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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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• Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.

• Coté wrote about Java at The Register.
• Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 - register with the code cfsv17cote for 20%!
• Matt:
  • DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
  • ChefConf May 22-24 - early-bird pricing through March 31st
• 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.

• Community Edition (CE) & Enterprise Edition (EE)
• Version jumps from 1.13.1 to 17.03 for monthly releases, very enterprisey.
• Love the socket-based pricing
• Solomon weighs in vs. Kubernetes - what the fuck are these nerds even arguing about?
• TPM has some good coverage
• Whichard’s Maxim of Enterpriseyness: Well, they added AD support. DONE-AND-FUCKIN-DONE!

• Link
• I don’t get the proposed $100 million IPO when they took $259 million in funding. Please explain it to me.

• Open source monitoring for years and years

• Making Money With Freemium
• “The question of how to make money from Open Source is a vexed one, with Red Hat frequently held up as the poster child of commercial open source success, yet it remains a lonely occupant of the category "Open Source Companies That Are Profitable”
• Good Narrative fallacy going here: "The open source products are really focused on the practitioner," McJannet said. "The enterprise products are focused on the needs of the organisation."
• August, 2016: “Hashimoto said HashiCorp has just finished its first 7-figure revenue quarter” Up from “triple-digit”/month in July 2015. So, whatdwegot: $2-3m run-rate?

• Snap IPO is leveling out.
• Exstensive coverage from The Economist.
• TAM: “The ad market is $652 billion worldwide and will hit $760 billion by 2020, research firm IDC says. Mobile-ad sales will triple — to $196 billion from $66 billion.”
• Where’s Steve Gillmor when you need him? See also closing plea in The Attention Merchants (book review from Coté forth coming once he finishes Chaos Monkeys): “If we desire a future that avoids the enslavement of the propaganda state as well as the narcosis of the consumer and celebrity culture, we must first acknowledge the preciousness of our attention and resolve not to part with it as cheaply or unthinkingly as we so often have.” SO ADORABLE!
• The SnapChat demo is good but the The Snap Company Council looks weird.
• Facebook found a product but it was ugly
• Ben Thompson picking on Twitter
  • Hindsight fallacy
  • Twitter could have been WhatsApp or Instagram or something else...

AWS S3 Outage

• Good post-mortem here
• Tweet
• Tweet
• TIL Google supports S3 API.
• TIL The 11 9's of are for durability, and not availability. 99.9% is S3's monthly SLA (43 minutes downtime).

WTF Uber (...and The Rest of the Software Industry)?

• Uber is Doomed
• Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber
• I Am An Uber Survivor
• Uber SVP Leaves Over Previous Sexual Harassment Allegation
• Waymo Sues Uber
• Uber Circumvents Authorities by “Greyballing”

Containers, Kubernetes & AWS

• Matt Asay

No More Pixel Laptops from Google

• Link
• “Google hasn’t backed away from laptops. We have the number two market share in the U.S. and U.K. — but we have no plans for Google-branded laptops.”

Texas Legislature Takes Action on Emojis

• “although it is a nice flag”

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

• Quote

Trump is Killing Productivity

• Link
• She didn’t want to be “that person,” the one who is always opining on social media. But all of that changed Nov. 8.

• Matt:
  • Finally a practical use for AI
  • Warren Ellis’ Dead Pig Collector
• Coté: I always forget how good Madvillian and/or MF DOOM are. I’m not smart enough to know what kind of hip-hop this it, but I like it. Also: grapes. They’re delicious! Matt: Four Tet.zx
• Brandon: Hit Makers

Music heard at the end: Courtney Barnett's "Avant Gardener".

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• Chef: DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."
• Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
• Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.

• 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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...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.

• Kenneth Cole slip on shoes.
• Keen Austin shoes, slip-on and lace.
• The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire.

• Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
• Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo

• Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.
• Richard has a write-up as well.
• RedMonk re:Cap

Global Partner Summit

• Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners"
• "10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months"

Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"

• Amazon Lightsail
  • Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP
  • Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode
• Amazon Athena
  • S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine
  • JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others
  • Coté: this seems pretty amazing.
• Amazon Rekognition
  • Image detection & recognition
• Amazon Polly
  • Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
  • Coté: Makes transcripts?
• Amazon Lex
  • Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots)
  • Coté: make chat-bots and such.
• AWS Greengrass
  • 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 & Snowmobile
  • Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp
    • Not just me
    • More on it
  • Move exabytes 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)
  • Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU
  • More!
  • F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace
  • RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?

Day 2

• AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
  • Chef blog
  • Fully managed Chef Server & Automate
  • Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks"
  • Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy
• EC2 Systems Manager
  • Tools for managing EC2 & on-premises systems
• AWS Codebuild
  • Managed elastic build service with testing
• AWS X-Ray
  • 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
  • Personalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediation
  • Disruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)
• AWS Shield
  • DDoS protection
• Amazon Pinpoint
  • Mobile notification & analytics service
• AWS Glue
  • Managed data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysis
• AWS Batch
  • Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs
• C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions
  • Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd"
  • Lambda Edge for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close"
  • More
  • Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions
  • More
    • BLOX: 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.)

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."
• 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

HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud"

• Hybrid it up!
• Killed "The Machine"
• HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)
• Not great timing for a conference
• Sold OpenStack & CloudFoundry bits to SUSE, the new "preferred Linux partner":

How Google is Challenging AWS

• Ben on public cloud
• "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

• Brandon:
  • Apple Wifi Calling & Airplane mode.
  • Westworld worth watching.
• Matt:
  • Backyard Kookaburras.
  • Magpies too!
  • This gif.
• Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas and lobster eggs benedict at Payard's in Ceasers'

Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position.

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