Software Defined Talk

Coté probably messed up his math on the Thoma Bravo profit from Compuware. Maybe it's more like $5bn (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/they-found-5-billion-in-the-couch/). But, obviously, he's just farting around with incomplete information. He apologies and will sit in the corner for awhile. For entertainment only! With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.) Hey! If you want to understand VMware’s new strategy and portfolio around application development, tune into the March 10th webinar on the topic (https://

Everyone loves white papers Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension. Mood board: “A Quote from the episode…” Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. “I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.” We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’ Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring? Crank up the YouTube Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch Garbage trash proposals Uniquely sourced Why are we still doing this? They’re busy running their business. “Can you write me a business case.” PDFs a Plenty The White Paper Album Speaking of BS phrases The white paper to take down white papers “Walking into the door feeling” The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever. Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon. The Idempope. Relevant to your interests Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? (https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-s

We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats. Relevant to your interests Google Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-targeting-five-industries-c-suite.html) Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating (https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1229513048378888193?s=21) “People frequently conflate "open governance" and "neutral IP ownership." It depends greatly on the foundation, but in the case of the CNCF, there are literally zero governance requirements enforced on projects. CNCF projects can be (and are) single vendor governed.” Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-completes-looker-acquisition) Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans (https://www.techradar.com/news

"I don't care about networking...and load balancing." There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell (https://twitter.com/cowboyd) about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise. If you need some excellent app coding, check out Charle's company, Frontside (https://frontside.io/)! They also have a podcast (https://frontside.io/podcast) where they discuss recent programming frameworks and idea, and relating coding cool stuff. You may recall that Charles was the co-host of Coté's first podcast empire, DrunkAndRetired.com (https://archive.org/details/DrunkAndRetired). Special Guest: Charles Lowell.

With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.) (Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.) Mood board: Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right? Digital transformation is bad. Did they decide that the kids are all right? Thought leader me into happiness. You are so much more cynical than me. What does IBM do? Reverse halo effect. Surviving the trough of disillusionment. We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No! For the rest of your life, do better. Minor bread talk. Relevant to your interests IBM IBM CEO Ginni Rome

How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos. Relevant to your interests Privacy “Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software” (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1222285606635614208?s=21) Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal) Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21111865/scroll-ad-free-website-subscription-launches) Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/27/avast-antivirus-harvested-user-data-then-sold-to-google-microsoft) Disruption Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67 (https://www.nytimes

Coté proposes that there’s three types of apps to pay attention to in enterprises. Or something like that. Also, he has a magical method for doing digital transformation: actually do it. We open up discussing the delightful adventure of doing analyst feature matrixes. Also, some brief discussion of Apple Watches in the impeachment trial. Mood board: The game is won or lost before the spreadsheet it sent. Incrementally updating apps, vs. making new businesses (digitizing) - like, maybe there just needs to be more programmers. It’s not “stupid,” it’s “antiquated.” Don’t make them think it is a big deal, or they’ll be afraid. Finding business case loopholes, or ignoring them. Can you base practices on loopholers? Wearing Apple Watches to senate hearings - a real ok boomer moment - gadgets in meetings in general. Audio books. I just made myself a sandwich, wow. Relevant to your interests Google AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace (https://www.theregist

This week the title says it all. There’s also some more bread talk. Mood board: “I love the talk about bread, can I get some stickers.” Do they have markdown in Intranets now? Kicking to fit use cases. Porting of Ports Crapplications, aka, “Crappity crap” Relevant to your interests Microsoft will stop supporting millions of computers running Windows 7 on Tuesday — here's what you need to know (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/microsoft-windows-7-support-ends-jan-14.html) “According to Net Applications (https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx) figures from December, 32.74% of all laptops and desktops still run Windows 7, behind Windows 10. Windows 10 runs on more than 900 million devices (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/microsoft-rolls-out-november-2019-windows-10-update.html).” Now It's Really, Truly Time to Give Up Windows 7 (https://www.wired.com/story/time-give-up-windows-7/) Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud (http://axios.link/JlHc) Check out that

We discuss weird speculation that Google Cloud would buy Salesforce. It seems like bullshit, mostly, but it gives us a good jumping off point to talk cloud strategy. Also, Coté talks about being part of the VMware Tanzu team, how kubernetes could become the white box of the PC market (this is a good thing), that being #3 in a market is probably just fine, and we discuss poisoning-by-bread. Mood board: This is a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind: it’s time to just give up on some stuff. Man, this coffee is bad. Carbohydrate Coté is angry. Coté gets his birthday wrong. You’re really just pretty negative. Our man in Tanzu-land Cotem. After the headline, that article didn’t need to be written more. I’m not going to get into it, so here I go. The Turn the hydra head into a nanny acquisition strategy. Man, I should have just started with the bread. Relevant to your interests Tanzu Coté - VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/30/vmware-completes-2-7-billion-pivo

This is an episode from the Exegesis Back Catalog (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/exegesis). Coté and Brandon review Scott Galloway's book the "The Four." (https://www.amazon.com/Four-Hidden-Amazon-Facebook-Google/dp/0735213658/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgKzwBRCjARIsABBbFugrOnbdMnyhxM9LXtYArj_3FjNK1-md988P3lCIqNIqmliQrVUMLHsaAsslEALw_wcB&hvadid=241637079254&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9028322&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8997952574338927722&hvtargid=aud-840076997981%3Akwd-345132176336&hydadcr=22563_10354960&keywords=the+four+scott+galloway&qid=1577817711&sr=8-1) The Pivot Podcast (https://plinkhq.com/i/1073226719?to=page) Photo by Makarios Tang on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/lIWQbx3Lw8U)

Holiday Special! Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef. Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) Special Guest: Adam Jacob.

“What choice do we have?” At the end of the year, we answer listener questions. From middle-names, to athletes, to advice to startups. Also, we talk open source in 2020 predictions, that NYTimes story on Amazon, and Twinkies. Mood board: As they say “a dot w dot s.” Twinkies are better after the Apocalypse Does he know something we don’t know? They could have been the paper of record on “A.M.I.” Judgemental open source. The Three C’s. “CTO Edge.” CTOs don’t go to DevOps Days I try to show up to most conferences I’m speaking at. “I love the way they’re kicking that ball.” They didn’t consider “Motel 6” for Matt’s middle name. It’s safe to watch The Watchmen. Relevant to your interests Amazon is Launching a Home Internet Service - Here is Everything You Need to Know About It (https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-is-launching-a-home-internet-service-here-is-everything-you-need-to-know-about-it/). 8 of the worst open source innovations of the decade (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/8-of-the-worst-open-sou

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition. Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week. Mood board: #asksdt Remember the Law of Hammarabi. They’re not the Poynter institute or anything. Are we going to be blamed for all the problems? Kubernetes on the barby. It’s all the same broken stuff. Broken ankle con. I’ve never broken a bone. A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going! The Carl Weathers Cluster. I’m really good at thinking while I talk. Just ignore the baby yoda. Relevant to your interests The 100 most important gadgets of the decade (https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/20997215/best-gadgets-decade-2010s-list-roundup-apple-iphone-tesla-amazon-samsung). Broken ankle conference. S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc-300970643.html). Ubuntu pro. Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Ad

It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt. Mood board: #asksdt “Where are you thought-lording us to?” Pepernoot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot). Always pack a back-up croissant. Here’s the thing with bread. I thought he hated the swans. Dogs clearly rank as humanities number one friend. Then it’s bread/alcohol. Everyone knows when Bastille Day is Coté. Halloween in London grocery stores: not this shit again. They got a pee-jug back there? Relevant to your interests AWS re:Invent AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Sunday, December 1st (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-launches-previews-at-reinvent-2019-sunday-december-1st/) AWS DeepRacer Update – New

Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally re (https://buttondown.email/cote)v (https://buttondown.email/cote)ved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Mood board: Now we’ve got two topics. The sweet and sour sauce was just pineapple juice. Every culture has its tortilla. Well, definitely, everything just tasted sort of brown. This is where I learned about organized crime. I learned how to use the meat slicer. “There was hiding in the meat freezer.” I have a lot of stories from my time at the Mongolian BBQ. Nobody wants to go update the MIBs or something 9

We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally re (https://buttondown.email/cote)v (https://buttondown.email/cote)ved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Mood board: One. “I am not upgrading.” “Nothing ever good comes out of upgrades.” “I need someone with 35 years experience to run the internal blog.” “Shut the doors on your way out.” Planning makes us professional Tech news sucks nowadays, where’s the good news? Put that gravy on your shorts. It’s the Sanka of hot sauces. The problem is, there’s only one size of tortilla: giant. ah tortillas (https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi173410/ah-tortilla-wraps-voordeel). They have really good lighting. Prove me wrong, Kubecon 2020. “Their negotiation with the underlying platform.” I’m not a technical person, I’m a toga person. The Oxnard Comma. Stop not g

Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Mood board: Coté is gobsmacked by slides. Let’s turn these earnings upside down. It’s not just turtles all the way down, they’re all the way up too! Where are my turtles? Clearly you know what you’re doing, because you’ve got billions of dollars. Clearly these people have missed the point of distributed version control. Put your code in the Phantom Zone. Is there a new April Fool’s in November? They probably had some good slides. Relevant to your interests WeWork The Best Slides From SoftBank's WeWork-Focused Earnings Report (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-best-slides-from-softbanks-wework-focused-earnin

We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Relevant to your interests The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/the-7-most-important-announcements-from-microsoft-ignite/) Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, Stack Edge, and new virtual machine instances (https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/04/microsoft-unveils-azure-arc-stack-edge-and-new-virtual-machine-services/) Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview | Visual Studio Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-online-public-preview/) IBM, Bank of America Team Up on Pub

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey. Mood board: Stroke City. QBR times four. Travel costs. We need a better word than “politics.” Corporate virtue signaling. Never ask anything. There’s going to be Werner Hertzog! There’s a difference between making a point and making money. Are you just fillin’ a seat? The fixie of IDEs. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.” Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverg

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Relevant to your interests Executive Shuffles Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hired-former-microsoft-exec-javier-soltero-vp-g-suite-2019-10) and Javier Soltero’s Bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Soltero) Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928856/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-revenue-cloud-services-surface-gaming-xbox) ServiceNow Announces Bi