Episode 73: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle

Software Defined Talk

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk.

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With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

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Show notes

Wordpress Talk

• Pantheon
• Dreamhost
• WP Engine

macOS Sierra

• Try rebooting.
• Can't get Apple Watch thing to work. Bartender broke-dick.
• What have you done for me lately, FREE SOFTWARE?
• (Just freed up 15 gigs of space with the storage optimizer, so, there's that.)
• Also, ordered a ~$1,000 phone today. JESUS!
• Another way to find big files on OS X.
• YubiKey support for OSX

Oracle is gonna cream AWS. Wait, wut?

• Lydia has a good write-up. She's a bit wry, you know.
• This is like the 3rd or 4th go at it.
• To be an apologist: doing cloud is freakin' hard. Maybe Oracle should try being less of a jerk rhetorically though? It's help with their credibility.
• Ben Thompson is on the case

BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.

This week in tech PE

• Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion

Microservices - Please don't

• Maybe microservices ain't all they're cracked up to be
• 5 "truths" (spoiler, maybe not)
  1. It keeps the code cleaner
  2. It's easy to write things that only have one purpose
  3. They're faster than monoliths
  4. It's easy for engineers to not all work in the same codebase
  5. It's the simplest way to handle autoscaling, plus Docker is in here somewhere
• This piece by my man Kenny is ball-exploding awesome.

Too Old to Code?

• Tim Bray is old and codes.
• "That's fine for you, Marge, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. ... Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.". – Homer Simpson

Recommendations

• Brandon: Reminders App
• Matt: Usual Suspects; also, my wife’s blog
• Coté: Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets, Red - $37.90 at Amazon: only 16 left in stock! GOOD PRICE! Also, don’t get Fantastical...if you’re like me.