Episode 103: AI is no longer limited by the garbage that is UNIX

AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea) in this episode, standing in for Brandon. Removing rebel-slaver memorials Good job (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html), Old Bay land. There’s more cities too (https://www.axios.com/what-other-states-are-doing-with-confederate-era-statues-2472806400.html) on the case too. You like white papers? We got white papers Four new Pivotal white papers (https://content.pivotal.io/white-papers/running-microservices-on-pivotal-cloud-foundry): CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH). We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations. (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/pci-bosh-cicd-and-microservices-whitepapers-galore-with-jared-ruckle) Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit. Amazon Summit NYC There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-summit-new-york-summary-of-announcements/)? Machine learning (http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-has-largest-a-i-platform-in-the-world-its-machine-learning-guru-boasts-1502735878), and such. Deep dive blog post (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-macie-securing-your-s3-buckets/). Interview with Amazon exec (http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-has-largest-a-i-platform-in-the-world-its-machine-learning-guru-boasts-1502735878), Matt Wood. AI Winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#Overview). Maths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_smoothing). Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon (https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-effect-echoes-across-industry/). “Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?” (https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/897489269069107200) Building out Azure HPC Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing. A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/microsoft-tones-its-hpc-cloud-with-cycle-computing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InorganicGrowth+%28Inorganic+Growth%29): “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years” What about the GreenButton (https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/microsoft-acquires-high-performance-cloud-computing-company-greenbutton/) acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014 (https://www.cio.co.nz/article/544160/latest_tech_merger_microsoft_acquires_kiwi_cloud_computing_company_greenbutton/). Excellent chart (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/files/2017/08/Vote-for-KBI.png) showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc. https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_2B8493BBB6C86E07A5CDF46F818EAD2B22A9BA45EDBC764A7613A8A9E0E13576_1502894906368_image.png BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show Docker raising more cash-money, container land items Lizette Chapman & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/docker-is-said-to-be-raising-funding-at-1-3-billion-valuation): “HPC is about three to five years behind enterprise computing when it comes to new technology adoption – the applications are generally more sophisticated, and engineers are conservative…. Business software company Docker Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/1041069D:US) is raising fresh funds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.” Also, check out this ADP using Docker case, moderated by Alex Williams (https://thenewstack.io/adp-adopted-container-mindset/), pretty good: 1,000 containers in Nov 2016 to 3,771 in April 2017 (I think these were across dev and prod). MIPS rule everything around me (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-version-docker-enterprise-edition-adds-new-admin-features-support-old-reliable-mainframes/). Docker Enterprise feature matrix: https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_2B8493BBB6C86E07A5CDF46F818EAD2B22A9BA45EDBC764A7613A8A9E0E13576_1502889970877_file.jpeg Also, putting Oracle in a container (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/08/containers-core-banking), over there in European banking. Hold my beer platforms (https://thenewstack.io/github-goes-kubernetes-tells/) - It’s easy, just build out all the platform things you need yourself. Yaml all the things! Also, Bash, puppet, terraform, go for log draining(!) and more! Bare-metal, what’s the deal? Oracle got it (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/08/14/oracle-supercharges-cloud-database-bare-metal-servers/). What’s Twitter got to say (https://twitter.com/cote/status/897477974496342016)? “You get my deck? Let me check Outlook. Who’s doing meeting notes in Word?” https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_2B8493BBB6C86E07A5CDF46F818EAD2B22A9BA45EDBC764A7613A8A9E0E13576_1502811233384_image.png Cloud’s cool, but PowerPoint is the shit (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-numbers-show-microsofts-biggest-businesses-really-cloud-era/?utm_content=bufferb54e8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer): “$25.4 billion in revenue in Microsoft’s 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year” Hot Dog Watch Ever vigilant, we’re keeping an eye on the future. The future is stiching together videos for 360 panorama things (http://mashable.com/2017/08/14/snapchat-crowd-surf-concerts-our-stories/#PqhbXnU0cSqO). See the underside of The Hot Dog. Meta, follow-up, etc. Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit. Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there. Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Mid-roll Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/) - October 17th and 18th, 2017. NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/), September 21st and 22nd. Use the code SDT2017 when you register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado). PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that. Coté speaking at DevOps Riga (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/), also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium. Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/241908089/), August 17th, 2017. See slides (https://www.slideshare.net/cote/the-cloudnative-enterprise-architect-how-devops-changes-eas-role). The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)! SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Matt’s on the Road! August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/) August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/240951267/) August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/) September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Perth-Cloud/events/241297999/) September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-bangalore/) September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Sydney-User-Group/events/242374004/) October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-auckland/) October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/) Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum. # Recommendations Andrew: SLOs, three chapters from the Google SRE (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html). Matt Ray: Run Bootcamp Windows 10 on a USB Stick (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-run-bootcamp-windows-10-on-a-usb3-86551dc3def8) The secret rhythm in Radiohead’s Videotape (https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/8/4/16092184/videotape-radiohead-secret-rhythm-earworm) Coté: bacon grease in a mug by the stove, that’s how we was livin’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0s0XHVUGF0). Speaking of saving bacon grease: Spyderco ParaMilitary 2 G-10 Plain Edge Knife (http://amzn.to/2fImmaR); works well for camping; I got a good deal. WOCStock (https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/) - mix up them pasty white-boy slides. Outro from Angela Rye (https://twitter.com/angela_rye), on (http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/16/august-16-2017-hn-two) Here & Now (http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/16/august-16-2017-hn-two), August 16th, 2017 (http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/16/august-16-2017-hn-two). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.