Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia.
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Executive Shuffles
Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hired-former-microsoft-exec-javier-soltero-vp-g-suite-2019-10) and Javier Soltero’s Bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Soltero)
Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928856/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-revenue-cloud-services-surface-gaming-xbox)
ServiceNow Announces Bill McDermott to Become CEO, Succeeding John Donahoe, Who Is Stepping Down to Become CEO of Nike (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191022006131/en/ServiceNow-Announces-Bill-McDermott-CEO-Succeeding-John)
Nike, ServiceNow and SAP CEOs play a game of musical chairs (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-servicenow-and-sap-ceos-play-a-game-of-musical-chairs-2019-10-22)
Free Software a.k.a Open Source
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move? (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/is-the-software-world-taking-too-much-from-the-open-source-community/)
Free Software and Open Source Business - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2019/10/21/free-software-and-open-source-business/)
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/databricks-announces-400m-round-on-6-2b-valuation-as-analytics-platform-continues-to-grow/)
What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community (https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/24/what-24-million-means-for-our-open-source-community/) — Grafana
Security
Getting Started with Security Keys (https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b017837a75-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+309&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-b017837a75-70424493&mc_cid=b017837a75&mc_eid=288b3f86c8)
Don’t use admin/admin as username/password (http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHLMQzTXkAEgHHx.png)
The Chintzy Way Zappos Wants to Compensate Victims of a 2012 Data Breach (https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/zappos-amazon-data-breach-settlement-coupon.html)
Kelsey Hightower asks a question… (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1186832245664997377)
Good news for developers: The CLI is back | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-news-for-developers-the-cli-is-back/)
IBM stock downgraded on fears of long-term Red Hat impact, other worries (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/10/21/ibm-stock-downgraded-on-fears-of-long-term-red-hat-impact-other-worries/)
Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy (https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/)
Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/)
Nonsense
Gulfstream’s New G700 Is Set to Become the World’s Biggest Private Jet (https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/gulfstreams-g700-worlds-biggest-private-jet-2875781/)
Sponsors
SolarWinds:
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their APM tools – Loggly.
To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
PagerDuty:
This is episode is brought to you 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.
Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). †
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Joker (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286456/)
Matt: Daemon (https://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731) by Daniel Suarez
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/ZCv_tXbTsNA)

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia.

Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. Latest issues:

Relevant to your interests

Executive Shuffles

Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite and Javier Soltero’s Bio

Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall

ServiceNow Announces Bill McDermott to Become CEO, Succeeding John Donahoe, Who Is Stepping Down to Become CEO of Nike

Nike, ServiceNow and SAP CEOs play a game of musical chairs

Free Software a.k.a Open Source

In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move?
Free Software and Open Source Business - Andreessen Horowitz
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community — Grafana

Security

Getting Started with Security Keys
Don’t use admin/admin as username/password
The Chintzy Way Zappos Wants to Compensate Victims of a 2012 Data Breach

Kelsey Hightower asks a question…
Good news for developers: The CLI is back | ZDNet
IBM stock downgraded on fears of long-term Red Hat impact, other worries
Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Nonsense

Gulfstream’s New G700 Is Set to Become the World’s Biggest Private Jet

Sponsors

SolarWinds:

This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their APM tools – Loggly.

To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.

PagerDuty:

This is episode is brought to you 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.

Conferences, et. al.

Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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. †

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

Brandon: Joker
Matt: Daemon by Daniel Suarez

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

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