Published: Dec. 6, 2017, 5 p.m.

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It\\u2019s SpringOne Platform this week so Cot\\xe9 reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal\\u2019s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco.

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Pre-Roll SDT News

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• SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
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• No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon.
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• We\\u2019ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
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• Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast
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• Join us all in the SDT Slack.
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• Upcoming SDT newsletter.
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SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News

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• Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit.
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• It\\u2019s SpringOne Platform this week.
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• PCF 2.0 - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS.
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• Serverless bundled in, but not GA yet.
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• Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware.
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• Also, use Google Cloud services.
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• Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it.
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• Also, a VMware NSX release, but Cot\\xe9 doesn\\u2019t know about that.
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• Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive, etc.
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• Things people use Spring for/with charts.
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• More: Ron Miller at TechCrunch, Paul Krill on serverless, Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE.
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AWS re:Invent, day 2

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• Daniel Bryant\\u2019s (InfoQ) overview of everything.
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• Alexa for Business \\n\\n
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  • \\u201cAlexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!\\u201d
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  • Watson-lite?
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  • There\\u2019s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn\\u2019t work (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle!
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• AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices \\u201cHe noted that at AWS, security will always be his group\'s number one investment area.\\u201d (well, for one, what\\u2019s \\u201chis group,\\u201d for second, I\\u2019m guessing they\\u2019ll always be spending more on hardware, real-estate, and electricity than the team of people coding group security.)
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• Cloud9 IDE stuff:\\n\\n
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  • Also from Thomas Claburn at El Reg, interesting angle on cost: "Used eight hours a day, it would cost about $48.80 per month on a Linux m4.xlarge instance (4 vCPUs, 16GiB memory) or $5.62 on a less well provisioned t2.small instance. (1 vCPU, 2GiB memory).\\u201d
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  • \\u201cremote pair-programming features\\u201d
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This Week in Kubernetes

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• PKS GA\\u2019ed from Pivotal.
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• Kubernetes momeintum piece from George Leopold.
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• EKS - it\\u2019s a trap! Says @cloud_opinion.\\n# Misc.
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• Economist tries explaining bitcoin.
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• Economist says VR/AR is a not too hot, business-wise.
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• VMware, still making a lot of money: 3rd quarter "revenue of US$1.98bn... Net profit came in at $443m, up from $319m"
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Mid-roll SolarWinds Ad

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This is the last run, so get in there now or you\\u2019ll miss your chance to check out SolarWinds Cloud\\u2026and get that snazy t-shirt.

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This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform.

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And in case you didn\\u2019t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt, sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.

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• AppOptics: All Application and Infrastructure Monitoring in One Place
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• Get a T-shirt from SolarWinds at: https://www.solarwinds.com/sdt
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• Press release on all this.
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End-roll

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Conferences

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• Cot\\xe9\\u2019s junk:\\n\\n
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  • Cot\\xe9 will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
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  • Live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018.
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• Matt\\u2019s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
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Recommendations

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• Brandon: HQ Trivia App
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• Cot\\xe9: Tina Brown\\u2019s Vanity Fair Diary.
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Sponsored By:

• SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn\\u2019t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.

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