latency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions”
• “being close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs”

Canonical/Ubuntu priorities

• Link
• Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT

BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices

• Link
• “BrickerBot the work of a vigilante?”

OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development

• Link
• Open source Solaris-compatible clone
• “OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS”

Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free

• Link
• MacOS and IOS!
• Keynote is the best, why not open source for an attempt at cross-platform?

• Brandon: S-town podcast, some background from the creator.
• Matt Ray: Google Translate video realtime AR stuff.
• Coté: The Big Sleep.

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• Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote. Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot, hopefully.
• Matt:
  • AWS Summit Sydney next week
  • DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th
  • Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th
  • Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th
  • ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st
• Brandon
  • Try Contextual Sync
  • New Meetup - Microservices Austin.

• Still OpenStack though
• Link
  • "It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum."
  • ¯_(ツ)_/¯
  • "It's not clear if Tess.io can or will be released as open source" - what's the point of open sourcing something if a vendor isn't going to make it more accessible for consumption? Do they really expect anyone else to use something built for Ebay by Ebay and find use? Rip out Magnum in OpenStack and toss it in there? I'm always skeptical about adoption when I hear about non-software companies open sourcing a big project. -Matt
    • There can only be one Netflix.
    • A software company that just happens to be an auction company.
      

• Companies open sourcing software for the sake of open sourcing it...but not for a revenue reason.
• Is open source about tactically creating standards?

• Blog post on it, in alpha.

• Get Carina
• EOL

• BlueMix Container Services
  • And a vulnerability scanner!
  • How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach?
• Will Smith?!?
  • Peyton Manning previously. Remember Bill Clinton at DellWorld?
  • Coté's Analyst-hack: Watch keynotes from your hotel room.

• Something was contributed
• More...
• Boring part of the stack commoditized & foundationed
• "Container-D or Contai-Nerd" is the real question
• "contaiNERD" - GET IT?!?!!

• From The Register
• Everybody wants to be IBM Global Services
• Coté'd tl;dr: financial aside (which I don't know), probably makes sense. While we might bemoan EDS and GBS downsizing, there's endless money in the "solution" sales (tech + meatware). And - I'm sure the deal decks are saying - with SaaS penetration at 20-30%, there's a shit-ton of churn in IT in the next 10-20 years, all requiring services. Most importantly, the G2000 and governments will want to hire "trusted" brands, like Accenture, to help them. On the other hand, maybe that goofy Accenture touch screen in ORD will now be a way to touch-screen up Oracle wares: God help us.
• HP EDS, IBM GBS, Dell Services (Perot), etc.
• "Accenture has a market cap of $77.5bn, and shareholders will expect a premium offer."
• HPE Services and CSC, it's a thing.

Chef Survey 2017 Results

• Analysis, Infographic
• Reads really well if you imagine bullet points as spinning newspaper headlines:
  • "Workloads are increasing faster than headcount"
• More:
  • "61% are automating infrastructure, 30% are automating compliance, and only 27% are automating container management."
  • "Of those users, 73% wait to assess compliance after development work has begun and new features have been implemented. 59% assess compliance once code is already running in production, possibly resulting in additional rework as change is re-architected to meet Information Security standards."
    • On the one hand, this is a bummer.
    • On the other hand: "hey, you 59% lot: you call yourself auditors?"

Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs

• "Containers on the other hand are not real things"
• Down in the weeds on containers vs. everything else

SoundCloud

• I don't understand it

Newsletters!

• Monitoring Love.
• Last Week in AWS.

• Coté:
  • Google SRE book, and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer.
  • Also: The Economist Espresso app.
  • Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders.
• Brandon:
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Homo Deus
  • Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari.

• Matt:

  • New Spoon album Hot Thoughts
  • Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, a Brandon retro-recommendation.
  • Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It
  • Fighting Johnny Leadgen and Mailinator

  Cover-art from You Had One Job.

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• Buckets of Fun: Microservices Austin Meetup - This is a technical meetup ( technical referring to content ( recruiters don't waste your time ) ); in an ideal world each meeting will have code involved. Whether that be on the development side or operations side depends on the subject matter. But my "hope" is that every meetup produces some positive outcome. Whether that being a person choosing to present has a feedback loop outside of their bias coworkers or just having general feedback.

• Steve Gillmor
• Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's.
• "The Southern Cross"

• No call yet from papercall
• 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.
• It was Hooch, Turner was the human.
• Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up. Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at cote.io/not-devops

• 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 or other power user features.

• Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, 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, and we'll semi-randomly select a winner.
• Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
• Matt:
  • DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
  • ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode.
• Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. 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.

• Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company
• "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 & the Middle Class

• Link
• "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.

2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries

• Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin.
• "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!
• "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

Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium

• Link
• "HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025"

• Matt:
  • Spoon in Sydney!
  • 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
  • (Sub-req: Political Gabfest, The Weeds, Kara Swisher.)
• Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" Also, Bragg's and Hindenberg audio editor.
• Brandon: The Upstarts

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• Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
• Matt:
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• The S1
• "We had 158 million Daily Active Users on average in the quarter ended December 31, 2016"
• "We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years." - perhaps 10% of their billing.
• Also: "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021."
• Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ.

• Robots opening doors.
• Google, Nest, and DropCam - despite rocky start, maybe it's just a slow ramp-up, they have 50% y/y growth.
• People think GCP is the shit.
• "Purity vs. pragmatism."

• "Barra-mundi"
• Pronunciation tips

• DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords
• I mean, really? A criminal is just gonna let you see their stuff? They'll just delete it, set up fake accounts, etc.
• It's not like popping the trunk for a thief and finding lock picks and guns in the boot: with digital crime tools and weapons, you can hide and subterfuge.
• And then the only people getting harmed are innocent people.
• What the fuck is wrong with these people, and more importantly the shit-for brains who voted for them? (How can we de-shit those brains for 2018?)
• Tweet about 3D chess of this meaning the government can't hack into your stuff...or can they?!?!

• Not just marketing, but actually "freeing" code
• Switched from AGPLv3 to ASLv2
• "Abby," head of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. See a recent discussion with her and RedMonk's James Governor on developer skills in large organizations.

• Nagios replacement!!!
• Brandon has some advice.

Microsoft does Azure Patent Indemnification

• "The system is supposed to help ease the transition to the cloud by giving companies extra peace of mind. Right now, lawsuits over intellectual property relating to open source technology in the cloud are rare" Link
• "those companies operating in a multi-cloud configuration won't be entirely covered"

Attempting to Categorize the Cloud Native Landscape

• Project in GitHub
• Cloud native Landscape diagram

Cloud Displacing Intel's Enterprise Sales

• "Tectonic shifts in the pattern of Intel's business show the devastating speed at which cloud is displacing traditional enterprise server sales" Link

Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier

• Link

Uber Steers Away from Trump

• "More than 200,000 customers had deleted their accounts." (Link)
• "Many employees were not satisfied with his answer. On Wednesday, Uber staff members followed up by circulating a 25-page Google document titled "Letters to Travis" to tell the chief executive how and why his willingness to engage with the administration had affected them."

Puppet adds two vice presidents, hiring from Hewlett-Packard and EMC

• "Puppet replaced nearly its entire executive team in 2016, including its chief executive and chief financial officers. It hired six vice presidents last year." (Link)

Rackspace lays off 6%

• "Since being taken private [by Apollo], Rackspace has been working to trim its annual budget by 7%, or $100 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission." (Link)
• More figures from Barb Darrow.
• Brief 451 coverage from Al:
• "After eight years as a public company, Rackspace went private in August 2016 in $4.3bn leveraged buyout with Apollo Global Management."
• "Rackspace just announced a layoff of 6% of its 4,600 employees"
• "The company is expected to exceed $2bn in revenue and top 33% EBITDA margin for 2016."
• Meanwhile, AWS at ~$10bn for 2016 with something like 20-23% profit margin (OpInc based on 2016Q4 numbers), Azure and GCP catching up: MSFT is probably $5-6bn, depending on how you categorize it. GCP probably $3bn at most (they don't break it out)?

Other thing to get worked up about: eliminating remote work

• IBM on that colo shit
• Brandon is safe! (He lives in Austin.)
• Coté: I won't deny that working in smelling range is the best. But, the gains never feel like enough to enforce it. Plus, mega-city congestion and resulting classist systems, cf. The Wealth of Humans. It's a problem that should be solved, not embraced.

• Matt:
  • Manly Daily newspaper, so much unbridled snark. Link
  • RTJ on NPR.
  • I'm not sure I can pull this off.
• Coté: Ezra Klein interview with Kara Swisher. She's inspiring is several ways, not least of which in modeling a way to be politely strident and opinionated: the opposite of imposture syndrome. Also, his talk with the Hillbilly Elegy guy. I mean: most of the whole podcast, just skip the ones that look trivial and repetitive, e.g., we get it: Trump is a lunatic. (See The Weeds and "The Nate Silver podcast.")
• Brandon:
  • Skiing in Solitude, Utah.
  • The Daily podcast, from NYT.

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• Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.
• DevOpsDays: March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE. Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE
• Pivotal: Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!

Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary.

• At least one person came correct and said CostCo.
• I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range. Good job listeners!

• Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
• Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
• Matt: Sydney AWS Meetups: December 6, December 7.

• Coté needs a dial-a-friend on this one.
• Fleshing out their cloud coverage
• This is what Coté frequently concluded when doing cloud strategy
• Softlayer and AWS compared

• “Alibaba Cloud president Simon Hu has said the company is working to surpass AWS within four years.”
• We’ll see if YUGEly can wrap his head around IaaS protectionism.

• “You only get one hill to die on, so choose wisely”
• New AWS-native PaaS from Etsy/Stripe/SquareSpace veterans
• Coté: I feel like I’ve read this blog post before. Maybe I even wrote it? So much typing.

• Steve Ballmer is spinning in his grave
• More than just Linux
• Add to this Visual Studio on the Mac.
• Google joined .Net Foundation Windows, internet, phone, cloud

Recent Coté Nonsense

• “Largile”
• Recent DevOps books review.

Red Hat wants to make Kubernetes boring (and successful)

• They’ve certainly made OpenStack boring (zing!)
• “Not that Red Hat is calling Kubernetes "boring." Instead, they're calling it "Enterprise-Ready," which is basically the same thing.”
• I dig that Matt Asay style. Dude knows how to pick a quick topic.

The End of General Purpose Computing

• More precisely, as the title says “The End of the General Purpose Operating System“
• “What we're witnessing in the market is the development of vertically integrated stacks”
• “In all of these cases the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed, or at least managed to the same degree as the general purpose OS you're running today.”

Apple Drops AirPort Routers

• I’ve got 3 of them, pretty solid.
• We don’t talk about Apple much here. Possible topic: what’s up with Apple now-a-days?

Trump vs. Tech

• “Now we will have a president whose affinity for high-tech seems limited to Twitter bullying”
• Interesting when you think that the heads of Google, Microsoft, Apple and probably Amazon (Bezos owns Washington Post) are all at odds with Trump. Facebook is trying to not piss anyone off. Not sure if we want to talk about it, so maybe it’s just a show note.

• Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience

• "the sweet smell of cyber dealz"

• Brandon: Left, Right, Center
• Matt:
  • Thanksgiving in Sydney: http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/thanksgiving/
  • Magpie Attacks!
  • Play your music at 10x slowdown, makes for good ambient listening. It’s up on GitHub if you want to do it to your own music collection, currently Ogg-only :(
• Coté: It Follows.

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