Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities”

Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon.

Relevant to your interests

• Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion more coverage from George Leopold.
• Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month
• Oath to Use More AWS Cloud as It Expands Video Play
• Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways from Jeffery Hammond at Forrester
  • RedHat OpenShift running on Azure Stack and Azure, partnership.
  • See also the RedHat/IBM partnership along the same lines, plus nifty history of the two collaborating.
  • Miniature ponies!
• CoreOS folded into Red Hat product suite, the old “reverse integration.”
• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018
• 15 Google I/O announcements.
• Serverless Survey: +77% Delivery Speed, 4 Dev Workdays/Mo Saved & -26% AWS Monthly Bill
  • Related, Serverless to take over like space carpets.
• Azure at Microsoft Build Announcements| Microsoft Azure
• JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal
• AWS numbers reveal extent of Aussie growth
• IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere

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Nonsense

• Google Duplex making an appointment on the phone
• Lego Millennium Falcon, enterprise edition.

Conferences, et. al.

• NEXT WEEK! May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
• May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
• May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
• June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
• June 7th, 2018 - DC Cloud Native Meetup, “Beyond ‘Survival is Not Mandatory.’”
• Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.

SDT news & hype

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Recommendations

• Matt Ray: New phone, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact.
• Brandon: Postal Service - Against All Odds & A Quiet Place
• Coté: Chasing Hillary, Amy Chozick.

Photo Credit Bridget Kromhout