PurePerformance - Dynatrace Perform 2018 Wednesday Morning Coffee Break

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

Catch up on what was announced this morning

All right. Hello, James. We're back with Perform 2018. Hello, Mr. Wilson. Dynatrace Perform 2018, that is. Yes, so we're back at the Wednesday morning coffee break. It is in Las Vegas, the Bellagio, and there were some more announcements. Ironically made, since I don't drink coffee. Yes. You drink caffeine, though. Caffeine break. Mine.

Mine. My precious. Yes. And we had, we'll stand up, we had, there was another morning session, some more announcements today. So we have with us, friend of the show, guest of the, well, friend of Pure Performance, guest of Pure

Performance, I think you hate PerfBytes, right? You think Pure Performance is the much better podcast? No comment. Okay, Rick Boyd, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for being with us. Thanks for having me. You're watching on PerfBytes.

Please keep it back here. You're a lot hotter. Isn't this technically also a PerfBytes episode? It is. Okay. We're simulcasting. We're simulcasting. Via satellite.

In digits. Yeah. You can see all the notifications on my phone of both of your podcasts updating constantly. Hopefully, you're not just automatically downloading them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually am. So. Let's switch.

This one's close to you. Okay. Great. Yeah, I don't know how to use the mic. You can keep this one close to you now. It's on. Is this on? Yeah, it's just quiet.

Here. Hold this one down here. Hold it down here. Okay. Cover this. All right. We'll cover this. There you go.

Right there. All right. We're experiencing microphone shuffling. There you go. Yes. So you were in this morning session. Yes. So you were in this morning's session. Yes. What did we hear this morning?

I saw little bits and pieces of it. I was editing some of the other episodes, little AI apps, little Davis. What happened this morning? So the biggest thing that they started off with was announcing that Davis is free, which is actually a huge win even if you're not're not you know completely sold on the idea of of voice ops particularly as it applies to your organization because it means that as a as something that provides apis for your platform it's actually a you know a really big contender for for being able to make it fit for your for your so i have a question about that wasn't there a davis a public

davis project on github that you could download and build locally and stuff. So I'm wondering where the free in Davis, where that cross is, or is it just free in a Dynatrace context now? Yeah, my understanding was the original open source vision and the way that it was. You should probably pull Mike Beamer, who's around here somewhere for that, but the open source core of that still exists, but now they're making it just sort of a packaged app that just comes automatically with Dynatrace. Oh, okay.

Okay, okay. So it's the built-in voice interface of Reason. Yes. So when it was in GitHub, it was a... It was an extensible... Public beta. ...voice platform, I think is how they shaped it, yeah. We used the public as our guinea pigs,

and now that we figured it out, it's being packaged into the product. And you can also integrate that into Slack very easily. Yes. Right? So what else did we hear then after Davis? An interesting concept was the AR, the Microsoft, what is that called, HoloLens compatibility for the dinosaurs. The minority report.

The minority report. The virtual dashboards and things of that nature. Yeah, but it's the, yeah, so, yeah, through, you know, through, like, a Microsoft HoloLens AR device, you can interact with it and share on teams and things like that. You can look at the data center

and see certain servers flashing. Yeah. Like, red, green, yellow, depending upon the server. Or more excitedly, maybe like fire graphics on them or something like that. Oh, that would be fantastic. Yeah. Although hopefully you wouldn't actually be seeing a live feed of fire. You'd be able to discern between the two.

It would be fake fire. St. Elmo's fire. Yes. So the funny thing is this the the hollow lens thing this is where we were with davis last year where we were doing this voice ops it was like well voice ops hmm i think we're going to use that and now it's being used in a lot more ways people are starting to talk to diana trace some people are starting to integrate with chat and now we got this you know i guess kind of let's say sort of cutting edge right because not too many people are doing the hollow lens minority report poking at

the space if you're not seeing this right um but i think it's kind of cool i mean right now it's there's a there's a novel factor to it right now yeah but i think we've we've been itching to go that way you know again i keep, I keep mentioning Minority Report. When that movie came out, everyone was like, yeah, that's how we want to do this stuff, right? So it's kind of... Sure, but even beyond the novelty, like, the fact that we're capable of doing that with the APIs that are already exposed, like, that just further solidifies this idea that it can be a central platform for everything that you need to do. Like, we use Kibana internally. We don't have dynatrace managed yet right and there you have

to like take different metrics and correlate them manually or visually in order to find answers and this you know you can just feed the metrics in and let it figure it out i think that's that's amazing and it's been able to prove it this week right we were talking with uh i forget if it was on the record or off the record, about the APIs yesterday. I think that was on. Oh, it was on the record. Yeah. Where this idea that Dynatrace has a lot of openness on the API side, it's getting more and more open so that you can do anything like this with it.

Yeah. What else? You had a question? So I am curious about the open nature of the AI and the ability to integrate with the AI through external interfaces. And specifically, I want to put my own rule sets in for the AI. Do you think we're there yet? I am not sure about that one. I would probably ask Wolfgang Beer. He's the guy who's talking about the API, specifically the events that

come in to handle the correlation. So if you can get him on, that would probably be a pretty good, quick five-minute crash. But I was talking to him yesterday about events, and there's going to be sort of like a two-way causation understanding of whether or not this event was caused by something that's monitored or was causing

something that was detected while monitoring was going on. So it's pretty exciting stuff. Okay. Yeah. So yet one more person to track down. Yes. Sorry. You must have a list a mile long now.

Yeah. That's okay. That's more interest for the show. So that's fine. So anything else then? Or I guess we're going to the afternoon session. We've got the breakouts coming up next. Yeah, we're being beckoned.

Yes, I hear the little ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That's a great job. Yeah. That's what maybe I'll do after I leave Dynatrace. I'm going to be the xylophone player. At Perform. At Perform. Yeah, I'll be like you.

I'll be the guy who left who can't get away. Well, you do have the percussion experience. I do, I perform. I perform. I'll be like you. I'll be the guy who left who can't get away. Well, you do have the percussion experience. I do. I do. Anything else you're looking forward to? You're going to go to the party tonight? I am. I'll be bowling with the rest of the team from Watson Health.

Oh, they'll be bowling as well? Oh, yeah. Okay. I know it's called Brooklyn Bowl, but I didn't know if we were going to be in the event space or there's going to be bowling there as well. Oh, man. There's going to be an event space where we can't bowl? I don't know. That's a live band. the event space or there's going to be bowling there as well. Oh, man, there's going to be an event space where we can't bowl? I don't know.

That's a live band. Interesting. Yes. All right. We'll see. You heard it here, folks. Anyone want to take bets on how many engineers actually dance at the band? I'll get them dancing.

You'll get them dancing? Oh, yeah. I'll be on the floor. We'll hopefully have Andy Grabner dancing as well. Yeah. I like that gif of him on Twitter. That was good. That was amazing.

All right, I don't want you to have to sit in the back row, so thank you for coming, and we'll catch up later. Yeah, thanks for having me. All right, thanks a lot. Thank you. See you later. All right, everybody, we'll be back after the next break. Unless, James, did you have anything else you wanted to add?

No, I don't think so. All right, then. Let us conclude this session thank you very much everybody thank you no it's not that they're all out of whack