RIA Weekly

We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store. Plus, we offer advice on air conditioning and cars. The Rundown Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-violations-epic-payments) TikTok Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveoutRelevant to your interests (https://isp.netscape.com/tech/story/0002/20200810/KCN256100_4?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL3I3TkJVVXY1NnY_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL2nsHYXGEi21zKAvxi9DgfKi3ciW_4TUfuWCXkfxkgloSjolJ7hJE2QV_hK1U6fg60M9rPcdMVsxmGjQzZMMcbjH4nh-8SD2fvklxGnEfc7fWOLKxfGetWMzTNptWFcYjDBoztN6COQzTU9LE05yCiC-wKpEhehH_ZIZf2t-Sdk&_guc_consent_skip=1597066473) We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/personaltech/tested-facebook-reels-tiktok-clone-dud.html) Datadog W

Slide decks, paper proposals and steering group sessions all take a significant investment to prepare, avoiding “difficult” conversations by socializing and re-socializing in advance of exec meetings, deferring decisions, requesting a raft of meeting minutes to document, correcting, amending and signing them off—the majority of which few people read.... The speed of these cycles determines the heartbeat of the organization. This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software. Check out the paper (https://twitter.com/JanaWernerSays/status/1278414903209050112) and Jana in LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/) Also, check out the talk she has coming up at SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions/how-not-to-develop-a-modern-product-management-practice-at-speed). Special Guest: Jana Werner.

The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap. The Rundown Friend us and follow SDT on Twitch: sdtpodcat (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast) New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation (https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/) Analysts Estimate New Relic (NEWR) to Report a Decline in Earnings: (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/analysts-estimate-relic-newr-report-163304199.html) Relevant to your interests How Kubernetes adds agility in challenging times (https://cote.io/2020/07/29/how-kubernetes-adds-agility-in-challenging-times/) The Impact of AI on Organizations (https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/246457-the-impact-of-ai-on-organizations/fulltext) The Opportunity in App Modernization (https://www.infoq.com/articles/app-modernization-opportunity/) Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverl

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube. The Rundown Google Next Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough' (https://9to5google.com/2020/07/14/google-cloud-confidential-computing/) BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-bigquery-omni) Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/assured-workloads-for-government-compliance-without-compromise) Rackspace Rackspace IPO S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810019/000119312520190902/d915709ds1.htm) Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership (https://www.channele2e.com/business/finance/rackspace-ipo-business-evolution/) Long Term Stock Exchange (https://longtermstockexchange.com) Relevant to your interests VC Puppet announces $40 million debt round from Blac

On this episode Brandon interviews Richard Seroter from Google. They discuss Richard's career, Product Management & Marketing, Google Anthos and what App Modernization really means. Plus, Richard tells us how a doctor removes a wedding ring when you have a fractured finger. Mentioned on the Show Richard joins Google (https://seroter.com/2020/05/26/im-joining-google-cloud-for-the-same-reasons-you-should-be-a-customer/) Richard on the web Blog: Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings (https://seroter.com/) Twitter: @rseroter (https://twitter.com/rseroter) LinkedIn: seroter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/seroter/) Phote Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/__Hw50q04FI) Special Guest: Richard Seroter.

We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files. Mood board: I read a lot of Wikipedia when I should be working After all this, time people probably think that whatever you’re doing is “working.” Did you respond with an emoji thumbs-up? I read the email. Thought about it for a few hours. Then thought “I’m just going to archive that email.” He’s big in the Angular community - works all the angels. Little components that talk with each other over the network. Gotta do a whole bunch of shit for that. You don’t sue people who are using it if you want them to use it. Service mesh is Greek for “service mesh.” Lady Cathemhouse’s Rules. Chekhov’s Trademark. Couple thousand stores. …and maybe integrate with their Active Directory. “Federated Slacks.” I think I like the Word file. No one can poop all over your stuff in a way that you forgot what it looked like when it was clean. De-headwind yourself from the COVID

Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers. Mood board: They got money, kicking out the Nazis Have you tried saying it louder? It came out fine. The burger meat here is like a bunch of little worms. Long form commercials. Webinar as conference. Sitting in a Zoom. People don’t want to show up and consensually watch a YouTube video. The Wine Bottle Leads. The Minecraft Yellers. The pink slurry of enterprise software content. There’s nothing at the bottom of their funnel. I know all those things, I just don’t like them. HigherGradeWebinars.biz The conclusion of the plutes. Today was the last day of school for the kids. Tomorrow, the nightmare begins. The Rundown The New Conference Apple’s virtual WWDC wasn’t just okay—it could be the future of keynotes (https://www.fastcompany.com/90519618/apples-virtual-wwdc-wasnt-just-okay-it-could-be-the-future-of-keynotes) Google Next over 9 Weeks (https://c

Brandon interviews Kylie Grenier from DXC Technology (https://www.dxc.technology/). They discuss Kylie's experience in leading digital transformation in the public sector, her time as a Cloud Futurist at Cisco and how she helps clients build digital transformation strategies today. Plus, Kylie offers some tips on how to get a new job. Kylie on the web Twitter: @CurrentKylie (https://twitter.com/CurrentKylie) LinkedIn: kyliegrenier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyliegrenier/) Image credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/yhFdxUYkgA8) Special Guest: Kylie Grenier.

Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly. Mood board: One How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet? I got the Call Recorder! Brand Police. You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing. Dunning Keurig Yeet your email. I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it. People just throwing tickets into the wind. Awk yeah You should sanitize your inputs every day, Matt Ray. I’ve been treating Apple news like Star Wars news. The Builders. We got piles of clip art. Elfin robot children on a sea of green binary. MacOS 11.1, “Green Goddess” There’s only one MC who talks about space and cross-country truck driving. Watch the get to school on time tapes. John Irving Parenting. Until then, I’ll just ground him from his iPad. The Rundown Kool Keith interview (https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-producer-kool-keith-on-creating-your-own-worlds/): “I’m dis-attached from reality on my own terms.” Luxury Email Cote rev

On this episode Brandon interviews Brian Gracely from Red Hat. They discuss Brian's early career at Cisco, his experience with OpenStack, why he joined Red Hat and what's happening with OpenShift. Plus, Brian tells us what it's like to be a VP of Product at a startup and recommends some College Football Podcasts to get us through the off season. Mentioned on the Show Solid Verbal (https://www.solidverbal.com/) The Andy Staples Show (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-andy-staples-show-a-show-about-college-football/id1477536795) The POPCAST with Dan POP (https://overcast.fm/itunes1503966242/the-popcast-with-dan-pop) OpenShift learn.openshift.com (https://learn.openshift.com/) demo.openshift.com (https://demo.openshift.com/en/latest/) try.openshfit.com (https://www.openshift.com/try) Brian on the web Podcast: The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/) Twitter: @bgracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely) LinkedIn: briangracely (https://www.linkedin.com/in/briangracely/) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries. Mood board: I’m perfectly willing to burn my own time on boondoggles. I introduced my kids to King of the Hill yesterday - they did not like it. Or Beavis and Butthead, or South Park. How many instructions are in the ARM chip? Are we gonna start the show? That looks boring. What is a biscuit in Australia? A hazy space between crackers and cookies. More sugar than a Ritz It’s a medical grade cookie. The Mexican Bakery Trap. Just get the tacos. Hey! I’ve got 500 email addresses, how am I supposed to disappear? I think there’s like, 12, 13 calendars on my Mac. We got to the bottom of HEY! Marketing Oblique Strategies. The Seth Godin problem. The Purple Moo. Welcome to the Halo Effect. For your 6 to 50 page strategy memo, email me at cote@hey.com. Y

Brandon interviews Todd Gardner from TrackJS (https://trackjs.com/). They discuss Todd's career and how his consulting projects led him to start TrackJS. Plus, Todd offers advice on how to build web apps using JavaScript and how to decide which JS Framework is right for your next project. His answer may surprise you... Show Links Lemon (https://ahoylemon.xyz/) OVHCloud (https://us.ovhcloud.com/) Contact Todd Twitter: @toddhgardner (https://twitter.com/toddhgardner) Company: TrackJS (https://trackjs.com/) Latest Project: Request Metrics (https://requestmetrics.com/) Email: todd@trackjs.com (mailto:todd@trackjs.com) Personal Website: todd.mn (https://todd.mn/) Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/imlD5dbcLM4) Special Guest: Todd Gardner.

We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore. Mood board: Is that guacamole talk Amazon approved? Why don’t you listen to a few episodes? “What generation did they have in the Black Plague?” I have a lot of thoughts on OmniFocus and Evernote. Note gonna talk about it. The Timezone Tax. We win video conferencing bingo! Video conferencing Magic Quadrant. Remember Blue Jeans! They’re gonna go to The Big Data. Hadoop: not as big as we once thought it would be. Grocery store magazine agile. The only thing that’s shocking, is that we’re still shocked. The Rundown Coté got up at 2am. Slack and Amazon Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/amazon-licenses-slack-for-workers-as-slack-adopts-aws-video-call-tech.html

Brandon interviews Shannon Williams from Rancher Labs (https://rancher.com/). They discuss Shannon's journey from journalism to startup founder and how Rancher delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Plus, Shannon recommends his top ski resort in North America and reveals who really decided to buy the cloud.com domain. Contact Shannon: Twitter: smw355 (https://twitter.com/smw355) LinkedIn: smw355 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/smw355/) Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/BG534RSsuKk) Special Guest: Shannon Williams.

What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online. Mood board: Sounds normal for now. It was kinda cool, kinda sad. Covered in yoke. We just had to speed test it out. Katamari Damacy M&A. I hate network monitoring, shut it all down! The ProductTK. 7G. What’s the plural of Kubernetes? Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that? Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life. Return the Jewels. The Rundown Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/cisco-acquires-thousandeyes-to-make-deeper-push-into-software.html) Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions (https://thenewstack.io/chef-turns-its-focus-to-security-with-compliance-desktop-additions/) DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes (https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/03/kubernetes_b_21_bombe

Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/) and they discuss building games, Dev Evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest. Margaret on the Web: @dead_lugosi (https://twitter.com/dead_lugosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Github: mstaples (https://github.com/mstaples) LinkedIn: Margaret Staples (https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretstaples/) TwilioQuest TwilioQuest (https://www.twilio.com/quest) @TwilioQuest (https://twitter.com/TwilioQuest) Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/iobEsH91mbk) Special Guest: Margaret Staples.

Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules. Mood board: “The triumphant return to the home office. “ Net Ninety. Software Stockholm Syndrome. Office Mail 360 Whatever. I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy. I never read those emails. I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter. Neck-deep in archaic 2FA. Aggressively defensive. Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision. MoMs are important. Cloud Candyland. I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal. Feed the baby. New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you. The Rundown Microsoft Build Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/42d3ed24-6773-45c8-82bd-6dec4a583c89?source=sessions) Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features) The new Windows command-line:

We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back! Moodboard: 3rd kids and pandemics Severe consequences - just another way for companies to fuck you. (The exact wording was “severe ramifications.”) It’s all just a spatula. Downwardness. You should talk less. “Show Less” not working as expected. All the complaints flow through my hammer. Bruce Markup Language. It is what it is, Matt Ray. So much trash. I was already kind of full of webinars. Shit content is shit content. Even Screenflow doesn’t do ripple delete by default. A webinar Renaissance. I wanna be a software vegan. The Rundown This whole never return to the office thing. Facebook says you can work from wherever you want if they can pay you less (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/zuckerberg-50percent-of-facebook-employees-could-be-working-remotely.html). Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big. The Rundown Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’ (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/sanjay-poonen-on-vmware-vs-red-hat-openshift-may-the-best-product-win-) Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-aws-extend-collaboration-introducing-amazon-red-hat-openshift) AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/14/red_hat_openshift_aws/) More Amazon AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/13/aws-open-sources-cdk8s-make-kubernetes-easier-use/) Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/introducing-the-cdk-for-kubernetes-a-new-software-development-framework-and-op

AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam. The Rundown Tech Giant Earnings AWS tops $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/aws-earnings-q1-2020.html) Microsoft Azure update (https://twitter.com/chetanp/status/1256259448462405632?s=21) The Immunity of the Tech Giant (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/tech-companies-coronavirus.html) The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/bridge-post-pandemic-world-already-collapsing/611089/) Backblaze challenges AWS by making its cloud storage S3 compatible (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/backblaze-challenges-aws-by-making-its-cloud-storage-s3-compatible/) The State of Cloud Native Development: A new survey report! - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/05/04/the-state-of-cloud-native-developmen