Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/)

Also, if you’re interested in the Datadog write-ups on monitoring RabbitMQ (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/rabbitmq-monitoring/) and Java (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/java-monitoring-apm/), check those out as well in addition getting a free t-shirt when you making your first dashboard by going to https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk).

We’ll see you next week!

Conferences, et. al.

• Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-charlotte/), Feb 22nd to 23rd.

• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).

SDT news & hype

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