There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well.

Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode.

Links:

• Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here.
• Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age.
• SCaLE 20x.
• DevOpsDays LA.

Special Guest: John Willis.

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.

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Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.)

Mid-roll

• Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7th to 8th. No discount code yet, but we're getting one.
• Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
• Matt:
  • Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
  • ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
• 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 softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform.

SnapChat's S-1

• 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.

The McLaughlin Group covers Google: What's up with them!

• 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."

Corrections

• "Barra-mundi"
• Pronunciation tips

Thing to get angry about this week

• 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?!?!

CNCF Buys RethinkDB's Code and Donates to the Linux Foundation

• 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.

$2.5 million VC for Sensu!

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

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode

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.

Recommendations

• 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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