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’...
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.
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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.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/25/20700698/microsoft-pentagon-contract-jedi-cloud-amazon-details)
Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-pentagon-computing-contracts-3f435663-fdb0-4185-830d-5f9cbc5aaf5c.html)
Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amazon-q3-earnings-shocker-wipes-54-billion-off-market-cap-2019-10-1028630546)
Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”
Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-global-transformation-office).
The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019)
“89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x
DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2019/10/25/devops-tools-can-lead-the-culture-change/)
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a)
My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be? (https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8)
Google moves to buy Fitbit (https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2019/google-moves-to-buy-fitbit-.html)
Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/google-brings-its-new-domains-to-the-rest-of-the-web-including-to-spotify-microsoft-others/)
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs-cross-carrier-messaging-initiative-ccmi-att-tmobile-sprint-verizon)
Sponsors
SolarWinds:
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PagerDuty:
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). †
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: eBay (https://www.ebay.com/) for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub (https://www.cambrionix.com/products/powerpad15s-pp15s-industrial-usb-hub)
Matt: Dolly Parton’s America (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america).
Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel). Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.
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