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Published: Nov. 1, 2019, 11 a.m.

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The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.

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Mood board:

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• Stroke City.
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• QBR times four.
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• Travel costs.
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• We need a better word than \\u201cpolitics.\\u201d
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• Corporate virtue signaling.
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• Never ask anything.
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• There\\u2019s going to be Werner Hertzog!
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• There\\u2019s a difference between making a point and making money.
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• Are you just fillin\\u2019 a seat?
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• The fixie of IDEs.
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Hey, Cot\\xe9 got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Latest issues:

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Relevant to your interests

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• Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. \\u201cHow do you decide where to go? I stayed home.\\u201d
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• Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon\\u2019s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
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• Microsoft wins Pentagon\'s $10 billion cloud computing contract
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• Amazon\'s earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap \\n\\n
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  • Alternate title: \\u201cMarket cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.\\u201d
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• Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office.
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• The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic\\n\\n
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  • \\u201c89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.\\u201d What\\u2019s up, 11%?x
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• DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change
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• Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications
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• My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be?
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• Google moves to buy Fitbit
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• Google brings its \\u2018.new\\u2019 domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
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• AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
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Sponsors

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SolarWinds:
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Conferences, et. al.

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• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
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• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
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• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
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• Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 \\u2013 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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• NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. \\u2020
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SDT news & hype

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\\xe9\\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Recommendations

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• Brandon: eBay for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub
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• Matt: Dolly Parton\\u2019s America.
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• Cot\\xe9: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.
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Sponsored By:

• PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.
• SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It\\u2019s scalable cloud-based log management that won\\u2019t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.

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