AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea) in this episode, standing in for Brandon.

Removing rebel-slaver memorials

• Good job (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html), Old Bay land. There’s more cities too (https://www.axios.com/what-other-states-are-doing-with-confederate-era-statues-2472806400.html) on the case too.

You like white papers? We got white papers

• Four new Pivotal white papers (https://content.pivotal.io/white-papers/running-microservices-on-pivotal-cloud-foundry): CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH).

• We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations. (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/pci-bosh-cicd-and-microservices-whitepapers-galore-with-jared-ruckle)

• Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit.

Amazon Summit NYC

• There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-summit-new-york-summary-of-announcements/)?

• Machine learning (http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-has-largest-a-i-platform-in-the-world-its-machine-learning-guru-boasts-1502735878), and such. Deep dive blog post (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-macie-securing-your-s3-buckets/).

• Interview with Amazon exec (http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-has-largest-a-i-platform-in-the-world-its-machine-learning-guru-boasts-1502735878), Matt Wood.

• AI Winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#Overview).

• Maths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_smoothing).

• Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon (https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-effect-echoes-across-industry/).

• “Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?” (https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/897489269069107200)

Building out Azure HPC

• Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing.

• A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/microsoft-tones-its-hpc-cloud-with-cycle-computing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InorganicGrowth+%28Inorganic+Growth%29): “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years”

• What about the GreenButton (https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/microsoft-acquires-high-performance-cloud-computing-company-greenbutton/) acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014 (https://www.cio.co.nz/article/544160/latest_tech_merger_microsoft_acquires_kiwi_cloud_computing_company_greenbutton/).

• Excellent chart (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/files/2017/08/Vote-for-KBI.png) showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc.

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show

Docker raising more cash-money, container land items

• Lizette Chapman & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/docker-is-said-to-be-raising-funding-at-1-3-billion-valuation): “HPC is about three to five years behind enterprise computing when it comes to new technology adoption – the applications are generally more sophisticated, and engineers are conservative…. Business software company Docker Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/1041069D:US) is raising fresh funds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.”

• Also, check out this ADP using Docker case, moderated by Alex Williams (https://thenewstack.io/adp-adopted-container-mindset/), pretty good: 1,000 containers in Nov 2016 to 3,771 in April 2017 (I think these were across dev and prod).

• MIPS rule everything around me (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-version-docker-enterprise-edition-adds-new-admin-features-support-old-reliable-mainframes/).

• Docker Enterprise feature matrix:

• Also, putting Oracle in a container (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/08/containers-core-banking), over there in European banking.

• Hold my beer platforms (https://thenewstack.io/github-goes-kubernetes-tells/) - It’s easy, just build out all the platform things you need yourself. Yaml all the things! Also, Bash, puppet, terraform, go for log draining(!) and more!

Bare-metal, what’s the deal?

• Oracle got it (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/08/14/oracle-supercharges-cloud-database-bare-metal-servers/).

• What’s Twitter got to say (https://twitter.com/cote/status/897477974496342016)?

“You get my deck? Let me check Outlook. Who’s doing meeting notes in Word?”

• Cloud’s cool, but PowerPoint is the shit (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-numbers-show-microsofts-biggest-businesses-really-cloud-era/?utm_content=bufferb54e8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer): “$25.4 billion in revenue in Microsoft’s 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year”

Hot Dog Watch

• Ever vigilant, we’re keeping an eye on the future.

• The future is stiching together videos for 360 panorama things (http://mashable.com/2017/08/14/snapchat-crowd-surf-concerts-our-stories/#PqhbXnU0cSqO).

• See the underside of The Hot Dog.

Meta, follow-up, etc.

• Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.

• Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.

• Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).

Mid-roll

• Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray

• NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/) - October 17th and 18th, 2017.

• NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/), September 21st and 22nd.

• Use the code SDT2017 when you register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado).

• PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that.

• Coté speaking at DevOps Riga (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/), also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium.

• Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/241908089/), August 17th, 2017. See slides (https://www.slideshare.net/cote/the-cloudnative-enterprise-architect-how-devops-changes-eas-role).

• The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!

• SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).

• Matt’s on the Road!

• August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/)

• August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/240951267/)

• August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/)

• September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Perth-Cloud/events/241297999/)

• September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-bangalore/)

• September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Sydney-User-Group/events/242374004/)

• October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-auckland/)

• October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)

• Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum.

Recommendations

• Andrew: SLOs, three chapters from the Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html).

• Matt Ray:

• Run Bootcamp Windows 10 on a USB Stick (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-run-bootcamp-windows-10-on-a-usb3-86551dc3def8)

• The secret rhythm in Radiohead’s Videotape (https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/8/4/16092184/videotape-radiohead-secret-rhythm-earworm)

• Coté: bacon grease in a mug by the stove, that’s how we was livin’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0s0XHVUGF0). Speaking of saving bacon grease: Spyderco ParaMilitary 2 G-10 Plain Edge Knife (http://amzn.to/2fImmaR); works well for camping; I got a good deal. WOCStock (https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/) - mix up them pasty white-boy slides.

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• Casper (https://casper.com/): Get a comfortable, well priced Internet mattress, delivered right to your door. Coté has two. And get $50 off your order with the code hooraymattray. (https://casper.com/) Promo Code: hooraymattray • DevOpsDays (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/): DevOpsDays Nashville is October 17th and 18th. Coté will be keynoting. $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays. (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/) Promo Code: 2017NashDevOpsDays • DevOpsDays (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado): DevOpsDays Kansas City 2017 is Sep 21st and 22nd this year. Coté will be speaking, and many other great speakers. Get a special discount when register with the code SDT2017. (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado) Promo Code: SDT2017 • Pivotal (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration): Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they’ve improved their organization’s approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration! (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration) Promo Code: S1P200_Cote