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	Titre	Date	Durée
	Episode 556: This Conversation is Hardened	23 Jan 2026	01:07:35
This week, we discuss the end of Cloud 1.0, AI agents fixing old apps, and Chainguard vs. Docker images. Plus, the mystery of Dutch broth is finally solved. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 556 Runner-up Titles His overall deal Been there and done that been ignoring that shift key for years Cloud is just fine I’ll be back in Bartertown The “F” Word Hardened-washing We’ll never do this, but we should check back in in 3 months Libraries are the best Elves don’t belong in space Rundown Are we at the end of cloud or cloud 1.0 It's the beginning of Cloud 2.0 Spec-driven development system for Claude Code Anthropic and App Modernization A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say. Microsoft Spending on Anthropic Approaches $500 Million a Year Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life Coté and Tony contemplate day two AI-generated apps, and an excerpt. Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Well, that escalated quickly: Zero CVEs, lots of vendors Relevant to your Interests Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software China blacklists VMware, Palo Alto Networks software over national security fears Kroger taps Google Gemini, announces more key AI moves Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage Apple will pay billions for Gemini after OpenAI declined Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it Tailscale: The Best Free App Most Mac Power Users Aren’t Using How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI’s ARR reached over $20 billion in 2025, CFO says Simon Willison’s take on Our approach to advertising and ChatGPT The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster \| TechCrunch How Markdown took over the world An Interview with United CEO Scott Kirby About Tech Transformation Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being an SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Use this 30% off discount code from your pals at Tanzu: DN26VMWARE30. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. VMware User Groups (VMUGs): Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026) Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026) Toronto (May 12-14, 2026) Dallas (June 9-11, 2026) Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: The Library will loan you a 5G hotspot Matt: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (rogue-like Vampire Hunters-type game) Coté: Streamyard shorts generation. Salesforce was inspired by dolphins.
	Episode 555: After the Dream	16 Jan 2026	01:09:05
This week, we discuss Gemini powering Siri, AWS’s biggest competitor, and AWS strategy choices. Plus, when should your next meeting actually start? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 555 Runner-up Titles Swedish Death Cleaning Give it a best effort Trying it bad for profits. That pen better be really good You do all the nerd shit, we’ll be cool Looking at a hundred rabbits’ assholes. The Kremlinologist of AWS The aaSes of Cloud They’ll like our apples better Running on hopes and dreams until you’re sure they don’t exist What we have is a situation Rundown Apple gets AI from Google Joint statement from Google and Apple Kuo: Apple's AI Deal With Google Is Temporary and Buys It Time Google's Apple AI deal marks 'huge loss' for OpenAI AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate Relevant to your Interests Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation Dell Reverses Course, Brings Back XPS Laptops Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them Google Guys Say Bye to California Amazon gives managers a new way to spot who's barely coming into the office A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability Nvidia Hires Google Veteran as Its First Chief Marketing Officer The Fediverse Experiment RIP the metaverse Nonsense American Airlines rolls out free Wi-Fi to loyalty members Conferences cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE. Coté speaking - anyone interested in being a SDI guest? DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA. Coté has a discount code, but he’s not sure if he can give it out. He’s asking! Send him a DM in the meantime. KubeCon EU, March 23rd to 26th, 2026 - Coté will be there on a media pass. Whole bunch of VMUGs: Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026) SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: Google Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen) Matt: MTV Rewind Coté: “These 36 Airlines Offer iPhone Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags.” Distroless, Helm Charts, & Hardened Images: Security That Ships (with William Jimenez) Photo Credits Header
	Episode 546: The cURLing Test	14 Nov 2025	01:00:44
This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546 Runner-up Titles Matt has a lot of room tone. I shut the kitchen door . You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning. Did you see my water dragons? Didn’t he die? I’m worried about the future. Quality of revenue. The spatula is higher than the plunger. This discussion has really raised my morale. I know what your API is. Rundown Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says "Good engineering management" is a fad When CEO pay exploded Yes , really, curl is still developed Relevant to your Interests Apple Nears $1 Billion-a -Year Deal to Use Google AI for Siri Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence ‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year \| CNN Business Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic' IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App Nonsense Interview with Dying Company's VP As Seen on TV Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London The good hospitality from Keith Townsend. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Pluribus Matt: Hades 2 Coté: Camo Photo Credits Header
	Episode 456: Second Guessing	01 Mar 2024	00:49:47
This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 456 Runner-up Titles Is it Russian hackers? Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS They’re all bad product launches Vikings are 98% more Nordic Can I pay for features? They’ve defeated vaporware Interoperability is for underdogs Rundown Google Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage \| CNN Business Apple Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire Relevant to your Interests Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds Cloud-Native Is In Shambles S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers The Open Source Sustainability Crisis Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform What to Do about VMware Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability ServerlessHorrors \| Home Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit \| TechCrunch Future Software Should Be Memory Safe \| ONCD \| The White House Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20% HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD Nonsense Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E. Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th –17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 –22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Exe cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Delta Wi-Fi Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3 Aliens Dark Descent Coté: GM’s Apprentice. Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships Photo Credits Header Google Gemini
	Episode 455: LTS: Let Thou Support it	23 Feb 2024	00:52:48
This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 455 Runner-up Titles I live my life one iCal screen at a time We always have sparklers Meta-parenting Everyone is always tired Cheaper version of Red Hat This week in “Do we need to be angry?” All we get is wingdings. I’m in a Socialist mood this week Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff Those dingalings bought my boat Dingalings of the mind Rundown CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community NGINX fork? freenginx.org Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal Tofu So Where’s That New OpenAI Board? The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? Relevant to your Interests Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix Sora: Creating video from text Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech Slack AI has arrived What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster 1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames How Google is killing independent sites like ours VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter ## Nonsense An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th –17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 –22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Exe cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Fair Play on Netflix Matt: Julia Evans: Popular Git Config Options Coté: Anker USB C Charger (Nano II 65W) Pod 3-Port PPS Fast Charger. Photo Credits Header Google Gemini
	Episode 454: The Galactic Tent	16 Feb 2024	01:06:48
This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 454 Runner-up Titles Are we streaming. I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness. If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life. The sound track to walking the dog. At least it’s open source. The Magic Quadrant of Fashion. I guess everyone’s cool? What pair of pants do I need? The AirPods Pro pocket. Go down the metaphor hole. I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu. Not good, but good enough. The Metaphor Hole Rundown CNCF Landscape Bundling, Unbundling and Enshtification (Cloudcast Pod) Earnings Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective Relevant to your Interests Shift Happens: A book about keyboards Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2 Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives. Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024 From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate Weaveworks shuts down A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella’s Decade as Microsoft CEO Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It? Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe” Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering Google and Yahoo Are Cracking Down on Inbox Spam. Don’t Expect Less Email Marketing. Cloudflare's crowd-sources another patent troll case victory (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup 2024 State of Internal Developer Portals \| Port Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing Yandex: The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm How Mastodon made friends with Meta The Vision Pro Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro Working in the Vision Pro Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving Nonsense Cynical book summaries H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023 One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable Most accurate video I’ve ever seen Listener Feedback Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th –17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 –22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20*. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Exe cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024. If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Chamberlain Smart Garage Control Matt: FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much? Coté: chocolate covered dates at Tree of Dates. Photo Credits Header Artwork by Google Gemini
	Episode 453: John Willis on how Kubernetes won, digital transformation and Deming	09 Feb 2024	01:30:23
This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital. Show Links Kubernetes: The Documentary Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software Profound Deming Profound Podcast Contact John Willis LinkedIn botchagalupe@gmail.com SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo Credit Special Guest: John Willis.
	Episode 452: Write the letters	02 Feb 2024	01:15:09
This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 452 Runner-up Titles Know the rules Until you reach infinity When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door. All-in on Minecraft Eminent domain for digital transformation. There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet. Rundown Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse Direct File \| Internal Revenue Service DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform Relevant to your Interests Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account A brief history of Dell UNIX OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking #446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different Startup Funding Simulator Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024 Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand. Nonsense Fifty Years Ago Today (D&D) I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia Make it Taylors Version Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th –17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 –22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Exe cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024 If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Stanley Cups Are Just Water Bottles. How Did They Get So Popular? Coté: Mythic Game Master Emulator, version 2 (I don’t think the version matters, really). Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet?	26 Jan 2024	00:52:24
This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451 Runner-up Titles Enshittification The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization Wait for Wifi Taxes by beef rib It’s actually not fine Smoking crack in Disneyland AI is accelerating the crappiness. Why don’t you just sell more cloud? Generated Garbage I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile. Accidentally upgraded Jury duty…”pretty cool.” Rundown Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling. How Google perfected the web AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To Subprime Attention Crisis 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification” Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find Relevant to your Interests Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud Creating a Sales Commission Plan The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures Lofree Flow — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 Introducing Docker Build Cloud It's time to build "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it." For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything Campfire is ONCE #1 Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech Culture Change at Google Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story? Mourning Google Nonsense We lost some real stars this past year Startups Are Shutting Down! It’s Just a Water Bottle Listener Feedback Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th –17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 –22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Travis County Jury Duty Matt: Perplexity.AI Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger or Kartika — which is also good and less fancy in a good way. Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness	19 Jan 2024	01:24:35
This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 450 Runner-up Titles Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers Sales is crazy Donut over-eating avoidance Fundamentals don’t change Do you have good recipes for golden geese? We need better Dungeons and Dragons The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence. Peter Pan as DevRel Hard stop goes soft HR in volume feels dehumanizing Mad Libs for layoffs Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness. We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision… Status quo wins again The Strangler Pattern for password management Schwag cannot be stolen. Rundown 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (Podcast) DevRel The trouble with DevRel Amazon’s silent sacking (Podcast) Work, RTO and Layoffs WebMD’s RTO Video Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video Signs that it’s time to leave a company… A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks Passwords and Keyboards Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024 Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey Relevant to your Interests Authy is shutting down its desktop app OpenTofu is going GA Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch. How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit Slack Executives are all gone WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why. World's R&D spending Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin The Worst Devices of CES 2024! App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027 Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% Nonsense Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024 The Official Passport Index Ranking why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip. Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3 Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Carrot Weather App (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar). Matt: Murderbot Diaries Book 7: System Collapse Aliens Fireteam Elite on sale for <$10 Coté: The Lost Kingdom, book. Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 449: Magic of Cloud	12 Jan 2024	00:57:59
This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 449 Runner-up Titles That is part of the podcast I am going to have a change of pants for that They’re very good notes “Buildies” Of course they are The Internet is a series of tubes… filled with money The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money Gobsmacked Rundown Mobile Passport Control (MPC) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 Amazon's Silent Sacking AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,’ Customer Complaints Coding at Google Relevant to your Interests Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts Apple’s new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000 Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available The Besties’ Revenge: How the ‘All-In’ Podcast Captured Silicon Valley Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we… Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement The Rule of X Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams The Big Cloud Exit FAQ Pro Take: The Cloud Isn’t The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products? Deploy web apps anywhere A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings End of Life VMware’s Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs Intel CEO says Nvidia’s AI dominance is pure luck Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends Reddit’s CEO takes a victory lap The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice’ Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023 What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama 2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 Remembering the startups we lost in 2023 Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again' Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks. Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups Command line csv viewer Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites Elon Musk is not understood Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity 2024 Predictions US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages Office vacancy rate hits record high The robots will make us more human Amazon’s Twitch plans to slash staff: report Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp Quarterly Results \| HashiCorp, Inc. Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp Quarterly Results \| HashiCorp, Inc. DocuSign surges amid report it is exploring buyout deal (DOCU) Adobe walks away from its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B Thomas Graf on LinkedIn: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles Cisco to Acquire Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion The companies employees don’t want to leave in 2023 Nonsense ‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship The 52 definitive rules of flying Neither Overhead nor Underground, PG&E Pilot Program Evaluates the Benefits of Putting Powerlines Right on the Ground Airline Amenities iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282 Reacting to Blackstone's holiday video The Generation Gap \| 2024 Lamb ad Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking. SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Quick Flip Go Bottle \| 24 Oz How a 40-ounce cup turned Stanley into a $750 million a year business Cup Fever Matt: Apple Watch 9 Coté: Patagonia 3-in-1 Parka. It is fucking expensive and iPhone 15 Pro Max Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 448: Jorge Castro on Late Stage Linux on the Desktop and Working for the CNCF	05 Jan 2024	00:43:02
Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”. Show Links Cloud Native Computing Foundation Project Bluefin Bazzite Universal Blue Prompt terminal Windows To Go with Rufus Contact Jorge Castro LinkedIn: jorge-castro2112 GitHub: @castrojo Mastodon: @jorge@hachyderm.io SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Jorge Castro.
	Episode 447: 2023 Year in Review	29 Dec 2023	00:54:58
This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 447 Runner-up Titles Flat budgets are better then no budget Applauding as the Titanic goes down They weren’t going to be patriated But this is you! Now we know The hippies have lost Keep your head on an open-source swivel Once it works, it’ll be great At least we got USB C Great year for cables Rundown 2022 Year in Review (Last Year’s Recap Episode) Travel App Recommendations FlightRadar24 Flighty Final Numbers The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’. Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations of the Year Brandon: Pastebot Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (RIP) Coté: Google Looker Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 545: No one cares about Chickens	07 Nov 2025	01:12:45
This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545 Runner-up Titles Stack the deck Pets and Chickens Blame it on Android They’re fungible Are they going to have to introduce a new principle? Managers of rocks The world we live in Marketing wins We’re the healthy skeptics Rundown Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone Cloud Earnings AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025 Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1 Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 7m OpenAI work users Amazon's culture went the wrong way Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world? AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips Relevant to your Interests Azure outage: Microsoft still working on fix, says recovery expected in several hours Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment Meta Stock Slides After Earnings. AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well SaaS Monopoly \| Khushi Lunkad The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake \| Chef Nonsense Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute \| CNN Business Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million Conferences SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking. Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle Matt: The Other Two Coté: NØLSON shirts Photo Credits Header
	Episode 446: The Business B.S. Dictionary	22 Dec 2023	01:09:19
This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 446 Runner-up Titles When your early is really on time Showing up on time is is early for me We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok Rundown BS Dictionary What does "bureaucracy" mean? Politics Deck Let's socialize this deck Let's have the meeting in the meeting Parking Lot Outcomes Follow Coté on TikTok for more BS Dictionary Takes Coté’s Business BS Dictionary Playlist on YouTube Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Slow Horses Season 3 Coté: ChatDM with Forgotten Realms. Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 445: It’s my sacred time	15 Dec 2023	00:47:00
This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 445 Runner-up Titles I feel very safe on an airplane We’re one mishap away from Lost Difference between the right decision and the safe decision First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo “Rice” They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck Figure out where all the yaml goes Rundown Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix Apache Mesos Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January Relevant to your Interests Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023 Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads 'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’ The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions? Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software \| Aneel Lakhani \| Monktoberfest 2023 WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake" Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less Nonsense Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade? It’s time for the Excel World Championships! Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video Committing to Costco 220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 April 17-18, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Fund Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit Coté: Sex Education, season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff) Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete	08 Dec 2023	01:04:07
This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 444 Runner-up Titles A.I. Arms Race Table 4 needs pork chops Run with that Thanks for not saving us from the AI The King of Cameos Rebels going to rebel Ivory Tower Scruples The sign of something Rundown OpenAI Sam Altman Out At OpenAI A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman \| TechCrunch Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman Who Controls OpenAI? Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy \| Semafor Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn A.I. Arms Race Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model Google unveils Gemini Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman Relevant to Your Interests Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself' Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! \| Defector New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview) Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach "We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more 534 startups have failed so far in 2023 Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts 'Return to Office' declared dead Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit It’s All Bullshit \| JS Tan IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing Nonsense Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us. The Clock of the Long Now Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Bookings with me in Outlook Matt: ortho-k Coté: Descript (for finding social clips), GMail, D&D in ChatGPT Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 443: Everything is maintenance	01 Dec 2023	01:01:54
This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 443 Runner-up Titles No Slack The Corporate Podcast. Quality of life stop Our roads diverge Eats a bag of llama Nobody wants to do a bake-off AI all the time Rundown AWS re:Invent Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 \| Amazon Web Services Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g) Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS DGX Platform Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing AWS takes the cheap shots Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent Relevant to your Interests Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023 Thoma Bravo to sell about $500 million in Dynatrace stock FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent \| TechCrunch Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media \| TechCrunch Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024 Amazon to launch car sales next year with Hyundai Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software \| Aneel Lakhani \| Monktoberfest 2023 DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023 Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware \| Hock Tan Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval VMware is now part of Broadcom \| VMware by Broadcom Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It! Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028 IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete WSJ News Exclusive \| Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK) Apple announces RCS support for iMessage Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS. Nonsense Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023 Listener Feedback Matt’s Trackball: Amazon.com: Kensington Expert Trackball Mouse (K64325), Black Silver, 5"W x 5-3/4"D x 2-1/2"H : Electronics Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Complete History & Strategy of Visa Matt: Markdown in Google Docs Google Docs to Markdown Coté: pork chops, preferably thin sliced. Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software	24 Nov 2023	00:52:59
Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit. Show Links theCUBE SiliconANGLE Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source Our Open Source focus: Securing OSS is not optional Octopus wolfi Camino de Santiago My Walk on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, 2023 Contact Dustin @DustinKirkland LinkedIn SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.
	Episode 441: The whole point of AI is laziness	17 Nov 2023	01:03:36
This week, we recap the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite, ponder the broader implications of A.I., provide an update on OpenCost, and share some thoughts on migrating child accounts to teen accounts. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episod e 441 Runner-up Titles I just want to do less Kill all the humans Madlibbing his keynotes They perked up and turned it off Legs are the difficult thing Everyone gets turned into a barnyard animal Rundown MSFT Ignite With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand - Source Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event Microsoft and Photonic join forces on the path to quantum at scale - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides - Microsoft Industry Blogs Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT OpenCost and Azure Announcing OpenCost Integration with Microsoft AKS Cost Analysis Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) Relevant to your Interests Microsoft restricts employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT Scoop: Amazon is ditching Android for Fire TVs, smart displays Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023 Clouded Judgement 11.10.23 Keycaps » Special Edition Drop » dbrand In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) 2023: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Menlo Ventures Threat Spotlight: Reported ransomware attacks double as AI tactics take hold YouTube, Ad Blockers & the Advertising "Tax" Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 released Amazon will officially merge Comixology with Kindle in December Nonsense AWS staffer shows off former-prison offices on social media Buc-ee’s and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to add high-speed chargers In the Office Auto-Reply Emails for a Hybrid Work Schedule Listener Feedback Facets \| Helping you adopt Platform Engineering 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas Code BF24 gives $300 off any professional ticket until Nov. 27. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Killer Matt: Keychron Q10 (Alice Layout) with Gateron G Brown Pro switches and a wooden palm rest Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 440: KubeCon Chicago Recap	10 Nov 2023	01:01:48
This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 440 Runner-up Titles Keep on keeping on They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects It was USB thing If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report The platter days Wait a second, I’m a pro Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition Vanity Metrics are for Vanity Rub some A.I. on it Rubbing A.I. on all of it Of course this is the way you’re going to do it Rundown Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM CNCF October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects \| Cloud Native Computing Foundation AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments OpenAI OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference ChatCSV How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 \| TechCrunch CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest Andrew says gets switch tester Relevant to your Interests Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer alternative benefit AWS to Azure services comparison - Azure Architecture Center PagerDuty To Acquire Jeli, Bolstering its End-to-End, Automated Incident Management Solution for the Enterprise Verdict reached in Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud The GPU Math", AI's impact on Cloud Rev and Capex Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix Europe is in Decline: A Concerning Future Ahead Data observability platform Kloudfuse launches out of stealth with $23M Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage Datadog stock surges 30% after cloud company beats estimates, revises guidance up Elevating Cloud-Native Innovation: Craig Box joins the Solo.io Team! Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft's GitHub • DEVCLASS Understanding Open Source Adoption: Insights from the 9th State of the Software Supply Chain Report. New Report Shows Disconnect Between Developers and Security Teams on Software Supply Chain Security Priorities and Responsibilities Nvidia announces January event after rumors of an RTX 4080 Super launch Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries - The Next Platform Nonsense Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami Listener Feedback Software Defined Talk now available on YouTube Music Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Same as Ever Morgan Housel \| Acquired Podcast The Morgan Housel Podcast: My New Book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes Matt: DisplayLink for multiple external monitors on M1 Macs (Asahi Linux discussion) Photo Credits Header
	Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad	03 Nov 2023	01:16:39
This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 439 Runner-up Titles Costservability Just a second 439 episodes of podcasting nirvana We’ve never made a mistake A million Amazon users of Copilot Chrome exists to serve RAM sales Two Turntables and a Microphone Default Search Engines Rundown Cloud Earnings Review Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23 OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring Free Software Product Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide Business Models Default Search Engine Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge Paid Social Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs SolarWinds SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud Apple Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone Relevant to your Interests The Cloud Computer Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO 12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street VMware closes its home for experimental software Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA What's new in Red Hat OpenShift Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon' Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software Nonsense Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130? The restaurant nearest Google Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ Listener Feedback Sudesh from Akami is hosting a happy hour at KubeCon Conferences Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. 20% off with VMware discount code: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit \| Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Bodies Matt: Anti-recommendation: Lenovo Go wireless ergonomic keyboard Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 438: This is a 20-year bug	27 Oct 2023	01:05:35
This week, we discuss Microsoft and Google Cloud earnings, the future of passwords, the validity of DORA Metrics, and share some thoughts on esoteric Excel bug fixes. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 438 Runner-up Titles Spicy takes and f-bombs Not pants Real scientists don’t use Excel We fixed it Private equity is coming for you Jerks on the phone… go! They’re going to steal our eyes and thumbs Rundown Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac Cloud News and Earnings Clouded Judgement 10.20.23 Microsoft blows past earnings estimates as cloud growth comes in hot Microsoft has over a million paying Git H ub Copilot users: CEO Nadella Jamin Ball on LinkedIn: On the Microsoft earnings call Google-parent Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft’s cloud booms How AI-driven software creation tools speed up your development Amazon launches European 'sovereign' cloud as EU data debate rages Passwords Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit 1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise Passkeys (Passkey Authentication) Apple may be planning a surprise October iMac announcement Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal Relevant to your Interests Broadcom and VMware Announce Election Deadline for VMware Stockholders to Elect Merger Consideration Beijing weighs delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal Announcing Neptyne for Google Sheets Discord expands online marketplace as it tries to justify $15 billion valuation Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' Amazon managers can now sack employees who won’t work from the office 3 days a week Amazon’s Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party US v Google Antitrust Trial Transcripts I The Capitol Forum Crane Venture Partners Flight 2023 How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal Stay in EU, comply with EU law: EU’s digital chief warns X’s Musk Meta sued by 42 attorneys general for addictive features targeting kids Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging The founder of startup Bonobos hid a bipolar diagnosis for decades. Now he’s on a mission to destigmatize mental health at work Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial Fed wants to lower 'swipe fees,' a potential blow to banks and credit card giants Nonsense Costco CEO Craig Jelinek to step down Jan. 1. COO Ron Vachris will take over McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Listener Feedback Omnivore Conferences Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. 20% off with VMware discount code: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit \| Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Asciicinema Coming to asciinema near you with Marcin Kulik, creator of asciinema (Changelog Interviews #561) Matt: uBlock Origin Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle	20 Oct 2023	00:48:54
This week, we discuss Amazon embracing Microsoft Office 365, offer some SBF hot takes, and review the lessons Docker learned when building an open-source business. Plus, we share thoughts on the new Apple Pencil, USB-C, and some Tim Cook fan fiction. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 437 Runner-up Titles My enemy’s Word Processor is my friend. You know what we should do, we should just meet about it. A downgrade would be an upgrade. Megadeal’s a great word. It worked for Shingy Use my template. Rundown Amazon moves to the cloud Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document Report: Amazon will use Microsoft 365 cloud productivity tools in $1B ‘megadeal’ SBF Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short Number Goes Up Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon OSS Business Success with Open Source HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless... Docker at 10 — 3 Things We Got Right, 3 Things We Got Wrong How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects VMware: What China Might Ask Of Broadcom Is Concerning Markets (NYSE:VMW) Relevant to your Interests So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29 billion in back taxes Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible \| Nieman Reports Data transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment \| TechCrunch Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB Apple reaches settlement with Caltech in $1 billion patent lawsuit - 9to5Mac We tried that, didn’t work Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com Apple wants to update iPhones in-store without opening the packaging Atlassian content cloud migration will work. Users, less so Opinion \| The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead Minecraft becomes first video game to hit 300m sales Marc Andreessen -- e/acc on X Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup Amazon quietly rolls out support for passkeys, with a catch \| TechCrunch The price of managed cloud services Microsoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era UK Atlassian users complain of migration dead end Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners Convicted Fugees rapper Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft bungled closing argument IRS to offer a new option to file your tax return Welcoming Loom to the Atlassian team Nonsense Costco sold $9B of clothing in 2022 United's new boarding system prioritizes window seats Listener Feedback Software Engineering at Google Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Platform Engineering Conferences Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. Use this VMware discount code for 20% off: KCNA23VMWEO20. Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit \| Linux Foundation Events Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Sign up for Installer - The Verge Matt: Dell customer support Coté: Evil Dead Rises. Also, this picture of Bruce Campbell, from here. Photo Credits Header
	Episode 544: The Enterprise Turing Test	31 Oct 2025	01:02:21
This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544 Runner-up Titles Cote’ shock jock mode Art with squids Command-Line Life Style AI isn’t for experts. The triumph of the command line The command line lifestyle is now available I don’t even know what sed is The Human Line Rundown Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025 “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.” Relevant to your Interests ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky PayPal shares surge 13% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT Internet Pioneer AOL to Be Acquired by Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons What is Configuration as Data? RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics? a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects Nonsense How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA Uxse code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: Who Is Michael Lombardi? Debunking the Myths of UNC's GM Matt: Shell Game podcast Coté: "What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)." Photo Credits Header
	Episode 436: Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements	13 Oct 2023	01:04:59
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 435: SSH in a for loop but faster	06 Oct 2023	01:07:08
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 434: Slides Benedict	29 Sep 2023	01:03:54
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 433: Are you telling me GitHub is a good name	22 Sep 2023	00:50:22
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware	15 Sep 2023	00:46:48
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.
	Episode 431: CEO Therapy Session	08 Sep 2023	00:47:53
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 430: Exploring Governance and Compliance with Mike Long	01 Sep 2023	00:53:49
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.
	Episode 429: This is peak VMware	25 Aug 2023	00:48:57
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 428: Three steps into a 10k race	18 Aug 2023	01:15:43
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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 H otels Photo Credits Header Artwork Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
	Episode 427: You must be this tall to be a customer	11 Aug 2023	00:52:12
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 O scars 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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 543: Arts and Crafts	24 Oct 2025	01:06:34
This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543 Runner-up Titles Firewire is dead USB, what are you going to do? It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it. I am just a guest. I don’t need helpful An amazing hole. Slides for nobody You closed the loop It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist? Slackhole Rundown OpenAI Introducing ChatGPT Atlas OpenAI Is Building a Banker OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I. Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb Relevant to your Interests Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025 This Discord Zendesk compromise has gotten more silly WP Engine Vs Automattic & Mullenweg Is Back In Play Windows 11 removes all bypass methods for Microsoft account setup, removing local accounts Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native Wiz Finds Critical Redis RCE Vulnerability: CVE‑2025‑49844 \| Wiz Blog DevRel is -Unbelievably- Back The Ruby community has a DHH problem YouTube rolls out its redesigned video player globally Oracle stock rises as company confirms Meta cloud deal Adiós, AirPods NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto Nonsense Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why Buc-ee's is not America's top convenience store; Midwest chain takes No. 1 spot French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp Listener Feedback Jeffrey is looking for college interns. Conferences Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19 SREDay Amsterdam, Coté speaking, November 7th. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com Recommendations Brandon: The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust Matt: Comfort Ear Grip Hooks Coté: MSG on popcorn, Claude Skills, Masman Curry, Sora? Photo Credits Header
	Episode 426: There’s no more backpacks to buy	04 Aug 2023	00:57:21
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 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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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: Full Circle Matt: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. Coté: A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City. Coté’s Newsletter Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 425: Michael Kennedy on Python	28 Jul 2023	01:07:09
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: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.
	Episode 424: William Morgan on Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF	21 Jul 2023	00:53:15
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.
	Episode 423: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?	14 Jul 2023	01:19:17
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 422: Corporation vs. Community	07 Jul 2023	01:20:41
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 Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Mom and Dad's Ok Summer intern's commute goes viral: She flies from South Carolina to New Jersey Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament 'World's Largest' Buc-ee's store opens now on Bus-ee’s Map Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley. 'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know. At least a year younger on paper: South Korea makes changes to age-counting law Sony just spilled confidential PlayStation information because of a Sharpie Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health Listener Feedback Let's Get To The News \| Craig Box \| Substack When You Don't Have a Seat At the (Managed Database) Table by Doug Sillars 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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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! Recommendations Brandon: Cloudcast: MidYear 2023 Update Governments Building Software This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software - Odd Lots The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth (via Coté’s newsletter) Coté: Hand Mirror app, also in Setapp if you have that. If Books could Kill Photo Credits Header Artwork
	Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson	30 Jun 2023	01:27:11
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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).
	Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps	23 Jun 2023	00:45:30
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.
	Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry	16 Jun 2023	00:39:10
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.
	Episode 418: I don’t like Anime	09 Jun 2023	01:03:33
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 417: Every Salesforce is a Snowflake	02 Jun 2023	01:01:30
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 542: Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud.	17 Oct 2025	01:02:34
Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare. Show Links OpenMetal.io Contact Yuriy Shyyan LinkedIn: Yuriy Shyyan Sponsor OpenMetal — Cloud Native IaaS. Fixed Cost. SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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: Yuriy Shyyan.
	Episode 416: Exchange your “Buddy Bucks” for Nagios	26 May 2023	00:47:02
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 415: You can buy a lot of Nagios with that	19 May 2023	00:53:48
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 (@adrianco@mastodon.social) 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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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
	Episode 414: Monolith vs. Microservices	12 May 2023	01:14:11
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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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

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