Appc Container Specs and the Uncanny Valley of Hamburglars — Software Defined Talk #32

Is there such a thing as a too creepy Hamburglar? We think not. Also, we cover what happened at DevOpsDays Austin, the identity management gap, and rumors about someone acquiring Salesforce.

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Show Notes

• If you like video, see this episode’s video recording.
• Return of the Hamburglar — people are creeped out, but we love it.
• Brandon is in Munich at the European Identity & Cloud Conference — what’s the keynote trends in IDM now?
• DevOpsDays Austin 2015: Matt’s talk on resumes, Coté’s talk, Damon’s talk. Videos sometime soon.
• Alan Shimel’s write-up of Coté’s talk.
• DevOps needs some IDM.
• CoreOSFest — “Google, VMware, Red Hat and Apcera have all signed on to support appc.”
• Super-fan review of the show.
• Randy on EMC and OSS.
• Saleforce acquisition rumors — why would they want to get acquired?

Bonus Links, Not Covered This Week

• Microsoft changes a lot at its Build conference.
• “Is Microsoft still a Windows company?”
• Microsoft ships a cross-platform Visual Studio product.
• ChefConf is coming to Austin in 2016!
• Google Will Do Anything To Beat Moore’s Law – “People ask me if we would switch to Power, and the answer is absolutely. Even for a single generation.”
• Oracle scoops up Nebula’s OpenStack engineering.

Recommendations

• Brandon: latest season of the podcast StartUp.
• Matt: Devo live in 1978 performance.
• Coté: Standard Bank story from Chef.

Michael Cote works for Pivotal, a sponsor of The New Stack. CoreOS is also a sponsor of TNS.