See the full show notes at http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/94

Mid-roll

• DevOpsDays MSP, July 25th to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!).
• Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017.
  • 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
• Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays
  • SpringDays.io
  • Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff
  • Chicago (May 30th to 31st)
  • New York (June 20th to 21st)
  • Atlanta (July 18th to 19th)
• Matt:
  • ChefConf May 22-24 NEXT WEEK!

The news from Australia

• 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

Health-insurance choices

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

Donnie Berkholz at Carlson Wagonlit

• 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?

Canonical Eying an IPO?

• 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."

CyberArk Buys Conjur

• "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.

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in the show.

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

Recommendations

• 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.

Sponsored By:

• DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays MSP: get 20% off registration with the code SDT. Promo Code: SDT
• Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cote
• Pivotal: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) Promo Code: SpringDays_HalfOff
• Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.

Mid-roll

• Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off!
• Matt:
  • Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group
  • Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
  • ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
• Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog, and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night, will tweak more.
• Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," which John Allspaw rightly says should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans is a good read too.

CostCo field report: Australia

• It’s great!
• US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder.
• US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now!

AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST

• IPO filing...
• “Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively”
• Cisco
• $3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier

Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million

• Wired coverage
• 451 report, paywall.
• Public blog from 451.

Oracle Buys Apiary

• “API Integration Cloud”
• Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links: small asset working on a $660m API management market.

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.

HP Buys Stuff

• Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million
• SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million

You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard

• They’re working on it

Twitter

• Google buying Fabric.
• Facebook still king.

Do We Talk About Trump?

• OpenStack Summits leaving the US
• Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban
• Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them.

Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets

• Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines, so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”?

RethinkDB: Why We Failed

• Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets.
• “In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.”
• Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking.

Yahoo is Altaba

• … wut?
• Dreams $45bn

Google’s AI Awakening

• “How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.”
• Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December

Alexa

• Amazon’s OS
• Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around.

ClusterHQ Shutting Down

• Docker storage startup shuts down

Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions

• Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code)

Google buys Twitter’s Fabric

• CASH!

Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World”

• Always a good read

Recommendations

• Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler.
• Matt:
  • Donate to the ACLU.
  • RTJ3 is out, and free!
  • My 2016 year in the air
  • Tennis ball making video
• Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40! Also, how to feed three people with one bean.

Sponsored By:

• DevOpsDays: Come see [Coté and many other great speakers](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/) at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th. Use the code SDT to get 25% off [registration](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/registration/)! Promo Code: SDT
• Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
• Chef: Microsoft Ignite Australia, Feb 14th to Feb 17th, Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre . Chef will have a booth & a talk.
• Chef: AWS User Group Sydney - AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, Matt Ray giving a talk there.
• Cote.io: Subscribe to Coté's newsletter to get all the things he thinks are important, each Sunday night.
• Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.

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

Feedback & Follow-up

• 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!

Mid-roll

• 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.

Oracle Buys Dyn

• 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

Sorry Oracle, Taking Down AWS is Alibaba’s Job

• “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.

Skyliner.io

• “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.

Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation - we’re beyond the cats and dogs mirror!

• 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

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show

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.

MacOS Security and Privacy Guide

• Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience

Black Friday & Cyber Monday

• "the sweet smell of cyber dealz"

Recommendations

• 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.

Sponsored By:

• DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
• Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
• Pivotal: 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.