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This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 471 Runner-up Titles Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall I need two offers You Kids We are the rock eaters to Slack I mean, what else am I doing with my life? Rundown Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows Relevant to your Interests Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer Linux as the new developer default at 37signals Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident The Worst Website In The Entire World How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG) Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006 Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple. Openwashing IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch Adam Selipsky, the exit interview Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated? Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow AI Patterns Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS GitLab quarter eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Silicon Valley's False Prophet Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last Nonsense Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch The five stages of computer science Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends Conferences NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: MoviePass, MovieCrash From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592) Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary

Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow. Show Links Serverless Days Sydney dapr.io Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager Contact Paul LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz Twitter: @paulyuki99 SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo Credits HeaderSpecial Guest: Paul Yuknewicz.

Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks. Show Links visualstudio.com Contact Amanda LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver Twitter: @amandaksilver SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Amanda K. Silver.

This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 468 Runner-up Titles Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept. Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it Thanks Clayton Williams Multi-size Monkey Phase There’s people I know “Yes, and” is now fully ironic Pop sockets are the future All out of tokens, going home You said Squawkbox Cote’ Rundown New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Services A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes App Engine overlay Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite Greenplum Microsoft Build Introducing Copilot+ PCs Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 Relevant to your Interests Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer VMware Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use More thoughts on OSS business models After selling his startup for a life-changing $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal launched a VC firm and two high-value startups. Why? Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS? Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation Tech Influencing Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT Privacy Principles: Search, Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Legal As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? Apple execs on iMessage for Android ‘You’re Fighting AI With AI’: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens Scott Galloways Predictions for 2024 at OMR24 Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 The pandemic darlings: where are they now? Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Surpass $675 Billion in 2024 ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT OpenAI loses its voice Nonsense Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star Listener Feedback Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations Black Hole® Pack 25L – Matt Goruck Travel Rucksacks – Matt Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 – Michael Everyday Backpack from Peak Design – Andy Conferences NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Water Meter Valve Key Matt: Bobby Fingers: “Fabio and the Goose” Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 467 Runner-up Titles Do what works Blame the children I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993 I like carrots Rundown A.I. Announcements Introducing GPT-4o ‎Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements Google I/O 2024 Palace Intrigue Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later. Relevant to your Interests Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics? Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp? How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake? Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! Nonsense YETI 34 oz French Press - in NL, €125! Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024. SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Dark Matter Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 466 Runner-up Titles Coté is in a Dungeon Everything’s going to be different What would Stringer Bell say? Displacing Google Great Grammarly A room full of barking dogs A little bit of hustle porn. Over value activity A whole room with barking dogs Rundown Clouded Judgement 5.3.24 OpenAI To Launch Search Engine Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM Relevant to your Interests Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine. Data Privacy: All the Ways Your Cellphone Carrier Tracks You and How to Stop It Supercharged Developer Portals VMware eases changes and deadlines for CSPs Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch Open sourcing Octo STS Apple is an edge computing company. EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED UniSuper and GCP AWS ‘Disappointed’ It’s No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age Why companies list fake jobs Nonsense Justice for cord boxes!!! Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony. MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024. SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Fallout Matt: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV Coté: My book is on sale at Leanpub. Get XP for donating miles with KLM/Flying Blue. Trade show interview Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 465 Runner-up Titles Extra Innings Later Innings Customer is always right, except for pricing Leave the party crying Put a price on it Rundown Hashi Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? The threat to open source comes from within You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.” FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes Relevant to your Interests AlmaLinux 9.4 beta: RHEL compatible, but a little different Building for our AI future Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources Amazon recently bought a $650 million nuclear-powered data center Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources Netflix Dealt With the Freeloaders. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher. Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck Do software companies actually have good margins? Women Who Code: Influential tech network shuts down unexpectedly The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat Tesla’s Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish: ‘Will you please at least appear to make Tesla your top priority?’ The SignalFire State of Talent Report: 2023 tech employee trends Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data | Amazon Web Services Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' | TechCrunch Broadcom Tells Partner Negotiating For Charity ‘VMware Is Not For Everybody’ Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part. The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories Atlassian Co-CEO Scott Farquhar Resigns, Leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as Sole Chief Thoma Bravo to buy UK-listed Darktrace for £4.3bn All we have to fear is FUD itself — Oxide and Friends The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy? State of DevSecOps | Datadog Letter from Edward Norton, Founder of Zeck, Why Zeck The Man Who Killed Google Search Alphabet earnings are out — here are the numbers Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement Amazon earnings are out — here are the numbers Microsoft earnings are out – here are the numbers Nonsense Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: MarkdownDown BBEdit's Extract and new feature blindness Coté: Adam Savage Q&A Photo Credits Header Artwork

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards. Show Links Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is. Appoint and empower a single threaded leader Two way door decisions Dogs not barking. Weasel words. If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank. Contact Jana Werner LinkedIn: Jana Werner. SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! The Cards Here's the text of the all the cards: Mechanism How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days? How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice? How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings? How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism? How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising? How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used? How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product? How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with? How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues? How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release? How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps? How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision? How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it? How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter? How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings? Culture How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs? How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions? How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting? How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle? How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen? How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable? How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture? How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published? How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision? How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster? How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports? How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team? How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations? How can you start your next meeting with a document read? Organisation How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it? How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team? How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams? How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)? How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team? [REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read? How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations? How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation? How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement? Leadership How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions. How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these? How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers? How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transfor

This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 463 Runner-up Titles The fun run was fun. You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts. The Phish are biting Everything’s cool zone Words that rhyme with “acquisation” Maybe AI can find it The market for products that start with “K” I like hotdogs Don’t do the values, just the fun facts Rundown An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu Matt Asay response Tweet Adam Jacob take Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica 451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028) Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai Relevant to your Interests Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source Enterprise Nonsense How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis Listener Feedback Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger? Conferences Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide Civil War Matt: Ostrich travel pillow H-E-B Pro-Sleep Mask Coté: Continuity Camera, kibbeling. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 462 Runner-up Titles Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs. Well, I still have meetings. The Cote’ Experience ClosedTofu Our Cloud is Huge(tm) Rundown Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated Matt Asay Follow up Tweet Bryan Cantrill calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different. Google Cloud Next ’24 Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote Relevant to your Interests WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software Nonsense Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates Listener Feedback The first person to send their United States postal address to [email protected] will receive a bag of Dawn Python Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee. Conferences Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Node.js: The Documentary How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté, so same cultural cohort as theorized.) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 461 Runner-up Titles The Fork is a feature not a bug Relicensing: The path to Private Equity Is this Progress? Hot Antitrust Action Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars Won’t someone think of the children? Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances The deepest of pockets Fine-adjacent. Not complicated enough What’s it called when they plateau going down? Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of Mostly contrast Rundown Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means Redis RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one Battle of the Redis forks? Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community Is this Progress? Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS). Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB. Database popularity index Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence 20 years of Gmail Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content. Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach. Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions. Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!). Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance. Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms. Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown). Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage. Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies. Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?) Relevant to your Interests Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry Apache Kvrocks Ex-technology companies FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch Key takeaways from the Entrust incident Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc. Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174) Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo Nonsense Some New England universities and colleges break $90,00

Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project. Show Links The Brewintosh Prusa Mini v6 Hotend Adapter Cortex Prometheus Grafana Labs OpenCost GrafanaCON 2024 April 9-10 Contact Tom Wilkie LinkedIn: tomwilkie Twitter: @tom_wilkie GitHub: tomwilkie SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 459 Runner-up Titles "Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.” You don’t want to scare you coworkers Eating bugs off your coworkers “Hi” has become a trigger word Rehabilitate the “Hi” 55 Direct Reports Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone. The YAML hand off market Rundown Is Hello a proper Slack message? Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat Kubecon “Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” "Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking," “Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs!” OpenCost Introduces Carbon Costs What if the CNCF was private equity? Nvidia Nvidia shares pop on Q4 earnings, generative AI "hits tipping point" NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang - has 55 direct reports Video that tracks the trajectories of Intel and NVIDIA Nvidia's latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2023–2027 Relevant to your Interests Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster Who Still Works From Home? A new TikTok ban gains steam Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation clears him of wrongdoing More companies getting rid of free tiers: 49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year The WiFi at Google's new Bay View office hasn't been working properly for months: report Moon Mission Could Redefine Computing in Deep Space Doctors Are Using the Apple Vision Pro During Surgery Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" of users How The Cloud Is A Trap Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky says more than 10,000 organizations are using Bedrock Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans Snowflake Stock: Melting Faster Than An Ice Cube Games Are Coming to LinkedIn Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report European Cloud Group Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny Over Broadcom’s VMware Overhaul Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024 Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade Walmart sells a Mac Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services Buyout Firm Vista Equity Explores Options Including Sale for LogicMonitor Nonsense Airlines Are Coming for Your Carry-Ons Clocks Change Costco CFO ‘voice’ looks back on 40 years, $1.50 hot dogs and leadership Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint Delta’s CEO says controversial Sky Lounge changes reflect the airline’s status as premium brand 3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh - The Brewintosh Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts Listener Feedback Chris tell us the Owala Water Bottle is on sale. Conferences Tanzu (Re)defined online, April 3rd, Coté Speaking. Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Coté speaking, Palo Alto. TEQNation, May 22nd, 2024, Utrecht, Coté speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 to 21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The E-Gates Modality Will Now Be Implemented at Cancun Airport - Cancun Airport Global Entry better then ever Mobile Passport Control (MPC) available in Austin Airport Matt: Duck Duck Go Coté: MacBook Pro Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Coté's O'Reilly video series where he offers up some tips on how to survive and thrive in the workplace. Plus, some ideas on how to reinvent the virtual town hall. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 458 Runner-up Titles Surviving Corporate America Hopes and Dreams Second half of your career Soul Crushing I stole this from TikTok Living too much Just be happy Review life imbalance Rundown 10 part course at O’Reilly about working in a large organization, a BigCo Conferences KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: How Will You Measure Your Life? The Psychology of Money Vitamix Coté: pecans in smoothies. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss whether or not Kubernetes is boring, Winglang’s attempt to simply cloud deployments and Linkerd status as a graduated CNCF project. Plus, a few thoughts on frogs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 457 Runner-up Titles Blame the seagulls Speaking of lizards in our houses Burying people under B-trees Compiler for the Cloud I’m tired of speaking French We need a big pie If we stop shooting each other we can sit down and eat some pie. The Jacob Principle Has there every been a config file format love affair? Rundown Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong Wing Programming Language for the Cloud #1262 Health of Linkerd project Craig Box X Thread Adam Jacob’s X Thread Five Cloud News Trends for February Relevant to your Interests X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year CACM Is Now Open Access Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU A Few Jelly Beans and a World of Disappointment at Willy Wonka Event Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of nonprofit AI mission | TechCrunch Meta says it’s deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month Snowflake CEO Steps Down From Post Richer Than Tim Cook or Satya Nadella RISC-V launch Amazon goes nuclear, acquires atomic datacenter for $650M Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic It’s Time to Give Up on Email Nonsense When a funeral is clickbait Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Dune Part 2 Matt: Our Band Could Be Your Life Conan O’Brien in Australia Coté: Bruce Sterlings new-ish blog, especially the color scheme. Photo Credits Header Gemini

This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 456 Runner-up Titles Is it Russian hackers? Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS They’re all bad product launches Vikings are 98% more Nordic Can I pay for features? They’ve defeated vaporware Interoperability is for underdogs Rundown Google Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage | CNN Business Apple Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire Relevant to your Interests Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds Cloud-Native Is In Shambles S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers The Open Source Sustainability Crisis Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform What to Do about VMware Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability ServerlessHorrors | Home Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit | TechCrunch Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20% HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD Nonsense Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E. Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Delta Wi-Fi Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3 Aliens Dark Descent Coté: GM’s Apprentice. Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships Photo Credits Header Google Gemini

This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 455 Runner-up Titles I live my life one iCal screen at a time We always have sparklers Meta-parenting Everyone is always tired Cheaper version of Red Hat This week in “Do we need to be angry?” All we get is wingdings. I’m in a Socialist mood this week Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff Those dingalings bought my boat Dingalings of the mind Rundown CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community NGINX fork? freenginx.org Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal Tofu So Where’s That New OpenAI Board? The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? Relevant to your Interests Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix Sora: Creating video from text Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech Slack AI has arrived What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster 1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames How Google is killing independent sites like ours VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter ## Nonsense An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Fair Play on Netflix Matt: Julia Evans: Popular Git Config Options Coté: Anker USB C Charger (Nano II 65W) Pod 3-Port PPS Fast Charger. Photo Credits Header Google Gemini

This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 454 Runner-up Titles Are we streaming. I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness. If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life. The sound track to walking the dog. At least it’s open source. The Magic Quadrant of Fashion. I guess everyone’s cool? What pair of pants do I need? The AirPods Pro pocket. Go down the metaphor hole. I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu. Not good, but good enough. The Metaphor Hole Rundown CNCF Landscape Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (Cloudcast Pod) Earnings Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective Relevant to your Interests Shift Happens: A book about keyboards Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2 Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives. Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024 From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate Weaveworks shuts down A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella’s Decade as Microsoft CEO Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It? Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe” Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering Google and Yahoo Are Cracking Down on Inbox Spam. Don’t Expect Less Email Marketing. Cloudflare's crowd-sources another patent troll case victory (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup 2024 State of Internal Developer Portals | Port Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing Yandex: The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm How Mastodon made friends with Meta The Vision Pro Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro Working in the Vision Pro Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving Nonsense Cynical book summaries H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023 One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable Most accurate video I’ve ever seen Listener Feedback Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Chamberlain Smart Garage Control Matt: FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much? Coté: chocolate covered dates at Tree of Dates. Photo Credits Header Artwork by Google Gemini

This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital. Show Links Kubernetes: The Documentary Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software Profound Deming Profound Podcast Contact John Willis LinkedIn [email protected] SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo CreditSpecial Guest: John Willis.

This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 452 Runner-up Titles Know the rules Until you reach infinity When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door. All-in on Minecraft Eminent domain for digital transformation. There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet. Rundown Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse Direct File | Internal Revenue Service DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform Relevant to your Interests Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account A brief history of Dell UNIX OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking #446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different Startup Funding Simulator Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024 Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand. Nonsense Fifty Years Ago Today (D&D) I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia Make it Taylors Version Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024 If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Stanley Cups Are Just Water Bottles. How Did They Get So Popular? Coté: Mythic Game Master Emulator, version 2 (I don’t think the version matters, really). Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451 Runner-up Titles Enshittification The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization Wait for Wifi Taxes by beef rib It’s actually not fine Smoking crack in Disneyland AI is accelerating the crappiness. Why don’t you just sell more cloud? Generated Garbage I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile. Accidentally upgraded Jury duty…”pretty cool.” Rundown Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling. How Google perfected the web AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To Subprime Attention Crisis 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification” Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find Relevant to your Interests Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud Creating a Sales Commission Plan The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures Lofree Flow — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 Introducing Docker Build Cloud It's time to build "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it." For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything Campfire is ONCE #1 Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech Culture Change at Google Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story? Mourning Google Nonsense We lost some real stars this past year Startups Are Shutting Down! It’s Just a Water Bottle Listener Feedback Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Travis County Jury Duty Matt: Perplexity.AI Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger or Kartika — which is also good and less fancy in a good way. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 450 Runner-up Titles Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers Sales is crazy Donut over-eating avoidance Fundamentals don’t change Do you have good recipes for golden geese? We need better Dungeons and Dragons The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence. Peter Pan as DevRel Hard stop goes soft HR in volume feels dehumanizing Mad Libs for layoffs Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness. We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision… Status quo wins again The Strangler Pattern for password management Schwag cannot be stolen. Rundown 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (Podcast) DevRel The trouble with DevRel Amazon’s silent sacking (Podcast) Work, RTO and Layoffs WebMD’s RTO Video Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video Signs that it’s time to leave a company… A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks Passwords and Keyboards Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024 Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey Relevant to your Interests Authy is shutting down its desktop app OpenTofu is going GA Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch. How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit Slack Executives are all gone WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why. World's R&D spending Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin The Worst Devices of CES 2024! App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027 Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% Nonsense Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024 The Official Passport Index Ranking why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip. Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3 Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Carrot Weather App (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar). Matt: Murderbot Diaries Book 7: System Collapse Aliens Fireteam Elite on sale for <$10 Coté: The Lost Kingdom, book. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 449 Runner-up Titles That is part of the podcast I am going to have a change of pants for that They’re very good notes “Buildies” Of course they are The Internet is a series of tubes… filled with money The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money Gobsmacked Rundown Mobile Passport Control (MPC) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 Amazon's Silent Sacking AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,’ Customer Complaints Coding at Google Relevant to your Interests Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts Apple’s new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000 Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available The Besties’ Revenge: How the ‘All-In’ Podcast Captured Silicon Valley Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we… Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement The Rule of X Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams The Big Cloud Exit FAQ Pro Take: The Cloud Isn’t The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products? Deploy web apps anywhere A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings End of Life VMware’s Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs Intel CEO says Nvidia’s AI dominance is pure luck Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends Reddit’s CEO takes a victory lap The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice’ Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023 What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama 2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 Remembering the startups we lost in 2023 Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again' Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks. Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups Command line csv viewer Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites Elon Musk is not understood Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity 2024 Predictions US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages Office vacancy rate hits record high The robots will make us more human Amazon’s Twitch plans to slash staff: report Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. DocuSign surges amid report it is exploring buyout deal (DOCU) Adobe walks away from its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B Thomas Graf on LinkedIn: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles Cisco to Acquire Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion The companies employees don’t want to leave in 2023 Nonsense ‘You didn’t just succe

Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”. Show Links Cloud Native Computing Foundation Project Bluefin Bazzite Universal Blue Prompt terminal Windows To Go with Rufus Contact Jorge Castro LinkedIn: jorge-castro2112 GitHub: @castrojo Mastodon: @[email protected] SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Jorge Castro.

This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 447 Runner-up Titles Flat budgets are better then no budget Applauding as the Titanic goes down They weren’t going to be patriated But this is you! Now we know The hippies have lost Keep your head on an open-source swivel Once it works, it’ll be great At least we got USB C Great year for cables Rundown 2022 Year in Review (Last Year’s Recap Episode) Travel App Recommendations FlightRadar24 Flighty Final Numbers The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’. Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations of the Year Brandon: Pastebot Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (RIP) Coté: Google Looker Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 446 Runner-up Titles When your early is really on time Showing up on time is is early for me We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok Rundown BS Dictionary What does "bureaucracy" mean? Politics Deck Let's socialize this deck Let's have the meeting in the meeting Parking Lot Outcomes Follow Coté on TikTok for more BS Dictionary Takes Coté’s Business BS Dictionary Playlist on YouTube Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Slow Horses Season 3 Coté: ChatDM with Forgotten Realms. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 445 Runner-up Titles I feel very safe on an airplane We’re one mishap away from Lost Difference between the right decision and the safe decision First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo “Rice” They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck Figure out where all the yaml goes Rundown Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix Apache Mesos Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January Relevant to your Interests Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023 Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads 'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’ The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions? Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake" Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less Nonsense Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade? It’s time for the Excel World Championships! Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video Committing to Costco 220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 April 17-18, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Fund Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit Coté: Sex Education, season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 444 Runner-up Titles A.I. Arms Race Table 4 needs pork chops Run with that Thanks for not saving us from the AI The King of Cameos Rebels going to rebel Ivory Tower Scruples The sign of something Rundown OpenAI Sam Altman Out At OpenAI A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman Who Controls OpenAI? Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn A.I. Arms Race Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model Google unveils Gemini Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman Relevant to Your Interests Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself' Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview) Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach "We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more 534 startups have failed so far in 2023 Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts 'Return to Office' declared dead Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing Nonsense Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us. The Clock of the Long Now Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Bookings with me in Outlook Matt: ortho-k Coté: Descript (for finding social clips), GMail, D&D in ChatGPT Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 443 Runner-up Titles No Slack The Corporate Podcast. Quality of life stop Our roads diverge Eats a bag of llama Nobody wants to do a bake-off AI all the time Rundown AWS re:Invent Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g) Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS DGX Platform Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing AWS takes the cheap shots Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent Relevant to your Interests Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023 Thoma Bravo to sell about $500 million in Dynatrace stock FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent | TechCrunch Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media | TechCrunch Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024 Amazon to launch car sales next year with Hyundai Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023 Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware | Hock Tan Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval VMware is now part of Broadcom | VMware by Broadcom Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It! Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028 IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK) Apple announces RCS support for iMessage Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS. Nonsense Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023 Listener Feedback Matt’s Trackball: Amazon.com: Kensington Expert Trackball Mouse (K64325), Black Silver, 5"W x 5-3/4"D x 2-1/2"H : Electronics Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype

Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit. Show Links theCUBE SiliconANGLE Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source Our Open Source focus: Securing OSS is not optional Octopus wolfi Camino de Santiago My Walk on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, 2023 Contact Dustin @DustinKirkland LinkedIn SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

This week, we recap the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite, ponder the broader implications of A.I., provide an update on OpenCost, and share some thoughts on migrating child accounts to teen accounts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 441 Runner-up Titles I just want to do less Kill all the humans Madlibbing his keynotes They perked up and turned it off Legs are the difficult thing Everyone gets turned into a barnyard animal Rundown MSFT Ignite With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand - Source Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event Microsoft and Photonic join forces on the path to quantum at scale - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides - Microsoft Industry Blogs Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT OpenCost and Azure Announcing OpenCost Integration with Microsoft AKS Cost Analysis Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) Relevant to your Interests Microsoft restricts employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT Scoop: Amazon is ditching Android for Fire TVs, smart displays Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023 Clouded Judgement 11.10.23 Keycaps » Special Edition Drop » dbrand In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) 2023: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Menlo Ventures Threat Spotlight: Reported ransomware attacks double as AI tactics take hold YouTube, Ad Blockers & the Advertising "Tax" Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 released Amazon will officially merge Comixology with Kindle in December Nonsense AWS staffer shows off former-prison offices on social media Buc-ee’s and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to add high-speed chargers In the Office Auto-Reply Emails for a Hybrid Work Schedule Listener Feedback Facets | Helping you adopt Platform Engineering 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas Code BF24 gives $300 off any professional ticket until Nov. 27. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Killer Matt: Keychron Q10 (Alice Layout) with Gateron G Brown Pro switches and a wooden palm rest Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 440 Runner-up Titles Keep on keeping on They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects It was USB thing If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report The platter days Wait a second, I’m a pro Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition Vanity Metrics are for Vanity Rub some A.I. on it Rubbing A.I. on all of it Of course this is the way you’re going to do it Rundown Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM CNCF October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects | Cloud Native Computing Foundation AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments OpenAI OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference ChatCSV How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 | TechCrunch CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest Andrew says gets switch tester Relevant to your Interests Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer alternative benefit AWS to Azure services comparison - Azure Architecture Center PagerDuty To Acquire Jeli, Bolstering its End-to-End, Automated Incident Management Solution for the Enterprise Verdict reached in Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud The GPU Math", AI's impact on Cloud Rev and Capex Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix Europe is in Decline: A Concerning Future Ahead Data observability platform Kloudfuse launches out of stealth with $23M Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage Datadog stock surges 30% after cloud company beats estimates, revises guidance up Elevating Cloud-Native Innovation: Craig Box joins the Solo.io Team! Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft's GitHub • DEVCLASS Understanding Open Source Adoption: Insights from the 9th State of the Software Supply Chain Report. New Report Shows Disconnect Between Developers and Security Teams on Software Supply Chain Security Priorities and Responsibilities Nvidia announces January event after rumors of an RTX 4080 Super launch Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries - The Next Platform Nonsense Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami Listener Feedback Software Defined Talk now available on YouTube Music Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Same as Ever Morgan Housel | Acquired Podcast The Morgan Housel Podcast: My New Book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes Matt: DisplayLink for multiple external monitors on M1 Macs (Asahi Linux discussion) Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 439 Runner-up Titles Costservability Just a second 439 episodes of podcasting nirvana We’ve never made a mistake A million Amazon users of Copilot Chrome exists to serve RAM sales Two Turntables and a Microphone Default Search Engines Rundown Cloud Earnings Review Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23 OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring Free Software Product Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide Business Models Default Search Engine Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge Paid Social Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs SolarWinds SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud Apple Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone Relevant to your Interests The Cloud Computer Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO 12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street VMware closes its home for experimental software Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA What's new in Red Hat OpenShift Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon' Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software Nonsense Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130? The restaurant nearest Google Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ Listener Feedback Sudesh from Akami is hosting a happy hour at KubeCon Conferences Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. 20% off with VMware discount code: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Bodies Matt: Anti-recommendation: Lenovo Go wireless ergonomic keyboard Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Microsoft and Google Cloud earnings, the future of passwords, the validity of DORA Metrics, and share some thoughts on esoteric Excel bug fixes. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 438 Runner-up Titles Spicy takes and f-bombs Not pants Real scientists don’t use Excel We fixed it Private equity is coming for you Jerks on the phone… go! They’re going to steal our eyes and thumbs Rundown Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac Cloud News and Earnings Clouded Judgement 10.20.23 Microsoft blows past earnings estimates as cloud growth comes in hot Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users: CEO Nadella Jamin Ball on LinkedIn: On the Microsoft earnings call Google-parent Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft’s cloud booms How AI-driven software creation tools speed up your development Amazon launches European 'sovereign' cloud as EU data debate rages Passwords Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit 1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise Passkeys (Passkey Authentication) Apple may be planning a surprise October iMac announcement Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal Relevant to your Interests Broadcom and VMware Announce Election Deadline for VMware Stockholders to Elect Merger Consideration Beijing weighs delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal Announcing Neptyne for Google Sheets Discord expands online marketplace as it tries to justify $15 billion valuation Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' Amazon managers can now sack employees who won’t work from the office 3 days a week Amazon’s Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party US v Google Antitrust Trial Transcripts I The Capitol Forum Crane Venture Partners Flight 2023 How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal Stay in EU, comply with EU law: EU’s digital chief warns X’s Musk Meta sued by 42 attorneys general for addictive features targeting kids Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging The founder of startup Bonobos hid a bipolar diagnosis for decades. Now he’s on a mission to destigmatize mental health at work Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial Fed wants to lower 'swipe fees,' a potential blow to banks and credit card giants Nonsense Costco CEO Craig Jelinek to step down Jan. 1. COO Ron Vachris will take over McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Listener Feedback Omnivore Conferences Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. 20% off with VMware discount code: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Asciicinema Coming to asciinema near you with Marcin Kulik, creator of asciinema (Changelog Interviews #561) Matt: uBlock Origin Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Amazon embracing Microsoft Office 365, offer some SBF hot takes, and review the lessons Docker learned when building an open-source business. Plus, we share thoughts on the new Apple Pencil, USB-C, and some Tim Cook fan fiction. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 437 Runner-up Titles My enemy’s Word Processor is my friend. You know what we should do, we should just meet about it. A downgrade would be an upgrade. Megadeal’s a great word. It worked for Shingy Use my template. Rundown Amazon moves to the cloud Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document Report: Amazon will use Microsoft 365 cloud productivity tools in $1B ‘megadeal’ SBF Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short Number Goes Up Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon OSS Business Success with Open Source HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless... Docker at 10 — 3 Things We Got Right, 3 Things We Got Wrong How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects VMware: What China Might Ask Of Broadcom Is Concerning Markets (NYSE:VMW) Relevant to your Interests So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29 billion in back taxes Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports Data transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment | TechCrunch Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB Apple reaches settlement with Caltech in $1 billion patent lawsuit - 9to5Mac We tried that, didn’t work Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com Apple wants to update iPhones in-store without opening the packaging Atlassian content cloud migration will work. Users, less so Opinion | The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead Minecraft becomes first video game to hit 300m sales Marc Andreessen -- e/acc on X Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup Amazon quietly rolls out support for passkeys, with a catch | TechCrunch The price of managed cloud services Microsoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era UK Atlassian users complain of migration dead end Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners Convicted Fugees rapper Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft bungled closing argument IRS to offer a new option to file your tax return Welcoming Loom to the Atlassian team Nonsense Costco sold $9B of clothing in 2022 United's new boarding system prioritizes window seats Listener Feedback Software Engineering at Google Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Platform Engineering Conferences Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. Use this VMware discount code for 20% off: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Sign up for Installer - The Verge Matt: Dell customer support Coté: Evil Dead Rises. Also, this picture of Bruce Campbell, from here. Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss measuring developer productivity, Unity licensing backlash, and some follow-up on Wireless Emergency Alerts. Plus, thoughts on coconuts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 436 Runner-up Titles One day an ice machine will run on RISC-V Mo Developers Mo Problems W3C my ass. That’s almost an aggressive blue. Wait. Do I live in an office complex? You pay the same Quarantine Quarters Maybe I have too much mindlessness Out of my way Costco, I’m going direct. Candy Corn Have you tried a bubble-sort? Omerta for developers Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements. KCNA23VMWEO20 Just make the bed Rundown Developer Productivity McKinsey Developer Productivity Review Even longer rebuttal. The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand Reports Kubernetes at Scale: Challenges, Priorities, Adoption Patterns, and Solutions Announcing the 2023 State of DevOps Report John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) Relevant to your Interests Why companies still want in-house data centres Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What Everyone involved in Open Source Development Should Know PayPal faces new antitrust lawsuit claiming it unfairly stifles competition with Stripe, Shopify and more DuckDB Labs puts limit on free support, rules out VC funding Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database Datadog stumbles as Bank of America downgrades, citing recent checks IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors Be an Open Source Absolutist! Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps Nonsense Ice Is Not Necessary. So Why Do Hotels Provide It for Free? Listener Feedback Biogen hiring Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Global Commercial and Medical IT (hybrid work) RedHat hiring Principal Product Marketing Manager, OpenShift in Remote Conferences Oct 17th SpringOne Tour Online (free!) - Coté talking about platform engineering. Oct 17th and 24th **talk series (yes, a “webinar”): Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering. Coté’s doing this. Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. Use this VMware discount code for 20% off: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: macOS Sonoma Matt: HomeSeek - post apocalyptic SimCity Coté: Menewood, finally out! Over 700 subscribers for my newsletter - are you subscribed?! Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 435 Runner-up Titles All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine We’re doing this for science No, just no, Dad No exceeding expectations in that role I will do horrible things with YAML My business is my business They don’t have room for purity Rundown Emergency broadcast not used by Trump CBP announces new MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch" Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here Relevant to your Interests OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on The potential gap Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices Look what ChatGPT vision can do. Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality The Senate’s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos. Nonsense Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits Conferences Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Dental Monitoring and Anker Magsafe Battery Matt: Search Engine podcast: Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? Photo Credits Header

This week, we discuss Cisco's acquisition of Splunk, AWS's investment in Anthropic, and VC Market Overview Presentations. Plus, we share some thoughts on Dungeons and Dragons, as well as standardized testing. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 434 Runner-up Titles So much about sheep Maybe Ten Middle mega-cap The data stays the same, only the story changes Ribbon Wall Rundown Splunk Cisco acquires cybersecurity company Splunk in cash deal worth $28 billion Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But Cisco Needs To Convince Splunk Customers That Cisco Is Good For Them AWS to invest up to $4B in Anthropic Google invested $300 million in AI firm founded by former OpenAI researchers Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic I’s $240B Question Anti Portfolio Relevant to your Interests Upbound Contributes Control Plane Provider Technology to Crossplane Your iPhone can now restore your Apple TV if the streaming box has problems Elon Musk's Neuralink is recruiting patients for its first human trial Roblox acquires voice moderation startup Speechly | TechCrunch Harness launches Gitness, an open source GitHub competitor | TechCrunch Broadcom-VMware Deal Inches Closer In China: Report | CRN 1Password rolls out public passkey support to its mobile apps and web extensions Intel Unveils Industry-Leading Glass Substrates Amazon's Prime Video will show ads unless you pay $3 more per month Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents | TechCrunch Spreadsheets are the long tail of datasets that don’t have their own SaaS tool yet Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers Demand for Software Developers will STILL outweigh the supply. No sacred masterpieces Vista Equity Partners has quietly topped $100 billion in assets under management ll iPhone 15 Models Can Be Connected To An Ethernet Cable Through The USB-C Port Via Dongle To Enable Incredibly Fast Wired Speeds U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music Tech layoffs are all but a thing of the past Terraform fork OpenTF gets renamed to OpenTofu What’s Up With Open Terraform? — Arrested DevOps Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O'Grady from RedMonk (Changelog Interviews #558) Ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video, unless you pay more Airlines Are Just Banks Now ## Nonsense F-35 crash: Pilot called 911 after parachuting into backyard You can find love on Tinder for $500 a month, if you qualify for its elite tier Apple Podcasts adds original programming from Apple Music, Apple News+ and other apps | TechCrunch Listener Feedback Slack's revamped UI feels like a step in the wrong direction Brett’s Slack Tip: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S when the new Slack design lands on you. It’ll give you your Slack community sidebar back. Conferences Oct 3rd Enterprise DevOps Techcon, Utrecht. October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 October 5 - 6, 2023, Devopsdays Indianapolis 2023 Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: iPhone Messages Stickers Coté: Notes.app: iOS 17 Notes and Reminders Features. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss why everyone is envious of Google’s Internal Dev Tools, examine the state of Git, speculate about how 37 Signals plans to reinvent software licensing with ONCE, and share a few thoughts on the Salesforce CEO’s recent comments about work from home. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 433 Runner-up Titles Lost in an acquisition hole. Headless Robot Dog. It’s not better enough. GoogHub Why are you on the sad path Once version 2 is a paid upgrade You win interesting bingo Rundown The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge Git is awful. GitHub isn't good enough. It's killing us! (Steve Yegge) Introducing ONCE Salesforce CEO takes a bold stand on remote work Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year Relevant to your Interests David Sacks has a new SaaS startup for other SaaS startups Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business - The Next Platform Clouded Judgement 9.8.23 Inside Hollywood's SBF Mad Scramble Tubi The Free Streaming Service, Hits 74 Million Monthly Active Users & Almost 250 Free Live Channels As Cord Cutting Grows | Cord Cutters News IBM Software mandates return to office for those within 80km Cloud is here to stay, but at what cost, ask customers Disney and Charter reach deal to end cable blackout in time for 'Monday Night Football' Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows Oracle revenue misses estimates as tough economy hurts cloud spending No privacy in cars Former CEO of China's Alibaba quits cloud business in surprise move during its leadership reshuffle A Look Back at Q2 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings 1 big thing: A long-term plan to secure open-source software MGM takes systems offline after cyberattack Disney-Charter deal represents new era for TV bundles Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI | TechCrunch Arm prices IPO at $51 per share, valuing company at over $54 billion Tim Gurner’s spray about ‘arrogant’ workers lays bare the economic sadism of our time Cisco discontinues Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure CloudBees Announces New Cloud Native DevSecOps Platform Jet: Prepare For Liftoff Artifact’s new Links feature makes it much more than a news app TriggerMesh, RIP Clorox says last month's cyberattack is still disrupting production Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft mistake Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive Elon Musk says X may go behind a paywall for everyone so he can 'combat vast armies of bots' Restricted Source Licensing Is Here OpenTofu RoboFab is ready to build 10,000 humanoid robots per year | TechCrunch Unified Acceleration Foundation Forms to Drive Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh? Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? A new way of thinking about open source sustainability Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his 'maniacal sense of urgency' at X, formerly Twitter Cable TV Is on Life Support, but a New Bundle Is Coming Alive Nonsense McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve soda machines | CNN Business Delta SkyMiles changes: Delta overhauls how you earn Medallion status in biggest change yet Australian baby named Methamphetamine Rules ‘Take the Money and Run’ Artist Must Repay Danish Museum Listener Feedback Jan recommends this Rich Roll interview: Mindset SECRETS From The World's Best Ultrarunner: Courtney Dauwalter Conferences October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: YouTube TV and NFL Sunday Ticket An Endgame for YouTube TV, Big Disney Decisions (And Whether Bob Iger Should Make Them), The Era Beyond Peak TV Matt: Airline wifi chat with Support Coté: Do Interesting book by Russel Davis. Photo Credits Header Artwork

Brandon is joined by Richard Seroter, Director of Developer Relations and Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud. They discuss the key announcements from Google Cloud Next ’23, Richard's recommendations for a successful tech newsletter and VMware's impending acquisition. Show Links Google Cloud Next ‘23 Code with Duet AI assistance Google Cloud Jump Start Solutions Richard’s Website and Newsletter Richard Seroter on App Modernization Contact Richard LinkedIn Twitter: @rseroter SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Richard Seroter.

This week, we discuss Netflix's DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts on why Europe needs more ice. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 431 Runner-up Titles Try Harder It’s a necessary luxury Someone’s drinking too much water here A culture of ice Where are the high performers, at home or at work Quit using your Gmail address Thou shalt export to CSV Rundown Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too) Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die Can you trust 'open source' companies? OpenTF created a fork of Terraform! OpenTF pulls the trigger on its open-source Terraform fork Relevant to your Interests VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close | TechTarget Nvidia's blowout offers a giddy whiff of 1995 Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones Top Ten social media platforms we spend the most time on Max will launch a 24/7 CNN stream for all subscribers next month Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle For Control Of Its Algorithm Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture - Slack Engineering The Cloud 100 2023 Data isn’t everything. Judgement counts too. Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years Instacart is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees it's 'past' time to commit to the company's RTO mandate and their jobs are at stake Duet AI, Google's AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate What’s new with GKE at Google Cloud Next | Google Cloud Blog Duet AI in Google Cloud Preview | Google Cloud Blog What’s new in Oracle to PostgreSQL database migrations with DMS | Google Cloud Blog US AI startup Poolside raises $126m seed round and relocates to France Ping, ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo, the power of open source, and the madness of IAM Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock; Combines ForgeRock into Ping Identity Interoperability between Google Chat and other messaging platforms — powered by Mio Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format Google unveils AI tools for enterprise customers at $30 a month Chip design firm Arm seeks up to $52 billion valuation in blockbuster U.S. IPO Birmingham City Council goes under after Oracle disaster IBM Introduces 'Watsonx Your Business' Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads Announcing Kubecost Cloud in General Availability: The Easiest Way to Optimize Your Kubernetes Costs Platform Engineering - What You Need To Know Now The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US Introducing ONCE Nonsense The fight for the right to repair McFlurry machines Delta Airlines Offers Woman $1,800 After Losing Her Dog Conferences Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: JUST ONE MILE | Official Trailer Matt: Deadloch Coté: Rick Rubin interviews Rory Sutherland. I doubt much of the airport business book stuff in here is “true,” but that’s sort of the whole point, and it’s fantastic listening. His book Alchemy has a great one word review right there in the title. But, again: it’s fun! When you’ve listened to too much If Books Could Kill you can check in on Rory if you need to take the cure. Photo Credits Header Artwork

Brandon interviews Mike Long, the CEO and Co-founder of Kosli. They discuss Mike's background, his experience as a DevOps Consultant, and the reasons behind starting Kosli. Plus, Mike offers a few tips about visiting Oslo. Show Links Kosli Contact Mike Long LinkedIn: mikelongoslo Twitter: meekrosoft SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Mike Long.

This week, we discuss VMware’s Announcements, SUSE goes private and some thoughts on streaming services. Plus, Matt provides an update on the repercussions of spilled Orange Juice. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 429 Runner-up Titles Matt Ray Vibe Ethically flexible And one more thing me Is it new? You’re gold plating your gold. Hello World and my Mom’s Blog SAP known for being nimble I guess I am excited There’s no way you sold 50,000 Chinese knock off water piks in Australia. Rundown Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable VMware Broadcom's $61B planned VMware purchase clears U.S., UK Introducing vSAN Max | VMware VMware Expands Tanzu to Accelerate App Delivery at Enterprise Scale VMware Explore 2023 Media Kit - VMware News and Stories VMware edges towards multi-cloud, adds AI side quest SUSE EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE SUSE Manager Ansible Integration Becomes Fully Supported Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel What Happened to Wirecutter? Relevant to your Interests YouTube is adding chat, highlights, and Shorts to NFL Sunday Ticket Hopin Events and Session Products Sold for $15 Million 80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x Will Broadcom’s pending purchase overhang VMware Explore? VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI under Broadcom’s wing System Initiative Code Now Open Source How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips Report: Threads app to launch website version this week - 9to5Mac Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage If I were you: Here are the the Google Cloud Next ’23 talks for six different audiences Amazon Worker Has A Witty Take On Return-To-Office Policy Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘in-person time policy’ will crack down on Meta’s remote work rebels Nonsense All signs point to a late summer COVID wave American States As Real People Generated by AI LG now sells this bizarre TV in a suitcase, and I must have it Listener Feedback What is AWS after the Chasm? Conferences Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop, sign up! October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Costco | Acquired Podcast Matt: Lenovo Go Wireless Split Keyboard, decent clone of Microsoft Sculpt keyboard Photo Credits Artwork

This week, Brandon and Coté are joined by a special guest host, Brian Gracely. We discuss HashiCorp's transition to BSL and break down the recent interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Plus, some thoughts on the use of the word "orthogonal." Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 428 Runner-up Titles I like T-Bone Re:invent the T-Bone Byzantine Bramble Path This show isn’t three hours, but it could be Those who are satisfied do not speak. Rundown BSL As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending HashiCorp changes its source licence to BSL HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License Craig Box on LinkedIn: Hashicorp did a thing, and many people are responding with a variant of… There’s no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky — Decoder with Nilay Patel Relevant to your Interests Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber Why our vacation days have been vanishing BlueJeans, Verizon's Google Meet competitor you've never heard of, is shutting down Clouded Judgement 8.11.23 - Datadog Consumption Trends Check Point buys Perimeter 81 for $490M to enhance its security tools for hybrid and remote workers Open Source Canvas Amazon warns workers to come back into the office Millions of Americans' health data stolen after MOVEit hackers targeted IBM Dynatrace to Acquire Rookout to Deliver Code Debugging in Production Environments FOSSY panelists talk rights; what about responsibilities? Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy | TechCrunch Nonsense Why Taco Bell's free taco giveaway is happening everywhere but New Jersey | CNN Business Mike Young, co-founder of Chuy’s, has died Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads Hitler Reacts to HashiCorp Transitioning to BSL Man eats nothing but Whataburger for a week to unlock the secrets of Texan identity | Boing Boing Conferences Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Oppenheimer Brian: The Rundown (newsletter), Prompts Daily (newsletter), The Cloudcast (podcast) Coté: Marriott Elements Hotels Photo Credits Header Artwork Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

This week, we discuss Open Source licensing, Cloud Earnings and presentations without slides. Plus, Coté shares his minimal-tech vacation strategy and Matt Ray spills Orange Juice on his keyboard. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 427 Runner-up Titles Girl do you need some Squirrel Kinky Friedman would be proud Stallman would be spinning in his grave What does this guy like? I’ve got plenty of beer That’s not a feature, it’s a bug Never a Marketplace Rundown The open source licensing war is over Clouded Judgement 8.4.23 - Cloud Giants Q2 Update Amazon reports blowout profit, beats on sales and issues optimistic guidance Relevant to your Interests Amazon to invest $7.2b in Israel as it rolls out local cloud data region Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers As Cruise Expands To Los Angeles, Self-Driving's Breakout Moment Has Arrived Billionaire Larry Ellison plotted with Trump aides on call about overturning election Dell Confirms Sales Layoffs As Part Of New Partner-Led Storage Strategy | CRN For Meta, the big AI play is shoring up its ad business Corey Quinn on Gartner MQ Slack's latest redesign has a dedicated DM tab and a Discord-style Activity view Downfall Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office Even Zoom is making staff return to the office now Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out Zoom CEO admits mistake as terms-of-service changes raise AI fears WeWork warns of bankruptcy risk after years of losses Python moves to remove the GIL and boost concurrency Exclusive: Amazon in talks to become anchor investor in Arm ahead of IPO Nonsense Analysis | LK-99 and the Desperation for Scientific Discovery Disney discontinues DVD and Blu-ray production in Australia effective immediately Google Web Environment Integrity draft draws developer rage Google Meet plays Oscars music and credits roll as meeting ends Conferences Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: What to Know About Scleral Contact Lenses Keratoconus Eye Doctors Map The Keratoconus Specialist List Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) Why is Lala's Little Nugget in Austin always decorated for Christmas? Matt: Rechargeable cordless Waterpik Coté: “How to Draw Fantasy Map Trees and Forests - 5 easy styles to make your maps look awesome,” and playlist of related how to videos. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss New Relic going private, Dell buying Moogsoft and digital transformation comes to Border Control. Plus, ideas for a last minute family vacation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 426 Runner-up Titles The Paris economy is all croissants. The Euphoria of the Buffet All that firing people gave us a soft landing. Is it going to be New Logic, or SumoRelic? You drive a hard bargain, now we’re billionaires The tinfoil hat of complexity Just buy more backpacks Here in the United States, we have a lot of banks. Can Americans use it? Bigger numbers are smaller numbers. It’s pretty easy to quarantine with Internet. Rundown More Monitoring, More Money Dell Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Moogsoft What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS by @ttunguz Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic Francisco Partners & TPG to take New Relic private in $6 billion all-cash deal Inside the $6.5 billion buyout of New Relic Government IT Federal Reserve announces that its new system for instant payments, the FedNow® Service, is now live CBP Goes Paperless with Global Entry Mexico Phasing Out Use of Paper Visitor Permits (FMM) New requirements coming in 2024 for Americans traveling to Europe Passport Palooza Relevant to your Interests Broadcom's $61 billion VMware deal wins conditional EU antitrust OK Broadcom claims VMware's strategy isn’t succeeding Moderation actions Shopify's anti-meeting crusade is failing and it's taken to shaming employees instead: 'Most of the modern work environment is broken' Investors and business owners for 3x more likely to invest after reading a GPT-4 pitch deck 3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta macOS Sonoma lets Chrome use passwords stored in iCloud Passkeys in iOS 17: Watch a sneak peek at what's coming to 1Password for iOS | 1Password Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System Amazon Shares Jump 2% After Reporting Record Prime Day Sales Threads Is About to Make All the Money That Twitter Isn’t Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads Jamin Ball (@jaminball) on Threads Introducing NotebookLM Ford CEO explains why legacy car manufacturers cannot compete with Tesla in software Cloudflare as an AI play. An interview with CEO Matthew Prince. This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! The Rise Of DIY In FinOps Announcing Akita Has Joined Postman — Akita Software Announcing the New Lightweight Postman API Client | Postman Blog Does ‘Buy American’ Policy Make Sense? The Answer Is Key for Your AI Portfolio Too AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro Twitter becomes X The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name Meta Profit Is Up 16% to $7.8 Billion in Recent Quarter Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023 | Amazon Web Services AWS Easily Beats Microsoft In $120B IaaS Cloud Market: Gartner Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more A Day in the Life of a Senior Manager at Amazon 7 generative AI innovations from AWS Summit New York 2023 TikTok is adding text posts Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in Israel AMD revenue falls 18% as PC market shows continued weakness From Docker to Dagger with Solomon Hykes (Changelog Interviews #550) A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers Q2 2023 is the largest quarter ever in the number of startup closures. VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them VC firm says their companies are good/leading, and you should invest in them too Nonsense FIGHTING The Best Buy It for Life Backpack (Please Don’t Call It Tactical) (Published 2020) Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts Americans spark backlash after claiming that Europeans ‘don’t believe in water’ The Spongmonkeys, Fast Food’s Most Unhinged Mascots, Are Back Here's why Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to 'X' is good, actually The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor Conferences August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor Jan

Brandon interviews Michael Kennedy, host of Talk Python to Me and founder of Talk Python Training. They discuss Python’s rapid growth, replacing Excel Worksheets with Jypter Notebooks and why Python is the preferred language for AI. Plus, a few thoughts on podcasting and motorcycles. Show Links Talk Python to Me Python Bytes Talk Python Training - Python courses and tutorials for developers Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 Stack Overflow Trends YouTube vs. Google Video The 7 Biggest Excel Mistakes of All Time Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates Discovering exoplanets with Python Python Interviews: Discussions with Python Experts Mojo 🔥 — a new programming language for all AI developers. Contact Michael LinkedIn: mkennedy Twitter: @mkennedy Mastodon: @[email protected] SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Michael Kennedy.

Brandon interviews William Morgan, Buoyant CEO and creator of Linkerd. They discuss building cloud native platforms, the need for Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF. Plus, some thoughts on the rise of Rust as the preferred systems programming language. Show Links Linkerd Buoyant eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms Istio Maturity with Project Graduation Contact William LinkedIn: wmogran Twitter: @wm SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: William Morgan.

This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 423 Runner-up Titles Capitalizing on Competitors Bring the Go Bag There are no backpacks in Gucci ads No bad vibes Rundown Threads Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri Facebook's Threads is so depressing Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps Linux Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes. Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9 Shifting "Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)" Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left Matt’s packing list Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar Relevant to your Interests DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash Snowflake vs. Databricks WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030 Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022 Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation IBM watsonx ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023 Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. Nonsense If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan? Conferences August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Hijack Matt: Murderbot Diaries Coté: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss RHEL licensing changes, check the vibe of DevOps and some thoughts on programing language. Plus, has ChatGPT already become boring? Runner-up Titles I don’t like listening to fellow thought leaders. I listen to myself enough. Dammit, alarm was set for PM A massive failure of one The end of free It’s not all smiles and thumbs Goose-cow “I used to, but I don’t anymore.” The Podcast Review podcast. Rundown RHEL Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion] Rant about Red Hat's Licensing Change for REHL Reddit Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted Reddit doubles down Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit DevOps Second Wave DevOps Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve Kelsey Hightower Retires Even the best rides come to an end featuring Kelsey Hightower (Podcast) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 Relevant to your Interests AWS teases mysterious mil-spec ‘Snowblade’ server To fill offices, Google issues ultimatum while Salesforce tries charity Amazon is pursuing 'too many ideas' and needs to focus on best opportunities There are better places for Amazon to put their capital to work, says Bernstein's Mark Shmulik The best password managers for 2023 | Engadget After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work Twilio to sell ValueFirst business to Tanla (NYSE:TWLO) Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share CNET's Free Shopping Extension Saves You Time and Money. Give It a Try Today Modular: Our launch & what's next Exclusive-Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 billion VMware deal, sources say Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service | Engadget Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment Twitter stiffs Google Open Sourcing AWS Cedar Is a Game Changer for IAM Oracle beats on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue jumps America to halt $68.7bn Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard Meta's Open-Source 'MusicGen' AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees: Forrester Wave Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023 The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier 1 big thing: Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first For the first time in almost 30 years, a company other than IBM received the most US patents AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy | Amazon Web Services 40 photos from inside Metropolitan Park—the first phase of Amazon's HQ2 The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023 AWS US-EAST-1 wobbled after Lambda management issues spread The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle Apple Watch alerts 29-year-old Cincinnati woman to blood clot in lungs while sleeping Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover What happened to Oracle? Why do they keep acquiring companies? How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all WFH 4 ever Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter language model AI's next conflict is between open and closed Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations, A new law protecting pregnant workers is about to take effect Amazon launches AWS AppFabric to help customers connect their SaaS apps State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization Report FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS Surprise! You Work for Amazon. btop - the htop alternative We Raised A Bunch Of Money Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills Report: 2022 Microsoft Azure Revenue Less Than Estimated, Half That Of AWS | CRN Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace Is Waze next? The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses Who killed Google Reader? Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match IBM to Acquire Apptio Inc., IBM Re-ups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition Nonsense Tex