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We’re launching a new pop-up podcast about bots. In this first episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, I’m joined by Peter Skomoroch to talk background: why everyone is suddenly interested in bots and what they promise to do, and what sorts of applications are beginning to emerge.

What are Bots? Here's the Background.

A weekly 30-minute podcast on tech, startups and media, with hosts Jason L. Baptiste (author, The Ultralight Startup; Founder, Onswipe and Morsel) and Ben Parr (author, Captivology; Founder, DominateFund and Tech Caucus).

This week's topics: the end of Gawker, Uber and self-driving cars, NBC's Olympic ratings drop, and Donald Trump / Election 2016

Oversubscribed S2E1: Gawker's End, Self-Driving Cars, NBC's Olympic Faceplant, and Trump

"Incremental change may be good theory, but in practice you have to have a big enough stick to hit everybody with to make everything move at once". So shares Adrian Cockcroft, who helped lead Netflix's migration from datacenter to the cloud -- and from monolithic to microservices architecture -- when their streaming business (the "stick"!) was exploding.

So how did they -- and how can other companies -- make such big, bet-the-company kind of moves, without getting mired in fanatical internal debates? Does organizational structure need to change, especially if moving from a more product-, than project-based, approach? What happens to security? And finally, what happens to the role of CIOs; what can/should they do?

Most interestingly: How will the entire industry be affected as companies not only adopt, but essentially offer, microservices or narrow cloud APIs? How do the trends of microservices, containers, devops, cloud, as-a-service/ on-demand, serverless -- all moves towards more and more ephemerality -- change the future of computing and even work? Cockcroft (who is now a technology fellow at Battery Ventures) joins this episode of the a16z Podcast, in conversation with Frank Chen and Martin Casado (and Sonal Chokshi) to discuss these shifts and more.

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a16z Podcast: All About Microservices

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