Episode Details

Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, the America Fuck Yeah crew wants to start gathering passwords at the boarder. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe.

Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.)

• Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7th to 8th. No discount code yet, but we're getting one.
• Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
• Matt:
  • Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
  • ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
• Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform.

• The S1
• "We had 158 million Daily Active Users on average in the quarter ended December 31, 2016"
• "We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years." - perhaps 10% of their billing.
• Also: "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021."
• Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ.

• Robots opening doors.
• Google, Nest, and DropCam - despite rocky start, maybe it's just a slow ramp-up, they have 50% y/y growth.
• People think GCP is the shit.
• "Purity vs. pragmatism."

• "Barra-mundi"
• Pronunciation tips

• DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords
• I mean, really? A criminal is just gonna let you see their stuff? They'll just delete it, set up fake accounts, etc.
• It's not like popping the trunk for a thief and finding lock picks and guns in the boot: with digital crime tools and weapons, you can hide and subterfuge.
• And then the only people getting harmed are innocent people.
• What the fuck is wrong with these people, and more importantly the shit-for brains who voted for them? (How can we de-shit those brains fo