Coté

Good pointing out of needing some law and ethics to catch up to the Internet: The Internet brought us hyperconnectedness, but we’re really not ready to cope. We don’t have institutions and firewalls in place to prevent abuse of the system. The law can’t keep up, and doesn’t have the teeth in place anyway. Link

Compensation is much cheaper if you can convince people to take an arbitrary number of lottery tickets in a lottery of unknown value instead of cash. Cash and known value is king. Something about discounted cashflows and such. Link

Who doesn’t like a good what’s in bag/what I do each day post? I used to fax a lot, but people don't have faxes anymore. In this routine, what’s remarkable is how much he avoids people, e.g.: I don't go out that much because I'm always late, and I'm so busy and so pleased with what I'm doing that I'm not really ready for a social evening. That's over—the people I was going out with are dead or don't exist anymore.

Eventually every advisor will be a robo-advisor, which means there will be convergence. Without some marketshare numbers, it’s tough to tell if the banking startups are making a dent against incumbent banks. Josh Brown suggests that banks are quick to catch-up and have nullified any lead that companies like Weathfront could have made: It wasn’t long before the weaker B2C robo-advisors folded, the middling players were acquired and the incumbents launched their own competing platforms.

New types of software and delivery mechanisms (SaaS, mobile) mean new problems and scale: “We were so used to dealing with tens of servers and suddenly it was hundreds and thousands of servers,” which in turn created more work for the development teams. More: “The digital expansion of business equals more work and firefighting,” Cox said. Less time spent doing dumb-shit: employees used to spend the eight hours of the park closed every night, manually updating each server.

Apple said today that it will be using (anonymized) data from the app to show podcasters how many people are listening and where in the app people are stopping or skipping. This has the potential to dramatically change our perception of how many people really listen to a show, and how many people skip ads, as well as how long a podcast can run before people just give up. Link

“Ansible, a DevOps automation engine that's often used with Kubernetes deployments, was big, responsible for six of the quarter's transactions of over $1 million. This included one deal valued at over $5 million -- "our largest deal ever for Ansible," according to Shander.” Also, updates on RHEL, OpenStack, and OpenShift. And Oracle. Link

While department stores are sinking, sales of apparel and accessories on Amazon are skyrocketing, with $22 billion in clothing sales in 2016, or 6.6 percent of the market. Link

Just a few updates and links this week. I don’t list them all below, but there’s several interviews from OSCON and DevOpsDays Austin in the Coté Show Variety Podcast as well. Programming languages XML, all alone on its own. The RedMonk programming language index is out, as always it’s interesting to see how things rank and read over their explanation. Also, if you’re interested in coming to Spring Days in NYC or Atlanta this summer, they have a $50 off discount code right at the start as part of Pivotal’s sponsorship.

There was some interesting container orchestration news this week which we discussed in Software Defined Talk. If you’re into Slack, I started a Slack channel for Software Defined Talk listeners. There’s other channels in there, of course, but if you’re into extremely low-traffic stuff - or want to make it higher traffic, send me a DM in Twitter or email me at sdt@cote.wtf and I’ll add you. It’s been two weeks since I sent this out, so pardon the bulk below.