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We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage.

Pre-roll SDT news & hype

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• Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
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• Join us in Slack, subscribe the newsletter, and pay-up for our members only podcast.
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This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon

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• KubeCon - that a thing?
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• As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack!
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• List of announcements, from The Register.
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• \\u201cWe\\u2019ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world\\u201d - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home.
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• Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project
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• Datadog survey.
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• Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, \\u201coh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing\\u2026\\u201d
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Relevant to your interests

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• You\\u2019re not doing agile - Cot\\xe9\\u2019s Christmas bonus column.
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• Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there\\u2019s some hustle, but it\\u2019s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less.
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• Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature
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• Planview buys LeanKit.
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• Why do I keep seeing \\u201cquantum computing\\u201d everywhere. Shouldn\\u2019t we figure out \\u201ccomputing\\u201d first?
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• Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.\\u201d
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Conferences, et. al.

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• It\\u2019s the end of the year, not many conferences left.
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• Dec 19th, 2017 - Cot\\xe9 will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
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• Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Cot\\xe9, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski).
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• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Cot\\xe9 talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
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Recommendations

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• Brandon: Long Shot, Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures, Ben Evans.

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• Cot\\xe9: finally got that AAdvantage Executive card.

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• Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (still free!). Kubernetes Up and Running. Badass. Paper on ML indexing stuff.

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Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.