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IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. IBM and Red Hat Acquisition IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Software Maker Red Hat (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat) IBM To Ac

There’s all sorts of cloud stuff coming out of Oracle OpenWorld this week, so Brando and Coté talk about the mouth-feel of the news. Related, Amazon’s attempts to get off Oracle in Ohio, iCloud dropping out, and JEDI problems. Sponsored by SolarWinds This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and this week SolarWinds wants you to know about their DevOps tool: AppOptics. Today, there is a divide between application and infrastructure health metrics—and the lack of unified dashboards, alerting, and management. With SolarWinds AppOptics you get a bird’s-eye view across all your resources on a single pane of glass—but can also drill quickly into the details. AppOptics includes built-in integrations for over 150 cloud-first applications, instant visibility into server and infrastructure performance, robust custom metrics dashboards, and automated APM request tracing. It’s SaaS-hosted, easy to manage, and budget friendly. Over 275,000 customers trust SolarWinds for the performance data they need, and AppOptics lets de

Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or not, there’s something for you in this episode: serverless vs. FaaS, Docker’s funding, Crossing the Chasm revisited, and GitHub actions. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevan

Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies. Also, it’s episode #150 - yay us! Our first episode was on May 27th, 2014, where Coté’s lamp played a prominent role, and we did video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S0_PzuYJJE&index=58&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP). Relevant to your interests Chase Sapphire Reserve (https://creditcar

With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivation for changing up their enterprise software. We also (mostly ignorantly) talk about Cloudera and Hortonworks merging, as well as filing expenses. Relevant to your interests SpringOne Platform news, see podcast (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/everyones-getting-better-at-software-highlights-from-springone-platform-2018). The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects (https://www.wired.com/story/woman-bringing-civility-to-open-source-projects/) Linux now dominates Azure (https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/) Oracle says Kurian has resigned as president three weeks after he left to take time off (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/oracle-says-kurian-has-resigned-three-weeks-after-taking-time-off.html) eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Which Performs Best? (https://www.cmswire.com/c

We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help with your cloud projects. Relevant to your interests Amazon's 11 new products from its big event - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis (https://staceyoniot.com/amazons-11-new-products-from-its-big-event/) After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside) Software provider Solarwinds files for IPO (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/software-provider-solarwinds-files-for-ipo-2018-09-21) Slack has made its biggest acquisition to date (https://qz.com/work/1392936/slack-has-made-its-biggest-acquisition-to-date/) In praise of SWARMing (https://dannorth.net/2018/01/26/in-praise-of-swarming/) Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release (https://content.pivotal.io/sp

There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA Relevant to your interests Americano coffee vs long black (http://coffeeofday.com/coffee-answers/americano-vs-long-black/). “Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems (https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/with-emerging-technology-comes-emerging-data-problems/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web-rss&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss) Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/06/enterprise-hits-and-misses-blockchain-is-a-paradox-ai-is-a-customer-service-automat

This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Relevant to your interests 2018 State of DevOps Report (https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-state-of-devops.html), DORA edition: Coté’s notes (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/DevOps-Report-2018-notes--AMFAauySL95JbMXriSwp5EzSAg-jcQAlt7wo7TqgpgeYj5RB). Effective DevOps (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do). “Thread.” (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1036966455215095808) (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!) VMworld 2018 Recap (http://www.virtubytes.com/2018/09/03/vmworld-2018-recap/). VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/03/vmwares-vision-your-multi-cloud-substrate-for-enterprise-applications/). Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/09/04/atlassian-launches-jira-ops-to-fix-the-fragmente

Related image https://media1.tenor.com/images/e83b2b5aef8c8af0dd36a0d33d3046a4/tenor.gif?itemid=5038124 This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections. Relevant to your interests Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/15/istio-aims-to-be-the-mesh-plumbing-for-containerized-microservices/) Michael Cot (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)é (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz (https://theninehertz.com/blog/becoming-an-iot-developer/) Has Bezos Become More Powerful in

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) for more conversations like this one. Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. Links: * Dustin’s Blog (http://blog.dustinkirkland.com) * Dustin on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland) * Dustin’s presentation at Google Next (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rkYV4Chfw&feature=youtu.be) * Run-one (http://launchpad.net/run-one) * Vasa Museum (https://www.vasamuseet.se/en) Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” The title says it all. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Observations on Observability (https://posts.google.com/bulletin/share/MXKJKfKL/E16dl-/) ht

After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just moved to Amsterdam, there’s some Amsterdam talk. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues

"Harness that peer pressure for good” This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes. Relevant to your interests Google Next GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/gke-on-prem/) Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/google_cloud_next/) Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud (https://thenewstack.io/knative-enables-portable-serverless-platforms-on-kubernetes-for-any-cloud/) IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project (http://www.eweek.com/development/ibm-google-give-birth-to-knative-serverless-cloud-project) Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/googles-cloud-functions-serverless-platform-is-now-generally-available/) Google announces Cloud Build, its new contin

We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.” Important nonsense Vinsanto (https://www.google.com/search?q=Vinsanto&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl2eOyz5LcAhXj5IMKHaK6BkcQ_AUICygC&biw=1593&bih=960&dpr=2) is the Greek wine Coté was talking about (https://www.google.com/search?q=Vinsanto&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl2eOyz5LcAhXj5IMKHaK6BkcQ_AUICygC&biw=1593&bih=960&dpr=2). No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo (https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/10/costco-removes-polish-dog-menu/). Coté rides a Lime scooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpqEfnZs5Q&feature=youtu.be) Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog pr

For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids. Meet us in Austin Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks & Socializing (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-drinks-socializing-tickets-47452486665) # Important nonsense Coté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation (https://medium.com/@cote/dealing-with-compliance-6f5f87141e65). What do you call that stuff? Relevant to your interests Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/linux_makes_suse_sold_for_a_cool_2535bn/) - that’s 9.5 Red Hats! Ding dong Dell deal: Firm is set to go public again (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/dell_set_to_go_public_again_after_emc_buy_transforms_it/) Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images (https://thenewstack.io/repository-attacks-continue-with-backdoored-docker-images/) 5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development (http:/

Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts. Meet us in Austin Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 -- Software Defined Talk -- Drinks & Socializing (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-drinks-socializing-tickets-47452486665) Important nonsense What does it mean when you wear Thrasher t-shirt? Follow-up: duffel bags, they work. One got unzipped slightly, so probably should zip-tie the zippers. Texas’ Favorite Grocery Store HEB Opens Taco Restaurant (https://austin.eater.com/2018/6/25/17501234/heb-taco-restaurant-san-antonio) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features (https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/06/kubernetes-microsoft-aks?utm_campaign=infoq_content

GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announced the first live in person Software Defined Talk meetup in July somewhere in Austin. Don’t miss it. GitHub got bought Price: $7.5bn in stock. Getting Microsoft stock now is probably good, should have good growth over next 3 to five years (the golden handcuff period, etc.). See the overview deck from Microsoft (https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/calldeck.pptx?version=f3eef72b-35d3-95b2-4fda-73a47f805c7f). Very qualitative, not much (or any) business case numbers stuff. Will “operate independently,” Microsoft’s Nat Friedman to be CEO of GitHub, reporting up to Scott Guthrie. Does this imply Microsoft will be moving OSS stuff to the GitHub business? How does this fit with TFS, whatever “Sourcesafe” is now? Coté has no idea about the current state of that busine

There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save

“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH

We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com/cote/status/997492961758900224), it’s amazingly good and helpful. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can regi