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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

Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet. Nonsense ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet Glastonbury 2023 Guns N’ Roses UK: the full set on iPlayer Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl) Appetite for Destruction Rick Astley UK: the full set on iPlayer Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll) Interview links Basecamp HEY! Daily Rush Quake III Arena PHP and Ruby 37signals and Jason Fried Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Ruby on Rails “Groovy on Grails” 1000 true fans DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts” Backpack and Campfire Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire A podcast explaining it “The Building of Basecamp” (and review) David’s books: Getting Real Rework Remote It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work The programming books that meant the most to David Fast inverse square root David’s best tweet AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway The Celeron 4 David’s writing on leaving the cloud: “Why we’re leaving the cloud” "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives" “Five values guiding our cloud exit” “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit” "Cloud exit pays off in performance too” “We have left the cloud” HEY vs the App Store Deft and Dell MRSK Capistrano GitHub contributor community Maersk Harmony remotes discontinued The continuing demise of Reddit Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars? 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“ Result table David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/ @dhh on Twitter LinkedIn David’s blog on HEY Guest hosts Craig Box Subscribe to “Let’s Get To The News” Adam Glick SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and Brandon 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 Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).

Matt Ray interviews Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. Adam explains what led him to create System Initiative and why he believes it’s time for a fresh look at DevOps. Plus, plenty of discussion about monetization and open source. Show Links System Initiative Cue language Dagger Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities Contact Adam Twitter: adamhjk Linkedin: adamjacob 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: Adam Jacob.

Matt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations. Show Links KubeDay Israel OpenObservability Talks Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron? OpenTelemetry CNCF Ambassadors Logz.io FinOps X KubeCon NA Contact Dotan LinkedIn Twitter: @horovits 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, 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: Dotan Horovits.

This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for DevOps platforms, Apple’s announcements and Cisco’s attempt to simplify. Plus, some thoughts on Meatloaf and Anime. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 418 Runner-up Titles The best engineers in Canada. Runny Eggs My tabs closed I got a whole bowl here. Pokémon back in the playlist Some people don’t want any sauce Are you still talking about meatloaf? The meatloaf zone The intestines of the Magic Quadrant He was probably a regular-sized human Everyone knows you’re a dork, a dork with disposal income What else are you going to do? Rundown 2023 Magic Quadrant for DevOps platforms (RedHat lead-gen). Link to picture in Slack Nvidia's 'iPhone moment' in AI signals tons of future growth. Here's our new price target Cisco simplifies its product portfolio with new Cisco Networking Cloud platform Apple’s 10 biggest announcements from WWDC 2023 'Ducking hell' to disappear from Apple autocorrect iPad OS 17's Live Collaboration on PDFs could challenge Google Docs Apple Announces New 'NameDrop' Feature for Sharing Between iPhones TVOS 17 Will Let You Download a VPN to Apple TV Apple Vision Relevant to your Interests Operation Bletchley Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar Salesforce is luring workers back to office with $10 per day to local charities Google created FREE comprehensive training on Generative AI Nonsense Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino Related, Coté learned a new Austalianism from Tasty Meats Paul this week: “In Australia the term ‘Chicken Maryland’ simply refers to a butcher's cut for a whole leg consisting of the thigh and drumstick” (Wikipedia). How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party Listener Feedback SDT Sticker in the wild by Eric De Witte Conferences June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 21st Cloud Foundry Day, Germany, Coté speaking. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, 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! Recommendations Brandon: Blackberry Matt: Because Internet. Coté: KESSER® Ice Cube Maker | Ice Cube Machine Stainless Steel | 150 W Ice Maker | 12 kg 24 h | 3 Cube Sizes | Preparation in 6 min | 2.2 Litre Water Tank | Timer | LCD Display | Self-Cleaning Function. Photo Credits Header Artwork

The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417 Runner-up Titles The MacGyver of podcasting Scooping up The Tube tickets Buy some velcro This email could have been a PR Who the hell is Brian? Perverse incentives What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats Rundown Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call) Clouded Judgement 5.26.23 Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic Relevant to your Interests Ivory for Mac The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks 1Password is rolling out passkey management next month Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks Nonsense HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120 Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years Conferences June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, 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! Recommendations Brandon: YouTube will allow unlimited simultaneous streams for NFL Sunday Ticket Matt: Spotify Remastered/Deluxe albums The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants (Super Deluxe/Remastered) Coté: Bobby Fingers Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 416 Runner-up Titles How big are your almonds? It’s under consideration The Olympics of Monitoring Putting Hats on Cats Stanley Nickels for Monitoring The 3 Fines It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work I was told the test was log management IDC is the thin balogna Rundown New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ WSJ News Exclusive | Software Company New Relic in Talks to Be Sold 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability IDC APM marketshare from 2021 Relevant to your Interests Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog Historical software multiples at IPO Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023 Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms Nonsense A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted! The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, 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! Recommendations Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0? Matt: Have a picnic Coté: Hoodie and shorts for the spring; the “web browsing” plugin in ChatGPT does not work well. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Coinbase's $65 million DataDog bill, the factors that drive developer experience, and Google Bard. Plus, some tips on London Airports and the ideal airport arrival time. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 415 Runner-up Titles Two hours before boarding $65 million is a lot of nines You can buy a lot of Nagios with that Just write the check for $65 million Boxes Inciting chaos Steady state is stopped Developers are just like the rest of us Unsummarizable AI in the Streets Rundown Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity Relevant to your Interests Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries It's not just cloud costs that are out of control Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims Adrian Cockcroft (@[email protected]) Goldman Sachs downgrades Twilio, other software names on 'limited catalyst' path (TWLO) Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. Netflix Reportedly Cutting Spending By $300 Million After Delay On Password Sharing Crackdown Thank you, Enterprisers! Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring Calendly Welcomes Former Salesforce Product Executive Stephen Hsu as CPO Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances | Eric Pauley The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, 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! Recommendations Brandon: POLAR H9 Heart Rate Sensor Matt: Critical Mass Sydney Half Marathon Coté: Pipers Great Berwick Longhorn Beef “crisps.” Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Monolith vs. Microservices , PassKeys replacing passwords and the return of Watson(x). Plus, some thoughts on the media and BlueSky. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 414 Runner-up Titles All the takes you’ve heard, are probably true Links Only An Ombudsman of Tech Hype I’ve programmed before Rundown Monoliths are not dinosaurs Stevey's Google Platforms Rant US DoL considers replacing monolithic IT with modular design Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: ‘We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago’ IBM enters the generative-AI fray with Watsonx Estimated that they could reduce back-office people by 30%. But, said this would be done through attrition, not firing. RIP passwords: Google accounts now support passkeys Relevant to your Interests Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning Miracle working product manager was stuck in Lotus position Broadcom CEO Seeks to Persuade EU on USD 61 Billion VMware Deal GitHub replaces code search engine with Rust-based Blackbird Clouded Judgement 5.5.23 Nonsense Tall poppy syndrome Short Poppies Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold, Silver Medals in 1st-Ever Jiu-Jitsu Tournament Conferences May 11th, 2023 Devoxx UK in London. Get 25% tickets with the code SEEMESPEAK23. June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. Listener Feedback Thanks to Mathis for giving SDT a subscription to Oh Dear. 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, 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! Recommendations Brandon: Silo | Apple TV+ Coté: How to Idle. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413 Runner-up Titles Airplane Ghost No Hashtag for That Sorry Fellow Travelers That’s what they said about Google Reader That’s the beauty of nonsense stories How do you really feel Brandon? Nobody wants monitoring data Airport Hotels I don’t remember Security Line Sick Rundown Checking in on Cloud Earnings Cloud Giants Update Clouded Judgement 4.28.23 IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022 Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz OpenCost Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org Relevant to your Interests FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - Moor Insights & Strategy Clubhouse ↓ Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT How SQLite helps you do ACID On-prem still cheaper but don't rule out the cloud yet Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices Today in Apple history: Apple-1 starts a revolution How Incumbents Survive and Thrive Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta Announcing the deps.dev API: critical dependency data for secure supply chains Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Pay Falls to $1.3M, Touts Ad Business in Annual Letter Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services Venture Capital Deals Zoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering WSJ News Exclusive | IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet (The Verge) Keith White On Why He Is Leaving HPE, Dell Apex And Why The ‘Sky Is The Limit’ For The HPE GreenLake Ecosystem Apple's batteries will use 100 percent recycled cobalt by 2025 Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY Introducing Gloo Fabric MillerKnoll CEO sparks backlash after telling employees to "leave Pity City" over lack of bonuses Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown A 12% decline in global smartphone shipments is what passes for stability these days Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break Silver Lake to buy Germany's Software AG in $2.42 billion deal "Verified" becomes a badge of dishonor Apple throws VR spaghetti against the wall GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains Zed - Code at the speed of thought U.S. appeals court upholds lower court order forcing Apple to allow third-party App Store payments Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees Replit ⠕ on Twitter Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With Red Hat lays off 4% of its global workforce There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster | Semafor BMC to Acquire Model9 - BMC Software Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips ChatGPT could cost over $700,000 per day to operate. Microsoft is reportedly trying to make it cheaper. Google Cloud suffers outage in Europe amid water leak, fire Automate Your Meetings - Magical Web3 Funding Continues To Crater — Drops 82% Year To Year ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says | WRAL TechWire The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrived Cloud exit pays off in performance too So, You Want To Build A DBaaS State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey Shows Companies Moving away from DIY Kubernetes The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to B

Matt, Coté and guest host Barton George record live from KubeCon EU. They discuss the Keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet… Runner-up Titles The CNCF invades Amsterdam So nice not to talk to anyone Kubecon EU 2023 recap Curve Fits Rundown Thanks to developer.dell.com team for help with show production. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 Self Scanning in Dirk Conferences DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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 Header Artwork Special Guest: Barton George.

Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022. Show Links A Look Back at Q4 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings The Cloudcast, The Evolution of SaaS Business Models, Episode 708 Clouded Judgement Contact Jamin 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn 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: Jamin Ball.

This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck. Show Links Big Data is Dead DuckDB DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners MotherDuck Google Big Query Contact Jordan LinkedIn: jordantigani Twitter: @jrdntgn 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, LinkedIn 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: Jordan Tigani.

This week we discuss regulators slowing Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Nutanix’s delayed earnings, GitHub's origins, Tech Stocks and staplers at Google. Plus, some thoughts on GM and Apple CarPlay. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 409 Runner-up Titles Why not Linux? I remain skeptical Let’s complain about some software Think of the listeners Going to need a bigger Post-it Note We’ve baked too many muffins on a Monday 88.1 on your dial Rundown Everybody hates GM’s decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its EVs GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs CMA to probe Broadcom and VMware merger more deeply Nutanix CIO Exits Amid Software Misuse Probe Origins of GitHub Biz Model Tom Preston-Werner interview on Kubelist After layoffs, tech stocks boom Google letting people leave Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm "author_is_elon" Relevant to your Interests Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns State of startup compensation, H2 2022 Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough Ex-Grubhub Driver Wins $65 in 8-Year-Fight to Be Called Employee Saudi Arabia Is Investing $38 Billion to Become a Video-Game Hub Former Start-up Founder Charged by Prosecutors for Defrauding JPMorgan Chase Amazon announced eliminating another 9,000 roles Nonsense The last O'REILLY book 3 Pieces of Military Tech From "The Mandalorian" That We're Already Working on Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out The Evolution of SaaS Business Models (Brandon co-hosts The Cloudcast) Matt: Bernie Worrell: Elevation (The Upper Air) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Docker’s reversal, Amazon's return to office, Apple’s headset, the state of the Metaverse and the rise of LLMs. Plus, Matt shares his sleep study experience and an after-show about Hawaii. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 408 Runner-up Titles Tyranny of 16x9 College Sports of Mastodon Sleep Study NPS survey at the end Dependent on Goodwill This is best for the customer Worlds greatest employer Apple, we were counting on you Mechanized Mansplaining Rundown We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition (Insider) At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs Cheating is All You Need Relevant to your Interests Introducing World ID and SDK You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage De-cloud and de-k8s — bringing our apps back home Venture Firms And Startups Are Returning To Government-Backed SVB In Droves OpenStack starts wrapping around the alphabet to name it's latest release. 51 Tips For Surviving in a BIG Company New York Times touts continued Wordle success SVB Capital Owned Pieces Of Top VC Firms. With A Sale Ongoing, Their Future Is In Flux. First Citizens agrees to buy Silicon Valley Bank Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative Let's Get To The News #11: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock Rackspace cutting workforce in response to downturn. Amid string of losses, its stock has plummeted. Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows 11 audio mixer Twilio's IoT business unit to be acquired by KORE to build first 'IoT Hyperscaler' Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with New Emoji, Notifications for Web Apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for Cellular Calls, New Shortcuts Actions, and More The Bank Regulators Are Disappointed ChatGPT plugins AI changes the software-making game Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is GA | Google Cloud Blog Alibaba to split into 6 units and explore IPOs; shares up 14% in the U.S. Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter 'For You' feed Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race Nonsense Beaver fossil named after Buc-ee's The Ultimate Texas Brand Bracket Crowns Its Champion — Texas Monthly After Show Coté’s interview with Barton Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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: Duo Lingo Matt: Hardcore History Addendum: Rick Rubin/Dan Carlin Conversation Kubernetes Cloud Cost Monitoring with OpenCost & Optimization Strategies Photo Credits Header Artwork Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss Docker’s Business Model, the Stack Overflow’s Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 Runner-up Titles Free isn’t good enough I’m not that disconnected It’s a presentation with yourself We still hate this Open Source Continuity Founder Magic Syntactic Sugar How cool do you feel, Tim Cook? Rundown Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know Docker’s bad week After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition Meta's metaverse is on the back burner Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets Mark Gurman details Apple's Reality Pro headset Relevant to your Interests 4K Blu-Rays Vs. 4K Streaming: Which Is the Best Way to Enjoy Movies? Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month | Eli Lilly and Company Adrian Cockcroft on LinkedIn: Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages Introducing Service Weaver A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life Ford announces it hired 550 former Argo devs Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington National Cybersecurity Strategy Richard Seroter’s take on Web Assembly VMware’s SaaS Sales Surge As Broadcom Deal Nears Technology Chiefs Seek Help Wrangling Cloud Costs (The Wall Street Journal) Top Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans Major India Expansion Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’ A cloud migration in wartime Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite NO_SSH_JJ talking about 1Password Alphabet headcount on Google Cloud How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API | Amazon Web Services Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10th in front of a 'limited' in-person audience Datadog’s software is down — and so is its stock Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users | Engadget SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing After Stadia, Google's new gaming roadmap GM offers buyouts to 'majority' of U.S. salaried workers Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network VMware turns to containerization to improve virtual apps Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon Oracle shares sink nearly 5% after third-quarter revenue miss How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud U.S. government steps in and says people with funds deposited at SVB will be able to access their money Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC GitLab loses one-third of its value after software company issues weak revenue forecast Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment Amazon's New Home Internet Service Announces New Details | Cord Cutters News Grammarly's New AI Tool Can Do More Than Check Your Spelling Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is stepping down The Four Domains of Wasm Navigating SVB's new era Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management Proximus and Google Cloud to Deliver Sovereign Cloud Services in Belgium and Luxembourg Netflix plans 40 more game releases in 2023 Dragonfly - Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21m) HPE picks up OpsRamp for Greenlake multi-cloud AIOps Nutanix To Miss SEC Deadline Amid Internal Software Probe Nutanix's latest bumper financials overshadowed by 3rd party evaluation software probe – Blocks and Files AWS Cost Leaderboard GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service Cloud Re

John Willis joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering. There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well. Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode. Links: Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here. Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age. SCaLE 20x. DevOpsDays LA. Special Guest: John Willis.

Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere. They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend. Links: Ampere Altra Developer Platform Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 Ampere Developer Program Contact Peter: 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn 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 Header Special Guest: Peter Pouliot.

Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur , Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard. They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO. Show Links: Byteboard Contact Sargun LinkedIn Twitter: @justsargs 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, LinkedIn 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: Sargun Kaur.

Everything about this is wrong This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403 Runner-up Titles Forbidden Everything needs cables Got to be Grammarly I’ve got a lot of hills to die on A hatred for their customers They wanted to hate your corpse Except for The Wu-Tang Saga You’ve abandoned the ship No, no, we need to spy on you You are gaslighting what your selling I wouldn’t touch this Full of chef kiss quotes Rundown What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it Screaming in the Cloud #357: Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield US Digital Service Individual Master File Introducing MRSK mrsked/mrsk Justin Garrison @rothgar’s take Relevant to your Interests After Fraud Charges Against Slync’s Ex-CEO, Goldman Sachs Doubles Down With $24 Million Investment ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft Why everyone’s talking about Section 230 - The Hustle Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges For 2023 Microsoft previews cost-efficient Azure VMs DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 - Moor Insights & Strategy DoJ to block Adobe purchase of Figma on competition concerns Your jailbroken ChatGPT might violate OpenAI’s safety guidelines when role-playing as ‘DAN’ Is WebAssembly Really the Future? Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th Salesforce weighing up more job cuts to hit margin goal Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults Stack Overflow Stats Nonsense Twitter had 88,188 channel but they don’t have THE THREAD. Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com Podcast provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. Subscribe now! Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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: Drive to Survive Season 5 Matt Factorio Story Missions Recent podcast appearances Software Engineering Daily The Cloudcast Open Observability Talks Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week we take a critical look at DHH’s plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402 Runner-up Titles Cycled the Power The Principles are Amazing The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog Does this mean the public cloud is over? Where was the Oracle rep? We fear change SaaS for me, not for you The author of this text does not like Amazon Adventure-driven development You’ve got great a manifesto Intolerable! Cory Doctorow amped up Rundown We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit Five values guiding our cloud exit Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million Two racks. My friends, a thread from Adam Jacob Relevant to your Interests Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon's return to office plans Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter The SSO Wall of Shame Twitter spent $60 M on SMS? Predicting Resource Cost Before Deployment Oakland Declares State of Emergency Due to Ransomware Attack US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Twilio Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results Big 1Password update for iOS and Mac brings over 100 improvements and changes Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition Most Londoners would quit before they give up WFH YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You – The Markup Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership Digital Ocean Earnings Karan B. on LinkedIn: Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople ByteDance's Slack-like tool generated $100M in 2022 Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after 'cyber incident' Open-source is broken: the sad story of Denis Pushkarev (core-js) Pixelfed - Decentralized social media VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition How websites can still easily track you in incognito mode Meta Verified YouTube As Infinite File Storage Biden won’t save the Apple Watch from potential ban Apple TV+ growth has 'flat-lined' as users say service lacks value: UBS Gartner: Oracle targets users on Java compliance Software is a hell of a drug KKR-Backed BMC Plans IPO Valuing It at Up to $15 Billion Nonsense We Tested Tiny11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App! United Airlines Eases Family Seating After Call to Cut Fees Listener Feedback Thanks to Christopher for sending the article on Mastodon: We tried to run a social media site and it was awful Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast. Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP or SPEAK (50% off) Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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: Demon Copperhead Matt: Fabulous Secret Powers Peep Show Coté: Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum. Photo Credits CoverArt

This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401 Runner-up Titles Going Hardcore Sleeping under the desk The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet Rundown Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter The Twitpocalypse may have begun today What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake The maze is in the mouse Relevant to your Interests Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS' The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins AI Homework Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’ Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does. "The New Gatekeepers" A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime Can this man turn Amazon around? A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij Nonsense De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast. Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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 Last of Us Matt: Sennheiser Pro Audio HD 25 Special Edition SOULWIT Cooling Gel Ear Pads Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400 Runner-up Titles You don’t want to toy with food poisoning Do you put all your eggs in one basket? The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT This is just Bing Bullshit as a Service It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine Bad dog The answer to every question is ChatGPT Linux under the desktop Rundown Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t? Earnings and Outlook Cloud Giants Update Red Hat OpenShift making money Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing. Cloud Earnings The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS A.I. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete Google has developed a music-making AI bot Why does ChatGPT constantly lie? Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders OpenAI API Infrastructure-as-Code Generator Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (The Cloudcast Podcast) This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year Relevant to your Interests Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left $NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality How We Learned to Be Lonely Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog Slack's second chance Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299 ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now? Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors 1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO Artifact GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs Visa vs. AMEX Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch Coté ponders IBM what-if in AI Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances Broadcom’s VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers PagerDuty Layoffs Affect 7 Percent Of Workforce Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff The Newer Geography of Jobs Nonsense Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia Boeing delivers its final 747 jet today, ending a run of more than 50 years King Charles will not appear on new Australia $5 note Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast. Conferences Southern California Linux Exp

This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News newsletter and follow him on Mastodon and Twitter(?) This interview was done on January 16th, 2023. Runner-up Titles You sound like an Australian The Mystery of the Cold Open D-list Celebrities The Americans are asleep All the swans belong to the Queen A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it Rundown Global Entry, New Zealand-style Is there another podcast in the future? Learning by osmosis Developer advocacy at Google You’re not tall enough to ride this ride Joining ARMO Kubescape, the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform OpenCost and Kubescape, CNCF Sandbox Projects You’re already in my calendar ARMO monetization strategy All Blacks vs. Wallabies Who are these weird celebrities? The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter Conferences Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent. State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Coté! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, LinkedIn 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: Craig Box.

This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping… Rundown Tipping How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped Tipping Is Weird Now Mastodon The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io Follow SDT on Mastodon Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry Mastodon in two files Netflix Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, The Netflix Tech Blog What we want to see at DevOpsDays DevOpsDays Austin 2023 Nonsense ‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US Airlines squeeze rewards programs Salesforce, but for dating Conferences CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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, LinkedIn 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 Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness Ideas That Changed My Life Follow Brandon on Mastodon JJ: For All Mankind Follow JJ on Mastodon Photo Credits Header CoverArt Special Guest: JJ Asghar.

This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne…. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397 Runner-up Titles I want to vest Call the middle I just didn’t have money XLT, that’s not a thing Yeah, I’m down for whatever Coté’s Culture Corner. Brandon’s Halo Hatrack. Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.” If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting. YOLO workers’ rights Rundown DHH from 37signals shows the numbers Our cloud spend in 2022 - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity Work Life Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (those that are left) Corey’s Take Relevant to your Interests CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom The Great Podcasting Market Correction Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app with Ukraine.ua Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs The Shit Show • furbo.org Extremely Hardcore Nonsense Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house Every Cloud Architecture Museum of Obsolete Media Conferences SpringOne, Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere. CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, LinkedIn 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: Atomic Habits with Atomic Habits Resources Also mentioned: What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health Matt: State of the World 2023 Coté: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 396 Runner-up Titles Work trying to get on my personal calendar Traveling with an infant =BLACKSWAN(A1:G453) Socks in a Costco Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it. Pay transparency for you, not me We don’t pay for things on the Internet Semper Nimbus Privatus Rundown Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, Digital Transformation Travel Edition Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1 The Southwest Airlines Meltdown Southwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo Point of Sale: Scan and Pay Work Life Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings Netflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary Information U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023 Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary information SFDC Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivity AI is everywhere Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT Relevant to your Interests 2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person 10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 A MultiCloud Rant Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies. AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO Top Paying Tools Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes List of defunct social networking services 2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd The infrastructure behind ATMs Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors Shift Happens: A book about keyboards Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills. Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendo

This week Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely cohost of the The Cloudcast and they discuss starting a podcast. They cover the Who, What, Why and How of launching a podcast and recommend podcast recording gear, editing software and hosting services. Rundown The Cloudcast and SDT origin stories Who should start a podcast? Why you should or should not start a podcast? What should your podcast be about? Podcast gear, software and hosting Links Record Podcasts with Audio Hijack SDT Podcast Gear Recommendations Cloudcast Podcast Suggestions Cloudcast Sample Podcast Show Notes Podcasting 101 via Buzzsprout Podcasting Microphones Voice over Marketplace Royalty Free Music Purchase Music Site Subscribe to The Cloudcast Follow @bgracely and @thecloudcast on Twitter 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, LinkedIn 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 Header CoverArt Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 394 Runner-up Titles Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore The Old Dr. Skateboard What a World The Pile-On Lifestyle A little more in booth directions Cloud Bucket We’ve done all the stuff Predictions and Hopes and Dreams Working from home is over like COVID is over It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense Bring in the Big Monkeys Rundown What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories? Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation What are we watching this year? What were the biggest missed opportunities? Best Digital Transformation Success of 2023 Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, LinkedIn 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: Echo 3 Matt: Triple Trail Challenge 2023 Coté: Apple’s new app, Freeform - a little beta-ish (typical Apple 1.0), but worth checking out. Photo Credits Header CoverArt

Ten years ago Dell launched the developer laptop, shipping a Linux desktop of their best gear. In this episode, Coté talks with Barton George who's lead the project about Project Sputnik, lessons learned about innovating in large companies, and compressed air can sponsorships. Links mentioned: Check out Barton's overview of the most recent Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition, and the laptop itself and other Linux on Dell machine. Also, Barton mentions the new Dell Developer site, which you can see here. Dell Linux Workstations, Laptops, and Desktops - In addition to XPS 13 and Precision developer systems, this also features the Linux-enabled Latitude and Optiplex lines. Latitude and Optiplex are part of the broader Dell Linux portfolio which is made up of over 100 systems. Dell's Sputnik - Git what you want, 2021. Project Sputnik --_ Cote interviews Barton_, May 7, 2012. Sputnik Developer Laptop Overview (Barton George), July 19, 2012. Barton George interviewed at OSCON 2012, July 19, 2012 “Precise Pangolin” - was code name for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which the first XPS 13 developer edition launched with) Names of months This interview was done on December 12th, 2022.Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 392 Runner-up Titles We’re always recording, Coté, we’re not always streaming. I live the middle. Best 10 microphones to put in a drawer and never use. The lanyard is a child-management platform “That’s great, Brandon…” Finally DNS does something good Amazon is a dog now But then what? N equals me Rundown Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals Amazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four Executives Amazon's heroic phase is over A Faster Horse Layoffs, buyouts, and rescinded offers: Amazon’s status as a top tech employer Report: HPE has expressed interest in acquiring Nutanix Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami Talks Broadcom, VMware, And His Vision Relevant to your Interests What if failure is the plan? Tensions Grew at Salesforce Between Co-CEOs Benioff and Taylor Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days. A good discussion on ChatGPT from Benedict Evans OpenAI ChatGPT is now an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner! Airtable, last valued at $11 billion for its no-code software, lays off over 250 Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer | The GitHub Blog As Carvana crashes hard, used car dealers — not buyers — stand to win big Amazon Wants to Kill the Barcode RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable An Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures Broadcom braced for full EU probe into $61B VMware buyout AWS Events Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M The death of Rackspace's ‘Fanatical Support’ News aggregator Flipboard to add user-generated "conversations" Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B Japan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to China LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership Oracle beats on top and bottom lines How Slack’s Marriage to Salesforce Crumbled Nonsense Dr Pepper Unveils Limited-Edition Bourbon Flavored Fansville Reserve Hertz Car-Rental Company to Pay $168 Million over False Arrests Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, LinkedIn 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: Wednesday **on Netflix AirPods case with AirTag Holder Matt: RIP Mike Leach Swing your Sword via Brandon Coté: Fishman’s Friend, which I should have some of in this episode. Substack. Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Movie. Photo Credits Header CoverArt

Brandon is joined by Anton Grishko, Chief Architect at ProfiSea Labs and they discuss DevOps adoption and the rise of FinOps. Plus, Anton offers practical tips on implementing FinOps and reducing your cloud spend. Show Links ProfiSea Labs Anton’s Blog Contact Anton LinkedIn Email: [email protected] Special Guest: Anton Grishko.

This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390 Runner-up Titles It’s never stopped us before. Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment Three kinds of mayonnaise An aspirational architectural pattern. There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there. I don’t have a computer science degree. Mid-Code It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be? Is it a utopian Wall-E or not? Rundown AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events Design Patterns book ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow? Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore. Relevant to your Interests Elastic Earnings Snowflake Earnings IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain OpenStack cloud sees explosive growth Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon Web Services HYPR, the Leader in Phishing-Resistant MFA, Raises $25M Future is quietly shutting down Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff) Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again Here's everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter Twitter lawsuit the only cheat sheet you need Google Plans to Lay Off 10,000 'Poor Performing' Employees. Why That's a Big Lie, According to Harvard Professor Broadcom again tries to quash VMware price rise rumors Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation 9 insights on real world container use Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce co-CEO Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature to take on Facebook and Discord Nonsense Advent of Code The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck Dangerously Advanced Git Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off New State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 Listener Feedback Send “End of Year” listener questions to [email protected]. Tim recommends Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) | Acquired Podcast 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, LinkedIn 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: Large Mouse Pad Matt: Ze Frank’s True Facts: Tarantulas Sriracha History Coté: CleanShot X Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and discuss application vendors mandating use of specific Kubernetes distros. Plus, some thoughts on dog boarding… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 389 Runner-up Titles Everyone gets a Graviton Instance What a Boring re:Invent Part of our brand 17 Days in the Hole Under the Stars, Under the Sea Tighten it up Don’t make me pay for security Secure by default That’s a great message and I don’t believe it Works with Lambda Security, it keeps getting better? Rundown AWS re:Invent What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News - 2022 Archive Compute Amazon EC2 C7g instances – Compute –Amazon Web Services Announcing Amazon EC2 M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn network optimized instances Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart Data Announcing Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark AWS announces Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift Serverless Open-Source Search Engine – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Introducing AWS Glue 4.0 Security Introducing Amazon Security Lake (Preview) AWS co-announces release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters Solutions AWS CEO: The cloud isn’t just about technology AWS Supply Chain AWS Clean Room Announcing AWS SimSpace Weaver Amazon Connect announces Contact Lens agent performance evaluation forms Introducing Amazon Omics Corey Quinn on re:Invent Ask SDT — “using a "supported platform" list to drive cross sales.” (SDT Slack) Relevant to your Interests SigmaOS raises $4 million to build a browser for productivity nerds The Distributed Computing Manifesto Unpacking Musk's "hardcore" marching orders Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys Vista passes halfway mark to $20bn target for latest flagship 1Password Will Support Passkeys Starting in Early 2023 Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter Security of Passkeys in the Google Password Manager With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream Facebook parent Meta winding down some non-core hardware projects OpenStack passes 40 million cores in production use A note from CEO Andy Jassy about role eliminations Twitter is Going Great Building Kubernetes Applications with Acorn Platforms at Kubecon 2022 Zoom's looming squeeze Sony’s VR headset-console integration could limit sales, but allow depth The State of Kubernetes {Open-Source} Security | ARMO Considerations when implementing developer portals in regulated enterprise environments Broadcom's proposed $61B VMware acquisition scrutinized by UK regulators 2023 may be the year of multicloud Kubernetes Server-side WebAssembly prepares for takeoff in 2023 Zoom shares drop on light forecast as company faces 'heightened deal scrutiny' What's coming for cloud computing in 2023 The Rise of Platform Engineering - Software Engineering Daily IBM sues Micro Focus, claims it copied mainframe software How to beat the Kubernetes skills shortage TikTok Couldn’t Ensure Accurate Responses To Government Inquiries, A ByteDance Risk Assessment Said Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried says he's down to $100,000 Why Big Tech is not rushing to clone Twitter Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year I analyzed 290 booths at KubeCon - here are the DevOps trends for 2023 Nonsense Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.' Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads A 12,000 lb. metal sculpture of Elon Musk's head on a goat body riding a rocket parked outside Tesla HQ failed to elicit a response from the billionaire The leap second's time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 Listener Feedback Sudesh shared a list of Tech Companies Hiring Send “End of Year” listener questions to [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, LinkedIn and YouTube. Use the code SDT to

In case you haven't heard, DevOps is dead. Again. To discuss its demise, Coté talks with Andrew Clay Shafer. They talk about a lot more: Andrew's new company, working with executives, sociotechnical systems, Andrew's recent SREcon talk in Amsterdam, and more. You can also watch the live recording of this episoded, unedited! It has a discussion of Coté's podcast making recommendations at the start. Check out Andrew and friend's new company, Ergonautic, and, find him in Twitter as @littleidea.Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 387 Runner-up Titles From Montessori to your Funeral The Shit Pile of Enterprise Software Software Expires Bring in all the Kubernetes you can find You’re in Some Kind of Password Genie Hell. The salesperson at Gartner doesn’t want this report to go away Going back to the Monolith SRElon doesn’t do blameless postmortems Mastodon as a Service at re:Invent I am still betting on status quo outcome Keep the Twitter off the phone Bury me with my MP3 backup drives Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Musk's Twitter chaos opens door to challengers Rivals see opening in Twitter's chaos Here’s Mastodon Sign Up Link Mastodon as an Open Source experience Trust Thermocline Twitter Blue Checks not exactly working out CISO, Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Compliance Officer resign at same time Inside the Twitter meltdown Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks Fake Eli Lilly Twitter account drop stock 'Killed It:' Elon Backtracks From 'Official' Twitter Badges Hours After Rollout Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer Inside the Twitter meltdown Relevant to your Interests Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value Gmail will no longer allow users to revert back to its old design Amazon is subjecting Alexa to a performance review Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features Tumblr will sell you two useless blue check marks for $8 New in Docker Desktop 4.14: Greater Visibility Into Your Containers - Docker Does Kubernetes really give you multicloud portability? Report: The Evolution of DevOps | A Contrary Research Deep Dive Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees 5 of the Best Kubernetes Training Courses for Beginners in 2022 Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services Snowflake gets caught in the storm clouds AWS is 'not done building' as cloud computing matures Video editor Descript raises $50M in round led by OpenAI Startup Fund MotherDuck: Hello, World! Quack. Quack. Tech Layoffs The nefarious new way companies are discriminating against remote workers Angry Taylor Swift fans rail about Ticketmaster glitches Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy Who Will Cisco Buy? Sources Say a Big Deal is Near Nonsense Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Listener Feedback Overcast was recommend in the SDT Slack as a replacement for Apple Podcasts 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, LinkedIn 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 White Lotus Season 2 Matt: TweetBot macOS Photo Credits Header CoverArt