Everyone loves white papers

Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.

Mood board:

• “A Quote from the episode…”


• Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.


• “I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.”


• We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’


• Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?


• Crank up the YouTube


• Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway


• Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now


• Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch


• Garbage trash proposals


• Uniquely sourced


• Why are we still doing this?


• They’re busy running their business.


• “Can you write me a business case.”


• PDFs a Plenty


• The White Paper Album


• Speaking of BS phrases


• The white paper to take down white papers


• “Walking into the door feeling”


• The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.


• Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon.


• The Idempope.

Relevant to your interests

• Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? - related, from 2006.


• The secret sauce graphics, 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update.


• White papers (best one ever: “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef)
  
  
  • Collateral.
  
  
  • Sales tools.
  
  
  • Case studies.
  
  
  • Thought-leadership/definition.
  
  
  • Education.
  
  
  • Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
  
  
  • Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
  
  
  • How it effects the business.
  
  
  • Have opinions.
  
  


• Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them!


• Amazon AMI thing.


• Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity, also co-CEO left (what’s up with two CEOs?)


• VMware, Tanzu


• Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security.


• The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle


• Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers


• Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses


• Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense


• Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role


• DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability


• HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts


• VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger


• Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot


• Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals


• Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals


• The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement


• Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability


• When Speakers are Ears


• Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing


• Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud


• Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce


• MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped


• Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US


• Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace'


• Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO

Non Sense

• Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs


• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all


• Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60

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Conferences, et. al.

• QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking on March 2nd.


• Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.


• KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
  
  
  • VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
  
  


• DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th


• ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4


• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration


• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.

Listener Talk

• Ryan Kitchens talk “The Meat of It.”

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.


• Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!


• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn


• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.


• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.


• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee on Netflix.


• Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.


• Coté: Hild. SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP. My book, The Business Bottleneck, is out for free.

Outro: “Hey Now.”