PurePerformance - Dynatrace PERFORM 2018 Morning Day 2

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

We are learning more and more about these deceptively simple-sounding improvements and new features coming for Dynatrace, let's break it down a little more.

All right, we're back. We're back. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, I got a really hot mic here. Yeah, that mic is so hot. My gain is probably really high. I gained.

Oh, you're good. Good morning. Morning. That's fine. There you go. So I you're good. Good morning. Good morning. That's fine. There you go. Good morning. Day two. Day three?

We're in day three for us. Right. I got half a headphone on because the main stage is just kicking off. Yeah, so you'll have to say things like they just said X or Y or something like that. But, you know, I got to tell you. Those are just variables. You have to put in the X and Y values. There's something I think we need to announce.

There was another big. We had a lot of announcements, a lot of big news yesterday, right, during the day. Right. Like your birthday. No, that was two days ago. It was two days ago, but we're still celebrating it, right? No, we had the replay. We had the management zone.

But listen, last night there was a really big, huge event. A big thing happened here last night. I'm trying to go to the biggest news. I'm trying to go to the biggest news of the event so far. Biggest news of the event so far, right, is that Paul Stanley is of the event so far, right, is that Paul Stanley, right, is at the Bellagio, and we saw him last

night while eating some sushi. And what did he say? He said, How you doing, everybody? Hey, people! He kind of sounds like a cat turned into a human. If a cat talked like a human, I think it would sound like Paul Stanley.

Like a loud cat. A loud cat who screams. It actually sounds like this. Don't hear it. That's wonderful, Mark. Oh, it's really quiet. I don't think he's that quiet. It is really quiet.

I don't know why. Anyway. So that was the big announcement. We're really loud. As you would expect of the rock god class, he had a suitably candy-fied ornament attached as he walked around. Which is probably his wife. And speaking of big news... We wouldn't Google that. So yeah, Paul Stanley of KISS was there.

We've got Alois on stage right now. Burn introduced him. And the video does not hold the slides. That'll be all right. Yeah, that'll be all right. No meta, you're right. And part of the meta is me eating. So I'm not going to...

So... Okay, so Davis is available for everybody. Okay, here's the big announcement right now. Davis is available for everyone for free. That's a tiny announcement. There's going to be much bigger announcements during the day. So when we give away an Amazon Echo for the story, we have the stories on the end here. Yeah.

They'll get Davis for free. Doesn't it look like he's wearing a T-shirt from Lost? Yeah, it's like one of the, what do they call the different? The itching kind of. No, the stations. Right, but they had those little itching kind of symbology going on. Do you remember the numbers from Lost? No, I don't.

What the heck were those anyway? Were those seat rows? 24. Were those the seats? Which was the crossover between that and the show 24, which I also watched at that time. Okay. I don't know if you know that so day two day three sort of day three if you count the hot day day three two if you

count just perform uh but i think we're gonna count the hot day because we were hearing quite a lot of people were here for the hot day one of the biggest uh what do we hear yesterday feedback people favorite sessions and stuff like that people I heard stuff about Mark Kaplan's. I mean. His session, not the main stage, but his session was packed. Right, right, right. And really, really great stuff posted on Twitter on that one. Which he does, they do education, like passing the bar.

Barbary, right? They do preparation for passing the bar. So you can, like, people can study. And so it's an e-learning online. There are a lot of bars in Las Vegas. No, not. But those are bars you go into, not bars you pass. Well, that depends.

If you're an AA, you probably pass them. Yeah, very good. That's a very good point. Yeah. If you're a teetotaler, you probably know. But, I mean, the bars also serve water, which is very important to stay hydrated here in Las Vegas. Well, unless you're Mike Larson, who's a teetotaler, but he would probably play at a bar in a band. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, good call. Anyway, back to Dynatrace. Remember Dynatrace? What's wrong with your thing? I was just turning the game down a little. I was just turning my game down a little, Meta Man.

Yeah. Shouldn't have asked me. See, you brought the meta into the conversation. So the announcements yesterday, just so people hadn't picked it up, now we have five things. Log analytics. Log analytics we have five things. Log analytics. Log analytics we have. Hi.

We've got log analytics. We've got replay. Log analytics, replay, management zones, key performance metrics, which are part of the UEM or expanding what UEM can do when you're evaluating a metric. You have flexibility. Right. And now we're adding a metric. You have flexibility. Right. And now we're adding notifications for Amazon Echo and Slack. So you have a whole native.

It's part of Davis. I don't know if that's part of Davis. They just heard the Davis Slack interface. Okay. So you have a Davis bot in Slack. Yeah. Yeah. You can type in, hey, Davis.

Or you can say, Davis, what happened last night? You type it in. We have that set up in our own Slack as it is now. But that's existed for, again, I don't know what's available to the community. I know we've set it up for some people. I see a YouTube video coming of Davis as Hal. We should do. We should hijack.

So yesterday we were seeing this YouTube video where Hal is replaced by Alexa or Siri? Alexa. By Alexa. Right. And of course, Davis is way smarter. Also an androgynous name. Davis? Davis could be...

Could be a last name. Could be a last name or first name, but it could be also not quite as androgynous as Pat. Right. That was a good choice, right? Or maybe Davis' first name, but it could be also not quite as androgynous as Pat. Right. That was a good choice, right? Or maybe Davis' first name is Pat. Pat Davis. Or Davis. Sam.

Sam. Sam is pretty good. It could be Samuel. My sister Sam. Remember that show from the early? That was a good show. So the funny thing is, right, you talk about the whole Alexa thing, but what's really, really interesting with Davis is we have

Alice Reitbauer, Austrian, Austrian accent, speaks into Davis, which is Alexa, and it understands him. And where I'm going with this is there was the bit with the Hal,

that video we saw with Hal talking to Alexa, and it was messing it up. But meanwhile, what we've seen, at least what I've seen from our people using these tools, is that voice recognition is so much better than it was so many years ago that I can hear through an accent. Remember the first ones, the Dragon Dictation? Yes. And it was like, that was 20 years ago, maybe? It was a nightmare.

You'd be like, you'd install it in Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups even. XP had new Dragon Dictation, and it was a heavy, heavy install, and not much processing power. I think all of that stuff in real time benefits VR. Here we go. Here's the next thing coming on the main stage that no one can see. By the way, if people want to follow the main stage, they can go to perform.dynatrace.com. It's going to take you about 15 minutes to get your link. Mark, I think one of the things that's tremendously helped natural language processing

is something that was at the Consumer Electronics Show this year and last year with NVIDIA and the artificial intelligence in the cloud and being able to process natural language and pull the patterns out of there. So I just see that as increasing. I mean, heck, I think I saw a development board for NVIDIA that goes in your car, which would have qualified in the Cray class of computers not too long ago. Right. And that's air-cooled, embedded system designed to communicate actually to back-end AI off-site for issues of recognizing street patterns, signs, people, bicycles, other automobiles, but also natural language interface. Yeah, I agree.

And now there's some crazy holodeck. What does this have to do with performance? Just don't want to keep it germane to the conference. It looks like it visualizes the server. It's Austrian, not germane. Okay, so if we're watching in the screen, is there some kind of a fire thing? Is this Christopher Cross? Yes.

Yes. And if you watch Yacht Rock, there's the whole idea to keep the fire, and they are keeping the fire right now. So this is what they call augmented reality, right? Yes, and it looks like they're having some technical difficulties, which is a shame. Which you would guess if you're trying to do this. Yes. It looks kind of interesting, though. Well, they're supposed to be seeing their dashboards.

And what we see is the Dynatrace logo appears to be with some pirate techniques flaming on fire. And there's some people standing around. So it's an early beta. But see, this will make Google Glass. Okay, looks like, you know what? You know how they're going to fix this? So it's an early beta. But see, this will make Google glass. Okay, it looks like, you know what? You know how they're going to fix this? What?

How do you fix a problem? You ask Davis. Reboot. So it's just, I mean. Davis, can you reboot the VR machine? There you go. Yeah. So they're either going to switch to replay or they're going to reboot the system.

All right. But, yeah, I mean. Let's talk about the Davis announcement, though. Two key things. Yes. I remember last year some of the sentiment from people hearing about Davis, I mean literally hearing Davis, were sort of like, yeah, this is cool, but I don't know if I can use it. What's it going to do for me, X, Y, and Z?

Is it gimmicky? Is it gimmicky? But you added two very practical things. One, just make it available. Just give it away. Right. Right? And in fact, there was a GitHub project for Davis.

You could download it. Right, and it'll be growing and you can do it. But now they're, just like the UFO, you can't have access to it and buy, you know, they'll make it for you. It turns, what starts out as an innovative early idea that you hear at Dynatrace, just a year later, not only is Davis now available, it looks like a bot, notifications, et cetera,

happening, interacting in a bot inside your Slack, probably also work for HipChat and the other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you can do extensions. You'd have to get extensions into them, but yeah, you can. But to me, that makes it more real because i i know i live with different customers and my primary teams uh internal customers we all have just a huge slack is huge at our company right right i think we were probably one of the heaviest users of skype before

this and it was cumbersome because there was lack of persistence separation couldn't pull teams you didn't have a centrally managed contact list all this stuff so slack really changed life for us and i think davis plugged into slack would make davis and dynatrace way more accessible to us what do you guys to anyone but i know it will for us i think definitely into slack i think the thing about the voice thing is you know i'm an older man and i don't like talking to myself well you're older than you were last week. Yeah. Well, I do like talking to myself, but only, like, when I'm, like,

crying in the corner of the room, telling myself it'll be all right. I think it would be really awkward shaving in the morning and asking for the latest performance report. But here's the thing. I don't think so necessarily, because if you think about...

Let's go to science fiction movies, right? They're usually decent predictors of the future, and maybe things don't happen right away. But let's look at video phone calling. Let's go back to, we were speaking of HAL 2001, Space Odyssey, that big bulky thing. And now, like every day, and this has been going on for years now, but like on your phone, you just pull up FaceTime or Skype

and video phone your family back home or something, right? Totally commonplace. Another thing that always is in the science fiction world and movies is people talking to computers. People talking to computers. Star Trek, for how long? Oh, yeah. I mean, so is it – it's early. Did anyone ever notice that was Nurse Chapel's voice that the computer responded with?

Yeah. Also known as Ray Bradbury's wife. Yes. So it's definitely on the road. Oh, hey. They got it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's really crazy.

Not to interrupt. But here's basically, you combine Davis with these goggles. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you think about it too, right? So this is that augmented or VR. Go back to Minority Report. Well, we're seeing it as augmented reality.

What we have is augmented reality. Someone's got some VR goggles on and essentially they have a floating dashboard in front of them. That they can interact with. They can interact with, I guess, Davis or potentially through... Reach out and touch me. Yeah. That wasn't the camp. Reach out and touch someone? Yes. Reach out and touch the virtual Yeah. That wasn't the camp. Reach out and touch someone? Yes. Reach out and touch the virtual dashboard. Wasn't that the...

Dangerous slogans. Let's not go there. Reach out and touch someone. Asterix. Unless, of course, this is against your corporate policy for... Or if you have permission first. Ask for permission, then reach out and touch someone. It was AT&T, wasn't it?

Yes. And be sure to use the app to record this for future legal yeah for future yes um okay so the flaming thing turned into the globe right oh and you can see so you're seeing performance from different countries right so i mean so what we're seeing here again if you think about it and this is what people were in love with remember the movie minority report yeah which was a great philip k dick. Remember the movie Minority Report? Yeah. Which was a great Philip K. Dick story. Which the movie kind of ruined the end. And putting them in pools.

Right. And their psychic abilities and then treating them terribly. Right. I like the ending of the book better than the end of the movie. Because it was a question of free will. And the movie went one way and the book went the other. I think the movie said there was free will. The book said there is no free will.

And I kind of like the darkness of the book saying, you're trapped dude anyway the whole thing was also tearing down this the thing that was limiting free will was not the technology no no no need to do it it was max von seedow he was i don't remember he was he was the evil guy okay but yeah yeah you're right you're right you're right right and he was and he it was a man was, and he, it was a man. Something wicked this way comes. I want to see that movie again. I love the movie. It was the man that was, there was the. So they were doing all the interfacing with their hands on these virtual screens.

And again, if we go back to what the, what did the movie show us? Yeah. That people went nuts when they saw that. People were like, oh my gosh, that's going to, we're going to have computers like that in the future where we're just going to like. Right. And now, yeah, early, completely early adopters. This is like in its infancy. But look, there it is.

It's kind of crazy. It is where it is. Yes, it's nifty. It's neat. Right? I think it would be funny if you walked into your CTO's office and your goggles on was pointing at nothing. Yeah.

But, again, this is the beginning. This is the beginning. What I want to see is a live animated set of pipelines from development going in. Like this is traffic. I get it from an ops perspective. Well, this is like the smartscape, yeah. But I kind of want the dev to ops landscape as well, so I can see an actively animated pipeline.

I can shut parts of the pipeline off. I can get the UFO in there. See, I can open up and say, hey. You can walk inside the UFO. Expand this pipeline. Give it more resources so we can get those features done faster. I can identify a process bottleneck in the work that's happening. Get it out of the way.

So in all seriousness, picture the UFO. Yeah. And you have the rings of light. This will be a larger one. You can walk around it. And when a light turns red, you can go on to open it. The door will open, and inside will be the code that failed your – or the dashboard, the data that failed your build.

Beautiful. That would be a beautiful idea. All right. So this is impressive. It is. It's some crazy technology. It's frightfully impressive. It is. It's some crazy technology. It's frightfully impressive. And I got to think there are other companies.

Who was talking yesterday about being ahead of their time? We mentioned it. Oh, Joe. Joe Hoffman, right. Same kind of stuff. People have been like VR, the Google Glass, all this stuff. Yeah, yeah. That's really ahead.

This is a little bit ahead of its time. It's ahead of the people and their readiness. Just like Joe's story was like, don't touch my servers because we have a human way of managing these things. Now you're going to have an electronic way, a digital way to manage these things. Not that that's a new message in and of itself, but the way you do it. Yeah, it's just kind of... And just like Davis, like this, as Alois is pointing out here, this is, if you're in Dynatrace and the set of APIs, which Klaus was saying, what about APIs? And we all had different ways of thinking about this. This is how Dynatrace thinks.

What can we do with our APIs? Your point, too. Right, right, right. You're talking about API extensibility within the platform for Dynatrace's products. So this is what you can do if you have, like, take any, I go to some of the old software that I've worked with, and we were screaming to management, can we invest and open the platform, open it up, give us more AIs, give us more flexibility to interact,

plug into all the other tools in the ecosystem. It was really hard to convince some senior management that that was worth investing in. You guys did it from the Ruxit to Dynatrace transition and way forward, open up the platform. Yeah, but Mark, you were working for a hardware company. Yeah, we didn't even make the hardware anymore. We just borrowed other people's hardware and put ours on. And here's the interesting thing, what they were just showing with that augmented reality. If you want to innovate and try to do things with it, you can get in on it now.

So here's what I'd like to see with Davis. We talk about... Can you connect remotely? No, no, but you can try to set up and... I'm not sure what this is. Yeah, I don't know what this is all about. If you're a company that wanted to do that augmented VR and work things out and figure out, you can get in on it. But here's where we're talking about innovations of how to use these things.

I just had an idea with Davis, right? So you have the Alexa speaker. People mostly would imagine having a speaker on the conference table. Maybe you walk in the morning meeting. I want to recreate elementary school. I want to walk into my morning meeting. We'll have a loud speaker at the top of the wall. Yeah. I want to recreate elementary school. I want to walk into my morning meeting. We'll have a loudspeaker up at the top of the wall. Right. And we're

like, this is Principal Davis. There were three issues last night. Pat, please come to your desk and fix the issue. And the kids are in trouble? You forgot to ask everyone to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Depends if it's the original yeah I like the original alright now alright so we're adding in some cool stuff for VR and some openness Davis for everybody plus Davis integrations

and again Davis is not necessarily just talking to it it could be the Davis plug into Slack. It's a personality. That allows you a different way of accessing. And this is why I think it's important too. And this is why I think it's important too because we have self-remediation.

As we were talking yesterday, Joe Hoffman, this whole idea of self-remediation. It's real now. So let's say you're a developer. You work on your projects. You got no alerts last night, so you thought everything was fine. Right. Because self-remediation takes care of it.

Whatever, a couple servers went down, restarted, or maybe it did an auto-rollback, but took care of it all. It didn't have to wake you up because the machines are in control. You wake up in the morning. Hey, Davis, what happened last night? You get your little report. Then you continue on your work. Now, obviously, you can say, oh, something's happened.

I'll take a look into them later. It's awesome. It was fixed. But I didn't get woken up because we had the alerts. We had the thresholds. And now I can just go type in my thing and get my little report from Davis and Slack, share it with some other people, copy, paste, bam, done. Nice and easy.

I think there's a lot more ways it could be used. I like it. Yeah. I like it. All right, so what are we looking forward to today for the rest of the day? I have a session on continuous performance. You do, which you cannot see. I don't think that's going to be broadcast, unfortunately.

I think I was doing some. Oh, look, we're seeing some Star Wars shots. Yeah, I have some stuff in the afternoon. Yeah, life is good. I think everything is going to be fine. Doesn't that insignia kind of look like the Death Star logo on the T-shirt there? I don't know. Death Star logo?

Yes. Not really. Look at Star Wars. You see they have a little Death Star insignia. Yeah. Now, of course, people are listening to a podcast. They can't see it. It's very meta. It's very meta.

It's very meta. There goes James with meta again. You're taking over my spot, meta James. Don't do the meta. How you doing, everybody? Thank you, Paul Stanley.

How you doing, people? That's what it is. Not everybody's people. He likes referring to the crowd as people. Because he forgets what city he's in. Yeah.

Yeah, because someone's like, hello, Toronto. Yeah. Yeah, and then you just say people. You just say people, you're safe. People from whatever, wherever, anyway. Our. Just as people. You say people, you're safe. People from whatever, wherever.

Anyway, our podcast is not the Paul Stanley Bites or the Pure Stanley. Pure Stanley. Pure Stanley. That's not the name. Paul Performance. Paul Performance. Paul Performance. If you want to get on the mic for old time's sake.

Come on down. Yeah. We're in the conference center at the Bellagio. I wonder if he's going to be on stage. Maybe he's going to get on the mic for old time's sake. Come on down. We're in the conference center at the Bellagio. I wonder if he's going to be on stage. Maybe he's going to come on. Maybe he's going to be a celebrity guest on stage. Celebrity guest for Dynatrace? Yeah.

Yeah, because if you're in the virtual reality working with dashboards and then Paul Stanley shows up in your – With fireworks in the back. Yeah, exactly. You never know what these guys plan. Are there any KISS fans in the Dynatrace ranks in R&D? I don't know. I have no idea.

I mean, I wouldn't call myself a KISS fan. I'm a fan of the KISS culture. All right, yes. And all the cornyness around it. You wear your Kabuki theater. No, none of that. I just like i like listening to paul stanley's rants i like you know what no what i think is anyway this is not about

kiss i do like the fact though that they're like hey we're not here to make artistic thinking music we're here to give you a good time and we're going to do the best job of giving you a good time when you come to your shows topics thatics that you're interested in, those are the subjects of our songs. Yes. I'm a big fan of Radiohead, but they're a big downer. I wonder if he could give us a nice tune on rendering. A song on

rendering. A song on rendering. About how he's up all night with the performance engineers. Can't make it home. Working on a rendering problem render gun they just can't get it right yeah that's right the night goes all the way yeah so yeah your stuff screwed up i think that's the name of the song okay we've got a lot of more exciting... Fix It Up. That would be the song. Fix it up.

Fix it up. Yes. Exactly. Oh, oh, oh, oh. See? That could be a singer. Bad one. Don't optimize prematurely.

And I bet you people know you should. Yeah, I'm not going to go there. What? Forget it. Yeah. Well, there's going to be a lot more announcements coming today. But mostly it's... It's really quiet in the room today because everyone's in the main stage. Everyone made it to the main stage, which is pretty cool. We have a lot more announcements coming today. It's really quiet in the room today because everyone's in the main stage.

Everyone made it to the main stage, which is pretty cool. Only a few people are left here. We'll talk about AIOps. They're talking about NAS. We'll get some news on what that's all about in a little bit. We'll come back and talk about AIOps. We sure will. Which will be kind of cool.

All right. And then tune in to the live stream, perform.dynatrace.com. Yes, please do, people. And you can go watch this stuff. And the beauty about the live stream is they're going to be offline as well.

Yeah, yeah. You're going to be able to go back to them later. So sign up, get into that. Yeah. You can watch all

the wonderfulness of the main stage action. Wonderfulness. All right. We'll catch you guys later. Thank you, everybody.