Can You Click in Emacs? — Software Defined Talk #42

With VMworld coming up next week, we talk tactics for surviving the show floor, Microsoft’s cloud and container offerings, and the battle for defining the fragmented “platform” space.

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Show Notes

• If you like video, see this episode’s video recording.
• Day old coffee and OKRs.
• Security conferences.
• Software pricing mysteries.
• “Slack-Jawed Yokel.”
• VMworld next week — who’s with me? Matt/Coté: current status (w/r/t to VMworld).
• “Cohesive Entity”: Verizon using Mesosphere.
• Mirantis keeps raising money: Intel injects $100M into Mirantis to boost OpenStack adoption.
• Microsoft’s all about Containers.
• DevOpsDays Chicago.

Recommendations

• Brandon: InstaCart.
• Matt: Bill Bryson’s “In a Sunburned Country.”
• Coté: Costco peanut butter says you need to refrigerate it, but it still spreads smooth. Check out the great debate on peanut butter refrigeration.

Michael Coté works for Pivotal, a sponsor of The New Stack.