Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 10 p.m.

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It\\u2019s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There\\u2019s some exciting developments in Cot\\xe9\\u2019s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don\\u2019t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Cot\\xe9 complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs.

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Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion

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• Software Defined Interviews interview with Nancy Gohring.
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• Brandon has a JJ interview coming up, Feb 19th, 2018.
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• Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ, and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications.
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• Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt!
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Kubernetes Korner

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• Bluebox turned out well. Real A-Team over there.
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• Jay@451 has some Heptio packaging and pricing: \\u201cHKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported configuration, unlimited tickets and up to 25 nodes; Professional, intended for organizations that are growing their deployments, with up to three supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 250 nodes; Enterprise, for large, mission-critical environments that covers up to five supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 750 nodes; and a Custom version, intended for the largest web-scale environments of more than 750 nodes. Pricing starts at $24,000 per year for the Starter tier.\\u201d
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• Pivotal Container Services (PKS) is GA.
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• Kubernetes is a bully?
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• Oh, and also, you\\u2019re not supposed to be excited about kubernetes any more\\u2026?
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• Bonus: Is DevOps still a thing?
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Cot\\xe9 is negative

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• Matt Ray could probably write this abstract with more rainbow.
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• See the other punch in the gut talks Cot\\xe9 has.
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Related to your interests

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• AWS further deciding it doesn\\u2019t want health industry customers\\u2026
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• Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform - \\u201cIn a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data integration across its portfolio. Oracle\'s return on investment pitch is that its autonomous platform frees up technology talent for higher-value tasks.\\u201d Related: Oracle Leaps Into the Costly Cloud Arms Race
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• New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business - \\u201cFor its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of $4.9 million for the same period last year. Revenue was $91.8 million for the third quarter, up 35% year-over-year.\\u201d
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• Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics - Still waiting for BI\\U0001f449analytics\\U0001f449big data\\U0001f449AI/ML to hit the big time: \\u201cThe global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner\'s 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics\\u2026. 60% of respondents\\u2026rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.\\u201d
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• Jenkins-Based CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Fill Out CI/CD Portfolio.
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• Architect.io Newsletter is back!
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• Brief Solarwinds buying Loggly analysis.
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• Q&A: Snap book author on the app\'s challenges
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• Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Barracuda
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• Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, according to a new report
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• XebiaLabs lands $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel
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• Inside Facebook\'s Two Years of Hell
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• Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass
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The Enemy within

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• Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches
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• Apple intern reportedly leaked iPhone source code
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• Uber quits GitHub for in-house code after 2016 data breach - didn\\u2019t have 2FA on, used AWS credentials. But, caught it in 24 hours.
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Conferences, et. al.

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• Cot\\xe9 talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
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• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Cot\\xe9 talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
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• ChefConf 2018 - May 22-25 in Chicago
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SDT news & hype

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• Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we\\u2019ve been doing, all in one, for free.
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• Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
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• Join us in Slack.
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• Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
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• Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
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Recommendations

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Matt: Crashing; Choir! Choir! Choir! David Byrne + NYC sing HEROES.
\\nBrandon: Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen.
\\nCot\\xe9: Apple Pencil plus GoodNotes - blow your mind, bruh!

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