Episode 139: “Docker? Never heard of ‘em.”

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

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
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features

Relevant to your interests

You’ve got Money!

• Splunk to Acquire Software Problem-Solver VictorOps for $120 Million
• The IPOs keep coming: The search company Elastic has filed to go public
• BuildGroup Raises $330 Million of Permanent Capital to Build Great Software
• DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
  • Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses
• CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform

Software considered hard

• Why software giants are failing
  • What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
  • The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
  • So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
  • Also, more on Oracle’s financials.
• DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO
• Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
  • “What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
  • Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
  • Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley is now DHH?
• WTF? The data behind Microsoft's surprising open source track record
  • “Microsoft may have a mixed history with open source, but today the company is demonstrating some impressive traction when it comes to open source community contributions. If we are to judge the company on its recent actions, the data shows what Satya Nadella said in his announcement about Microsoft being “all in on open source” is more than just words.”
• Microsoft starts outlining its Visual Studio 2019 plans

Docker Depot

• Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion
• Docker CEO Steve Singh says container company is approaching “triple digit” millions in bookings
• DockerCon Takeaways
• 8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption ## Kubernetes Korner
• Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine™ (VKE) - VMware Cloud Community, and in The Register.
• EKS vs. ECS: orchestrating containers on AWS
• The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
• Meanwhile, time for “a scheduled maintenance window”: 1.11 is out.

DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018

Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.

Conferences, et. al.

• June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
• Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
• Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!

SDT news & hype

• Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
• Join us in Slack.
• Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
• Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!

Recommendations

• Brandon: The North Face Base Camp Duffel Large, Waboba Water Skipping Ball.
• Matt: Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
• Coté: BOOMIVERSE. Somehow I missed this album last year. GRIND AND STACK! (Props, as they used to say, to my old friend, Mason, for pointing it out to me. Get your super-fast Internet in SF from him!) Also, I can certify that the Courtney Barnett album is good.