Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings

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.
Mood board:
Stroke City.
QBR times four.
Travel costs.
We need a better word than “politics.”
Corporate virtue signaling.
Never ask anything.
There’s going to be Werner Hertzog!
There’s a difference between making a point and making money.
Are you just fillin’ a seat?
The fixie of IDEs.
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Relevant to your interests
Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.”
Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/25/20700698/microsoft-pentagon-contract-jedi-cloud-amazon-details)
Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-pentagon-computing-contracts-3f435663-fdb0-4185-830d-5f9cbc5aaf5c.html)
Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amazon-q3-earnings-shocker-wipes-54-billion-off-market-cap-2019-10-1028630546)
Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”
Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-global-transformation-office).
The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019)
“89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x
DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2019/10/25/devops-tools-can-lead-the-culture-change/)
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a)
My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be? (https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8)
Google moves to buy Fitbit (https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2019/google-moves-to-buy-fitbit-.html)
Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/google-brings-its-new-domains-to-the-rest-of-the-web-including-to-spotify-microsoft-others/)
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs-cross-carrier-messaging-initiative-ccmi-att-tmobile-sprint-verizon)
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
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). †
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Matt: Dolly Parton’s America (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america).
Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel). Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.

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.

Mood board:

Stroke City.
QBR times four.
Travel costs.
We need a better word than “politics.”
Corporate virtue signaling.
Never ask anything.
There’s going to be Werner Hertzog!
There’s a difference between making a point and making money.
Are you just fillin’ a seat?
The fixie of IDEs.

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

Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.”
Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract
Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap

Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”

Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office.
The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic

“89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x

DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications
My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be?
Google moves to buy Fitbit
Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard

Sponsors

SolarWinds:

To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly.

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 https://live.emacsconf.org/
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: eBay for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub
Matt: Dolly Parton’s America.
Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.

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