The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.

Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all y…

Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi s…

Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will alwa…

This week, the title says it all.

Mood board:

• Jandels and togs
• That’s why they call it The Lucky Country.
• Decoding “Fly-Wheel.”
• 1 part synergy and 10 parts how business is done.
• Unlocking value.
• I…

“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.

SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all th…

We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing.

Mood board:

• You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florid…

Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump.

Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.

Mood board:

• Have either of you ever eaten dog meat?
• He easil…

Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.

There’s a clutch of data breaches this week and Coté finally learns why this is bad. Also, monitoring company IPOs, nachos, and the…

It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlau…

There’s a couple kubernetes announcements this week: we mostly talk about Pivotal’s, and a tad on IBM. Plus, maybe scooters are actually good for cities and compiling source code for your infrastruct…

With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadershi…

SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”

How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week …

Drink your own dog food

No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check o…

Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, st…

Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary …

It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software! Cloudera misses their forecast, Oracle and Microsoft team up on cloud computing and more open source licensing discussion. Plus, we try to make sense of the me…

You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be …

Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more a…

I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin

Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles.

Opening comments:

• The intersection b…