We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage.

Pre-roll SDT news & hype

• Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
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This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon

• KubeCon - that a thing?
• As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack!
• List of announcements, from The Register.
• “We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home.
• Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project
• Datadog survey.
• Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…”

Relevant to your interests

• You’re not doing agile - Coté’s Christmas bonus column.
• Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less.
• Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature
• Planview buys LeanKit.
• Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first?
• Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.”

Conferences, et. al.

• It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left.
• Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
• Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski).
• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Long Shot, Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures, Ben Evans.

• Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive card.

• Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (still free!). Kubernetes Up and Running. Badass. Paper on ML indexing stuff.

Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.