DevOps is the new Agile, Peak Everything – Software Defined Talk Podcast #017

Is Amazon taking over everything in IT? It’s definitely huge with eight availability zones and at least 50,000 servers per zone means Amazon has at a minimum 1.4 million servers.  How’s OpenStack doing as a defensive move? And we’re pretty sure DevOps is the new Agile. Our show this week is with the usual gang: Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

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Show notes

• If you prefer video, see the live recording.
• Mando’s Law and the McRib loving’.
• Coté’s Law of Science Fiction Movies
• Amazon is Crazy Big
• Peak private cloud?
• TAM vs. ShAM.
• Is OpenStack too enterprisey? Or is that by design?
• HA HA BUSINESS!
• IBM DevOps service – and an off handed comment about 60% of companies going DevOps at some point. Rackspace has one as well.
• Is “DevOps” the new “Agile”?
• Coté’s whacky DevOps market timing

Recommendations

• Matt Ray: Sunshine, the movie.
• Brandon: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter ERLite-3, more home router than you’ll ever need.
• Coté: Patagonia puffy vest. (They don’t seem to have the exact model I have, but this one looks like it’s descendant).

Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books "Changing Mindsets," "Monolithic Transformation" and "The Business Bottleneck" cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451...

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