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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxODnsIekJo) 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 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-company-new-relic-in-talks-to-be-sold-8079db4e) 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability (https://www.dynatrace.com/monitoring/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-application-performance-monitoring-observability/) IDC APM marketshare from 2021 (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49596822&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY) Relevant to your Interests Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/kustomer-meta-spin-out/) Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog (https://www.meetup.com/blog/harvards-famous-study-on-happiness-might-surprise-you/) Historical software multiples at IPO (https://twitter.com/glennsolomon/status/1658873511233093632) Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios) Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/luxottica-confirms-2021-data-breach-after-info-of-70m-leaks-online/) Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source (https://youtu.be/Yp2KtNRAzxA) Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain (https://www.reuters.com/markets/australian-stock-exchange-says-software-overhaul-wont-involve-blockchain-2023-05-19/) Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-fba83bc3-5b15-4374-8a3d-8d2829b1d001.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023 (https://www.theverge.com/23734104/microsoft-build-2023-ai-bing-copilot) Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/microsoft-launches-fabric-a-new-end-to-end-data-and-analytics-platform/) Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff (https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-fourth-quarter-revenue-rises-2-2023-05-18/) Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms (https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/05/12/laid-off-big-tech-workers-are-getting-invited-to-return-on-unfavorable-terms?cid=31524316.162675&mblid=bfd7ff44f422&mid=eb84400822928b8efbb6c2dcb0460be6&utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew) Nonsense A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04GSN7U5S9/p1684426841082349) The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage (https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/1659276676889473050) Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted! (https://youtu.be/xRZM-EDsmuI) The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One (https://www.delish.com/food-news/a43578818/sriracha-shortage-again/) Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0? (https://mimestream.com/blog/whats-new-in-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 (https://unsplash.com/photos/FhroWi5pP20) Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/yvzRVBom4tqYBbLZKpY7sp02/O3MXdgOZ37BRYs2JsOhXFy44)

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNsrYSkYsY&t=4s) 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 (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/datadogs-65myear-customer-mystery) Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718066/google-bard-ai-features-waitlist-dark-mode-visual-search-io) DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878) Relevant to your Interests Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/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 (https://www.horsesforsources.com/ibm-watsonx_051023/) It's not just cloud costs that are out of control (https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-not-just-cloud-costs-that-are-out-of-control-efcd098c) Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717332/microsoft-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-helion-purchase-agreement?_hsmi=257843304) Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims (https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/) Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco@mastodon.social) (https://mastodon.social/@adrianco/110327883488321584) Goldman Sachs downgrades Twilio, other software names on 'limited catalyst' path (TWLO) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3970029-goldman-sachs-downgrades-twilio-other-software-names-on-limited-catalyst-path) Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/meta-announces-generative-ai-features-for-advertisers/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (https://financialstatement.zip/) Netflix Reportedly Cutting Spending By $300 Million After Delay On Password Sharing Crackdown (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/12/netflix-reportedly-cutting-spending-by-300-million-after-delay-on-password-sharing-crackdown/?sh=4c6e2a1eaee2) Thank you, Enterprisers! (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2023/5/thank-you-enterprisers) Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3695576/somehow-opensearch-has-succeeded.html) Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/) Calendly Welcomes Former Salesforce Product Executive Stephen Hsu as CPO (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230509005168/en/Calendly-Welcomes-Former-Salesforce-Product-Executive-Stephen-Hsu-as-CPO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances | Eric Pauley (https://pauley.me/post/2023/spot-price-trends/) The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (https://financialstatement.zip/) The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD (https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5) Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! 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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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoL0gxUCHwk) 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 (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html) Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611) US DoL considers replacing monolithic IT with modular design (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/dol_modular_code/) Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: ‘We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago’ (https://www.thedrive.com/news/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 (https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/watsonx-ibm-generative-ai-chatgpt) Estimated that they could reduce back-office people by 30%. But, said this would be done through attrition, not firing (https://staging.bsky.app/profile/cote.io/post/3jvezw745ao2n). RIP passwords: Google accounts now support passkeys (https://www.pcworld.com/article/1806627/rip-passwords-google-accounts-now-support-passkeys.html) Relevant to your Interests Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” (https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/) Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/go1-snaps-up-speed-reading-app-blinkist-to-expand-in-enterprise-learning/) Miracle working product manager was stuck in Lotus position (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/who_me/) Broadcom CEO Seeks to Persuade EU on USD 61 Billion VMware Deal (https://enterprisetalk.com/quick-bytes/broadcom-ceo-seeks-to-persuade-eu-on-usd-61-billion-vmware-deal/) GitHub replaces code search engine with Rust-based Blackbird (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/blackbird_github_search/) Clouded Judgement 5.5.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-5523) Nonsense Tall poppy syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome) Short Poppies (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Poppies) Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65524218) Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold, Silver Medals in 1st-Ever Jiu-Jitsu Tournament (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10075360-mark-zuckerberg-wins-gold-silver-medals-in-1st-ever-jiu-jitsu-tournament) Conferences May 11th, 2023 Devoxx UK in London (https://www.devoxx.co.uk/speaker-details/?id=2852). Get 25% tickets with the code SEEMESPEAK23 (https://tickets.devoxx.co.uk/event/devoxx-uk-2023). June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. Listener Feedback Thanks to Mathis for giving SDT a subscription to Oh Dear (https://ohdear.app). SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Silo | Apple TV+ (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjus9y8z-j-AhVQIEwKHZ7QCJsYABAAGgJvYQ&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESauD2hxM4dr0NzTnQWomUgIFxXQLmZKLwkuP7YUfysUViqkHB-rcfsyUYsVsoa3UtuxvprjMP_dt-QlM7ou6i593OBsuDA1XmArCZsZj0PAILIiav2Q-A86nG7eMxSgGs0vUfUbzyxCq0N2k&sig=AOD64_0SAcK50BfCJvVNTsw1fcLcY8oLww&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwixr9K8z-j-AhUOk2oFHU9gAccQ0Qx6BAgGEAE&nis=8&dct=1) Coté: How to Idle (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/623922). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/LkQl6YsjERk) Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/43brTPe2uWSyfAgXeWUYPFc4/UGqMty6tXU97d9D3C2U4vLk3)

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUMH3L0iLqs) Runner-up Titles Airplane Ghost No Hashtag for That Sorry Fellow Travelers That’s what they said about Google Reader That’s the beauty of nonsense stories How do you really feel Brandon? Nobody wants monitoring data Airport Hotels I don’t remember Security Line Sick Rundown Checking in on Cloud Earnings Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1651679974548738048?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Clouded Judgement 4.28.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-42823?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=117470069&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022 (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/04/11/iaaspricing2022/) Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/04/28/of-course-aws-revenues-are-slowing-and-profits-are-pinched/) Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug (https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/29/dont-fooled-slowing-cloud-growth-cost-optimization-feature-not-bug/) Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/amazon-starts-round-of-layoffs-in-aws-cloud-services-division?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230426&utm_campaign=author_20879664&leadSource=uverify%20wall) Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-cloud-business-clamping-down-191234361.html) Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/googles-cloud-business-turns-profitable-for-the-first-time-on-record.html) Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/microsoft-msft-q3-earnings-report-2023.html) Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2023/04/27/navigating-the-high-cost-of-ai-compute/) OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io) Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit (https://review.firstround.com/kubecosts-path-to-product-market-fit-how-the-co-founders-validated-their-idea-with-100-customer-conversations) MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org (https://medium.com/@imashadowphantom/mariadb-com-is-dead-long-live-mariadb-org-b8a0ca50a637) Relevant to your Interests FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/fbi-genesis-market-seized-stolen-logins/?_hsmi=253259905) Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company (https://9to5google.com/2023/04/05/stadia-phil-harrison-departs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding (https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/06/observability-platform-honeycomb-pockets-50m-new-funding/) Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/) The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - 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Code at the speed of thought (https://zed.dev/) U.S. appeals court upholds lower court order forcing Apple to allow third-party App Store payments (https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-upholds-lower-court-order-forcing-apple-allow-third-party-app-2023-04-24/) Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees (https://wraltechwire.com/2023/04/24/red-hat-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-ceo-says-in-letter-to-employees/) Replit ⠕ on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Replit/status/1650900629521596421) Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With (https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker) Red Hat lays off 4% of its global workforce (https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2023/04/24/red-hat-lays-off-4-of-its-workforce?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster | Semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/04/25/2023/theres-a-new-ai-unicorn-that-will-make-coders-faster) BMC to Acquire Model9 - 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Microsoft is reportedly trying to make it cheaper. 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(https://thehustle.co/04132023-AI-powered-lasers/) Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65258108) Americans Have Nearly $1 Trillion in Credit Card Debt (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/credit-card-debt-americans-have-racked-up-nearly-1-trillion-in-balances?srnd=premium&sref=3Ac2yX40&_hsmi=254863063&leadSource=uverify%20wall) FTX Founder Suffers Personal Nightmare as Courts Cut Him Off From League of Legends (https://futurism.com/the-byte/sbf-ftx-courts-cut-off-league-of-legends) Google gives Bard the ability to generate and debug code | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/google-gives-bard-the-ability-to-generate-and-debug-code-130024663.html?_hsmi=255452821) Jekkmaster of Drip on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Jekkus/status/1651074439180582913) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: YouTube TV Announces New Details About NFL Sunday Ticket Including Multiview, Family Plans, DVR, & More (https://cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-tv-announces-new-details-about-nfl-sunday-ticket-including-multiview-family-plans-dvr-more/) Huddle up football fans, the NFL Sunday Ticket presale kicks off today (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/nfl-sunday-ticket-presale-2023/) Matt: Prometheus: Up & Running Second Edition (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/prometheus-up/9781098131135/) Schipol Airport Sheraton / Abu Dhabi Airport Hotel Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/CkrrWXHzYFY) Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/s/PMx8vMRH7JNLNXDjFifjlbDB)

Matt, Coté and guest host Barton George record live from KubeCon EU. They discuss the Keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet… Runner-up Titles The CNCF invades Amsterdam So nice not to talk to anyone Kubecon EU 2023 recap Curve Fits Rundown Thanks to developer.dell.com (https://developer.dell.com) team for help with show production. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 (http://KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022) Self Scanning in Dirk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xraOeYb8po) Conferences DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Header (https://twitter.com/barton808/status/1648592307791314948/photo/1) Artwork (https://twitter.com/barton808/status/1649071653001785344) Special Guest: Barton George.

Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022. Show Links A Look Back at Q4 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q4-22-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=113895854&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) The Cloudcast, The Evolution of SaaS Business Models, Episode 708 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/04/the-evolution-of-saas-business-models.html) Clouded Judgement (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/) Contact Jamin LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamin-ball-49366137/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Special Guest: Jamin Ball.

This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck. Show Links Big Data is Dead (https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/) DuckDB (https://duckdb.org/) DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5FdqzGT1E) MotherDuck (https://motherduck.com/) Google Big Query (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) Contact Jordan LinkedIn: jordantigani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/) Twitter: @jrdntgn (https://twitter.com/jrdntgn) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/iYEyc6GpvGc) Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.

This week we discuss regulators slowing Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Nutanix’s delayed earnings, GitHub's origins, Tech Stocks and staplers at Google. Plus, some thoughts on GM and Apple CarPlay. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 409 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8aU8wIrqM) Runner-up Titles Why not Linux? I remain skeptical Let’s complain about some software Think of the listeners Going to need a bigger Post-it Note We’ve baked too many muffins on a Monday 88.1 on your dial Rundown Everybody hates GM’s decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its EVs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669523/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-ev-restrict-access) GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-apple-carplay-android-auto-google) CMA to probe Broadcom and VMware merger more deeply (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/uk_watchdog_to_give_broadcomvmware/) Nutanix CIO Exits Amid Software Misuse Probe (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-cio-exits-amid-software-misuse-probe) Origins of GitHub Biz Model (https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1641138130807058432) Tom Preston-Werner interview on Kubelist (https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-35-the-open-source-journey-with-tom-preston-werner) After layoffs, tech stocks boom (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-0f896066-91fa-46f8-b6ab-59e053c6cb02.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google letting people leave (https://twitter.com/josephjacks_/status/1642719912136429569?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm) "authoriselon" (https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L225) Relevant to your Interests Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/?_hsmi=252346186) Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-says-microsofts-cloud-practices-anti-competitive-slams-deals-with-rivals-2023-03-30/) Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662476/microsoft-bing-chatbot-ads-revenue-sharing?_hsmi=252507726) Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/chatgpt-blocked-italy/) State of startup compensation, H2 2022 (https://carta.com/blog/state-of-startup-compensation-h2-2022/) Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm) The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/) Ex-Grubhub Driver Wins $65 in 8-Year-Fight to Be Called Employee (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-31/ex-grubhub-driver-wins-65-in-8-year-fight-to-be-called-employee?srnd=technology-vp&sref=3Ac2yX40&_hsmi=252778363) Saudi Arabia Is Investing $38 Billion to Become a Video-Game Hub (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/saudi-arabia-is-investing-38-billion-to-become-a-video-game-hub?sref=3Ac2yX40) Former Start-up Founder Charged by Prosecutors for Defrauding JPMorgan Chase (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/charlie-javice-jpmorgan-fraud.html) Amazon announced eliminating another 9,000 roles (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1637822962504957952?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Nonsense The last O'REILLY book (https://social.heise.de/@vowe/110118878261283573) 3 Pieces of Military Tech From "The Mandalorian" That We're Already Working on (https://sofrep.com/news/3-pieces-of-military-tech-from-the-mandalorian-that-were-already-working-on/?fbclid=IwAR078o8c0RGUb2gPJXNANeiLoAFzwNSq1Cys87_7eD2rd-GDyJCfESjxb3M) Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY) The Evolution of SaaS Business Models (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/04/the-evolution-of-saas-business-models.html) (Brandon co-hosts The Cloudcast) Matt: Bernie Worrell: Elevation (The Upper Air) (https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/elevation-the-upper-air) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/kvIAk3J_A1c) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/_1HlXH4LI7A)

This week we discuss Docker’s reversal, Amazon's return to office, Apple’s headset, the state of the Metaverse and the rise of LLMs. Plus, Matt shares his sleep study experience and an after-show about Hawaii. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 408 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLRMj8s_Fc) Runner-up Titles Tyranny of 16x9 College Sports of Mastodon Sleep Study NPS survey at the end Dependent on Goodwill This is best for the customer Worlds greatest employer Apple, we were counting on you Mechanized Mansplaining Rundown We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan (https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/) Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition (Insider) (https://artifact.news/s/-dZrO83ly0Q=) At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/apple-augmented-reality-dissent.html) Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659691/disney-metaverse-job-cuts-eliminated?_hsmi=252164574) Cheating is All You Need (https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need) Relevant to your Interests Introducing World ID and SDK (https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/introducing-world-id-and-sdk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_broke_reddit_the_piday_outage/) De-cloud and de-k8s — bringing our apps back home (https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-back-home/) Venture Firms And Startups Are Returning To Government-Backed SVB In Droves (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2023/03/19/vc-and-startups-are-returning-to-government-backed-svb-in-droves/?sh=783740c17dfc) OpenStack starts wrapping around the alphabet to name it's latest release. (https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1639265814963527680) 51 Tips For Surviving in a BIG Company (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/51-rules-how-survive-big-company-jeremy-connell-waite/) New York Times touts continued Wordle success (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c755db47-b0d4-471d-9f55-b8cf1218c75c.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) SVB Capital Owned Pieces Of Top VC Firms. With A Sale Ongoing, Their Future Is In Flux. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/03/24/what-happens-to-svb-capital-vc-firm-bets/?sh=596c2bedb7ef) First Citizens agrees to buy Silicon Valley Bank (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/first-citizens-silicon-valley-bank-sold-fdic) Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative (https://www.reuters.com/technology/databricks-pushes-open-source-chatbot-cheaper-chatgpt-alternative-2023-03-24/) Let's Get To The News #11: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (https://craigbox.substack.com/p/11-oclock-tick-tock) Rackspace cutting workforce in response to downturn. Amid string of losses, its stock has plummeted. (https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/rackspace-layoffs-downturn-17859129.php) Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows 11 audio mixer (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-testing-a-redesigned-windows-11-audio-mixer-224417187.html) Twilio's IoT business unit to be acquired by KORE to build first 'IoT Hyperscaler' (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3951425-twilios-iot-business-unit-to-be-acquired-by-kore-to-build-first-iot-hyperscaler) Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with New Emoji, Notifications for Web Apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for Cellular Calls, New Shortcuts Actions, and More (https://feed.feedburster.com/macstoriesnet/redirect?url=https://www.macstories.net/news/ios-16-4-overview-emoji-notifications-web-shortcuts/) The Bank Regulators Are Disappointed (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-28/the-bank-regulators-are-disappointed) ChatGPT plugins (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) AI changes the software-making game (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-660f9b08-f144-4c7f-9388-fcde9259d5d2.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is GA | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/google-distributed-cloud-hosted-is-ga/) Alibaba to split into 6 units and explore IPOs; shares up 14% in the U.S. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/28/alibaba-says-it-will-split-into-6-units-that-can-raise-funds-and-ipo.html?_hsmi=252164574) Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter 'For You' feed (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/tech/elon-musk-verified-only-for-you-feed?_hsmi=252164574) Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/zoom-is-adding-new-features-to-compete-with-slack-calendly-google-and-microsoft/) How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html) Nonsense Beaver fossil named after Buc-ee's (https://phys.org/news/2023-03-beaver-fossil-buc-ee.html) The Ultimate Texas Brand Bracket Crowns Its Champion — Texas Monthly (https://apple.news/Aq4TrnlI_Sfq9hziw3ML6oQ) After Show Coté’s interview with Barton (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/393) Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Duo Lingo (https://www.duolingo.com) Matt: Hardcore History Addendum: Rick Rubin/Dan Carlin Conversation (https://www.dancarlin.com/addendum/) Kubernetes Cloud Cost Monitoring with OpenCost & Optimization Strategies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiqIqcM1d6o) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/7ZD_JIwl410) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/XzVGz2HBtK4) Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss Docker’s Business Model, the Stack Overflow’s Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvIBIzlmbM) Runner-up Titles Free isn’t good enough I’m not that disconnected It’s a presentation with yourself We still hate this Open Source Continuity Founder Magic Syntactic Sugar How cool do you feel, Tim Cook? Rundown Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know (https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/) Docker’s bad week (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3691292/dockers-bad-week.html) After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment (https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/03/09/after-the-buzz-fades-what-our-data-tells-us-about-emerging-technology-sentiment/) Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine (https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine) The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition (https://9to5google.com/2023/03/15/google-glass-enterprise-edition-discontinued/) Meta's metaverse is on the back burner (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c7503b12-b371-4a85-86f0-dacb9b3426fc.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html) Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/meta-quest-pro-vr-headset-gets-price-cut.html) Mark Gurman details Apple's Reality Pro headset (https://www.gsmarena.com/mark_gurman_gives_huge_breakdown_of_apples_reality_pro_headset-news-57314.php) Relevant to your Interests 4K Blu-Rays Vs. 4K Streaming: Which Is the Best Way to Enjoy Movies? (https://www.tcl.com/global/en/blog/4k-blu-rays-vs-4k-streaming-which-is-the-best-way-to-enjoy-movies) Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff (https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff) Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/salesforce-crm-earnings-q4-2023.html) Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month | Eli Lilly and Company (https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-cuts-insulin-prices-70-and-caps-patient-insulin-out-pocket) Adrian Cockcroft on LinkedIn: Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adriancockcroft_amazon-denies-claims-hiring-freeze-is-slowing-activity-7035729287030730752-eIog?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios) NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages (https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/devops/npm-repository-15000-phishing-packages) Introducing Service Weaver (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1630995723956412420) A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a) Ford announces it hired 550 former Argo devs (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1631485994322239489) Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3946bb7%2F64022c3bd8b4d160753c68fc%2F5ed96de79bbc0f3a78a62db3%2F10%2F74%2F64022c3bd8b4d160753c68fc&wp_cu=adfcfd8deaffd0ba2a9ca872039c1c5f%7CA74A34F443CC71B2E0530100007FCBF9) National Cybersecurity Strategy (https://twitter.com/ENERGY/status/1631412407565180928?s=20) Richard Seroter’s take on Web Assembly (https://twitter.com/rseroter/status/1631723362371371008?s=20) VMware’s SaaS Sales Surge As Broadcom Deal Nears (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/vmware-s-saas-sales-surge-as-broadcom-deal-nears) Technology Chiefs Seek Help Wrangling Cloud Costs (The Wall Street Journal) (https://artifact.news/s/ZAPppeImSUI=) Top Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans Major India Expansion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-apple-supplier-plans-major-india-expansion-f2908b88) Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’ (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64835239) A cloud migration in wartime (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/a-cloud-migration-in-wartime) Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April (https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2023/apples-vp-of-cloud-engineering-michael-abbott-reportedly-leaving-company-in-april/) ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark (https://lemire.me/blog/2023/03/01/arm-vs-intel-on-amazons-cloud/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/06/microsoft-dynamics-copilot/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGcA6HN4Zti_4dKCpuMURoiAkkQ_uR0GBWFOG215KnmRsvryBDclj9SjWv-95R0yA0wFRXevcP-HUdwk-E3ZyR3d23rc5VGVCNXFGK5L3mAPvoEOJxRs6WZFKQvDUBIyw5V3NpdWGkkQ-fXDh4Rijfdp2l_ekJTxepVJjoYJSyKz) NOSSHJJ talking about 1Password (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfmKwjiVf-U) Alphabet headcount on Google Cloud (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1632842179281387522) How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday (https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/kubernetes-as-a-platform-vs-kubernetes-as-an-api-2/) Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-06/atlassian-will-eliminate-500-jobs-in-latest-software-cutbacks?leadSource=uverify%20wall&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top#xj4y7vzkg) Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now (https://www.engadget.com/even-slack-has-a-chatgpt-app-now-154334452.html) The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization (https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-papers/the-pursuit-of-shareholder-value-ciscos-transformation-from-innovation-to-financialization) Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10th in front of a 'limited' in-person audience (https://www.engadget.com/google-io-2023-takes-place-on-may-10th-in-front-of-a-limited-in-person-audience-232154501.html) Datadog’s software is down — and so is its stock (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/datadogs-software-is-down-and-so-is-its-stock-3d0dc2e6) Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push (https://www.ciodive.com/news/Southwest-airlines-AWS-cloud-modernization/644510/) Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-bing-crossed-100-million-daily-active-users-080138371.html) SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing (https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-stripe-is-raising-6-billion) After Stadia, Google's new gaming roadmap (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-231e8237-d33a-4d1a-b810-5e2e729eff66.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) GM offers buyouts to 'majority' of U.S. salaried workers (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/gm-buyouts-us-salaried-workers.html) Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) VMware turns to containerization to improve virtual apps (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/09/vmware_apps_on_demand/) Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Oracle shares sink nearly 5% after third-quarter revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/oracle-shares-sink-nearly-5percent-after-third-quarter-revenue-miss.html) How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud (https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8) U.S. government steps in and says people with funds deposited at SVB will be able to access their money (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/regulators-unveil-plan-to-stem-damage-from-svb-collapse.html) Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337) GitLab loses one-third of its value after software company issues weak revenue forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitlab-gtlb-earnings-q4-2023.html) Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/03/10/hashi-stack-to-break-1-billion-with-profits-in-two-years/) Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/10/gowalla-location-based-social-app/) Amazon's New Home Internet Service Announces New Details | Cord Cutters News (https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-new-home-internet-service-announces-new-details/) Grammarly's New AI Tool Can Do More Than Check Your Spelling (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/grammarlys-new-ai-tool-can-do-more-than-check-your-spelling/) Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/google-cloud-gives-developers-access-to-its-foundation-models/) The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/the-inside-story-on-mountpoint-for-amazon-s3-a-high-performance-open-source-file-client/) Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-layoffs.html) Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/zed-code-editor-raises-10m/) Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/apple-is-reportedly-experimenting-with-language-generating-ai/) Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is stepping down (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/twitch-ceo-emmett-shear-is-stepping-down/) The Four Domains of Wasm (https://www.fermyon.com/blog/four-domains-wasm) Navigating SVB's new era (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-3bd96e9e-2dbf-4d32-8008-30800f298ac7.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/03/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-opsramp-advancing-hybrid-cloud-leadership-and-expanding-hpe-greenlake-into-it-operations-management.html) Proximus and Google Cloud to Deliver Sovereign Cloud Services in Belgium and Luxembourg (https://www.proximus.com/news/2023/20230315-disconnected-sovereign-cloud-platform.html) Netflix plans 40 more game releases in 2023 (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/20/netflix-40-video-games) Dragonfly - Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21m) (https://dragonflydb.io/blog/dragonfly-production-ready) HPE picks up OpsRamp for Greenlake multi-cloud AIOps (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/20/hpe_opsramp_acquisition/) Nutanix To Miss SEC Deadline Amid Internal Software Probe (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-to-miss-sec-deadline-amid-internal-software-probe) Nutanix's latest bumper financials overshadowed by 3rd party evaluation software probe – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/07/terrific-nutanix-results-overshadowed-by-expense-investigation/) AWS Cost Leaderboard (https://leaderboard.vantage.sh/) GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/github-releases-blueprint-for-budding-open-source-program-offices/) Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-gpt4-in-azure-openai-service/) Cloud Repatriation Trends: Where Are We Now? (https://blog.container-solutions.com/cloud-repatriation-trends-where-are-we-now) The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/20/the-cloud-backlash-has-begun-why-big-data-is-pulling-compute-back-on-premises/) Nonsense Goldman Sachs arm among bidders with appetite for $10bn Subway (https://news.sky.com/story/goldman-sachs-arm-among-bidders-with-appetite-for-10bn-subway-12825817) This smart toaster lets you cook two slices of bread at different temperatures at the same time (Yanko Design) (https://artifact.news/s/Ug-RYHqMfFE=) A Matt Levine Effect? (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4386256) Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64939558) Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings Over ‘Boneless’ Wings (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/business/buffalo-wild-wings-boneless-wings-lawsuit.html) Metallica Acquires Furnace, One of America’s Largest Vinyl-Manufacturing Companies (https://variety.com/2023/music/news/metallica-acquires-furnace-vinyl-pressing-plants-1235553683/) Got a question for Twitter's press team? The answer will be a poop emoji (https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164654551/twitter-poop-emoji-elon-musk?_hsmi=251042455) Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com Podcast (https://www.macgeekgab.com) provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. Subscribe now! 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John Willis (https://twitter.com/botchagalupe) joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering. There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well. Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode. Links: Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge (https://amzn.to/3TnWcsU) - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here (https://amzn.to/3TnWcsU). Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (https://amzn.to/3JKxakr) - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age. SCaLE 20x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x). DevOpsDays LA (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-los-angeles/welcome/). Special Guest: John Willis.

Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere (https://amperecomputing.com). They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend. Links: Ampere Altra Developer Platform (https://amperecomputing.com/systems/altra/kraken-comhpc-WS) Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 (https://blog.alexellis.io/linux-on-microsoft-dev-kit-2023/) Ampere Developer Program (https://amperecomputing.com/developers) Contact Peter: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpouliot/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Header (https://amperecomputing.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsolutions-portal-cms-prod-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com%2FAmpere_Product_Page_035d9bec1c.png&w=1920&q=75) Special Guest: Peter Pouliot.

Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargunkaur/), Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard (https://byteboard.dev/). They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO. Show Links: Byteboard (https://byteboard.dev/) Contact Sargun LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargunkaur/) Twitter: @justsargs (https://twitter.com/justsargs) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credit (https://blog.google/technology/area-120/byteboard-mobile-web-interviews/) Special Guest: Sargun Kaur.

Everything about this is wrong This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ep_x-LOg4M) Runner-up Titles Forbidden Everything needs cables Got to be Grammarly I’ve got a lot of hills to die on A hatred for their customers They wanted to hate your corpse Except for The Wu-Tang Saga You’ve abandoned the ship No, no, we need to spy on you You are gaslighting what your selling I wouldn’t touch this Full of chef kiss quotes Rundown What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 (https://stratechery.com/2023/what-the-nba-can-learn-from-formula-1/) IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/24/irs-technology-gao-report-archaic/) Screaming in the Cloud #357: Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/) US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/) Individual Master File (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File) Introducing MRSK (https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267) mrsked/mrsk (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk) Justin Garrison @rothgar’s take (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1630634683313848320) Relevant to your Interests After Fraud Charges Against Slync’s Ex-CEO, Goldman Sachs Doubles Down With $24 Million Investment (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/02/22/slync-goldman-sachs-chris-kirchner-funding/?sh=52642f354594) ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/) Why everyone’s talking about Section 230 - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/02232023-Section-230/) Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges For 2023 (https://www.revealbi.io/whitepapers/reveal-survey-report-top-software-development-challenges-for-2023) Microsoft previews cost-efficient Azure VMs (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/microsoft_cheap_azure_vms/) DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-preparing-suit-to-block-adobe-s-20-billion-deal-for-figma) Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 - Moor Insights & Strategy (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/oracle-cloud-made-all-the-right-moves-in-2022/) DoJ to block Adobe purchase of Figma on competition concerns (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/doj_to_block_adobe_purchase/) Your jailbroken ChatGPT might violate OpenAI’s safety guidelines when role-playing as ‘DAN’ (https://www.fastcompany.com/90845689/chatgpt-dan-jailbreak-violence-reddit-rules) Is WebAssembly Really the Future? (https://thenewstack.io/is-webassembly-really-the-future/) Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23616933/elon-musk-twitter-employees-stock-awards-march-after-more-layoffs) Salesforce weighing up more job cuts to hit margin goal (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/salesforce_job_losses_not_over/) Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabet-needs-to-replace-sundar-pichai) LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults (https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/lastpass-reveals-second-attack.html) Stack Overflow Stats (https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952) Nonsense Twitter had 88,188 channel (https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1630346916335865857?s=46&t=DiH5HJagHYkpKEP13Yz6Cg%20%20Zoë%20SchifferZoë%20Schiffer%20@ZoeSchiffer) but they don’t have THE THREAD. 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PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org) KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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This week we take a critical look at DHH’s plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402 (https://youtube.com/live/C1KDU0QdrMY?feature=share) Runner-up Titles Cycled the Power The Principles are Amazing The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog Does this mean the public cloud is over? Where was the Oracle rep? We fear change SaaS for me, not for you The author of this text does not like Amazon Adventure-driven development You’ve got great a manifesto Intolerable! Cory Doctorow amped up Rundown We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our-cloud-exit-53996caa) Five values guiding our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/five-values-guiding-our-cloud-exit-638add47) Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/cloud_repatration_savings_calculated_basecamp/) Two racks. My friends, a thread from Adam Jacob (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1628062851314356225?s=46&t=wXfsbi72zZrNHy0q1UbAGg) Relevant to your Interests Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal (https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-limits-bing-ai-chats-to-5-replies-to-keep-conversations-normal/) Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon's return to office plans (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office) Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-push-ceo-andy-jassy-to-drop-return-to-office-mandate.html) An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter) The SSO Wall of Shame (https://sso.tax/) Twitter spent $60 M on SMS? (https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1627154896884584454?s=46&t=BJ_-KFnX7Zwm7CPZgRSmNg) Predicting Resource Cost Before Deployment (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/resource-cost-prediction/) Oakland Declares State of Emergency Due to Ransomware Attack (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-state-of-emergency-ransomware-attack/3158122/) US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data (https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-epassport-verification/) GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-copilot-update-stops-ai-model-from-revealing-secrets/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Twilio Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005742/en/Twilio-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results) Big 1Password update for iOS and Mac brings over 100 improvements and changes (https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/15/big-1password-update-for-ios-and-mac/) Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/is-the-exodus-over-heres-how-twitter-alternatives-have-fared-since-elon-musks-acquisition/) Most Londoners would quit before they give up WFH (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/15/wfh_pulled_quit_survey/?td=rt-3a) YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-says-shes-stepping-down.html) Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/02/16/forget-milk-and-eggs-supermarkets-are-having-a-fire-sale-on-data-about-you) Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-windows-11-apple-mac-m1-m2-support-parallels-virtual-machines) Digital Ocean Earnings (https://twitter.com/masonegger/status/1626231150091046912?s=12&t=4iXXneoFFARPscTY7xbH2w) Karan B. on LinkedIn: Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7030923903950618624-4lHt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios) Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/salesforce-yields-to-activist-pressure-with-harsh-new-policies-for-engineers-sales-people/) ByteDance's Slack-like tool generated $100M in 2022 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/bytedance-slack-feishu-arr-milestone/) Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after 'cyber incident' (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/burton-snowboards-cancels-online-orders-after-cyber-incident/) Open-source is broken: the sad story of Denis Pushkarev (core-js) (https://www.izoukhai.com/blog/the-sad-story-of-denis-pushkarev-zloirock-the-creator-of-core-js) Pixelfed - Decentralized social media (https://pixelfed.org/) VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/vmware_broadcom_deal_deadline_extended/) How websites can still easily track you in incognito mode (https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-incognito-is-incognito-mode-on-your-internet-browser/) Meta Verified (https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10114993498750111?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) YouTube As Infinite File Storage (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-storage/) Biden won’t save the Apple Watch from potential ban (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/biden-wont-save-the-apple-watch-from-potential-ban/) Apple TV+ growth has 'flat-lined' as users say service lacks value: UBS (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-tv-growth-has-flat-lined-as-users-say-service-lacks-value-ubs-133042717.html) Gartner: Oracle targets users on Java compliance (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/gartner_java_licensing/) Software is a hell of a drug (https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1628016701991182336?s=20) KKR-Backed BMC Plans IPO Valuing It at Up to $15 Billion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-17/kkr-backed-bmc-worth-up-to-15-billion-is-said-to-file-for-ipo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top&leadSource=uverify%20wall) Nonsense We Tested Tiny11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/we-tested-tiny11-for-arm-on-a-raspberry-pi) NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0qBbJq4qQ) United Airlines Eases Family Seating After Call to Cut Fees (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/business/united-airlines-family-seat-fees.html) Listener Feedback Thanks to Christopher for sending the article on Mastodon: We tried to run a social media site and it was awful (https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788ebcd) Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast (https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/). Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP or SPEAK (50% off) Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. 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This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpzvCcFZk0) Runner-up Titles Going Hardcore Sleeping under the desk The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet Rundown Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-plans-to-eventually-go-big-on-physical-grocery-stores-154524344.html) Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mi-tienda-ready-to-cook-flour-tortillas/2188466) Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game (https://www.engadget.com/the-division-2-botched-update-172527977.html) God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter (https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/) The Twitpocalypse may have begun today (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/twitter_glitches_raises_tweet_limit/) What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4) Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… (https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23) These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/these-new-platforms-will-be-great?utm_source=substack&publication_id=50&post_id=102609967&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true) IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/ibm-graphql/) Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-be-acquired-francisco-partners-17-billion) Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155650909/google-chatbot--error-bard-shares) The maze is in the mouse (https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a) Relevant to your Interests Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS' (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-speaks-lot-of-growth-in-front-of-aws/) The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins (https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-netflixs-password-sharing-crackdown-begins-121557582.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIYHiHrsIv_lVu8RNqY46BjFzlgU4pFDBXmk1gQxq2wlQOz02b5tuepColb1KJFoYYwQVWy2SjTUKWVY2oAEMzfkYXlXs97_PE0gpwNUA4RjnDwE_YEm7FB323M9oOBQJNHboj1t77QC9HriDL8cJP-VcplJ5UlJvvwHZRzMn9PC) AI Homework (https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/) Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593966/cloudflare-mastodon-server-wildebeest-instance-fediverse) Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does. (https://twitter.com/liron/status/1622962433752195072) "The New Gatekeepers" (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations) A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology (https://fortune.com/2023/02/13/tesla-elon-musk-fsd-tech-ceo-spent-almost-600000-on-a-super-bowl-ad-to-warn-america-about-teslas-self-driving-technology/) AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/aws_slammed_for_postgresql_dbaas/) Can this man turn Amazon around? (https://www.ft.com/content/a8cdfe3a-a445-476c-b4a7-367468ac1398) A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (https://www.twilio.com/blog/restructuring-twilio) An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/) Nonsense De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRt5XcrW/) Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast (https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/). Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. 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This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400 (https://youtube.com/live/3lko4YjndKY?feature=share) Runner-up Titles You don’t want to toy with food poisoning Do you put all your eggs in one basket? The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT This is just Bing Bullshit as a Service It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine Bad dog The answer to every question is ChatGPT Linux under the desktop Rundown Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t? (https://www.organicvalley.coop/blog/why-does-us-refrigerate-eggs/) Earnings and Outlook Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1621260249016434691?s=46&t=E1TVgOcjzgZuJPndlhI9NA) Red Hat OpenShift making money (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1618795275665162247?s=56&t=lB7BRczZa4_zVz6n4aAjIg) Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing. (https://www.saastr.com/gartner-overall-it-spend-has-slowed-but-software-still-growing/) Cloud Earnings (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/amazon-aws-earnings-q4-2022.html) The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-big-tech-rebound-is-underway) Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/amazon-google-microsoft-show-slowing-growth-in-cloud-infrastructure.html) The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession (https://stratechery.com/2023/the-four-horsemen-of-the-tech-recession/) Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2023.html) FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q2/press-release-webcast) The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/06/the-on-premises-empire-strikes-back-at-aws/) A.I. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete (https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete) Google has developed a music-making AI bot (https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-bot-music) Why does ChatGPT constantly lie? (https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-does-chatgpt-constantly-lie) Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders (https://venturebeat.com/ai/who-will-compete-with-chatgpt-meet-the-contenders-the-ai-beat/) OpenAI API (https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier) Infrastructure-as-Code Generator (https://github.com/gofireflyio/aiac) Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/magic-dev-code-generating-startup-raises-23m/) Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/microsoft-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html) Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html) Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/datadog_opentelemetry_tool_dorman/) Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/02/everybody-gets-fired-eventually.html) (The Cloudcast Podcast) This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year (https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iD_V.CWTliQc/v0/-1x-1.png) Relevant to your Interests Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-18/slicing-cash-flows-for-better-ratings#xj4y7vzkg) Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-daily-revenue-has-dropped-40-500-top-advertisers-have-left?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) $NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend (https://twitter.com/upholdings/status/1616103812372267008?s=46&t=WKIJg71CxhnkC9pPlPnHPg) Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-wind-down-charity-donation-program-amazonsmile-11674144274) HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/hpe_and_oracle_lawsuit_ends/) Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/cloud_growth_slowdown_as_customers/) How We Learned to Be Lonely (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/01/loneliness-solitude-pandemic-habit/672631/) Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism (https://www.warpnews.org/premium-content/kevin-kelly-the-case-for-optimism/) Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/activist-elliott-salesforce-benioff) AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/23/aws_expanding_infamous_useast1_region/) Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments (https://stripe.com/en-es/newsroom/news/amazon-and-stripe) Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling (https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2023/1/23/undo) VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps (https://vmblog.com/archive/2023/01/24/vmware-2023-predictions-platform-engineering-improves-developer-experience-tech-layoffs-solve-enterprise-talent-gaps.aspx) LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/goto-customer-backups-stolen-lastpass/) Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing-on-our-short-and-long-term-opportunity/) Slack's second chance (https://open.substack.com/pub/mostlycloudy/p/slacks-second-chance?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One (https://thenewstack.io/internal-developer-portal-what-it-is-and-why-you-need-one/) Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64397643) U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls (https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-european-union-antitrust-video-calls-software-giant/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns (https://www.patterns.app/blog/2023/01/18/crunchbot-sql-analyst-gpt/) Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299 (https://www.macworld.com/article/1476747/homepod-2nd-gen-audio-siri-feaures-sensors.html) ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/26/ads-b-exchange-sells-up-contributors-unhappy/) Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K (https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/CONFLUENT-INC-124047168/news/Confluent-Message-to-Confluent-Employees-from-Jay-Kreps-Form-8-K-42820152/) FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/26/hive-ransomware-fbi-doj) Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget (https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/tip/Reduce-Kubernetes-spend-with-these-10-Kubecost-alternatives) The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots (https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/why-corporate-america-still-runs-on-ancient-softwa) Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now? (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571659/tech-layoffs-facebook-google-amazon) Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors (https://investor.salesforce.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/Salesforce-Announces-Appointment-of-Three-New-Independent-Directors/default.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) 1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app (https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/30/1password-announces-multiple-improvements-coming-soon-to-its-ios-app/) Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/identity-management-platform-saviynt-secures-205m-in-debt-appoints-new-ceo/) Artifact (https://artifact.news/) GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/github-says-hackers-cloned-code-signing-certificates-in-breached-repository/) Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-hermes-an-open-source-document-management-system) Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-helios-hashicorp-s-new-design-system) Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/kubernetes-is-great-but-its-been?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=100430955&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-ubiquiti-dev-pleads-guilty-to-trying-to-extort-his-employer/) Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-040e9788-23b3-4353-912c-6c9750e3e82f.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs (https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2?r=US&IR=T) Visa vs. AMEX (https://twitter.com/anshgupta64/status/1619538351127937027) Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch) Coté ponders IBM what-if in AI (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/catatonic-leadership?utm_source=substack&publication_id=50&post_id=97661373&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true) Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/half-of-smart-appliances-remain-disconnected-from-internet-makers-lament/) Broadcom’s VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/01/broadcom_vmware_update/) PagerDuty Layoffs Affect 7 Percent Of Workforce (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/pagerduty-layoffs-affect-7-percent-of-workforce?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-pressures-average-rated-employees-to-up-their-game) Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/spotify-layoffs.html) The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-job-market-for-remote-workers-is-shrinking-11674526943) Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People (https://www.wired.com/story/google-meta-big-tech-is-bad-at-firing/) Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/zoom-layoffs-impact-15-of-staff/) The Newer Geography of Jobs (https://arpitrage.substack.com/p/the-newer-geography-of-jobs?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Nonsense Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64481317) Boeing delivers its final 747 jet today, ending a run of more than 50 years (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141578966/boeing-747-last-jet) King Charles will not appear on new Australia $5 note (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64493849) Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/did-billy-mitchell-use-this-illicit-joystick-to-set-a-donkey-kong-high-score/) Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast (https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/). 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This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News (https://craigbox.substack.com/) newsletter and follow him on Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@craigbox) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/craigbox/)(?) This interview was done on January 16th, 2023. Runner-up Titles You sound like an Australian The Mystery of the Cold Open D-list Celebrities The Americans are asleep All the swans belong to the Queen A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it Rundown Global Entry, New Zealand-style (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/international-arrangements/new-zealand/us-global-entry-members) Is there another podcast in the future? Learning by osmosis Developer advocacy at Google You’re not tall enough to ride this ride Joining ARMO (https://www.armosec.io/) Kubescape (https://github.com/kubescape), the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform OpenCost (https://www.cncf.io/projects/opencost/) and Kubescape (https://www.cncf.io/projects/kubescape/), CNCF Sandbox Projects You’re already in my calendar ARMO monetization strategy All Blacks vs. Wallabies Who are these weird celebrities? The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre) TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter Conferences Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent. State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Coté (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Special Guest: Craig Box.

This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping… Rundown Tipping How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped (https://digg.com/data-viz/link/how-much-you-should-tip-across-the-world-mapped-sY3g24oCCF) Tipping Is Weird Now (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/technology-pandemic-economy-gratuity-tipping-etiquette-square/672658/?ref=galaxy-brain) Mastodon The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io (https://hachyderm.io/) Follow SDT on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk) Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/tapbots-launches-a-new-mastodon-client-ivory-after-twitter-kills-its-tweetbot-app/) The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/01/25/the-iconfactory-co-founder-gedeon-maheux-talks-accessibility-on-twitter-the-blow-of-losing-twitterrific-in-new-interview/?sh=43b0cc8a7943) ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2023/01/19/ep-367) Mastodon in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) files (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) Netflix Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/ted-sarandos-greg-peters-co-ceos-netflix) The Netflix Tech Blog (https://netflixtechblog.com) What we want to see at DevOpsDays DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/) Nonsense ‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tron-3-jared-leto-joachim-ronning-1235495033) It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/retro_metric_imperial/) Airlines squeeze rewards programs (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/21/travel-credit-cards-loyalty-program-perks-changes) Salesforce, but for dating (https://dateforce.app/) Conferences CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842) The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Psychology-of-Money-Audiobook/B08D9TXF3H) Ideas That Changed My Life (https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/) Follow Brandon on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@bwhichard) JJ: For All Mankind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_TV_series) Follow JJ on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@jjasghar@mastodon.social) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/Kx3o6_m1Yv8) CoverArt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)) Special Guest: JJ Asghar.

This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne…. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEanhxRwIM) Runner-up Titles I want to vest Call the middle I just didn’t have money XLT, that’s not a thing Yeah, I’m down for whatever Coté’s Culture Corner. Brandon’s Halo Hatrack. Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.” If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting. YOLO workers’ rights Rundown DHH from 37signals shows the numbers Our cloud spend in 2022 (https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/) - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/bottleneck-of-worry) They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity (https://world.hey.com/dhh/they-re-rebuilding-the-death-star-of-complexity-4fb5d08d) Work Life Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employees-unlimited-time-off-2023) (those that are left (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/18/23560315/microsoft-job-cuts-layoffs-2023-tech)) Corey’s Take (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1613258939621335040?s=12&t=jzcCYzgaielci5jNtA9nJA) Relevant to your Interests CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/) SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta (https://siliconangle.com/2023/01/12/sailpoint-acquires-identity-solutions-startup-seczetta/) Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout) Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-clouds-top-u-s-sales-execs-depart-in-shakeup-as-profits-remain-elusive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/12/twitter-rival-t2-raises-its-first-outside-funding-1-1m-from-a-group-of-high-profile-angels/) Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html) State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom (https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterverse/) The Great Podcasting Market Correction (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/the-great-podcasting-market-correction) Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts (https://www.businesspost.ie/news/stripe-clawed-back-pension-contributions-after-staff-cuts/) Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1614683724146266114?s=46&t=GIFUEgf6YFIomCbFD0FuQA) National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/national-instruments-rises-up-to-19-on-plan-to-explore-sale?srnd=deals#xj4y7vzkg) FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system (https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/faa-computer-failure-grounded-thousands-flights-caused-2-contractors-introduced-data-errors-notam-system/) The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-airline-industry-meltdown-proves-the-business-case-for-digital-employee-experience/) Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/forrester-study-finds-228-percent-roi-when-modernizing-applications-on-azure-paas/) Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909163) U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c232a791-0715-4475-9240-551d79417fd9.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) with Ukraine.ua (https://ukraine.u) Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs (https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/) The Shit Show • furbo.org (https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/) Extremely Hardcore (https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji) Nonsense Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house (https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk/status/1613393977134436354) Every Cloud Architecture (https://www.goodtechthings.com/every-cloud-architecture/) Museum of Obsolete Media (https://obsoletemedia.org/) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io/), Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (https://www.meetup.com/dutch-spring-meetup/events/290846449/) (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere. CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! 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This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 396 (https://youtu.be/tmm8rH9fZEE) Runner-up Titles Work trying to get on my personal calendar Traveling with an infant =BLACKSWAN(A1:G453) Socks in a Costco Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it. Pay transparency for you, not me We don’t pay for things on the Internet Semper Nimbus Privatus Rundown Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, (https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1611901297552396289) Digital Transformation Travel Edition Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1 (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/delta-plans-to-offer-free-wi-fi-starting-feb-1.html) The Southwest Airlines Meltdown (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/podcasts/the-daily/the-southwest-airlines-meltdown.html) Southwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/southwest-airlines-meltdown-costs-reimbursement.html) Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco (https://www.yahoo.com/now/southwest-pilots-union-writes-scathing-011720946.html) Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo (https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/southwest-airlines-frequent-flyer-miles-meltdown/index.html) Point of Sale: Scan and Pay (https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1602843962602975233?s=20&t=YdGNYzReSf4r1twJ1hRfbA) Work Life Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings) Netflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary Information (https://apple.news/A--bGmZgJTQCgHQ-9QdWu4w) U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/business/economy/ftc-noncompete.html) Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023 (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/gartner-hr-expert-quiet-hiring-will-dominate-us-workplaces-in-2023.html) Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary information (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-revokes-some-staffs-access-to-other-peoples-salary-information-11673384493) SFDC Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/10/salesforce_comment/) Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/business/salesforce-layoffs.html) After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivi (https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/salesforce-ceo-blasts-worker-productivity-17708474.php)ty (https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/salesforce-ceo-blasts-worker-productivity-17708474.php) AI is everywhere Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/google-execs-warn-of-reputational-risk-with-chatgbt-like-tool.html) Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-working-on-chatgpt-powered-bing-in-challenge-to-google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT (https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10-billion-bet-on-chatgpt) Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT (https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-the-way-to-bring-computational-knowledge-superpowers-to-chatgpt/) Relevant to your Interests 2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/2023-bum-steer-of-year-austin/) Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/technology/twitter-rivals-alternative-platforms.html) On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/12/13/org-structure-devx/) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/reports/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2022-transparency-report/) Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup (https://www.vox.com/recode/23507236/inside-disruption-rebellion-defense-washington-connected-military-tech-startup) Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person (https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/12/12/elon-musk-starts-week-as-worlds-second-richest-person/) 10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco (https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/tesla-stock-investors-lose-132-5-billion-from-musks-twitter-fiasco/) Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-83146574-380f-4e37-965d-7fd79bce7278.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/heads-up-amazon-s3-security-changes-are-coming-in-april-of-2023/) A MultiCloud Rant (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/a_multicloud_rant/) Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies. (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1603012861017862144?s=20&t=HC2UuMCHBB408xae6tZpbQ) AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good (https://truthonthemarket.com/2022/12/14/ag-paxtons-google-suit-makes-the-perfect-the-enemy-of-the-good/) AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/14/aws_simple_storage_service_simplified/) Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation (https://venturebeat.com/virtual/creating-the-ultimate-smart-map-with-new-map-data-initiative-launched-by-linux-foundation/) Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/spotifys-plan-to-monetize-its-open-source-backstage-developer-project/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlua2VkaW4uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAlyOmdhogtX6nuQkNHQ7mVSyci6aMv7X6QwRTvS9PHGJmjO_wjCqsJXXPKI36A9MkIclSIQoHQ_dz7wJ-WzfaYQT_clMcUijiC28ZQhEau4NOcU-70wy5m0Q9LLmtvWuQbWQQEccEbQH2Lvg4_GqfnQBYNPZWRcgpx7XMLas_2R) VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/15/vsphere_plus_standard/) Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2022/12/13/three-senior-execs-to-leave-vmware.html#:~:text=Mark%20Lohmeyer%2C%20who%20heads%20cloud,Raghuram%20announced%20in%20a%20memo) China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-bans-exports-of-its-loongson-cpus-to-russia-other-countries) Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/dropbox-buys-form-management-platform-formswift-for-95m-in-cash/) Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/sweep-a-no-code-config-tool-for-salesforce-software-raises-28m/) Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign (https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/) Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oktas-source-code-stolen-after-github-repositories-hacked/) Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/workday_co_ceo/) Top Paying Tools (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1671635825838769) Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies (https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-air-quest-to-seize-the-skies/) CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison (https://www.armosec.io/blog/cis-kubernetes-benchmark-framework-scanning-tools-comparison/) MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/) OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/openai-releases-point-e-an-ai-that-generates-3d-models/) No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods (https://www.wired.com/story/email-scam-dicks-sporting-goods-yeti-cooler/) The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported (https://www.engadget.com/the-lastpass-hack-was-worse-than-the-company-first-reported-000501559.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab) IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/23/irs-delays-tax-reporting-change-for-1099-k-on-venmo-paypal-payments.html) Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief (https://www.ft.com/content/63ea94fa-c6fc-449f-b2b8-ea29cc83637d) Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/technology/google-job-cuts.html) IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/27/ibm-stock-outperformed-technology-sector-in-2022.html) Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes (https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-taps-techs-power-hungry-data-centers-to-heat-homes-11672309944?mod=djemalertNEWS) List of defunct social networking services (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services) 2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice (https://www.profgalloway.com/2023-predictions/) Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-mastodon-rejects-funding-to-preserve-nonprofit-status/) TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/tsmc-mass-produces-next-gen-chips-to-safeguard-global-lead) Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd (https://www.engadget.com/pre-trial-hearing-between-microsoft-and-ftc-set-for-january-3rd-203320387.html) The infrastructure behind ATMs (https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-infrastructure-behind-atms/) Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/03/apple-is-increasing-battery-replacement-service-charges-for-out-of-warranty-devices/) Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors (https://twitter.com/LiebermanAustin/status/1607376944873754626) Shift Happens: A book about keyboards (https://shifthappens.site/) Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/05/amazon-layoffs-18000-jobs) CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI (https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/) Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/video-game-workers-form-microsofts-first-us-labor-union-rcna64103) World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/worlds-premier-investors-line-up-to-partner-with-netskope-as-the-sase-security-and-networking-platform-of-choice-301712417.html) omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you (https://home.omg.lol/) Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills. (https://twitter.com/theinformation/status/1611165698868367360) Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor (https://venturebeat.com/enterprise-analytics/confluent-acquires-apache-flink-vendor-immerok-to-expand-data-stream-processing/) Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com (https://excelformulabot.com/) Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability? (https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/has-the-internet-reached-peak-clickability) Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now (https://www.wsj.com/articles/adobes-ceo-sizes-up-the-state-of-tech-now-11673151167?mod=djemalertNEWS) Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info (https://jalopnik.com/researchers-hacked-californias-digital-license-plates-1849966295) Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio (https://slashdot.org/story/23/01/10/0749241/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter) Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/observability-platform-chronosphere-raises-another-115m-at-a-1-6b-valuation/) Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing (https://fortune.com/2023/01/06/ibm-patent-record-how-to-measure-innovation-open-source-quantum-computing-tech/) New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/14/cobol_research/) Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3675374/companies-are-still-waiting-for-their-cloud-roi.html) What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage (https://thenewstack.io/what-tns-readers-want-in-2023-more-devops-api-coverage/) Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle. (https://twitter.com/wardleymaps/status/1605860426671177728) How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared (https://scribe.rip/@maximetopolov/how-a-single-developer-dropped-aws-costs-by-90-then-disappeared-2b46a115103a) A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/01/11/a-look-at-the-2022-velocity-of-cncf-linux-foundation-and-top-30-open-source-projects/) The golden age of the streaming wars has ended (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23507793/streaming-wars-hbo-max-netflix-ads-residuals-warrior-nun) YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality (https://awfulannouncing.com/youtube/nfl-sunday-ticket-multiscreen-mosaic-mode.html) (https://twitter.com/theinformation/status/1611165698868367360)## Nonsense The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/19/23510864/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-alexa-ces-2022) Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February (https://www.axios.com/2022/12/28/starbucks-rewards-program-changes-coming) The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego. (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/SDT-396--BwhY9F5kpz_BI2kkdw63ZpJ~Ag-MVMKwqqBEH5SzYKqYO2Jc) Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off SpringOne (https://springone.io/), Jan 24–26. Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent. State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Industrial Garage Shelves (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842) Matt: Oxide and Friends: Breaking it down with Ian Brown (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1150480) Wu Tang Saga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9113406/) Season 3 coming next month! Coté: Mouth to Mouth (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58438631-mouth-to-mouth) by Antoine Wilson (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58438631-mouth-to-mouth). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/euaDCtB_jyw) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/9xdho4stJQ8)

This week Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely cohost of the The Cloudcast and they discuss starting a podcast. They cover the Who, What, Why and How of launching a podcast and recommend podcast recording gear, editing software and hosting services. Rundown The Cloudcast and SDT origin stories Who should start a podcast? Why you should or should not start a podcast? What should your podcast be about? Podcast gear, software and hosting Links Record Podcasts with Audio Hijack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGyRbS5fyBU) SDT Podcast Gear Recommendations (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FyZEY4-2rzcYDjxZrgpKXnKvKeirNB9B4jr5Tm_46M/edit#) Cloudcast Podcast Suggestions (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjXNhZLmweTbl2X9KomJmxhwzc7IDz8i1pkvPRlXu5o/edit?usp=sharing) Cloudcast Sample Podcast Show Notes (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTyxrlt11phyx6Gp_7k3DvK5cZDnOpO9t6cIPahmDts/edit?usp=sharing) Podcasting 101 via Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/how-to-make-a-podcast) Podcasting Microphones (https://www.thepodcasthost.com/equipment/the-best-podcasting-microphones-on-the-market/) Voice over Marketplace (https://www.fiverr.com/categories/music-audio/voice-overs) Royalty Free Music (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2) Purchase Music Site (https://www.premiumbeat.com) Subscribe to The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net) Follow @bgracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely) and @thecloudcast (https://twitter.com/thecloudcastnet) on Twitter SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/VCFxt2yT1eQ) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/1oKxSKSOowE) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 394 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7N-aGJUM1Y) Runner-up Titles Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore The Old Dr. Skateboard What a World (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechthewizardofozwitchmelt.html) The Pile-On Lifestyle A little more in booth directions Cloud Bucket We’ve done all the stuff Predictions and Hopes and Dreams Working from home is over like COVID is over It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense Bring in the Big Monkeys Rundown What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories? Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation What are we watching this year? What were the biggest missed opportunities? Best Digital Transformation Success of 2023 Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Echo 3 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjxkfuErP77AhUinWoFHXUeAR0QFnoECC4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftv.apple.com%2Fus%2Fshow%2Fecho-3%2Fumc.cmc.mzqa5sj4m2i80g51cgu04i3j&usg=AOvVaw32mM5QflNs76__4SV1TiRh) Matt: Triple Trail Challenge 2023 (https://jabulanichallenge.com.au/event-info/triple-trail-challenge/) Coté: Apple’s new app, Freeform (https://www.macstories.net/reviews/freeform-leverages-the-freedom-and-flexibility-of-a-blank-canvas/) - a little beta-ish (typical Apple 1.0), but worth checking out. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/co_1uAT4oss) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/LRnIZoco__8)

Ten years ago Dell launched the developer laptop, shipping a Linux desktop of their best gear. In this episode, Coté talks with Barton George who's lead the project about Project Sputnik (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop/ctox13w11p1c4001u), lessons learned about innovating in large companies, and compressed air can sponsorships. Links mentioned: - Check out Barton's overview of the most recent Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition (https://www.dell.com/community/Developer-Blogs/Dell-XPS-13-Plus-developer-edition-with-Ubuntu-22-04-LTS-pre/ba-p/8255332), and the laptop itself (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop/ctox13w11p1c4001u) and other Linux on Dell machine (https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems). - Also, Barton mentions the new Dell Developer site (https://developer.dell.com), which you can see here (https://developer.dell.com). - Dell Linux Workstations, Laptops, and Desktops (https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems) -  In addition to XPS 13 and Precision developer systems, this also features the Linux-enabled Latitude and Optiplex lines.  Latitude and Optiplex are part of the broader Dell Linux portfolio which is made up of over 100 systems. - Dell's Sputnik - Git what you want (http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/dells-sputnik-git-what-you-want.html), 2021. - Project Sputnik --_ Cote interviews Barton_ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ddV4Qim_k), May 7, 2012. - Sputnik Developer Laptop Overview (Barton George) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7o6CLtggXg), July 19, 2012. - Barton George interviewed at OSCON 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcBMC7htQno), July 19, 2012 - “Precise Pangolin (https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/)” - was code name for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which the first XPS 13 developer edition launched with)  - Names of months (https://www.almanac.com/content/how-did-months-get-their-names) This interview was done on December 12th, 2022. Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 392 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KAB_eacdc) Runner-up Titles We’re always recording, Coté, we’re not always streaming. I live the middle. Best 10 microphones to put in a drawer and never use. The lanyard is a child-management platform “That’s great, Brandon…” Finally DNS does something good Amazon is a dog now But then what? N equals me Rundown Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/google-oracle-amazon-and-microsoft-awarded-9-billion-pentagon-cloud-deals.html) Amazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four Executives (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/amazon-ceo-putting-stamp-on-company-promotes-four-executives) Amazon's heroic phase is over (https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/amazons-heroic-phase/) A Faster Horse (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/12/09/faster-horse/) Layoffs, buyouts, and rescinded offers: Amazon’s status as a top tech employer (https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/8/23498824/amazon-layoffs-voluntary-buyouts-rescinded-offers-reputation) Report: HPE has expressed interest in acquiring Nutanix (https://siliconangle.com/2022/12/01/report-hpe-expressed-interest-acquiring-nutanix/) Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami Talks Broadcom, VMware, And His Vision (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/nutanix-ceo-rajiv-ramaswami-talks-broadcom-vmware-and-his-vision-to-help-partners-drive-business) Relevant to your Interests What if failure is the plan? (http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2022/12/05/what-if-failure-is-the-plan.html) Tensions Grew at Salesforce Between Co-CEOs Benioff and Taylor (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tensions-grew-at-salesforce-between-co-ceos-benioff-and-taylor-ahead-of-leadership-change-11670447233?mod=djemalertNEWS) Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-security-with-powerful-new-data-protections/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days. (https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1600854935515844610) A good discussion on ChatGPT from Benedict Evans (https://another-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/chatgpt) OpenAI ChatGPT is now an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner! (https://twitter.com/StephaneMaarek/status/1600864604220964871) Airtable, last valued at $11 billion for its no-code software, lays off over 250 (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/airtable-layoffs/) Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer | The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2022-12-08-hello-from-githubs-new-chief-product-officer/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) As Carvana crashes hard, used car dealers — not buyers — stand to win big (https://www.businessinsider.com/used-vehicle-retailer-carvana-bankruptcy-car-buyers-inventory-2022-12) Amazon Wants to Kill the Barcode (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-wants-to-kill-the-barcode/) RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/rip-passwords-passkey-support-rolls-out-to-chrome-stable/) An Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures (https://amer.resources.awscloud.com/modern-applications/aws-modernization-intro-to-eda-guide-2022) Broadcom braced for full EU probe into $61B VMware buyout (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/12/broadcom_braced_for_eu_investigation/) AWS Events (https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel/playlists) Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/ngrok-a-service-to-help-devs-deploy-sites-services-and-apps-raises-50m/) The death of Rackspace's ‘Fanatical Support’ (https://sanantonioreport.org/the-death-of-rackspaces-fanatical-support/) News aggregator Flipboard to add user-generated "conversations" (https://www.axios.com/2022/12/13/flipboard-user-conversations-feature) Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/12/snyk-scores-another-196m-as-valuation-drops-12-to-7-4b-valuation/) Japan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to China (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-12/japan-is-said-to-join-us-effort-to-tighten-chip-exports-to-china) LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership (https://news.microsoft.com/2022/12/11/lseg-and-microsoft-launch-10-year-strategic-partnership-for-next-generation-data-and-analytics-and-cloud-infrastructure-solutions-microsoft-to-make-equity-investment-in-lseg-through-acquisition-of-sh/) Oracle beats on top and bottom lines (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/oracle-orcl-earnings-q2-2023.html) How Slack’s Marriage to Salesforce Crumbled (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-slacks-marriage-to-salesforce-crumbled) Nonsense Dr Pepper Unveils Limited-Edition Bourbon Flavored Fansville Reserve (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dr-pepper-unveils-limited-edition-bourbon-flavored-fansville-reserve-in-time-for-your-next-tailgate-301649645.html) Hertz Car-Rental Company to Pay $168 Million over False Arrests (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42188437/hertz-rental-cars-false-arrest-settlements/) Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Wednesday (https://www.netflix.com/title/81231974) **on Netflix AirPods case with AirTag Holder (https://www.amazon.com/AirPods-Tecogue-Integrated-Silicone-Protective/dp/B09CQ1L6QW/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=airpod%2Bcase%2Bwith%2Bairtag%2Bholder&qid=1670965514&sprefix=airpod%2Bcase%2Bwith%2B%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-3&th=1) Matt: RIP Mike Leach (https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1602676510254682113) Swing your Sword (https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Your-Sword-Leading-Football/dp/1938120124) via Brandon Coté: Fishman’s Friend (https://fishermansfriend.com/), which I should have some of in this episode. Substack (https://newsletter.cote.io). Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Movie (https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/curious-george-a-very-monkey-christmas). Photo Credits Header (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/calendarp)

Brandon is joined by Anton Grishko, Chief Architect at ProfiSea Labs and they discuss DevOps adoption and the rise of FinOps. Plus, Anton offers practical tips on implementing FinOps and reducing your cloud spend. Show Links ProfiSea Labs (https://profisealabs.com/) Anton’s Blog (https://medium.com/@antongrishko) Contact Anton LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/antongrishko/) Email: anton@profisea.com (mailto:anton@profisea.com) Special Guest: Anton Grishko.

This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRy69wGMROM) Runner-up Titles It’s never stopped us before. Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment Three kinds of mayonnaise An aspirational architectural pattern. There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there. I don’t have a computer science degree. Mid-Code It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be? Is it a utopian Wall-E or not? Rundown AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfvL_423a-I) Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/amazon-announces-eventbridge-pipes-a-simpler-way-to-connect-events-from-multiple-services/) Design Patterns (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201633612/) book ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow? (https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1599655544486187009) Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/automating-bullshit-openai-chatgpt-removes-office/) Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore (https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/w2tNHzzV7DXsz63ZWQfKGpD4?model=text-davinci-003). Relevant to your Interests Elastic Earnings (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1598068640137428992?s=46&t=eFF6wBlhOCFaLPPQf7nSLQ) Snowflake Earnings (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1598348082839977984?s=20&t=3ZTOl6JnPJu8vtcP7YUC4Q) IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/30/ibm-and-maersk-abandon-ship-on-tradelens-logistics-blockchain/) OpenStack cloud sees explosive growth (https://www.zdnet.com/article/openstack-cloud-sees-explosive-growth/) Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/?trk=3478554f-e06b-44d5-8171-41d0ea80c8c9&sc_channel=ps&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!544066093425!p!!g!!graviton%20processor&ef_id=Cj0KCQiAvqGcBhCJARIsAFQ5ke48NKL5fH2ETDPdMavKJxSfxS6luQdG2ZGGW51UzVtV8ev8GSxc2ucaAqoCEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!544066093425!p!!g!!graviton%20processor) HYPR, the Leader in Phishing-Resistant MFA, Raises $25M (https://blog.hypr.com/press-releases/hypr-the-leader-in-phishing-resistant-mfa-raises-25m?_ga=2.20718968.1905140386.1669908801-1738015730.1669908801) Future is quietly shutting down (https://twitter.com/robaeprice/status/1598393044503502860) Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (https://www.businessinsider.com/a16z-future-closes-staff-exit-2022-11?international=true&r=US&IR=T) AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/aws-launches-application-composer-a-low-code-tool-for-building-serverless-apps/) No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff) (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/no-one-seemed-to-see-bret-taylor-stepping-away-from-salesforce-even-marc-benioff/) Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140076375/major-password-manager-lastpass-suffered-a-breach-again) Here's everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/heres-everything-aws-announced-today/) Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/cloudflare_price_rises_annual_exemptions/) Twitter lawsuit (https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983) the only cheat sheet you need (https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh) Google Plans to Lay Off 10,000 'Poor Performing' Employees. Why That's a Big Lie, According to Harvard Professor (https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-plan-to-lay-off-10000-poor-performing-employees-is-based-on-a-big-lie-according-toharvard-professor.html) Broadcom again tries to quash VMware price rise rumors (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/vmware_broadcom_prices_nutanix_q123/) Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/05/rackspace_hosted_exchange_security_update/) If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/rowy-pre-seed/) Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/06/axiom-launches-its-automated-identity-and-access-management-platform/) The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set (https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-e-mail-newsletter-for-the-mogul-set) The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up (https://www.businessinsider.com/eu-hosts-400000-metaverse-party-barely-anyone-shows-up-2022-12) mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out (https://www.pocnetwork.net/internet-news/mirc-ended-its-lifetime-license-agreement-with-all-who-purchased-its-software-10-years-out/) Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/security-compliance-and-automation-platform-drata-nabs-200m-at-2b-valuation/) 9 insights on real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/) Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce co-CEO (https://www.axios.com/2022/11/30/bret-taylor-salesforce-ceo-step-down?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/tableau-software-ceo-mark-nelson-steps-down/) Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/report-slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-stepping-down-in-january/) Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature to take on Facebook and Discord (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/7/23497938/microsoft-teams-communities-feature) Nonsense Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/2022) The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck (https://qz.com/work/1225213/the-difference-between-a-snafu-a-shitshow-and-a-clusterfuck/) Dangerously Advanced Git (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1598382103829544961?s=20&t=3ZTOl6JnPJu8vtcP7YUC4Q) Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off New State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 Listener Feedback Send “End of Year” listener questions to questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com). Tim recommends Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/stratechery-with-ben-thompson) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! 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This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and discuss application vendors mandating use of specific Kubernetes distros. Plus, some thoughts on dog boarding… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 389 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8L0QEIMvOs) Runner-up Titles Everyone gets a Graviton Instance What a Boring re:Invent Part of our brand 17 Days in the Hole Under the Stars, Under the Sea Tighten it up Don’t make me pay for security Secure by default That’s a great message and I don’t believe it Works with Lambda Security, it keeps getting better? Rundown AWS re:Invent What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News - 2022 Archive (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-analytics=*all&awsf.whats-new-app-integration=*all&awsf.whats-new-arvr=*all&awsf.whats-new-blockchain=*all&awsf.whats-new-business-applications=*all&awsf.whats-new-cloud-financial-management=*all&awsf.whats-new-compute=*all&awsf.whats-new-containers=*all&awsf.whats-new-customer-enablement=*all&awsf.whats-new-customer%20engagement=*all&awsf.whats-new-database=*all&awsf.whats-new-developer-tools=*all&awsf.whats-new-end-user-computing=*all&awsf.whats-new-mobile=*all&awsf.whats-new-gametech=*all&awsf.whats-new-iot=*all&awsf.whats-new-machine-learning=*all&awsf.whats-new-management-governance=*all&awsf.whats-new-media-services=*all&awsf.whats-new-migration-transfer=*all&awsf.whats-new-networking-content-delivery=*all&awsf.whats-new-quantum-tech=*all&awsf.whats-new-robotics=*all&awsf.whats-new-satellite=*all&awsf.whats-new-security-id-compliance=*all&awsf.whats-new-serverless=*all&awsf.whats-new-storage=*all) Compute Amazon EC2 C7g instances – Compute –Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7g/?sc_icampaign=aware_ec2-c7gn-instances_reinvent22&sc_ichannel=ha&sc_icontent=awssm-11814_aware_reinvent22&sc_iplace=ribbon&trk=1b39069e-86fc-466c-99c7-4ab2427ddb3a~ha_awssm-11814_aware_reinvent22) Announcing Amazon EC2 M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn network optimized instances (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-ec2-m6in-m6idn-r6in-r6idn-network-optimized-instances/) Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/announcing-amazon-ec2-hpc6id-instances/) AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-nitro-enclaves-supports-amazoneks-kubernetes/) Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/) New – Accelerate Your Lambda 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Introducing Amazon Omics (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-omics-generally-available/) Corey Quinn on re:Invent (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1597664998234345472) Ask SDT — “using a "supported platform" list to drive cross sales.” (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1669255641385689) (SDT Slack) Relevant to your Interests SigmaOS raises $4 million to build a browser for productivity nerds (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/16/sigmaos-raises-4-million-to-build-a-browser-for-productivity-nerds/) The Distributed Computing Manifesto (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon-1998-distributed-computing-manifesto.html) Unpacking Musk's "hardcore" marching orders (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-3bf3c6e4-d8cd-492c-942d-c7f80719e66b.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/16/akeyless-secures-a-cash-infusion-to-help-companies-manage-their-passwords-certificates-and-keys/) Vista passes halfway mark to $20bn target for latest flagship (https://www.privateequityinternational.com/vista-passes-halfway-mark-to-20bn-target-for-latest-flagship/) 1Password Will Support Passkeys Starting in Early 2023 (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/17/1password-passkeys-support-2023/) Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password (https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/?utm_medium=sign-in-side-panel&utm_source=1password&utm_campaign=passkeys) 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/10-000-google-employees-could-be-rated-as-low-performers) Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html) Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline) Security of Passkeys in the Google Password Manager (https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysintheGooglePasswordManager.html) With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/17/with-8-6m-in-seed-funding-nx-wants-to-take-monorepos-mainstream/) Facebook parent Meta winding down some non-core hardware projects (https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-parent-meta-winding-down-some-non-core-hardware-projects-2022-11-11/) OpenStack passes 40 million cores in production use (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/18/openstack_thriving_survey/) A note from CEO Andy Jassy about role eliminations (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/a-note-from-ceo-andy-jassy-about-role-eliminations) Twitter is Going Great (https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/) Building Kubernetes Applications with Acorn (https://acorn.io/building-kubernetes-applications-with-acorn/) Platforms at Kubecon 2022 (https://blog.joshgav.com/posts/kubecon-platforms-review) Zoom's looming squeeze (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-149ea16b-be11-451a-b4de-5a1e2f8f0ce7.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Sony’s VR headset-console integration could limit sales, but allow depth (https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2022/11/18/sony-s-vr-headset-console-integration-could-limit-sales-but-allow-depth?utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew&mid=f642abf4dca6751d0ec109d4cbc6782e) The State of Kubernetes {Open-Source} Security | ARMO (https://www.armosec.io/blog/the-state-of-kubernetes-open-source-security/) Considerations when implementing developer portals in regulated enterprise environments (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/considerations-when-implementing-developer-portals-regulated-enterprise-environments) Broadcom's proposed $61B VMware acquisition scrutinized by UK regulators (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/broadcoms-proposed-61b-vmware-acquisition-scrutinized-by-uk-regulators/) 2023 may be the year of multicloud Kubernetes (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3679752/2023-may-be-the-year-of-multicloud-kubernetes.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Server-side WebAssembly prepares for takeoff in 2023 (https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252527414/Server-side-WebAssembly-prepares-for-takeoff-in-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Zoom shares drop on light forecast as company faces 'heightened deal scrutiny' (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/21/zoom-zm-earnings-q3-2023.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) What's coming for cloud computing in 2023 (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3680553/whats-coming-for-cloud-computing-in-2023.html) The Rise of Platform Engineering - Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/02/13/setting-the-stage-for-platform-engineering/) IBM sues Micro Focus, claims it copied mainframe software (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/ibm_sues_micro_focus_for/) How to beat the Kubernetes skills shortage (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3679749/how-to-beat-the-kubernetes-skills-shortage.html) TikTok Couldn’t Ensure Accurate Responses To Government Inquiries, A ByteDance Risk Assessment Said (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/11/28/tiktok-inaccurate-government-inquiries-internal-bytedance-risk-assessment/?sh=7f57dc9723fe) Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried says he's down to $100,000 (https://www.axios.com/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-100000-ftx-cftc-regulation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Why Big Tech is not rushing to clone Twitter (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1cea6d1a-1428-448d-b0d3-5da3ae9425ef.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/) I analyzed 290 booths at KubeCon - here are the DevOps trends for 2023 (https://www.uptime.build/post/i-analyzed-290-booths-at-kubecon-here-are-the-devops-trends-for-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Nonsense Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.' (https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11) Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699884) A 12,000 lb. metal sculpture of Elon Musk's head on a goat body riding a rocket parked outside Tesla HQ failed to elicit a response from the billionaire (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-head-on-goat-body-riding-a-rocket-sculpture-2022-11) The leap second's time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled (https://www.popsci.com/technology/bipm-abandon-leap-second/) Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 Listener Feedback Sudesh shared a list of Tech Companies Hiring (https://airtable.com/shrAPDHg8apj4mnRR/tbl6Kz4KeeCp3HrSM) Send “End of Year” listener questions to questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com). SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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In case you haven't heard, DevOps is dead (https://twitter.com/sidpalas/status/1551936840453820417). Again. To discuss its demise, Coté talks with Andrew Clay Shafer. They talk about a lot more: Andrew's new company (https://www.ergonautic.ly), working with executives, sociotechnical systems, Andrew's recent SREcon talk in Amsterdam, and more. You can also watch the live recording of this episoded, unedited (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lvec33N3o8)! It has a discussion of Coté's podcast making recommendations at the start. Check out Andrew and friend's new company, Ergonautic (https://www.ergonautic.ly), and, find him in Twitter as @littleidea (https://twitter.com/littleidea). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 387 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvX2zhF26Kg) Runner-up Titles From Montessori to your Funeral The Shit Pile of Enterprise Software Software Expires Bring in all the Kubernetes you can find You’re in Some Kind of Password Genie Hell. The salesperson at Gartner doesn’t want this report to go away Going back to the Monolith SRElon doesn’t do blameless postmortems Mastodon as a Service at re:Invent I am still betting on status quo outcome Keep the Twitter off the phone Bury me with my MP3 backup drives Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-infrastructure-and-platform-services/) Musk's Twitter chaos opens door to challengers (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1a68726f-589a-432c-8ed5-aeb5ec089d64.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) Rivals see opening in Twitter's chaos (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d3f39e68-c8fd-468e-b6a3-f9148e7164d9.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Here’s Mastodon Sign Up Link (https://hachyderm.io/invite/58HjZptn) Mastodon as an Open Source experience (https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1589534173928501248) Trust Thermocline (https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904) Twitter Blue Checks not exactly working out (https://twitter.com/joshuaphilll/status/1590696859869536256?s=46&t=24Ji5dek2N6OUQ-7nL5SiA) CISO, Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Compliance Officer resign at same time (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning) Inside the Twitter meltdown (https://www.platformer.news/p/inside-the-twitter-meltdown) Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/) Fake Eli Lilly Twitter account drop stock (https://twitter.com/RachelTobac/status/1591142813642940418) 'Killed It:' Elon Backtracks From 'Official' Twitter Badges Hours After Rollout (https://news.yahoo.com/killed-elon-backtracks-official-twitter-194000916.html) Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning) Inside the Twitter meltdown (https://www.platformer.news/p/inside-the-twitter-meltdown) Relevant to your Interests Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/amazon-hits-unwelcome-milestone-with-1-trillion-in-value-lost) Gmail will no longer allow users to revert back to its old design (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/gmail-no-longer-allow-users-revert-back-old-design/) Amazon is subjecting Alexa to a performance review (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451534/amazon-alexa-cost-cutting-review-andy-jassy) Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/amazon-aims-to-inject-new-life-into-alexa-with-huge-release-of-developer-tools-and-features/) Tumblr will sell you two useless blue check marks for $8 (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451901/tumblr-blue-internet-checkmark-sale-twitter-verification-troll) New in Docker Desktop 4.14: Greater Visibility Into Your Containers - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-4-14-greater-visibility/) Does Kubernetes really give you multicloud portability? (https://medium.com/digital-mckinsey/does-kubernetes-really-give-you-multicloud-portability-476270a0acc7) Report: The Evolution of DevOps | A Contrary Research Deep Dive (https://research.contrary.com/reports/evolution-of-devops) Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html) 5 of the Best Kubernetes Training Courses for Beginners in 2022 (https://everythinghorseuk.co.uk/5-of-the-best-kubernetes-training-courses-for-beginners-in-2022/) Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23447050/zoom-zmail-zcal-office-suite-launches) Snowflake gets caught in the storm clouds (https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/10/snowflake-gets-caught-storm-clouds/) AWS is 'not done building' as cloud computing matures (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/aws-adam-selipsky-cloud-reinvent) Video editor Descript raises $50M in round led by OpenAI Startup Fund (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/11/15/descript-openai-funding-video-editor) MotherDuck: Hello, World! Quack. Quack. (https://prod.motherduck.com/blog/hello-world/) Tech Layo (https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1592214346289274880)ffs (https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1592214346289274880) The nefarious new way companies are discriminating against remote workers (https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-bosses-discriminating-against-remote-workers-time-zone-prejudice-bias-2022-11?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Insider%20Today%2C%20November%2016%2C%202022&utm_content=B&utm_term=INSIDER%20TODAY%20SEND%20LIST) Angry Taylor Swift fans rail about Ticketmaster glitches (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/15/taylor-swift-ticketmaster/) Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/business/ftx-bankruptcy.html) Who Will Cisco Buy? Sources Say a Big Deal is Near (https://www.futuriom.com/articles/news/who-will-cisco-buy-sources-say-a-big-deal-is-near/2022/11) Nonsense Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5vm/colorado-votes-to-decriminalize-shrooms-and-other-psychedelics) Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Listener Feedback Overcast (https://overcast.fm) was recommend in the SDT Slack as a replacement for Apple Podcasts SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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This week we recap VMware Explore Europe and discuss the Battery Ventures 2022 State of the OpenCloud report. Plus, some thoughts on cologne… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 386 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_WdZ1ORs4) Runner-up Titles I have conference voice. I thought I had conference voice, but it’s COVID. I painted a door. Blue blazer to black t-shirt ratio. The Java hyphen-hyphen capital X talk. I’ve been to VMware Media Training. Go to the Lenovo Booth. iBanker Butt Sniffing. The Sagrada Familia of iBanker Decks, except the summer interns finished it. That’s like buying your steaks at Walmart. Like I said, yesterday I painted a door. Rundown VMware Explore Europe (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html) State of the OpenCloud 2022 (https://www.battery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Battery-Ventures-OpenCloud-Report__2022.pdf) Them interns are busyAF over there (https://hachyderm.io/web/@cote/109315205406946279). Relevant to your Interests DevOps company JFrog grows at a healthy clip but investors aren’t impressed (https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/02/devops-company-jfrog-grows-healthy-clip-investors-arent-impressed/) The future of writing software happens in Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes) Markets Weekend: Moneyball (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-ed2b997f-75a7-4d51-b357-9204b2eded00.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Kyndryl loses $281m as modernization agenda continues (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/03/kyndryl_q2_fiscal_2023/) Twilio’s stock crumbles on poor revenue guidance (https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/03/twilios-stock-crumbles-poor-revenue-guidance/) Aboard: From clutter to clarity for you and your team. (https://aboard.io/) Apple is now valued more than Alphabet, Amazon and Meta combined (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/apple-alphabet-amazon-meta-market-value-cap-trillion-big-tech-2022-11) CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees (https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees) 1 big thing: Passkeys enter the mainstream (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-e54935ff-fc39-4aef-9529-a5468abc9129.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Nix (https://whynowtech.substack.com/p/nix) Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back) WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week (https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794?mod=e2tw) Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion - sources (https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-infrastructure-costs-by-1-bln-sources-2022-11-03/) Amazon EC2 Introduces Replace Root Volume to Patch Guest Operating System and Applications (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/11/ec2-replace-root-volume/) EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/edgedb-raises-15m-ahead-of-the-launch-of-its-cloud-database-service/) Kindness, Tech Staffing and Resource Allocation (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2022/11/01/kindness-and-staffing/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Google and Meta Hiring Levels (https://twitter.com/eladgil/status/1589271330255699972) Ionic + Outsystems: The Future of Enterprise App Development (https://ionic.io/blog/ionic-outsystems-the-future-of-enterprise-app-development?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=outsystems_2022) New OSS Security Projects: cnquery and cnspec (https://blog.mondoo.com/cnquery-cnspec) Apple Supposedly Dumping the 'Hey!' From Siri's Wake Phrase (https://gizmodo.com/apple-hey-siri-wake-trigger-change-google-amazon-alexa-1849753396) Imploded Stocks of the Day: Carvana, Twilio, Atlassian, Cloudflare (https://wolfstreet.com/2022/11/06/imploded-stocks-of-the-day-carvana-twilio-atlassian-cloudflare/) Twilio Stock: Absolute Disaster (NYSE:TWLO) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4554174-twilio-absolute-disaster) Twitter user growth is at “all-time highs” under Elon Musk (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23445476/elon-musk-twitter-user-growth-all-time-high-advertisers) Legacy’s Revenge: Oracle, SAP, IBM Market Caps Rise as Cloud Natives Fall (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/legacys-revenge-oracle-sap-ibm-market-caps-rise-as-cloud-natives-fall/) Nonsense Big announcement pre-re:Invent (if true) (https://twitter.com/aselipsky/status/1589645626769543168) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Conferences All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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There’s all sorts of asides and little comments that I’ve never heard before. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/kMde0v9tYYM) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/k5eFm1f2esQ)

This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 385 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9ikhH8zqk) Runner-up Titles Cormac will give her a ride home The Baby is asleep Maybe she will get angry. Lectures don’t work See you on Mars, motherfucker! You can have 1 piece of dog walk It’s only stupid until it works. Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win. Armchair strategists. I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal. How long have I been working The CTA of Twitter An exercise for the listener Rundown As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/28/as-overall-cloud-infrastructure-market-growth-dips-to-24-aws-reports-slowdown/) Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1585726177532030976?s=46&t=RXYniVQ-CK_8YOHAtvdakg) Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/aws-earnings-q3-2022.html) Meta Meta Myths (https://stratechery.com/2022/meta-myths/) Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/facebook-parent-meta-earnings-q3-2022.html) Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/27/metas-shares-dip-is-proof-metaverse-plan-never-really-had-legs-facebook) Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META (https://twitter.com/watcherguru/status/1585684156188688384?s=46&t=RXYniVQ-CK_8YOHAtvdakg) Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user (https://stratechery.com/2022/meta-myths/) Twitter Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/elon-musk-completes-twitter-purchase-immediately-fires-ceo-and-other-execs/) Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/28/elon-musks-first-move-is-to-fire-the-person-most-responsible-for-twitters-strong-free-speech-stance/) Welcome to hell, Elon (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation) Relevant to your Interests Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/26/iphone-usb-c-lightning-connectors-apple-eu-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other) Documentary Film “Inside Prometheus” Highlights Open Source Impact and the Innovators That Make it Happen (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221025005368/en/Documentary-Film-%E2%80%9CInside-Prometheus%E2%80%9D-Highlights-Open-Source-Impact-and-the-Innovators-That-Make-it-Happen) Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/10/26/inside-prometheus-new-film-showcases-the-impact-and-the-innovators/) What a combined Broadcom and VMware can deliver to our customers (https://www.broadcom.com/blog/what-a-combined-broadcom-and-vmware-can-deliver) Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT (https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/10/25/microsoft-msft-q1-2023-earnings-call-transcript/) Big Tech's ranks swelled last year (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6533c5d1-774b-4ce2-9fdc-e2f2dfcfd5be.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown (https://www.axios.com/2022/10/27/apple-quarterly-earnings-ipad-iphone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-dorsey-bluesky-social-app-twitter-050005805.html) List of KubeCon Sponsors (https://twitter.com/barton808/status/1586447169824980992?s=61&t=qyyTcr0wZ47P59cgdb_55g) Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst? (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/was-jack-welch-the-greatest-ceo-of-his-day-or-the-worst) Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok (https://www.androidpolice.com/google-acquires-alter-facemoji/) DevOps de los Muertos (https://www.ergonautic.ly/blog/devops_de_los_muertos/) Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn (https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/prepare-critical-flaw-openssl-security-experts-warn) Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/31/23433526/netflix-spry-fox-cozy-gaming-studio-acquisition) IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/ibm_db2_as_a_service/) Singapore to phase out checks by 205 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/02/singapore_to_phase_out_checks/) Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend (https://tomtunguz.com/cutting_rd_to_grow/) 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys (https://betakit.com/1password-acquires-texas-based-passage-to-fuel-push-into-passkeys/) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Nonsense Wirecutter Recommendation (https://xkcd.com/2693/) Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/11/01/tsa-liquids-rule-shoes-electronics/) Conferences SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Southwest Airlines Lost and Found (https://www.southwest.com/help/day-of-travel/lost-and-found) The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/11/reviewing-kubecon-detroit.html) Coté: micro.blog (https://cote.micro.blog). Coté’s setup over there (https://micro.blog/cote) (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register (https://peakit.ro/event/peakit-005-day-2/) to see my legacy trap talk (https://peakit.ro/speaker/michael-cote/) tomorrow, maybe see the replay? Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/AoSAOV2Vtro) CoverArt (https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image002-1.png?resize=680,478)

Matt reports in from Detroit with all the news at KubeCon NA 2022. Plus, some tips on proper etiquette when stretching on International Flights. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 384 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx9J2sHM6ic&t=4s) Runner up titles Detriot style pizza I’m not doing high knees in the airplane bathroom Masks were required Not gonna get a lot of leads from your friendsd Maybe we’re in the trough of disillusionment We Didn’t Start the Fire for CNCF Projects He has to eat the spreadsheet Rundown CNCF Wasm microsurvey (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/10/24/cncf-wasm-microsurvey-a-transformative-technology-yes-but-time-to-get-serious/) Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/fermyon-cloud-app-webassembly-20m-funding-series-a/) Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/docker-launches-a-first-preview-of-its-webassembly-support/) WebAssembly Platform Company Cosmonic Raises $8.5 Million Seed Funding, Launches PaaS (https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2022/10/25/webassembly-platform-company-cosmonic-raises-85-million-seed-funding-launches-paas/) WeRun313 (https://www.werun313.com/) Detroit Running Club Relevant to your interests Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability (https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/) Introducing Honeycomb Service Map (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/service-map-launch) Documentary Film: Inside Prometheus (https://prometheusprojectdoc.com/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Matt and Bridget (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/1585456962845769730) Matt on the Run (https://twitter.com/sys_call/status/1585611293259595777) Job Board (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1586037318342873088?s=20&t=MmSglsBxRJ5fwpSe3peRBg)

This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 383 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7AKtJ-_h0) Runner-up Titles Serverless is the new OpenStack. “I intended to read it.” American Airline lounges are like bus terminals. Made it to my hotel at 4 AM Kubernetes is about the journey That is your 3D chess Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher. Would you like to buy some YAML? We’re gonna go with the ball pit money DHH vs. Mr. Beast Rundown DHH Why we're leaving the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0) Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter? (https://world.hey.com/dhh/need-it-take-7-500-people-to-run-twitter-a8cb36a6) Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’ (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-cloud-seeing-significant-vmware-momentum-gm/3) Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD (https://www.futurehealth.live/blog/2022/9/7/disruption-for-healthcare-practitioners-3) Earnings Microsoft beats but cloud growth comes in short (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q1-2023.html) Alphabet misses on top and bottom lines as YouTube ad revenue drops in the quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/alphabet-googl-q3-2022-earnings-.html) Relevant to your Interests Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud (2022) (https://consciouslyhybrid.com/watch.html#film) Snap plunges more than 20% on third-quarter revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/snap-earnings-q3-2022.html) US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/20/public_cloud_price_rise/) Are We Past Peak Newsletter? (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/business/media/newsletters-bubble.html) IBM Consulting staff must work from office three days a week (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/ibm_consulting_three_day_week/) Facebook shuttle bus drivers are losing their jobs as Meta slashes costs and employees stay home (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/facebook-shuttle-bus-drivers-face-layoffs-as-meta-slashes-costs-.html) Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/20/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak (https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/microsoft-confirms-server.html) Apple's top designer is leaving the company three years after taking over from Jony Ive (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/21/apples-top-designer-is-leaving-three-years-after-taking-over-from-ive.html) Social media market caps (2021 peak to today (https://twitter.com/yo/status/1583202482444201984?s=20&t=Na-u4OwFjYe1NEtyBIxanQ) GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/github_copilot_copyright/) Cyber unicorn Snyk to sack 198 employees, 14% of workforce (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1wmnrxnj) Apple Releases macOS Ventura With FaceTime Handoff, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager, New Apps and More (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/24/apple-releases-macos-ventura/) Larry Ellison killed Oracle's first-generation cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/24/ellison_oracle_cloud/) PayPal shares rise after Amazon adds Venmo as checkout option (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/amazon-will-now-let-users-pay-with-venmo-at-checkout.html) Tragedy of the Digital Commons (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4245266) Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/business/spotify-apple-audiobooks-app.html) Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on? (https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-it-taking-so-long-for-cloud-dev-environments-to-catch-on?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Snowflake, Revisited (https://www.thediff.co/p/snowflake-revisited) What’s going on with Se (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)r (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)verless (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33) Netflix launches new ‘Profile Transfer’ feature to help monetize account sharing (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/netflix-launches-new-profile-transfer-feature-to-help-end-account-sharing/) Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV+, Music Services for the First Time (https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/apple-price-increase-apple-tv-plus-music-1235412633/) Nonsense American Airlines is ditching first class on all flights (https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-ditching-first-class-105109577.html) The $30 Million Lottery Scam (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/viktor-gjonaj-michigan-lottery-scam-wire-fraud/671741/) Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23423977/iphone-usb-c-eu-law-joswiak-confirms-compliance-lightning) Conferences SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! SDT news & hype Brandon: DALL-E 2 (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/) Generative A.I. Is Here. 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This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google Next. Plus, Matt Ray goes car shopping. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 382. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZaTjWHqQvA) Runner-up Titles Matt Ray is ready to buy. That’s legal in Australia When Ray Mail comes out, nobody cares I am into workflow This is the population of Hobart that we’re looking at I want to help you, but you don’t even need help Daddy’s Meeting Fort Brandon hasn’t migrated his mainframe workloads to cloud. All these problems are caused by developers Rundown Aboard.io is coming soon! (https://aboard.io/) NTT Data buys digital consultancy Postlight (https://www.consulting.us/news/7702/ntt-data-buys-digital-consultancy-postlight) Linear (https://linear.app/) Americans Reclaim 60 Million Commuting Hours in Remote-Work Perk (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/americans-reclaim-60-million-commuting-hours-in-remote-work-perk) Google Cloud Next ‘22 wrap-up (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next22-wrap-up) Dual Run for Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/mainframe-modernization) Cloud Workstations (http://cloud.google.com/workstations) Google is serious about its giant video chat booths, starts real-world testing (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/google-is-serious-about-its-giant-video-chat-booths-starts-real-world-testing/) Google Cloud Next ‘22 in under 13 minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAvDlBe7xqI) Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective (https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/why-cloud-finance-is-broken-and-ineffective/) Kubecost Adds SaaS Edition to Control Kubernetes Costs (https://containerjournal.com/features/kubecost-adds-saas-edition-to-control-kubernetes-costs/) macOS Ventura (https://www.apple.com/macos/ventura/) Relevant to your Interests Announcing Gloo Platform | Solo.io (https://www.solo.io/blog/announcing-gloo-platform/) Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nutanix-stock-rallies-25-on-speculation-of-sale-11665769665) Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-11/zuckerberg-s-1-499-headsets-won-t-help-meta) Demystifying the PR/FAQ - Julian Dunn's Blog (https://www.juliandunn.net/2022/09/09/demystifying-the-pr-faq/) Google's 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/13/googles-3d-video-calling-booths-project-starline-will-now-be-tested-in-the-real-world/) Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie (https://kotaku.com/zuckerberg-facebook-meta-legs-feet-video-vr-staged-fake-1849656315) Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/consumer-price-index-september-2022-.html) Netflix feels the heat (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/20/netflix-streaming-subscribers-losses-profits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) The creator of Amazon's Kindle has left the company, along with a top Alexa executive, adding to a leadership exodus under new CEO Andy Jassy (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-kindle-creator-gregg-zehr-leaves-company-leadership-exodus-grows-2022-10?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Google Fiber is launching 5-gig and 8-gig plans early next year (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23403427/google-fiber-5-8-gbps-gigabit-tiers-plans) Bringing passkeys to Android & Chrome (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/10/bringing-passkeys-to-android-and-chrome.html) US Army reportedly planning $1B cloud migration contract (https://siliconangle.com/2022/10/14/us-army-reportedly-planning-1b-cloud-migration-contract/) iOS 16 quietly added native Dvorak keyboard support, delighting weirdos like me (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/14/23404125/ios-16-dvorak-keyboard-support) Floppy disk fever. The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (https://we-make-money-not-art.com/floppy-disk-fever-the-curious-afterlives-of-a-flexible-medium/) Anyone Who Does Business With Google Knows Philipp Schindler (https://apple.news/AuqU9JwAeQJ2AUJkVi-5Zxg) The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job (https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/) Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nutanix-stock-rallies-25-on-speculation-of-sale-11665769665) DIY laptop offers Apple-like looks with PC repairability (https://www.smh.com.au/business/entrepreneurship/diy-laptop-offers-apple-like-looks-with-pc-repairability-20221011-p5bous.html) Broadcom’s VMWare takeover: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna gives deal conditional blessing (https://capital.com/broadcom-vmware-takeover-ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-deal-blessing) How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees (https://5to9.beehiiv.com/p/builtwith-generates-14-million-year-zero-employees) Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Staff (https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-lays-off-hundreds-of-staff) With a $13B valuation, Celonis defies current startup economics (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/16/with-a-13b-valuation-celonis-defies-current-startup-economics/) Computacenter CEO Bashes 'As a Service' as Bad for Customers (https://www.channelfutures.com/business-models/computacenter-ceo-bashes-as-a-service-as-bad-for-customers) CEO Salaries in SaaS (https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/ceo-salaries-in-saas-b36ffaa6293c) Belkin’s mount to turn your iPhone into a camera is now available (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/18/23411241/belkin-magsafe-mount-continuity-camera-laptops-available) Nonsense ROI of a sticker (https://twitter.com/mbbroberg/status/1503732056429367301) Conferences KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com (http://macgeekgab.com/) provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! 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This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 381. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxsNTYXt0Nw) Runner-up Titles It’s on brand I wish I could see Brandon’s legs Running VM’s in the meta verse They were so busy seeing if they could get VR to work that they didn’t ask if they should. Basically, VR is for seeing through walls, including walls of flesh. Lifehacks disrupting VC They’ve got legs Draw a Triangle Rundown Platform Engineering The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering) Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/platform-devops-summary/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) What Is Platform Engineering? (https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-is-platform-engineering) Coté’s Slack Message (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1665297229292149) Google Cloud Next Exclusive: Google touts cloud deal with Ford (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-46ce6adb-537e-42cc-91ba-a8cfce2e6af6.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) What’s next for digital transformation in the cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/whats-next-for-digital-transformation-in-the-cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=top) Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/introducing-software-delivery-shield-from-google-cloud) Cloud Workstations | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/workstations) 9 out of 10 banks still use mainframes. Google Cloud wants to reduce that. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-dual-run-mainframe) MSFT Ignite (https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/home) Relevant to your Interests AMD missed Q3 revenue numbers by $1B (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1578129189534060544) ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability (https://devops.com/servicenow-acquires-era-software-to-unify-observability/) Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’ (https://siliconangle.com/2022/10/05/walmart-blazes-trails-enterprise-supercloud/) Is Nomad taking over Kubernetes? (https://vinothkumar-p.medium.com/is-nomad-taking-over-kubernetes-70d7418d3464) Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by '95% of Stanford undergrads' (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/fizz-app-college-stanford-social/) Register to secure your seat to join us at the exclusive premiere of Clouded - Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud. Autumn 2022 (https://clouded.consciouslyhybrid.com/#trailer) I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6344df6ab606fe0037676d4a/i-watched-the-coinbase-documentary-so-you-dont-have-to/) Confidential Containers brings TEE support to Kubernetes (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/confidential_containers_encrypted_k8s/) All YouTube users will soon have an account handle — but some will get to pick theirs earlier (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/10/23392552/youtube-unique-handle-rollout-shorts-comment-mentions-tiktok) From cloud security to code security: why we've raised $25M to take on OSS dependency sprawl (https://www.endorlabs.com/blog/story-of-endorlabs) ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo in Deal for $23.25 a Share (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/forgerock-thoma-bravo-in-deal-for-23-25-a-share-271665492762) Meta announces legs (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/meta-announces-legs/) White House to unveil ambitious cybersecurity labeling effort modeled after Energy Star (https://www.cyberscoop.com/white-house-to-unveil-internet-of-things-labeling/) High-profile failures Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/warren_craddock/status/1579532951624175616?s=20&t=rIheTRCjdnjI-15LKiPmvg) It's 2021 and USB-C is still a mess (https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/) Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of PC Slowdown (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown) The AI-generated podcast. (http://podcast.ai) Meta unveils high-end Quest Pro VR headset (https://www.axios.com/2022/10/11/meta-unveils-high-end-quest-pro-vr-headset?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) New Metaverse Dreams and Old Metaverse Questions (https://sharptech.fm/member/episode/new-metaverse-dreams-and-old-metaverse-questions) Nonsense Adafruit’s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/adafruits-cheekmate-gets-to-the-bottom-ahem-of-chess-cheating-controversy/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email) Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/09/ixnay-on-the-webcams/) Clam-O-Naise® by Cards Against Humanity (https://www.clams.lol/) Rollercoasters trigger iPhone 14 crash detection (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2022/rollercoasters-trigger-iphone-14-crash-detection.html) Listener Feedback Pat Gelsinger interivew on Decorder (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23385652/pat-gelsinger-intel-chips-act-ohio-manufacturing-chip-shortage) COIN: A Founder's Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXK5XKSxD1E) Migrating from Heroku to Code-Engine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01g1QSjYDa0) Conferences KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. 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This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 380. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8MwCBPgWY) Runner-up Titles Leave it all in Brighttalk Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later Killed by Google Wins Again Tell that to the WeWork founder Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon Anyone from software thinks they can do anything Lots of learnings. I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy. A good Brandon issue Rundown Google’s Incentives Google is shutting down Stadia (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/29/google_shuts_down_stadia/) Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-555c72e1-380a-4a69-affe-e8260ae5734e.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them. (https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1576985038511448064) 2022 State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/dora-2022-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-now-out) Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/email/1f916f2d-db1b-43a8-85c1-46a56ab97e19/) Relevant to your Interests GitLab beats expectations with impressive revenue growth, but its stock falls anyway (https://siliconangle.com/2022/09/06/gitlab-beats-expectations-impressive-revenue-growth-stock-falls-anyway/) Two Former eBay Executives Sentenced to Prison for Cyberstalking (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executives-sentenced-prison-cyberstalking) We’re excited to announce that the transaction to combine Citrix and TIBCO (https://buff.ly/3fzCIBL) Can a Zebra Change Its Stripes? (https://www.newcomer.co/p/can-a-zebra-change-its-stripes) VR & AR headset designers should consider how their customers look like when wearing them (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1576625132675936256?s=46&t=setZxlR2Skv0eAetpRREYw) CEO Tim Cook says Apple avoids the word 'metaverse' (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1576732541435854848) DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist (https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-now-available-without-waitlist) Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/?utm_content=null) The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase (https://twitter.com/supabase/status/1576943402687631365) Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/linux-6-0-arrives-with-support-for-newer-chips-core-fixes-and-oddities/) The Most Visited Website in Every Country (That Isn’t A Search Engine) (https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/the-most-visited-website-in-every-country) Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio Hands Over Control of Firm (https://www.wsj.com/articles/bridgewater-founder-ray-dalio-hands-over-control-of-firm-11664902335) World's First Laptop with RISC-V Processor Now Available (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-laptop-world-first) ‎CoRecursive: Coding Stories: Android's Unlikely Success on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/corecursive-coding-stories/id1330329512?i=1000581376850) Database 2x2 (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1577699834965786624?s=46&t=-tpbK02723C_6-I9GeLdGQ) Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23385652/pat-gelsinger-intel-chips-act-ohio-manufacturing-chip-shortage) State Of Developer Relations (https://www.stateofdeveloperrelations.com/) Red Hat Storage strategy update (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-storage-strategy-update) IBM Redefines Hybrid Cloud Application and Data Storage Adding Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-10-04-IBM-Redefines-Hybrid-Cloud-Application-and-Data-Storage-Adding-Red-Hat-Storage-to-IBM-Offerings) IBM + Red Hat: Doubling Down on Hybrid Cloud Storage (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/ibm-red-hat-doubling-down-on-hybrid-cloud-storage) DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering (https://thenewstack.io/devops-is-dead-embrace-platform-engineering/) Nonsense Kim Kardashian pays over $1 million to settle SEC charges linked to a crypto promo on her Instagram (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/03/kim-kardashian-settles-sec-charges-instagram-crypto-promotion.html) Test drive new McLaren Formula 1 themes in your Chrome browser (https://blog.google/products/chrome/test-drive-new-mclaren-formula-1-themes-in-your-chrome-browser/) Tacos Are a Staple in Austin. How Is Inflation Impacting Taco Spots? (https://austin.eater.com/2022/9/30/23353698/inflation-austin-taco-restaurants-2022) Google Japan’s latest version of it’s new keyboard, G-Board (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G3DWHf1xX0) "The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)" (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1577298602371809281?s=20&t=J0Sf49X9mn4QazmqXin3tQ) Conferences Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. 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This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU1uSOpu-c) Runner-up Titles You’re not proud of the product You can have both Landing Pages It’s just like Serial Don’t bring me these unqualified deals It’s a Floppy Disk Problem The better the metrics, the less useful they are The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful Highly Edited Focus on Earnings Rundown AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/aws-ceo-says-the-move-to-cloud-computing-is-only-just-getting-started.html) Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast) (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services) Google and Developer Toil Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html) Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/31/google-ceo-to-employees-productivity-and-focus-must-improve.html) Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/23/ceo_google_austerity/) Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/07/google_ceo_sundar_pichai_productivity/) Relevant to your Interests PaaS Is Not Dead (https://www.fermyon.com/blog/paas-is-not-dead) How devops in the cloud breaks down (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3674690/how-devops-in-the-cloud-breaks-down.html) Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c8c3c313-8144-4de3-9499-a4334a6b8f76.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) The Dead End from RedMonk (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/09/23/dead-end/) Building for the 99% Developers (https://future.com/software-development-building-for-99-developers/) Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/meta_google_layoffs/) Slack canvas has officially entered the chat! (https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1572717714522705923?s=46&t=EYrb_JytmT9CVPWd_8-tpw) Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air (https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-rust-on-linux-his-work-schedule-and-life-with-his-m2-macbook-air/) Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile (https://www.slideshare.net/ManuelPais/keynote-frozen-devops-the-notsotechnical-last-mile-devopsdays-portugal-sep-2022) Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition (https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1574754640490536963?s=20&t=vQF0s31OdAS2p7-X373AzQ) Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/document-onboarding-startup-flatfile-nabs-50m-from-investors-including-workday/) Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us (https://blog.suborbital.dev/suborbital-extension-engine-and-whats-next-for-us) What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption? (https://thenewstack.io/whats-stopping-webassembly-from-widespread-adoption/) Did We Overeat on Software? (https://future.com/did-we-overeat-on-software/) Someone is pretending to be me. (https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending-to-be-me/) Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/broadcom-s-golden-parachute-for-top-5-vmware-execs-may-total-337-8m/6) For teens to do better in school, they need to sleep in (https://fortune.com/well/2022/08/18/how-later-school-start-times-for-teens-reduce-depression-and-improve-academic-performance/) Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-launchpad/) The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/uber-hack-data.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-launchpad/) Nonsense The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2022/9/22/the-science-behind-nasas-first-attempt-at-redirecting-an-asteroid) Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/09/26/flight-noise-american-airlines-intercom-lax/) Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/inside-podcasters-explosive-audience-growth) Conferences Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 Listener Feedback Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it. (https://twitter.com/TwitchiH/status/1574522695399661584) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-powerpoint-live-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2140980) and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode (https://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-reading-view-to-show-powerpoint-slides-in-a-window-instead-of-full-screen/) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/B2Y0zdSbR8U) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/ij5_qCBpIVY)

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle. Runner-up Titles Freed from Intel It works! Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms It will be fun The Apple Chip A Demi Kettle Pay for your own Flu Free to interrupt me Feet on the desk in business suit emoji. None of us can master the intranet. The network is the calendar. Rundown Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture (https://archive.ph/aRauw) Adobe Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/adobe-buying-figma-20-billion-dollars) Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma) Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/adobe-figma-deal-likely-to-attract-antitrust-scrutiny?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/09/20/adobe-historic-retention-package-figma-ceo/?sh=5de51dd37926) Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status? (https://www.wired.com/story/slack-status-updates-green-dot/) Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-68c29e0c-0328-4ac6-a513-c7b819801fc6.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23361717/slack-canvas-documents-messaging-google-notion) Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/zoom-readies-email-and-calendar-products-to-defend-itself-against-microsoft-google) Relevant to your Interests Why We Are Changing the License for Akka (https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-license-for-akka) A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-message-from-twilio-ceo-jeff-lawson) Ethereum Is Merging (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-14/ethereum-is-merging?leadSource=uverify%20wall) Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/twitter-whistleblower-mudge-zatko-musk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile (https://siliconangle.com/2022/09/14/former-top-cisco-executives-launch-networking-startup-nile/) Audio subscription platform Podimo raises €58.6M (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/09/14/podimo-funding) Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language (https://go.dev/blog/vuln) Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong (https://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2022/09/12/cloud-adoption-will-fail-because-of-the-skills-gap/) Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live — here's what it does (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/ethereums-massive-software-upgrade-just-went-live-heres-what-it-does.html) Amazon Web Services — Acquired (https://overcast.fm/+FaxkQnjhI) It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors (https://thenewstack.io/it-is-time-for-businesses-to-build-their-own-microprocessors/) Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/uber-hacking-breach.html) Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing (https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/securing-the-supply-chain-of-nothing/) Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120 (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/google-cancels-half-the-projects-at-its-internal-rd-group-area-120/) McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data. (https://twitter.com/liammotivado/status/1570381957128949762) Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1663589266293759?thread_ts=1663353870.068289&cid=C5GPMBXQT) Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-an-intent-to-form-the-openwallet-foundation) Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-teams-has-been-storing-auth-tokens-in-plaintext-093510463.html) JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers (https://www.techradar.com/news/javascript-no-longer-the-favorite-language-among-developers) The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About (https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown) Document Foundation charges €8.99 for macOS LibreOffice (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/libre_office_macos_fees/) Sharp Tech (https://sharptech.fm/member) Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-20/morgan-stanley-lost-some-hard-drives) A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q2-22-public-cloud) Charted: Big Tech market values (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6e739364-6331-4154-b0af-9ed5f6eb5fd1.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund (https://www.ft.com/content/f480a99c-4c7b-4208-b9dd-ef20103254b9) The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital (https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/17-065_599caed6-9c77-4dca-9f71-92e580b7834e.pdf) YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/20/youtube-will-share-revenue-with-shorts-creators-as-tiktok-surges.html) Nonsense When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling (https://twitter.com/alancarroII/status/1571303604417437697) File this under: Old Bay goes with anything (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1663507223290509) I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason. (https://www.everywhereist.com/2022/07/i-tried-21-flavors-of-mountain-dew-for-some-reason/) Conferences Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 Listener Feedback Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1663715229658789) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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Recommendations Brandon: Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/09/did-we-get-digital-transformation-wrong.html) Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World (https://www.amazon.com/Like-Comment-Subscribe-YouTube-Conquered/dp/B09RXQRKTF/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders. Photo Credits Banner Photo (https://unsplash.com/photos/g51F6-WYzyU) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/4UGmm3WRUoQ)

This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee… Runner-up Titles It’s about me Workshop it I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs This is their Popeye moment Pulitzers and free coffee Financial shenanigans Hide the gift shop in the data center Rundown No more free coffee as bankers return to Goldman Sachs (https://fortune.com/2022/09/12/goldman-sachs-eliminates-free-coffee-business-powerhouses-trimming-perk-employees-return-office/) Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-on-verge-of-becoming-worlds-hottest-cloud-vendor/) Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/starbucks-unveils-its-blockchain-based-loyalty-platform-and-nft-community-starbucks-odyssey/) André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative (https://staltz.com/time-till-open-source-alternative.html) Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348999/google-pixelbook-canceled-team-shut-down) Relevant to your Interests What if those green bubbles aren’t Android’s fault? - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/08122022-messaging/) Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility) Uber Eats goes driverless with Nuro partnership (https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-eats-goes-driverless-with-nuro-partnership) GM is betting on its electric Equinox, starting at $30,000, to kick-start 'massive adoption' of EVs (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/gm-bets-on-electric-equinox-to-kick-start-massive-adoption-of-evs.html) Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life (https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/) Cheating Allegations Shake the Chess World After Champion Suffers Stunning Defeat (https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheating-allegations-shake-the-chess-world-after-champion-magnus-carlsen-suffers-stunning-defeat) The Book of Reed Hastings, Revisited (https://puck.news/the-book-of-reed-hastings-revisited/?_cio_id=f6c606078958dac00d&utm_campaign=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+%289%2F9%2F22%29&utm_content=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+%289%2F9%2F22%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io) Explainer: Understanding Ethereum's major 'Merge' upgrade (https://www.reuters.com/technology/understanding-ethereums-major-merge-upgrade-2022-09-09/) Patreon security team layoffs cause backlash in creator community (https://www.cyberscoop.com/patreon-security-team-layoffs/) Bolt's $1.5 billion deal to buy Wyre dies (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/09/bolt-and-wyre-15billion-dead-acquisition) Citrix Plans to Explore Sale of Wrike Unit After Buyout Closes (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-09/citrix-plans-to-explore-sale-of-wrike-unit-after-buyout-closes?srnd=deals) Meta moves PyTorch to Linux Foundation (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-b64088ed-a8e5-4ebe-a2e2-29a536ebcd1d.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) At Google, 'Rest and Vest' for Sr. Employees is Over, Says CEO (https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-rest-vest-days-for-sr-employees-are-over-says-ceo-its-a-brilliant-idea.html) Large railroad labor unions say they will strike if quality of life is not addressed in new contract (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/large-rail-labor-unions-move-closer-to-a-strike.html) Heat wave knocks Twitter data center offline (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-99e77574-3a79-40b5-855e-326c18850349.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3) Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation - Linux Foundation (https://linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundation-announces-intent-to-form-openwallet-foundation/) What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/) Twitter shareholders approve $44 billion Elon Musk buyout (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349687/twitter-musk-acquisition-shareholder-vote-approval) Tech stack (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/xcjfua/tech_stack/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft (https://eng.lyft.com/productionizing-envoy-mobile-at-lyft-88d49c9c8d14) Squishable computer runs calculations depending on how you squish it (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2334975-squishable-computer-runs-calculations-depending-on-how-you-squish-it/) iOS 16 - New Features (https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/) Nonsense IKEA Responds To Balenciaga’s $2,145 Bag That Looks Exactly Like IKEA’s 99-Cent Tote Bag, And It’s Hilarious (https://www.boredpanda.com/ikea-responds-balenciaga-original-frakta-bag/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic) We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business (https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Conferences Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 Listener Feedback Jordi recommend Dirty Tricks (https://www.hulu.com/movie/dirty-tricks-51a9dccc-cae7-4f44-84ec-2fe4e6772e6e) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers? Runner-up Titles They were already in the system. Headless Optimization Gone Amuck. While sitting on the toilet Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SXfb0CJrE). All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution. Bring Paul Ford out of retirement. Great ideas, getting close Prevent the typo 73 SaaS Companies “Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.” That may be his family crest Rundown Checking on Digital Transformation Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/japan-declares-war-on-floppy-disks-for-government-use/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Instant Payments in the U.S.? (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1567516269594955778) You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button (https://gizmodo.com/twitter-edit-button-test-1849484288) SaaS spend ratios on R&D/S&M/G&A (https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/saas-spend-ratios-on-r-d-s-m-g-a-1a0b30931b0) Relevant to your Interests Netflix’s Catch-22 Milestone (https://puck.news/netflixs-catch-22-milestone/) VMware Offers Sneak Peek at Tanzu App Platform (https://adtmag.com/articles/2022/09/01/vmware-offers-sneak-peek-at-tanzu-app-platform.aspx) VMware customers optimistically wait for Broadcom’s impact (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/31/vmware_broadcom_voxpop/) Ubiquiti Teaches AWS Security and Crisis Comms Via Counterexample (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/ubiquiti-teaches-aws-security-and-crisis-comms-via-counterexample/) Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-rivers-cuomo-finds-meaning-in-coding/) Microsoft: The deadline to get off Basic Auth is approaching (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/05/microsoft_basic_auth_deadline/) 1 big thing: What's behind chip giants' lawsuit (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e0555ee3-649d-4437-85db-a04c411d9069.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms harassment site (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e0555ee3-649d-4437-85db-a04c411d9069.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) Open-source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M • TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/open-source-password-manager-bitwarden-raises-100m/) AWS Preps ‘Bastion’ Cloud Service for Advertisers (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-preps-bastion-cloud-service-for-advertisers?utm_source=ti_app&ck_subscriber_id=512834888) The cloud computing giants are vying to protect fat profits (https://www.economist.com/business/2022/08/29/the-cloud-computing-giants-are-vying-to-protect-fat-profits?ck_subscriber_id=1141233388) Blackouts possible at height of California’s heat wave Tuesday as grid struggles with record usage (https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article265350931.html) For homesick Marylanders (https://twitter.com/SwingRhythm2/status/1567184158346067972) Google announces October 6th event to launch the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7, and new Nest devices (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/6/23339303/pixel-7-pro-pixel-watch-made-by-google-hardware-event-october-6th) Isovalent Cilium Enterprise: For Kubernetes Networking & Security (https://isovalent.com/blog/post/isovalent-series-b/) Introducing Ambient Mesh (https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/) Muck Rack scores one of the largest growth equity investments in PR tech (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/muck-rack-series-a-public-relations-tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Nonsense Southwest Pilot Threatens to Turn Plane Around if Unruly Passengers Keep AirDropping Nudes (https://gizmodo.com/southwest-airlines-airdrop-nudes-cabo-1849478920) New escape room just opened in town (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1662487190760019?thread_ts=1590186505.165200&cid=C5GPMBXQT) Jaws is a box office hit again, 47 years after it first hit theaters (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/5/23338141/national-cinema-day-jaws-box-office) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Conferences DevOps Talks Sydney (https://devops.talksplus.com/sydney/devops.html), Sydney, September 6-7, 2022 Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 Listener Feedback Patrick tweeted about Birdnet (http://birdnetpi.com) and his 5-year-son likes the pictures SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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Recommendations Brandon: **** FRAKTA IKEA Duffle Bag (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frakta-storage-bag-for-cart-blue-90149148/) L.L.Bean Stowaway Pack (https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/126140?page=llbean-stowaway-pack) Coté: Cavender’s All Purpose Greek Seasoning (https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/cavenders-greek-seasoning-6923/). Photo Credits CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/efoo8mqF22M) Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/psDzkLlifxQ)

This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…? Runner-up Titles Where’s my admin? All my children qualify as adults Start by eating their food Put two letters in front of it Where’s the grocery store I got that everything bagel spice Is it OK to hang-up on your kids? In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy. The runbook’s already written. Spagetti Bowl Tanzu the Shih Tzu A FinOps Type of Motion The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff Growth is best done in the shadows. Wrapping bullshit with bullshit Nopehouse, home of the fast follower The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans Thought-leadership suicide mission Rundown VMware Explore (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html) How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/snap-microservices-aws-google-cloud) Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/the-new-cloud-war-with-martin-casado/) Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3671148/give-finops-a-say-over-cloud-architecture-decisions.html) Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/630ec150bcbd490021b17eab/business-dudes-need-to-stop-talking-like-this/) Relevant to your Interests Amazon tries a new way to excite you about cybersecurity (it's called laughter) (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-tries-a-new-way-to-excite-you-about-cybersecurity-its-called-laughter/) The golden noose around Apple's neck (https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-golden-noose-around-apples-neck/) Campaign pushes Cloudflare to drop trans hate site (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-85e45e2f-8629-43d3-be69-45072a3631f5.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Mudge at Twitter (https://twitter.com/igb/status/1562427951882199044) Bloomberg takes cut and paste seriously (https://twitter.com/MidwestHedgie/status/1562450905907478531) Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog (https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/08/notice-of-recent-security-incident/) World’s Most Popular Password Manager Says It Was Hacked (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/the-world-s-most-popular-password-manager-says-it-was-hacked) LastPass Says No Passwords Stolen in Data Breach (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/lastpass-says-no-passwords-stolen-in-data-breach/) AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-and-kubecost-collaborate-to-deliver-cost-monitoring-for-eks-customers/) Pandas Pivot Table Explained (https://pbpython.com/pandas-pivot-table-explained.html) Charted: Big Tech's bigness (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-3db6f78d-4da1-494b-a5d4-04c8984ce0e5.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) UK's Micro Focus shares nearly double after Canada's OpenText agrees $6 bln takeover (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/canadas-opentext-buy-software-firm-micro-focus-6-bln-deal-2022-08-25/) Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform (https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/teradata-makes-database-analytics-cloud-native/) The State of the Mainframe Market - Summer 2022 (https://futurumresearch.com/market-insight-reports/the-state-of-the-mainframe-market-summer-2022/) City2Surf face recognition raises concerns (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2022/city2surf-face-recognition-raises-concerns.html) IBM Watson Health layoffs disguised as staff 'redeployment' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/29/ibm_allegedly_hid_watson_health/) David Young on LinkedIn: The metaverse economy is set to boom... gambling will be a significant (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-young-b5276523_metaverse-5g-localisation-activity-6966387069338218496-4x5F?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) OCI History (https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1564499775415676928) VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns as 'next transition' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/30/vmware_broadcom_/) Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/25/heroku_delete_inactive_free_tier/) Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation (https://time.com/6208828/cloudflare-misinformation-internet-research/) Nonsense Sounds right (https://twitter.com/6thgrade4ever/status/1433519577892327424?s=20&t=o8cx7C7pcCkVR4cTcQbv4g) When the development team meet their first Scrum Master (https://twitter.com/onejasonknight/status/1564287640366628866?s=20&t=y3AIxGPb8kge28aICQ6dFQ) Chart of the year nominee (https://twitter.com/jpwarren/status/1564109454009716736/photo/1) Conferences DevOps Talks Sydney (https://devops.talksplus.com/sydney/devops.html), Sydney, September 6-7, 2022 Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting Kube (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)C (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)o (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)n North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 Listener Feedback Enlightning (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/enlightning/) from Whitney SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Black Bird (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_bird/s01) Matt: BirdNetPi (https://birdnetpi.com/) Festival of Feet Half-Marathon (https://www.westiesjoggers.com/the-georges-river-festival-of-the-feet/) Coté: Spigen ArcDock 120W [GaN III] 4-Port USB C Charging Stantion USB-C PD/USB-A Hub with Spigen USB 4 Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Cable 100W Charging 40Gbps Data Transfer for MacBook Pro Air iPad USB-C Laptop (https://amzn.to/3RqRl7M). C7/C8 coupler cables Photo Credits CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/Ts3yX7wDthw) Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/hXttDVCwyRA)

This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King. Runner-up Titles Don’t have the USB cable Barton, can you get me a drink? Just like a beer This is my own podcast, I can do whatever the fuck I want! One day, I’m going to stop being the the butt of all the jokes Throwing a lot of Harvard shade. If you are in France, eat at the Burger King They came for the DevOps glory The jury’s still out for the Dev in DevOps The same sane things Security, always a problem What if there was just one company? Rundown Dallas DevOpsDays (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/) Devs don’t want to do ops (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3669477/devs-don-t-want-to-do-ops.html) Twitter Twitter's security alarm (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-34223563-612c-45a2-b8f2-0ff779d0c0f9.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/24/twitter-whistleblowing-report-actually-seems-to-confirm-twitters-legal-argument-while-pretending-to-support-musks/) Apple Wait, When Did Everyone Start Using Apple Pay? — The Wall Street Journal (https://apple.news/AWkbbZpimR02alYW1mAwaxw) Ad Revenues (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-77029a01-7f39-4716-9d96-b6c8ac0041b6.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) The golden noose around Apple’s neck (https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-golden-noose-around-apples-neck/) 1 big thing: Americans' beliefs are privacy law's hidden roadblock (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-77029a01-7f39-4716-9d96-b6c8ac0041b6.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Relevant to your Interests Charted: Streaming surpasses cable (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7fd08ad2-7f56-4c27-b8c2-9298e054bc56.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) AIOps startup BigPanda raises Series E extension, bringing its total capital to $340M (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/aiops-startup-bigpanda-raises-series-e-extension-bringing-its-total-capital-to-340m/) Sync Computing nabs $15.5M to automatically optimize cloud resources (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/16/sync-computing-rakes-in-15-5m-to-automatically-optimize-cloud-resources/) GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs. (https://www.gitpoap.io/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Cybersecurity platform Aceiss unveils product after seed close (https://member.fintech.global/2022/08/18/cybersecurity-platform-aceiss-unveils-product-after-seed-close/) Excel @ mentions feature approaches GA on the desktop (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/17/microsoft_excel_at_mentions/) Cisco pops as guidance, Q4 results top expectations amid concerns of slowdown (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3874201--cisco-pops-as-2023-guidance-q4-results-beat-forecasts-amid-concerns-of-slowdown) There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet (https://blog.chainguard.dev/theres-no-such-thing-as-vulnerability-free-software-it-simply-doesnt-exist-yet/) Google Cloud claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever attempted (https://siliconangle.com/2022/08/18/google-cloud-claims-blocked-largest-ddos-attack-ever-attempted/) Excel Formula Generator - Excel Formula AI Bot (https://excelformulabot.com/) WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-among-bidders-for-signify-health-11661123042?mod=djemalertNEWS) Twitter tests a special tag to highlight phone number-verified accounts (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/19/23313757/twitter-phone-number-verified-label-bots-privacy-security?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4) YouTube․com/podcasts goes live as simple 'Explore' page (https://9to5google.com/2022/08/21/youtube-podcasts-explore/) Will MoviePass’ return help struggling theaters? (https://thehustle.co/08232022-MoviePass) Zoom pares back annual forecast as revenue growth slows to single digits (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/22/zoom-zm-earnings-q2-2023.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable (https://spectrum.ieee.org/internet-congestion-control) Sony confirms PS VR2 is coming to market 'in early 2023' (https://www.engadget.com/sony-confirms-ps-vr2-is-coming-to-market-in-early-2023-224256205.html) Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/23/peiter-mudge-zatko-twitter-whistleblower/) SSH Security Best Practices using Certificates, 2FA and Bastions (https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/?mkt_tok=ODE5LVdIVC00ODMAAAGGalp5pPNPihtU6fE8s-ewjsEBnb-hWmEbMR0NX6vHtlAHhTlzGLbUwTIxNWSL4d55i-2w8mJlk8p_5RNt8LK4LAP3FTPVkDQSMJT2G9aytA) Twitter CEO @paraga weighs in on whistleblower story. (https://twitter.com/donie/status/1562069281545900033) The House passed a defense spending bill saying you can't sell software to the DoD that has any known CVEs in it. (https://twitter.com/JGamblin/status/1560016175265972224) There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet (https://blog.chainguard.dev/theres-no-such-thing-as-vulnerability-free-software-it-simply-doesnt-exist-yet/) Neumann’s Resurrection & The Trump Org’s Future (https://puck.news/neumanns-resurrection-the-trump-orgs-future/?_cio_id=f6c606078958dac00d&utm_campaign=Media+Monday+-+LEADS+%288%2F22%2F22%29&utm_content=Media+Monday+-+LEADS+%288%2F22%2F22%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io) Nonsense Shouting in the Datacenter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4) Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/DennisCode/status/1560079800252764163?s=20&t=reqly34jg7V2ZSmYWGbl-A) CS Final Exam (https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1561205709366255617) Conferences Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027) VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512). Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/) Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: The Sandman Audio Book (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sandman-Audiobook/B086WP794Z?ref=mrq_aud_sndmn_pser1&source_code=MRQOR13307142003UG&device=d&cvosrc=ppc.google.listen%20to%20the%20sandman&cvo_campaign=1859944977&cvo_crid=449246326732&Matchtype=p&ds_rl=1261256&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZGYBhCEARIsAEUXITXUUAZIJWHSjRdtii_NKJX6rFLqbyRzQTre-yOEBdBwaROX8T3z62oaAqdpEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) Coté: Amazing Oriental (https://amazingoriental.com/Location/winkels-duivendrecht/) Photo Credits CoverArt (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1562451838678761472/photo/1) Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/5ZR4DxAG3RQ)

This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means. Runner-up Titles All I am doing is sharing anecdotes That’s the problem with spellcheck Maccas? College here is High School Every cloud has its own sausage Here’s a unicode cow All Rust looks the same Too Good for GitHub The Shameful GitHub Rundown Simplifying Kubernetes, Introducing Acorn (https://acorn.io/introducing-acorn/) Waypoint (https://www.waypointproject.io/) CNAB (https://cnab.io/) Habitat (https://community.chef.io/tools/chef-habitat) Dagger (https://dagger.io) 25 Most Popular Programming Languages Used By DevOps Pros (https://thenewstack.io/25-most-popular-programming-languages-used-by-devops-pros/) Making sense of CSV The Microsoft Excel (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds) W (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds)orld (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds) C (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds)hampionship is as brilliantly entertaining as it sounds (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds) Data Prep with Power Query (https://www.tiktok.com/@mavenanalytics/video/7129550248997014830?_r=1&_t=8UusyB7xB3G&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7129550248997014830) https://jupyter.org Passwords still a problem Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb43/microsoft-employees-exposed-login-credentials-azure-github) Cisco Confirms Network Breach Via Hacked Employee Google Account (https://threatpost.com/cisco-network-breach-google/180385/) Remove my password from lists so hackers won’t be able to hack me (https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155) Relevant to your Interests Malcolm Gladwell doesn't want you to have a life (https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/malcolm-gladwell-still-talking-nonsense-17362618.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-Editors-Picks) Disney says it has 221 million streaming subscribers. Netflix has 220.7 million. (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1557459876326113281?s=21&t=fB7RD3Xipv9AfZbg37VkVA) AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/) No-code isn’t scalable. Our learnings at FINN going from 1000 toward 100,000 car subscriptions (https://medium.com/@ishtiaque/no-code-isnt-scalable-our-learnings-at-finn-going-from-1000-toward-100-000-car-subscriptions-ac98e752fc61) Google fined $60 million over Android location data collection (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-fined-60-million-over-android-location-data-collection/) Software is eating the world (of farm equipment)? (https://twitter.com/znfrey/status/1558892805295968257) Investing in Flow (https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/) Tencent veterans secure $13M to build cross-chain decentralized identities (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/15/tencent-veterans-web3-decentralized-id-bit/) Bad Visualisations (https://badvisualisations.tumblr.com/) TikTok says Project Texas will bolster security for US users – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/04/tiktok-says-project-texas-will-bolster-security-for-u-s-users-in-wake-of-china-data-access-concerns/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/apple-sets-return-to-office-deadline-of-sept-5-after-delays?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top#xj4y7vzkg) Corey’s Thoughts on GCP canceling IoT (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1559266853502853120) Securing apps for Googlers using Anthos Service Mesh (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/securing-apps-googlers-using-anthos-service-mesh) Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after security breach (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/digital_ocean_dumps_mailchimp/) WebOps: A DevOps for Websites, but the Tools Let It Down (https://thenewstack.io/webops-a-devops-for-websites-but-the-tools-let-it-down/) Citrix Bankers Pitch Fresh Structure for $15 Billion Buyout Debt (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-16/citrix-bankers-pitch-fresh-structure-for-15-billion-buyout-debt?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Scammers targeting recent grads (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shaaahs_jobscam-identitytheft-hiringscam-activity-6965366767665774592-rkvj/?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web) Lift and shift Windows applications to containers (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3670093/lift-and-shift-windows-applications-to-containers.html) Nonsense Snake bites 2-year-old girl, who bites it back until it dies (https://local12.com/news/offbeat/snake-bites-2-year-old-girl-who-bites-it-back-until-it-dies-reptile-venomous-world-health-organization-who-toddler-child-bingol-turkey) A man returning from Indonesia to Australia was fined thousands of Australian dollars after airport security found several McDonalds food items in his luggage (https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/mcdonalds-fine/507-bcbb3f31-0041-43a6-86cc-5933301e9d3a) Listener Feedback Join the Cloud Austin Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/) Recent Event: CloudAustin's Dog Days of DevOps (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/pljpfrydclbvb/) Amazon hosting a hiring event in Austin on Aug 23, 2022 (https://becomeawellarchitectedsoftware.splashthat.com) Follow @cloudaustinmeet (https://twitter.com/cloudaustinmeet) Conferences Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027) DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512). Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/) Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Piran (https://www.audible.com/pd/Piranesi-Audiobook/1526622416?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hIOpyF2m-RzCFD6d-nk2M5yyqAGA5V4NaqFcBHF_TzgXjvWGoralghoCc9IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)e (https://www.audible.com/pd/Piranesi-Audiobook/1526622416?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hIOpyF2m-RzCFD6d-nk2M5yyqAGA5V4NaqFcBHF_TzgXjvWGoralghoCc9IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)si (https://www.audible.com/pd/Piranesi-Audiobook/1526622416?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hIOpyF2m-RzCFD6d-nk2M5yyqAGA5V4NaqFcBHF_TzgXjvWGoralghoCc9IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) Matt: T (https://tailscale.com)ailscale (https://tailscale.com) Beach2Beach 13k (https://beach2beach.com.au/events/13km-run/) Festival of the Feet Half-Marathon (https://www.westiesjoggers.com/the-georges-river-festival-of-the-feet/) Photo Credits: CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/IClZBVw5W5A) and Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/y8fS7CSN-Vw)

This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th. Runner-up Titles Strategy for eating mixed nuts. Finish in a flurry Eat Dessert First It’s about where you is, not where you was. We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator Lost his fastball Just a paycheck It’s cool to be the “turns out” person Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment McKinsey Titles, the movie Rundown App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem (https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1555177364081999874) Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO (https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/25/only-the-paranoid-survive-in-tech-former-intel-ceo.html) Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/08/netflix-games-note-engaging-subscribers/) Gladwell’s take on Work from Home (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRUT8Xh6/?k=1) Relevant to your Interests Cisco Networking And Cloud Leader Todd Nightingale To Join Fastly As CEO (https://www.crn.com/news/networking/cisco-networking-and-cloud-leader-todd-nightingale-to-join-fastly-as-ceo) Aviatrix CEO On Potential Post-Broadcom VMware Layoffs And Why On-Prem Market Is ‘The Titanic Going Down’ | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aviatrix-ceo-on-potential-post-broadcom-vmware-layoffs-and-why-on-prem-market-is-the-titanic-going-down-) Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains (https://clouddb.substack.com/p/gartner-microsoft-1-in-database-revenue) Amazon and iRobot Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire iRobot (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220804006088/en/Amazon-and-iRobot-Sign-an-Agreement-for-Amazon-to-Acquire-iRobot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Companies Disney Owns (https://www.titlemax.com/wp-content/uploads/every-company-disney-owns.jpeg) S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-intelligent-tiering-breaking-even/) Twilio Shares Stumble as Investors Fear a Demand Slowdown (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-shares-stumble-investors-fear-213749401.html) Closing the cloud strategy technology, and innovation gap (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/consulting/us-future-of-cloud-survey-report.pdf> 1 reply 4 days agoV) Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/cloudflare-q2-2022-earnings-send-stock-soaring.html) Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million (https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/axios-agrees-to-sell-to-cox-enterprises-for-525-million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) New request for comments on improving npm security with Sigstore is now open (https://github.blog/2022-08-08-new-request-for-comments-on-improving-npm-security-with-sigstore-is-now-open/) The Billionaire’s Dilemma (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/) Intel launches Arc Pro GPUs that are designed for workstations and pro apps (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23296836/intel-arc-pro-gpu-workstations-mobile-specs) AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23293353/ai-patent-legal-status-us-federal-circuit-court-rules-thaler-dabus) AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/) How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c) SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/softbank-vision-fund-posts-a-21point6-billion-quarterly-loss-.html) Ac (https://acorn.io)o (https://acorn.io)rn launches from the Cloud.com and Rancher Alumni (https://acorn.io) Nonsense French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo (https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeemk/chorizo-james-webb-space-telescope) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Listener Feedback Conferences Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027) DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512). Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! 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This week we do a deep dive into the Total Addressable Market of Cloud and discuss the rise of Cloudflare. Plus, details about the SDT Meetup in Austin on August 27th (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027). Runner-up Titles “Have a good time at least once” is in my vacation OKRs The podcast of the Slack Analog Clocks Digital Clock Native Pretending to have a sidekick The First Business Case for the Metaverse I was a liberal arts major The TAM Episode Rundown Cloud Earnings Clouded Judgement 7.29.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-72922?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Amazon says cloud-computing revenue rose 33%, topping Wall Street estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/aws-earnings-q2-2022.html) 60% of Amazon's net revenue growth YoY was AWS. (https://twitter.com/conorsen/status/1552749857500286976?s=21&t=4J4ob4S-4vxl-60DOSKkUw) AWS continues to show strength, but there are a few things to watch out for (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3863264-amazon-web-services-continues-to-show-strength-but-there-are-a-few-things-to-watch-out-for) Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 3% in 2022 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-06-14-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-it-spending-to-grow-3-percent-in-2022) How Cloudflare emerged to take on AWS, Azure, and GCP (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3668197/how-cloudflare-emerged-to-take-on-aws-azure-and-gcp.html?utm_content=content&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic) Relevant to your Interests Apple beats on revenue and profit, expects growth to accelerate despite 'pockets of softness' (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/apple-aapl-earnings-q3-2022.html) Instagram walks back its changes (https://www.platformer.news/p/-instagram-walks-back-its-changes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Meta posts its first-ever quarterly revenue decline (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/meta-quarterly-revenue-decline-earnings?utm_source[%E2%80%A6]utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=tophttps://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/meta-quarterly-revenue-decline-earnings?utm_source[%E2%80%A6]utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Why Kylie is mad at Instagram? (https://om.co/2022/07/26/why-kylie-is-mad-at-instagram-explained/) There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/27/replace_tcp_datacenter/) CHIPS for America Act (https://twitter.com/SBIndyNews/status/1552445739736989697)e JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit for $3.8B. It would create the 5th largest U.S. airline (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114226031/jetblue-spirit-deal-merger) The pandemic impulse purchases we grew to hate (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23279350/pandemic-consumer-buys-peloton-bike-games-dog-covid?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email) AMD and Nvidia leaks show we are drunk on power, and the hangover is going to be brutal (https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-and-nvidia-leaks-show-we-are-drunk-on-power-and-the-hangover-is-going-to-be-brutal) Intel To Wind Down Optane Memory Business - 3D XPoint Storage Tech Reaches Its (https://www.anandtech.com/show/17515/intel-to-wind-down-optane-memory-business) On the huge importance of non-tech roles in Open Source: Empirical study on NPM - Livable Software (https://livablesoftware.com/importance-of-non-tech-contributor-roles-open-source/) VMware Fusion beta joins Parallels in supporting Windows VMs on Apple Silicon (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/newest-vmware-fusion-beta-supports-windows-11-on-apple-silicon-macs/) Apple Arcade finally got the boost it needed (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22370217/apple-arcade-fantasian-nba2k-wonderbox-classics-netflix) Apple Nabs Key Lamborghini Executive to Work on Its Electric Car (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/apple-nabs-key-lamborghini-executive-to-work-on-its-electric-car?utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew) IBM board of directors investigates sales fraud claims (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/exclusive_ibm_board_of_directors/) Apparently Linus Torvalds is using an M2 Mac? (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1659428218962219) Oracle Cuts Workers in US Customer Experience Unit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/oracle-cuts-workers-in-us-customer-analytics-division) Gmail gets a new look and tighter intergration to celebrate 18 years of service (https://www.xda-developers.com/gmail-new-look-tighter-intergration-18-years/) Uber reports positive cash flow for first time (https://www.ft.com/content/a454447f-c0b9-44fc-a24a-2781f1b7717e) Pinterest shares surge after Elliott discloses it is the largest shareholder (https://www.reuters.com/technology/elliott-says-it-is-largest-sharesholder-pinterest-2022-08-01/) How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense) (https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/kubernetes-vs-virtual-machines/) Former VMware Star Sanjay Poonen Becomes CEO Of Cohesity (https://twitter.com/datachick/status/1554482007438237698) Thoma Bravo picks up Ping Identity for $2.8B in an all-cash deal (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/03/thoma-bravo-picks-up-ping-identity-for-2-8b-in-an-all-cash-deal/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJnqIsV7eSB4aeKNW7V9HidMxohTjY2dtNtainWRjHXiv7ApDViwdsq6K_9LBJIVnI3ylbHjASvuAqEijvmNUyuW8DaHp0rSZ7uten5Sz6_DUKqUxifms2H-6Yk6TW5i8i9UXqTNsT_vhnMMFzJUp7OTTzNaXAfmzM0PqPtmoFdH) Software Is No Longer Eating The World (https://webtwoboomer.com/software-is-no-longer-eating-the-world-109785eb9d4f) GitLab plans to delete dormant projects from free accounts (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy/) Raspberry Pi Zero vs MangoPi MQ Pro Benchmarks (https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-vs-mangopi-mq-pro-benchmarks/) Highest. Close. Ever. - All Star Charts (https://allstarcharts.com/highest-close-ever/) Should I Stay or Should I Go (https://www.platformonomics.com/2022/07/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/) Nonsense Murder Hornets get new name (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1659024319485459) An Australian Artist Pulled a Pickle from a McDonald’s Cheeseburger and Slapped It on a Gallery's Ceiling. Now It Costs $6,200 (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pickle-artist-2152731) MAKRO | Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights 3/19 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY) British Airways suspends the sale of short-haul flight tickets from Heathrow (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/02/british-airways-suspends-short-haul-flight-tickets-from-heathrow.html) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Listener Feedback Slack is increasing prices, changing how its free plan works (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/18/slack-is-increasing-prices-and-changing-the-way-its-free-plan-works/) What is DevRel? (https://www.whatisdevrel.com/) — Cloudcast Podcast Good discussion on changing jobs in SDT Slack (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/CEJ12RBJA/p1659459039423009) Conferences Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027) **** DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512). SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Ambulance (https://www.ambulance.movie) and The Terminal List (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11743610/) Ringer Podcast: ‘The Gray Man’ and the Top 10 Trash Special Ops Movies (https://www.theringer.com/2022/7/29/23283211/the-gray-man-and-the-top-10-trash-special-ops-movies) Matt: (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW)Jabulani Challenge (https://jabulanichallenge.com.au/) City2Surf (https://www.city2surf.com.au/) Coté: Vienna. Specifically: 12 Bruegels (https://www.khm.at/en/visit/collections/picture-gallery/the-best-of-bruegel-only-in-vienna/), old movies at old cinemas, Miznon (https://www.miznonvienna.com/). Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/4W8LN0FgKNI) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/aX_ljOOyWJY)

This week we discuss developer toil, local vs. remote development and Facebook’s management woes. Plus, some thoughts on business books… Runner-up Titles The Instant Acquisition Belly of the Beast We can’t be bothered, but we bothered I’m done with that I don’t have those problems More Money, More Weirdness Occam’s Razor is always handy Ghost ride it into production Let’s take the offline online We’re just doing stuff with computers Rundown Coté and Brian attempt to summarize Facebook’s current state (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1658919353110909?thread_ts=1658853863.040209&cid=C6CDLDCVB). Developer Toil: The Hidden Tech Debt (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/developer-toil-the-hidden-tech-debt?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=SDT370) Original webinar, from Susie and Tyson (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/may-6-tech-debt-audit-how-to-prioritize-and-reduce-the-tech-debt-that-matters-most?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=Global_P2_BT_Q220_Tech-Debt-Audit&utm_content=20220127techdebtwebinarwatchparty). Will Local Dev ever go away? (https://twitter.com/bernhardsson/status/1551241460749668355?s=21&t=Rd250F4rR6CGACqvAvWNVQ) and Swyx’s take (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1533910738942562304) Relevant to your Interests How to Misuse & Abuse DORA Metrics (https://abinoda.substack.com/p/misuse-dora?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct) Elon Musk’s Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair (https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-affair-sergey-brin-wife-divorce-11658674840?page=1) Non-Obvious Docker Uses (https://matt-rickard.com/non-obvious-docker-uses/) T-Mobile agrees to cough up $500 million for its disastrous data breach last year (https://www.androidpolice.com/t-mobile-500-million-settle-disastrous-data-breach/) AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's cloud licenses (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/25/aws_slams_microsoft_cloud_licenses/) NFL enters media streaming market with 'NFL+' (https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34293043/nfl-enters-media-streaming-marketplace-nfl+-service) How Software Is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/business/software-james-bessen-book.html) San Francisco Races Clock for Comeback With Tech Gloom Deepening (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-25/san-francisco-tries-to-lure-remote-workers-to-offices-as-tech-gloom-swirls) DALL·E 2 (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/) Adam Mosseri on Insta Changes (https://twitter.com/mosseri/status/1551890839584088065) Here are the 37 tech companies most likely to be acquired by private-equity firms after valuations plunged, according to bankers and private data (https://www.businessinsider.com/37-tech-companies-most-likely-acquired-private-equity-lbo-2022-7) Clouded Judgement — Recession Impact (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-72222?utm_medium=email&%3Butm_campaign=cta&%3Baction=share&utm_source=substack) Nonsense A new plasma robot can dig tunnels 100 times faster and 98% cheaper (https://interestingengineering.com/a-new-plasma-boring-robot-can-dig-tunnels-100-times-faster-and-98-cheaper) Mattel to launch SpaceX vehicles as new Matchbox toys and collectibles (https://www.space.com/mattel-spacex-rockets-toys-collectibles) The US Records Its First Case Of Polio Since 2013 (https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-records-its-first-case-of-polio-since-2013-64556) Urgent Care with Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1551807292718600192?s=21&t=Wf3G1SSTwRtDaZOCSWIUPw) Listener Feedback Demo of Apple Badges at the 187 Buildings (https://t.yesware.com/tt/740736faf72e77cb6d58a854f7821c9cfc324626/10219ebf44dbd66341ef721c919e72a9/0d5ae0606487c84cebb763c9a92afb67/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8k6VqRDsdE) Chase wants you to work at Octopus Energy Group (https://octopusenergy.group/) UK Lead Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/0dce210e-6b16-4287-9bce-b133e9d2a30f) UK Senior Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/ac0f94c5-1ec5-48bc-be96-10399948f14c) APAC Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/d0976d8f-90df-46ab-9942-6e01b1332cd8) US Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/c89812b8-8ae8-47c8-869c-f26273e6492c) Opportunities globally (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy) Work with Matt Ray: Kubecost hiring Product Manager in US (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3191662780/?refId=5fll6MecQC23Dr%2Bc0Mnzew%3D%3D) Conferences Coté’s August 4th webinar on platform engineering (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/springone-tour-apj/aug-4-why-you-should-treat-your-platform-as-a-product?utm_campaign=devrel&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=social) - register and watch (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/springone-tour-apj/aug-4-why-you-should-treat-your-platform-as-a-product?utm_campaign=devrel&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=social), my homies DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512). SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Global Entry Enrollment on Arrival (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/enrollment-arrival) Viajero Confiable Mexico (https://www.gob.mx/inm/acciones-y-programas/viajero-confiable-mexico-en) Matt: (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW)Synology MR2200ac Mesh Wi-Fi Router (https://amzn.to/3Ji2JQD) The Maintenance Race (https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/) Coté: Truefitt & Hill Shaving Cream Bowl - Trafalgar | Smooth Glide for Incredibly Close, Yet Comfortable Hydrating Shave, 6.7 ounces (https://www.amazon.com/Truefitt-Hill-Shaving-Cream-Trafalgar/dp/B00095OP8O) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/mo3FOTG62ao) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/TZIH-fDKzvY)

If capitalism is so great, why aren’t we working less? We discuss the potential for the GDP to finally do something for us, plus simplifying “sovereign cloud” and the potential of containers with their own jurisdiction. Also, thoughts on PowerPoint filenames. Runner-up Titles Also true, Less Money, Mo Problems Should have just been titled “Mo’ Problems.” Pancakes in Australia Australian names for pancakes: jackies, thin roundies, carbo-jacks, Yankee Breakfast Discs, flappies/flappos. Rentie and Rentos - “I’m renting, so it’s terrible.” Presentation-Final-V2.pptx DJ .PPTX Final_V2 I learned nothing about slide naming in college conferencekeynote-roughdraftfeedbackwelcome.pptx The Software Defined Fund Surfboard popped up and slapped my willies. Lean into it, or be leaned into. Rundown Sovereign cloud as a test of cloud differentiation Microsoft adding in more sovereign cloud stuff (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-cloud-for-sovereignty-to-its-line-up/) . There’s a stack of software you can move to different Datacenters globally, and you can bind compote and data to that region. How different are each of the clouds? Do they offer kind of the same things? Do they have patent fights over things to prevent each other from copying capabilities? Is differentiation in price and their management skills? Performance based on how they they spend on the hardware? TextExpander gets $41.4m funding round (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/21/textexpander-which-lets-users-build-shortcuts-to-speed-up-business-communications-raises-41-4m-its-first-ever-funding/) Marco Polo is no more, people gave up. Wut? Such confusion. Says they have 100,000 monthly users - what is the math there? TextExpander origin story (https://textexpander.com/sin-categorizar/our-startup-story) . If we can’t work less, what’s the point of all this capitalism? No one wants to work on Friday (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/15/its-official-fridays-office-are-over/) . Coté’s too many types of screw drivers point in another form. See also “what did GDP ever do for me?” A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore (https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544) . Relevant to your Interests Tau T2A is first Compute Engine VM to run on Arm | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-first-compute-engine-vm-on-an-arm-chip) First Cyber Safety Review Board report finds Log4j has become an ‘endemic vulnerability’ (https://therecord.media/first-cyber-safety-review-board-report-finds-log4j-has-become-an-endemic-vulnerability/) Matt Levine On What to Watch In Twitter vs. Elon Musk — Odd Lots (https://overcast.fm/+5AWNuS__g) Microsoft tapped to provide advertising on ad-supported Netflix tier (https://siliconangle.com/2022/07/13/microsoft-tapped-provide-advertising-ad-supported-netflix-tier/) Steering with a Madman in the Car (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/steering-madman-car-rory-o-driscoll/) Unity caught some dogfood poisoning (https://twitter.com/holdenlink/status/1547733215695106049?s=21&t=ZISftEOcILLedscGcYiDaA) IBM shares slide after company trims cash forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/18/ibm-earnings-q2-2022.html) Netflix loses nearly 1 million subscribers, and its stock soars (https://stocks.apple.com/AEzC4lR8VSnCJ8pP0usCQwQ) http://free-for.dev (http://free-for.dev/) Nutanix Objects Violates MinIO’s Open Source License (https://blog.min.io/nutanix-objects-violates-minios-open-source-license/) Amazon and One Medical agree to acquisition of One Medical (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-and-one-medical-sign-an-agreement-for-amazon-to-acquire-one-medical) Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++ (https://thenewstack.io/google-launches-carbon-an-experimental-replacement-for-c/) a16z is Moving to the Cloud (https://a16z.com/2022/07/21/a16z-is-moving-to-the-cloud/) The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/) Microsoft is adding video stories to Teams to liven up the chat app (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/microsoft-launches-viva-engage-with-stories-video-feature.html) Google, Oracle cloud servers suffer outage in UK heatwave (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/19/google_oracle_cloud/) Nonsense Pringles Texas BBQ Sauce chips, review from two Texans (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRrerXJE/?k=1) Next level Excel (https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/1549373680496656385) Nerd Power Move (https://twitter.com/MasterActual/status/1547013912146616321?s=20&t=T4yCyLMYvQQDdpaEvItWyQ) https://www.amazon.com/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi/dp/B07MXD75TR (https://www.amazon.com/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi/dp/B07MXD75TR) America’s Love Affair With Iced Drinks (https://apple.news/A8t_aLscDS7CwWTHW6Qidhg) Lawn Mowing Simulator will be free on the Epic Games Store next week (https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/07/epic-games-store-free-july-21) Conferences THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/) , July 25, 2022 Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x) , July, 29th, 2022 Discount code: DEVOP DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/) , August 24-25, 2022 - VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt) , SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) . 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Barton George interviews Matt Ray about how to manage costs in the cloud. Links FinOps Foundation (https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/) OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io/) Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/3-Tc_5LROrM) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/djb1whucfBY) Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss Musk vs. Twitter, Apple Wallet Employee Badges and using Slack for incident management with Incident.io. Plus, some thoughts on European Highways… Runner-up Titles Tasty Jambalaya Cars Rules Exit Ramps The Autobahn The Driving Episode Muscle Memory Norman Doors Screenshotting Screensharts Count the pixels Digital Nirvana Free Ketchup An ROI cul-de-sac Rundown Musk vs. Twitter Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/elon-musk-notifies-twitter-he-is-terminating-deal.html) How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/technology/elon-musk-twitter-damaged.html) Digital Transformation mean outages in IRL A DoorDash glitch temporarily allowed hundreds of users to order free food (https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1545596276271566848?s=21&t=8IJ2hDk6a0d1t226lEORrw) American Airlines pilots get triple pay for trips dropped in scheduling glitch (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/-american-airlines-pilots-get-triple-pay-for-trips-dropped-in-scheduling-glitch.html) 167 Green Launches Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For All Tenants (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/167-green-launches-employee-badge-in-apple-wallet-for-all-tenants-301584857.html) Incident.io raises $28.7M for Slack-based incident response (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/incident-io-looks-to-beef-up-its-slack-based-incident-response-platform-with-28-7m-in-fresh-cash/) Relevant to your Interests Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyr (https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/06/storage-firm-drobo-has-filed-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy) Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore (https://www.theverge.com/23196764/netflix-culture-ted-sarandos-employee-feedback-dave-chappelle-controversy) PlayStation Store removes purchased movies from libraries after service shutdown (https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23199861/playstation-store-film-tv-show-removed-austria-germany-studiocanal) AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/aws_m1_macs_ec2_ga/) Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft) South by Southwest in Australia: Austin event plans a Down Under version in 2023 (https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2022/06/30/south-by-southwest-plans-australian-event-sxsw-sydney-lineup-2023/7772398001/) Nothing (event): Return to Instinct. (https://us.nothing.tech/pages/event) Oracle Considered $1B In Cuts, ‘Thousands’ Of Layoffs: Report | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/oracle-considered-1b-in-cuts-thousands-of-layoffs-report) YouTube Rolling Out Picture-in-Picture Support on iOS for All U.S. Users, (https://twitter.com/MacRumors/status/1546603375927603201) Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security key | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/eligible-customers-can-now-order-a-free-mfa-security-key/) SingleStore raises additional cash to grow database business (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/singlestore-raises-additional-40m-to-grow-its-database-business/) BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats (https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1546871470256783361?s=20&t=q5LdjUzALd8r_TpqQs9nZw) Inside a radical new project to democratize AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/) Honda key fob flaw lets hackers remotely unlock, start cars (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/honda-key-fob-flaw-hackers/) Spotify to acquire music trivia game Heardle (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/spotify-acquire-heardle-music-trivia-game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) AWS squashes authentication bugs in Kubernetes service (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/12/authentication_bug_aws_kubernetes/) Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/business/media/evan-williams-leaving-medium.html) Nonsense Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll) Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM) I compared food courts at Sam's Club and Costco, and this is why Costco comes out on top (https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-vs-sams-food-court-comparison-photos-hot-dogs-pizza-soda-2022-7) Every Windows boot screen ever! 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(https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW) (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW) Coté: History of The Netherlands (https://www.republicofamsterdamradio.com/historyofthenetherlands) podcast (https://www.republicofamsterdamradio.com/historyofthenetherlands). Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/7nrsVjvALnA) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/fEedoypsW_U)

This week we discuss Fedex going all-in on cloud, app modernization at the IRS and how to take unlimited PTO. Plus, some thoughts on rental property and telling time. Runner-up Titles Spreadsheets in your mind More ETF less Van Gogh The baby likes ducks The sticky stuff was not working I’ve read books Modernization takes 30 to 40 years No time is good Can I go to the beach Take a vacation The Kitchen Table Board Rundown A scheduling glitch temporarily canceled thousands of American Airlines flights (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1109592782/american-airlines-flights-canceled-glitch) Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-microsoft-google-strengthen-grip-on-cloud-11657018980?st=tgisntn6fwhaeii) Cloud infrastructure spend to top non-cloud in 2022 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/04/idc_cloud_spend_predictions/) Brian has thoughts see Slack Thread (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1657112482499439?thread_ts=1657110807.269759&cid=C6CDLDCVB) FedEx to close all datacenters by 2024 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/fedex_to_close_all_datacenters/) Mark Zuckerberg: We’re ‘turning up the heat’ at Meta so employees will quit (https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/mark-zuckerberg-meta-wants-to-oust-workers-who-shouldnt-be-here/) Relevant to your Interests AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/aws_eks_anywhere_bare_metal/) Bessemer is now an RIA (https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1542973289609322496) Exclusive: Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-meta-girds-fierce-headwinds-slower-growth-second-half-memo-2022-06-30/) Azure said to be having capacity issues, supply chain blamed (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/04/azure_capacity_issues/) Need A Linux Kernel Module? Scratch That (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/need-a-linux-kernel-module-scratch-that/) Leaked Videos Show Disney Is the Biggest Ad Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkp57/leaked-videos-show-disney-is-the-biggest-ad-tech-giant-youve-never-heard-of) NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new 'quantum-proof' cryptography standards (https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/emerging-technology/nist-unveils-four-algorithms-that-will-underpin-new-quantum-proof-cryptography-standards) Amazon Bringing Grubhub To Prime Users After Buying 2% Stake (https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/07/06/amazon-bringing-grubhub-to-prime-users-after-buying-2-stake/?sh=52f77aa01d40) A Look Back at Q1 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q1-22-public-cloud?utm_medium=email&%3Butm_campaign=cta&%3Baction=share&utm_source=substack) Oracle slashes minimum commitment for on-prem cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/oracle_on_prem_cloud/) Euro slides to 20-year low against the dollar as recession fears build (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/05/euro-slides-to-20-year-low-against-the-dollar-as-recession-fears-build.html) Nonsense I fucking hate Jira. (https://ifuckinghatejira.com/) This Nuclear-Powered ‘Flying Hotel’ Can Stay Airborne for Years (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1n4vpJRQ8) Dave & Buster’s completes its Main Event acquisition (https://restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/dave-busters-completes-its-main-event-acquisition) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Conferences THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022 Discount code: DEVOP VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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This week we discuss the Stack Overflow Dev Survey, Securing the Supply Chain and Slack Huddles. Plus, some thoughts on coffee down under. Runner-up Titles Waiting for my wife to get up and out of the bedroom/office My wife is still asleep I feel a Liberal Arts rant coming on That’s not the full stack baby How deep does this chasm go? This was your chance to own the SaaS 10 years ago Rundown Starbucks down under (https://twitter.com/franchisewolf/status/1541032303861739520) Why there are almost no Starbucks in Australia (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-failure.html) Survey Says Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/) The 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report - Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/tools/the-10th-annual-open-source-jobs-report/?utm_campaign=OSSUMMIT-2022&utm_content=212390733&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-14706299) Supply Chain Aqua Security and CIS release first formal guidelines for software supply chain (https://flip.it/I3T0Nc) Direct link to CIS Doc (https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/7555/sections/942026) Chain Bench (https://github.com/aquasecurity/chain-bench) The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security (https://www.slim.ai/blog/the-4-s-s-of-software-supply-chain-security.html) Productivity The Future of Slack Looks a Lot Like Zoom (https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-slack-looks-a-lot-like-zoom/) Discord Improved My Marriage (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/discord-improved-my-marriage/) IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch June 30 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/29/ibm_cloud_mainframe_launch/) Relevant to your Interests Netflix Cuts 300 Employees In New Round of Layoffs (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-cuts-300-employees-in-new-round-of-layoffs-1235157991/) Remote Workers Make More Money, Cloud Salary Survey Says (https://thenewstack.io/remote-workers-make-more-money-cloud-salary-survey-says/) Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone's voice (https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-has-plan-make-alexa-mimic-anyones-voice-2022-06-22/) Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (Update: confirmed) – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/21/twitter-to-expand-into-long-form-content-with-upcoming-twitter-notes-feature/) Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation for better access to information (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wikimedia-foundation-information) Oracle slashes minimum commitment for on-prem cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/oracle_on_prem_cloud/) Zendesk to Be Acquired by Investor Group Led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira for $10.2 Billion (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220624005233/en/Zendesk-to-Be-Acquired-by-Investor-Group-Led-by-Hellman-Friedman-and-Permira-for-10.2-Billion?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) He's the first buyer of the electric F-150. Why he's the future of the car industry (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1104920656/ford-electric-f150-lightning-electric-vehicles-automakers) Here’s Google’s letter saying employees can relocate to states with abortion rights (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/24/23182288/google-letter-email-employees-roe-v-wade-decision) Report: Apple is gearing up to launch a ‘flood’ of new devices starting this fall (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/26/23183875/apple-gearing-up-launch-flood-new-devices-this-fall-m2-chip-macbook-iphone-14-watch-series-9) Valorant Is Planning to Monitor Voice Chat, Tests Begin Next Month (https://www.ign.com/articles/valorant-monitor-voice-chat-tests-begin-next-month) Politics trumps business in Truth Social’s war on Big Tech (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-truth-social/) Geofence and keyword warrants (https://thehustle.co/06282022-geofence-warrants/) The GitOps market: driving progressive delivery and experimentation's expansion by The Art of Modern Ops (https://soundcloud.com/user-718131608/the-gitops-market-driving-progressive-delivery-and-experimentations-expansion/s-K1R91NkC4DD?si=067997b06f4e49c6b2ca6ce2fa670e08&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) Jeffrey Snover retires (https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1541447375369097217) Pinterest CEO steps down, Google executive to take over in e-commerce push (https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/tech/pinterest-ceo/index.html) VMware Unveils vSphere+ and vSAN+ (https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-unveils-vsphere-plus-and-vsan-plus) Consentomatic (https://consentomatic.au.dk/) Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable (https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/analysis/atlassian-unprofitable-valuation-adam-schwab/) Google Workspace head Javier Soltero is leaving the company (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-workspace-javier-soltero-leaving) DevOps is a failure | lbr. (https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/06/21/devops-is-a-failure) Developer-Led Landscape: Complexity, Automation & A Future of Autonomous Development (https://tylerjewell.substack.com/p/complexity-automation-autonomous-development?utm_source=email) How Thomas Kurian made Google Cloud into an enterprise-first company (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian) Nonsense New favorite #barcelona #bar #travel #spain #abroad (https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahhands/video/7112453214980607275) SXSW expands to Australia for 2023 (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/sxsw-expands-to-australia-for-2023/) Listener Feedback There are indeed a Smart Sprinkler System: Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controllers (https://rachio.com/) and Rain Bird (https://www.rainbird.com/professionals/products/controllers) Conferences THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022 Discount code: DEVOP VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs. Runner-up Titles Chrome fixes everything Plateau of Productivity When the curve nopes. When the parabola yeets. First class SaaS Thanks for the legwork fool The cash cow has run out of milk Sign-a-tar Tumbler is now HIPAA compliant Working has its privileges Let go of this dog now Rundown Fermyon Launches With First Cloud-Native WebAssembly PaaS (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/21/2466499/0/en/Fermyon-Launches-With-First-Cloud-Native-WebAssembly-PaaS-for-Developers-Creating-Microservice-Based-Apps-Raises-6-Million-Seed-Funding-Led-by-Amplify-Partners.html) Cloudflare Cloudflare Post Mortem (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/) Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/massive-cloudflare-outage-caused-by-network-configuration-error/) The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps (https://www.fastcompany.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps) Oracle Oracle Versus Amazon: Oracle Will Rip and Replace AWS at Cerner (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-versus-amazon-oracle-will-rip-and-replace-aws-at-cerner/) Exclusive: TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tiktok-moves-us-user-data-oracle-servers-company-2022-06-17/) DocuSign CEO Dan Springer steps down (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/docusign-ceo-dan-springer-steps-down.html) Removing people from security Password policies of 120 websites (https://passwordpolicies.cs.princeton.edu/>

This week we discuss Oracle buying Corner, drama at Coinbase and the Gartner MQ for Observability. Plus, some thoughts on European Design Style… Runner-up Titles Secular Winds. Internet Hygiene Don’t Bang the Table Do you own a motorcycle? The Hilda World-building Executive Retreat for Toxic Crytpo Execs. That’s some flavor Client/server Bias. Power of Privilege Rundown Everyone tries to fix verticals like healthcare but can an outsider really do it? Oracle thinks it can fix healthcare’s biggest tech issue (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23162503/oracle-cerner-health-records-data-interoperability) Oracle stock jumps 9% on strong cloud revenue (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-stock-jumps-9-on-strong-cloud-revenue-11655151953) CEO Bias Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62a7fbc951acba00209259f5/elon-musk-brian-armstrong-coinbase-crypto/) Coinbase CEO Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1535304943728414721) An Open letter to Elon… (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk-internal-open-letter-behavior) Productivity Google’s changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23166474/google-calendar-gmail-invite-redesign-updated-info) Who the **** Enjoys Using Outlook? (https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/gmail-versus-outlook.html) Honeycomb Cements Its Position as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-leader-observability-gartnermq) Relevant to your Interests Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey | The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/) Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/9/23159460/microsoft-xbox-tv-app-samsung-2022-tv-xbox-cloud-gaming-streaming) MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/10/apple-m1-unpatchable-flaw/) Spotify comes for audiobooks (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/9/23161536/spotify-audiobooks-amazon-audible-podcasts) Joe Beda retires, sort of. (http://:

This week we discuss work life balance, the State of Continuous Delivery Survey and recap WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on Buddha and parenting… Runner-up Titles The Buddha had no kids The Air Fryer is a PaaS. Rundown Work vs. Life Office workers get little reward for returning to the office – an idle factory is taboo (https://cote.io/2022/06/08/office-workers-get-little-reward-for-returning-to-work-an-idle-factory-is-taboo/) CEOs had a phenomenal year. Workers, less so (https://thehustle.co/05312022-CEO-vs-Worker-Pay/) Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/tesla-paid-pr-firm-to-surveil-employees-on-facebook-in-2017-union-push.html) Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit (https://electrek.co/2022/06/01/elon-musk-tesla-employees-come-back-office-or-quit/) Ford factory workers get 40-hour week (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-workers-get-40-hour-week) Survey Says State of Continuous Delivery (https://cd.foundation/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2022/06/The-State-of-CD-Q1-2022.pdf) Chainguard raises $50M Series A for supply chain security (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/chainguard-raises-50m-to-guard-supply-chains/) WWDC Apple WWDC 2022: the 16 biggest announcements (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/6/23141939/apple-wwdc-2022-biggest-announcements-ios-16-macbook-air-macos-watchos) Create macOS or Linux virtual machines - WWDC22 - Videos (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10002/) Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura-will-extend-rosetta-support-to-linux-virtual-machines/) All the New Features Coming to Your Mac This Fall (https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ventura-macos-13-preview/) EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices (https://www.engadget.com/eu-reaches-deal-to-make-usb-c-a-common-charger-for-most-electronic-devices-104605067.html) Relevant to your Interests Earnings HashiCorp quarter (https://siliconangle.com/2022/06/02/kubecost-launches-open-source-opencost-project-keep-lid-kubernetes-spending/https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1532457687778312213?s=21&t=FiXLrZJc1LtYPQyeU27CEg) MongoDB quarter (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1532094080418607104) GitLab quarter (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1533906440695316480?s=21&t=K30ROu7mTJp1DgbvYxhDCA) Salesforce stock jumps as it raises profit forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/31/salesforce-crm-earnings-q1-2023.html) Tech Valuations Tumble, but Business Software Stocks Are Cushioned by the Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-valuations-tumble-but-business-software-stocks-are-cushioned-by-the-cloud-11654164000?mod=djemalertNEWS) A Framework for Navigating Down Markets (https://future.com/framework-valuation-navigating-down-markets/) VMware Good thread (VMware history) (https://twitter.com/jdooley_clt/status/1528688334394077184) Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/broadcom_buying_vmware_makes_sense/) Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/broadcom_vmware_subscriptions/) Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/broadcom_buying_vmware_makes_sense/) Brian Madden’s brutal and unfiltered thoughts on the Broadcom / VMware deal (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brian-maddens-brutal-unfiltered-thoughts-broadcom-vmware-brian-madden/?trackingId=m%2FeClBkjQxSyYPzRVcnpHQ%3D%3D) Broadcom will tame the VMware beast (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/27/broadcom-will-tame-vmware-beast/) VMware Blockchain (https://www.vmware.com/products/blockchain.html) Bolt, the payments start-up, has begun laying off employees. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/business/bolt-layoffs.html) Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists (https://layoffs.fyi/) Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (https://www.wired.com/story/proton-mail-calendar-drive-vpn/) OpenStack, except it's outer space, (https://twitter.com/Kemp/status/1530198772872933377) Microsoft confirms it's taking a 'new approach' with its game streaming device | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-confirms-its-taking-a-new-approach-to-its-game-streaming-device-090144247.html) How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person (https://cote.io/2022/05/27/how-to-do-executive-dinners/) Over 380 000 open Kubernetes API servers | The Shadowserver Foundation (https://www.shadowserver.org/news/over-380-000-open-kubernetes-api-servers/) Twitter fined $150M for misusing 2FA data (https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252520746/Twitter-fined-150M-for-misusing-2FA-data) First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/) Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone' (https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/exclusive-microsoft-continues-to-iterate-on-an-xbox-cloud-streaming-stick-codenamed-keystone) Microsoft won't lower software costs on AWS, Google clouds (https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterprisedesktop/news/252520735/Microsoft-wont-lower-software-costs-on-AWS-Google-clouds) A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says (https://www.businessinsider.com/researcher-claims-her-avatar-was-raped-on-metas-metaverse-platform-2022-5) Forget LinkedIn—Your Next Job Offer Could Come via Slack (https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-hunters-workers-use-slack-to-find-job-offers-fast-11653918510) Sheryl Sandberg will leave Meta after 14 years this fall (https://www.protocol.com/sheryl-sandberg-meta-coo) This crypto startup believes 'sex-to-earn' is the future of web3 (https://www.inputmag.com/tech/sexn-crypto-startup-sex-to-earn-web3-nfts) ExpressVPN rejects CERT-In directives, removes its India servers (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/expressvpn-rejects-cert-in-directives-suspends-india-ops/articleshow/91956961.cms) MongoDB CTO on (no)SQL, Superapps, and Southeast Asia (https://future.com/mongodb-cto-cloud-providers-southeast-asia/) Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23149832/google-meet-duo-combination-voice-video) This VR headset will measure a user's brain activity (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-vr-headset-will-measure-a-users-brain-activity) Tesla has to respond to increase in phantom braking complaints (https://electrek.co/2022/06/03/tesla-respond-increase-phantom-braking-complaints/) Amazon’s retail CEO is resigning after 23 years (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/3/23153327/amazon-ceo-consumer-retail-businesses-dave-clark-resigning) Zoom Hires Greg Tomb as President (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/06/2457166/0/en/Zoom-Hires-Greg-Tomb-as-President.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Peloton hires Amazon Web Services executive Liz Coddington as new CFO in latest shakeup (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/07/peloton-hires-amazon-executive-liz-coddington-new-cfo-latest-shakeup/) Musk accuses Twitter of 'resisting and thwarting' his right to information on fake accounts (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/06/musk-says-twitter-is-refusing-to-share-data-on-spam-accounts.html) ‘A new IBM’: How the tech giant simplified its marketing (https://www.marketingweek.com/ibm-simplifying-marketing/) Coinbase extends hiring pause for 'foreseeable future' and plans to rescind some offers (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/coinbase-hiring-pause-for-foreseeable-future-and-will-rescind-offers.html) Evading the Big Blue Name Police (https://www.itjungle.com/2022/06/08/evading-the-big-blue-name-police/) IBM CEO explains why company offloaded Watson Health (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/ibm_ceo_arvind_krishna_explains/) MongoDB fires up new cloud, on-premises releases (https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/07/mongodb-fires-up-new-cloud-on-premise-releases/) In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/08/elon-musk-twitter-bot-data/) OpenCost: Open Source Collaboration on Kubernetes Cost Standards (https://thenewstack.io/opencost-open-source-collaboration-on-kubernetes-cost-standards/) Kubecost launches open-source OpenCost project (https://siliconangle.com/2022/06/02/kubecost-launches-open-source-opencost-project-keep-lid-kubernetes-spending/) Datadog’s 2022 State of Serverless repor (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/)t (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/) The IRS needs digital transformation (https://twitter.com/josephzeballos/status/1534189391328976897?s=21&t=uPoXtZtzX-q_GAtodVVbsg) Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/07/oracle-quietly-closes-28b-deal-to-buy-electronic-health-records-company-cerner/) Nonsense The Cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y64UeNeiOM) WSJ News Exclusive | Justin Timberlake Sells Song Catalog to Blackstone-Backed Fund (https://www.wsj.com/articles/justin-timberlake-sells-song-catalog-to-blackstone-backed-fund-11653557400) Every person in the U.S. now receives an average of 65 packages a year. (https://twitter.com/mims/status/1529222322686672896) Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/how-to-make-money-on-spotify-a-white-noise-podcast-could-bring-you-big-bucks) Flying ice cream? Unilever links with drone delivery service Flytrex (https://www.fooddive.com/news/flying-ice-cream-unilever-links-with-drone-delivery-service-flytrex/624541/) Texas to reclaim home of the largest Buc-ee’s (https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-to-reclaim-home-of-the-largest-buc-ees/) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt) Listener Feedback / Jobs Tim wants you to work at Biogen as a Global DevOps Lead, Commercial & Medical IT (https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Biogen/743999821251393-global-devops-lead-commercial-medical-it) Walmart is hiring Principal Software Engineer - Linux Kernel in Sunnyvale, California (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2945555862) Ryan wants you to work at DataDog as the Vice President, Events and Field Marketing (https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=4252681) J&J Senior Algorithm Analytics Engineer in Redwood City, California | Medical Devices (https://jobs.jnj.com/jobs/2206008429W?lang=en-us) NYTimes is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - CI/CD Platform (https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Tech/job/New-York-NY/Staff-Software-Engineer---CI-CD-Platform_REQ-012710) Conferences FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there! DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together. Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there! DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022 Discount code: DEVOP THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 - $50 off 4-Day everything ticket Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 - $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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This week Brandon is joined by special guest host JJ Ashgiar and they record a live episode at the THAT Conference. Brandon and JJ interview Clark Sell and Brett Slaski about the origins and purpose of the THAT Conference and then the group discusses Broadcom acquiring VMware. Relevant to your Interests THAT Conference (https://that.us/that-conference/) Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61 Billion in Cash and Stock (https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/financial-releases/60271) Guests Clark Sell (https://that.us/members/clark/) Brett Slaski (https://that.us/members/brettski/) Recommendations Brandon — The Bond King (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Bond-King-Audiobook/1250818656?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1260658&ds_rl=1263561&gclid=CjwKCAjwyryUBhBSEiwAGN5OCPtAy0WtVF9Sw3HS0KsY-puo-qa_4t4xDOyS0HQjFpAOq26oFO8tOhoCQ70QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) JJ — Between (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5sKv4E2ko) Photo Credit (https://twitter.com/coridrew/status/1529094510126501889/photo/1) Special Guests: Brett Slaski, Clark Sell, and JJ Asghar.

This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad. Runner-up Titles I’m here for the sandwich talk I want to get back to the garbage chairs Paying for Petrol Paying at the Pump Anonymize your trash I don’t want to improve Making life hard for HR Radical transparency for you, not me Where’d this public cloud come from? Don’t ever fall into the trap of sucking That’s a Circle Rundown Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-tests-app-for-employees-to-grade-each-other-during-meetings) Bridgewater Principles & Culture (https://www.bridgewater.com/principles-and-culture?utm_campaign=BPI-Bridgewater-Capitalism-RR&utm_content=bridgewater%20culture&utm_source=paid-gs) You need meeting knobs like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsHq-mZI8U) Seth Green's Stolen NFT Puts His New Animated Bored Ape Series in Jeopardy (https://www.themarysue.com/seth-green-stolen-nfts/) Adam Neumann’s Web3 Startup Raises $70 Million From VCs, ‘Goddess Nature Token’ (https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gwax/adam-neumanns-web3-startup-raises-dollar70-million-from-vcs-goddess-nature-token) How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud? (https://www.itjungle.com/2022/05/23/how-committed-is-big-blue-to-the-ibm-cloud/) Zoom’s QTR (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1528831823065026560?s=21&t=3K1nAM4G-1fmOzinHP6TbA) Relevant to your Interests Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists (https://layoffs.fyi/) Cloud Foundry Launches Korifi to Ease Kubernetes Development (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-foundry-launches-korifi-to-ease-kubernetes-development/) Get The Report: State of Observability 2022 (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/form/state-of-observability/) Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/21/lonestar_moon_datacenter/) Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS | Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMIF4olLWI) Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware (http://reut.rs/3PwnpHv> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there! DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together. Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there! THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: After Steve (https://www.audible.com/pd/After-Steve-Audiobook/B09CF3K1XT?qid=1653426845&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=FEFPFCQR2E9H1MTGRS5D) Matt: REI Anniversary Sales (https://www.rei.com/promotions/anniversary-sale) Screaming in the Cloud: AWS Commerce Platform (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/) Reply All: Flying the Coop (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hk5ag/187-flying-the-coop) Coté: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60900832-the-baby-on-the-fire-escape). Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/-p1zI3l7MuA) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/KgiXRaqYVpM)

This week we discuss the "sum of the parts" of Rackspace, Rocky Linux recreates CentOS and thoughts on the economy. Plus, a debate: rental car vs. Uber. Rundown Rackspace Technology Reports First Quarter 2022 Results; Company Evaluating Strategic Alternatives (https://ir.rackspace.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rackspace-technology-reports-first-quarter-2022-results-company) Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/with-new-serverless-database-cloudflare-gets-serious-about-infrastructure-services/) Rocky Linux developer CIQ raises $26M to recreate CentOS for enterprises (https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/11/rocky-linux-developer-ciq-raises-26m-to-recreate-centos-for-enterprises/) Snowflake Stock: Finally, This Software Titan Is Worth A Nibble (NYSE:SNOW) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4511737-snowflake-worth-nibble) Job vacancies outpace unemployment for first time (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61475720) Relevant to your Interests Observability Engineering - O'Reilly Book 2022 Download (https://info.honeycomb.io/observability-engineering-oreilly-book-2022) Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/11/observe-raises-70m-grow-data-fueled-observability-platform/) Apple discontinues its last iPod (https://www.engadget.com/apple-discontinues-ipod-touch-161433001.html) Ploopy. Open-source hardware. (https://ploopy.co/) DigitalBridge to Buy Switch for $11 Billion as Data Center M&A Binge Continues (http://) Aiven Raises $210M to Invest in Sustainable Open Source Cloud (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220511005232/en/Aiven-Raises-210M-to-Invest-in-Sustainable-Open-Source-Cloud) Workforce management startup Rippling raises $250M at $11.25B valuation (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/11/workforce-management-startup-rippling-raises-250m-11-25b-valuation/) Google finally announces the Pixel Watch (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23064072/google-pixel-watch-fitbit-io-2022) IBM's massive 'Kookaburra' quantum processor might land in 2025 (https://www.popsci.com/technology/ibm-quantum-computing-roadmap/) Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/google-cloud-launches-alloydb-a-new-fully-managed-postgresql-database-service/) Komodor provides a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/12/komodor-is-building-kubernetes-troubleshooting-platform-for-the-masses/) Nvidia Does the Unexpected: Open Sources GPU Drivers for Linux (https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-does-the-unexpected-open-sources-gpu-drivers-for-linux/) Hands-Free Voice Control | Sonos (https://www.sonos.com/en-us/sonos-voice-control) Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-content-moderation law (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/appeals_court_lets_texas_law/) Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Redbox (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/chicken-soup-for-the-soul-entertainment-acquires-redbox-for-375m-to-accelerate-its-streaming-business/?tpcc=tcpluslinkedin) Hasura raises $100M to create GraphQL APIs for databases (https://twitter.com/mamund/status/1525142084138713092) Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for PowerShell (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/jeffrey_snover_said_microsoft_demoted/) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's $214 million pay package is 'excessive' and should be vetoed by shareholders, say advisory firms (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-salary-excessive-report-vote-down-2022-5) Netflix tells employees they can quit if they don't want to work on content they disagree with, according to new company culture guidelines (https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-company-culture-guidelines-employees-can-quit-if-they-disagree-2022-5) Not all open-source leaders are jerks (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/not_all_opensource_leaders_are/) Intel Poaches Open Source Execs from Netflix, Apple to Boost Linux Efforts (https://thenewstack.io/intel-poaches-open-source-execs-from-netflix-apple-to-boost-linux-efforts/) Jeff Bezos turns up heat on Joe Biden over US inflation (https://www.ft.com/content/8ef4934e-2072-4534-bce6-824fb0da8628) Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/satya-nadella-details-microsoft-plan-for-significant-additional-investment-in-employee-compensation/) Musk: Twitter deal at lower price "not out of the question" (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/16/elon-musk-twitter-deal-lower-price?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Google Lets Personal Users Stay On 'No-Cost Legacy G Suite' With Custom Gmail Domain (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/16/2121201/google-lets-personal-users-stay-on-no-cost-legacy-g-suite-with-custom-gmail-domain) Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/17/23100696/apple-delay-hybrid-office-return-work-from-home-covid-19-masks?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter) For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over (https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-tech-startups-the-party-is-over-11652710330?mod=djemalertNEWS) The State of Kubernetes Security in 2022 (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/state-kubernetes-security-2022-1) Facebook’s hiring crisis: Engineers are turning down offers (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recruiting-crisis) Twitter bleeds more top talent in the midst of Musk acquisition (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-executives-departure-musk) Sisters doing it for themselves: this nun built her own power plant (https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/16/sisters-doing-it-for-themselves-drc-nun-fed-up-with-power-outages-builds-own-hydroelectric) Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust security services (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/google-cloud-launches-new-software-supply-chain-and-zero-trust-security-services/) Orbit + Hoopy: Writing the Future of DevRel - Orbit (https://orbit.love/blog/orbit-hoopy-writing-the-future-of-devrel) A beef over NFTs is shaking the sneaker industry - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/05172022-Nike-StockX) Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report (https://a16zcrypto.com/state-of-crypto-report-a16z-2022/) Apple has shown its mixed reality headset to its board of directors: report (NASDAQ:AAPL) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3841044-apple-has-shown-its-mixed-reality-headset-to-its-board-of-directors-report?utm_campaign=twitter_automated&utm_content=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_automated) Why Did Heroku Fail? (https://matt-rickard.com/why-did-heroku-fail/) Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/docker-desktop-extensions-linux/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) Nonsense Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast (https://usps-mailin-it.simplecast.com/) Dad's take on Peloton from 2019 (https://twitter.com/peter/status/1524265098465792000?s=21&t=5jYSjrdL3mIVGMb-31qQtg) A solar power plant in space? The UK wants to build one by 2035. (https://www.space.com/space-based-solar-power-plant-2035) Elon discovers Lawyers (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525615849167589380?s=21&t=VVDN3Oxzsmu57Srayk2X1w) More Cables (https://twitter.com/rayredacted/status/1490088765112700928?s=21&t=TNzXDAprfUDBcUIehlJ5yw) Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/) Southwest introduces transferable credits (https://twitter.com/southwestair/status/1527001072132399104?s=21&t=jrhjV0241gVclZpxEP0vnQ) Listener Feedback Relyance AI is looking for a VP of Product (https://boards.greenhouse.io/relyance/jobs/4148931004) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/) Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there! DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté helps put the agenda together. Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there! THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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Brandon interviews Philip Griffiths, the VP of Global Business Development at NetFoundry. They discuss how OpenZiti enables zero trust networking and how to build certificate-based security into your applications. Plus, some thoughts on creating an open source mascot. Episode Links NetFoundry (https://netfoundry.io/) replace with live netfoundry.io/sdt OpenZiti (https://openziti.github.io/) Zitification (https://ziti.dev/blog/zitification/) Bootstrapping Trust (https://ziti.dev/blog/bootstrapping-trust-part-1-encryption-everywhere/) Contact Philip LinkedIn: philipleonardgriffiths (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipleonardgriffiths/) Twitter: @OpenZiggy (https://twitter.com/OpenZiggy) Twitter: @ThePGriffiths (https://twitter.com/ThePGriffiths) Special Guest: Philip Griffiths.

This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving… Rundown DevOpsDays Austin (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/) Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063499/uber-ceo-slash-costs-hiring-slowdown-ride-hailing-profit) A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/next-tech-downturn-cheat-sheet-recession) Relevant to your Interests Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud (https://www.ign.com/articles/square-enix-says-embracer-acquisitions-allow-it-to-invest-more-in-the-blockchain-ai-and-the-cloud) Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html) What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/07/may-not-know-dell-snowflake-deal/) The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world (https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-twitter-doesn-t-rule-the-social-world) I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs (https://interconnected.org/home/2022/05/05/larping) Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/) Podcast Details (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/https://podcastdetails.com/) 3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets? (https://overcast.fm/+QN1pbp6qs) Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-general-motors-collaborate-trailblaze-future-software-defined-vehicles?sc_cid=7013a000002pyDRAAY) Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-advances-container-isolation-and-workloads-with-acquisition-of-nestybox/) Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appian-awarded-2-036-billion-in-damages-against-pegasystems-inc-301543673.html) 4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022 (https://www.securemac.com/news/4-new-icloud-keychain-features-for-2022) A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (https://www.wired.com/story/fido-alliance-ios-android-password-replacement/) Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1522592192472121345) Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/googles-cloud-group-forms-web3-product-and-engineering-team.html) Nonsense Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/) Sponsors IT Brew — Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST. Register Here! 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SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! 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This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro… Rundown How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/technology/jony-ive-apple-design.html) Passwords Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/05/apple-google-microsoft-passwordless-logins/) Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/2309618/) Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/346) How FIDO Works (https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/) 1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/03/1password-8-for-mac-released/) Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable? (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4505528-twilio-a-future-essential-or-overhyped-and-just-unprofitable) Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-announces-first-quarter-2022-200500471.html) Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1520946695823323137?s=21&t=eJoens13aik6Sd6EobYW4Q) Relevant to your Interests Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-cloud-contract-152924596.html) A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings: (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1519909093187764224?s=21&t=ZwsCN2E_FzOziodSkZIqWQ) Big Tech revenue growth rates. (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1520074033383026689?s=21&t=ZwsCN2E_FzOziodSkZIqWQ) Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1520078644521099264?s=20&t=cv9yGuNtWBn5EV_TtsP6YA) Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046170/twitter-miscounted-daily-users-three-years-q1-2022-earnings) Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time (https://www.techradar.com/news/cloudflare-has-blocked-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attacks-of-all-time) Actual is going open-source (https://actualbudget.com/open-source) Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better) (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/28/reality-check-twitter-actually-was-already-doing-most-of-the-things-musk-claims-he-wants-the-company-to-do-but-better/) Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23047026/amazon-alexa-voice-data-targeted-ads-research-report) Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/01/amazon-takes-on-spacex-in-the-satellite-internet-with-project-kuiper.html) Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRxW0B5XoAAuE4k.jpg) Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/2/23053104/telegram-premium-paid-subscription) Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/apple_store_old_app_policy) Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade (https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-america-contractors-full-time-complaints-report) Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/how-graphite-turned-a-side-project-into-a-20m-series-a/) Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1521870438338596867) Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/cameo-layoffs-cto-cpo) Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business (https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-05-02/google-makes-100-000-worth-of-tech-training-free-to-every-u-s-business) Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com (https://chiefmartec.com/2022/05/marketing-technology-landscape-2022-search-9932-solutions-on-martechmap-com/) Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures (https://diagrams.mingrammer.com) Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/04/google-cloud-and-sap-launch-a-native-integration-between-workspace-and-s-4hana-cloud/) Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloud-spending-cost-management-finops) Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland (https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/1521449221261602817?s=20&t=Hiqhz_-gGUj5e3-NQQ0PZA) Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com (https://chiefmartec.com/2022/05/marketing-technology-landscape-2022-search-9932-solutions-on-martechmap-com/) Nonsense AOC and Elon (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRjqr-ZWUAEB5U2.jpg) Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID (https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-dress-codes-fashion-22c012502cef421ddfe5400a82dc8e2c) Sponsors IT Brew — The IT Brew newsletter delivers the latest news and analysis of trends shaping the IT industry, like only The Brew can. Subscribe today! (https://www.itbrew.com/?utm_campaign=b2bitb_050622_sdtgeneral&utm_medium=partnership&utm_source=sdt&utm_term=2022-04-26) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/) Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. 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This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft… Rundown Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com) Istio Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project (https://twitter.com/IstioMesh/status/1518616150258733058) Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo (https://www.solo.io/blog/istio-past-present-future/) Earnings AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/21/aws_not_for_sale/) Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html) Microsoft earnings beat across the board (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/microsoft-msft-earnings-q3-2022.html) Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/alphabet-to-report-q1-earnings-after-the-bell-tuesday.html) Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft (https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/status/1519363715480514560) The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993-2006) Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/25/akamai-launches-managed-database-offering-mysql-postgresql-redis-mongodb/) Twitter Back to the Future of Twitter (https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/) Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html) Bezos on Twitter being acquired (https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/1518734031566778368?s=21&t=hU6sj6ankANQAZPIf6Pnog) Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-reassures-staff-cries-during-meeting-about-musk-takeover-00027931) Relevant to your Interests 7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers (https://bloggingwizard.com/free-rss-feed-readers/) Is Firefox OK? (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-firefox-ok/) After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/with-20m-series-a-glide-expands-no-code-application-building-capabilities/) Good SDT Slack Thread on this (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1650634994278229) The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company (https://pnw.ai/article/the-founder-who-turned-an-automation-startup-into-portland-s-biggest-tech-company/121260557) Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-predicts-end-of-chip-shortage) Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return (https://www.ft.com/content/312acbb3-eb72-4d2f-b81f-649dcb3583ca) Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html) Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/devs-upset-apple-remove-app-store-havent-been-updated) AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/appdynamics-founders-midas-touch-strikes-again-as-harness-valuation-hits-3-7b/) SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/sonarsource-raises-412m-to-scan-codebases-for-bugs-and-vulnerabilities/) Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2022) Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/dropbox_unplugged_datacenter) YouTube’s growth struggles to load (https://thehustle.co/04282022-YouTube-growth) Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/apple-now-lets-you-buy-iphone-parts-so-you-can-fix-it-yourself.html) Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/robinhood-layoffs) Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you (https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/Top-10-PaaS-providers-and-what-they-offer-you) Nonsense Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head' (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-dorsey-changes-his-official-title-from-ceo-to-block-head-11650663753) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. 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This week we discuss the disruption happening to Netflix, Corporate Metrics and a few thoughts on Heroku. Plus, some summer travel tips. Rundown Netflix Netflix shares crater 25% after company reports it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-nflx-earnings-q1-2022.html) Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords (https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-sharing-password-100-million-1235236051/) Netflix slowdown leaves streaming biz reeling (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-487b37f1-d49f-4ccc-b267-794c850a834c.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Reporting is hard Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/metricflow/) Heroku Heroku is practically down for 4 days (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1516756294983733255?s=21&t=005wWLAylkwjFOf1qWQmjw) Heroku is like a fallen civilization of elves. Beautiful, immortal, beloved by all who encountered it - but still a dead end. (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1369704730218299392?s=20&t=z2QiNcun21R761sSCy269g) - Adam Jacob Relevant to your Interests How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog (https://httpie.io/blog/stardust) Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. (https://twitter.com/rabble/status/1514793459147677696) "Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost" (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/measuring-argo-workflows-with-kubecost/) The Chips That Rebooted the Mac (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chips-that-rebooted-the-mac-11650081649?mod=djemalertNEWS) The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r) Apollo Global weighs going in on bid to buy Twitter: report (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/142421/apollo-global-weighs-going-in-on-bid-to-buy-twitter-report) Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-inclusive-warnings-feature-is-very-broken) Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8b2b7a28-bf0d-11ec-8413-422ef6319ad0?shareToken=241a4f9d880e0a092706864989c8b1a5) Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules (https://news.yahoo.com/apple-must-pay-man-more-051314585.html) Discovery is shutting down CNN+ and is expected to provide details to staffers Thursday... (https://twitter.com/bristei/status/1517165214864744449) Nonsense Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund (https://www.axios.com/chipotle-launches-a-50-million-venture-capital-fund-ffd4954e-f459-4a3a-8a9e-3c11bd88728d.html) Listener Feedback Brian wants you to work at Solo.io: Gloo Edge Product Manager (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/gloo-edge-product-manager/) Software Engineer (Front-End Systems) (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/software-engineer-front-end-systems/) Software Engineer (Back-End Systems) (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/software-engineer-back-end-systems/) New Business Developer (BDR/SDR) (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/new-business-developer-bdr-sdr/) Conferences Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1515004968796934152). 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This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3656734/perforce-to-acquire-infrastructure-as-code-pioneer-puppet.html) The PE Yo-Yo Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion (https://www.reuters.com/business/thoma-bravo-buy-cybersecurity-firm-sailpoint-69-bln-ft-2022-04-11/) Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/12/private-equity-giant-kkr-buys-security-firm-barracuda-networks/) How big could the cloud get? Part 1 (https://01core.substack.com/p/how-big-could-the-cloud-get-part?s=w) Relevant to your Interests Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-global-endpoints-for-amazon-eventbridge/) Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-quit-truth-social-after-troubled-app-launch-2022-04-04/) Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon (https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon) Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/7/23014616/epic-lego-metaverse-partnership) What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don’t Get (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/10/tv-silicon-valley-founders-theranos-wework-uber-00023884) Are Microsoft’s days as the ‘friendly’ tech giant over? – POLITICO (https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-tech-giant-antitrust-europe-brussels-silicon-valley/) The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/11/atlassian_still_down/) Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/12/silverfort-nabs-65m-with-a-holistic-approach-to-protecting-id-management-across-it-silos-and-legacy-systems/) Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23020687/activision-blizzard-diversity-equity-inclusion-officer) ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost (https://ngrok.com/next-generation) Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs (https://www.wsj.com/articles/neurodiverse-candidates-find-niche-in-remote-cybersecurity-jobs-11649842380?mod=djemalertNEWS) How do you know when a business leads with technology? (https://blogs.gartner.com/mark-mcdonald/2022/04/13/how-do-you-know-when-a-business-leads-with-technology/) CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders (https://news.a2z.com/articles/ceo-andy-jassy-s-letter-to-shareholders-2?bypass_deeplink=true) Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey (https://www.infoq.com/articles/k8s-cncf-survey-chasm/) Nonsense USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert (https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.html) CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report (https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/cnn-draws-fewer-than-10000-daily-viewers-report/) The Origins of the Dutch Angle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofBDXc749wE) Sponsors Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th. DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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This week we discuss Dagger’s Launch, Employee Tacking and Executive Compensation. Plus, some thoughts on beans and broccoli… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Dagger Introducing Dagger: a new way to create CI/CD pipelines (https://dagger.io/blog/public-launch-announcement) Docker founder Solomon Hykes launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/docker-founder-launches-dagger-a-new-devops-platform/) CUE (https://cuelang.org/) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger earned $178.6M in 2021 (https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1509472069804716034) Goldman Sachs is tracking ID swipes so it can crack down on employees who are breaking its return-to-office rules. Here's what happens to those who don't show up enough. (https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-is-tracking-swipes-to-get-people-back-rto-2022-3) Relevant to your Interests On Postgres Container Apps. Behold Smooshing: database meet app platform, app platform meet database. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/03/31/on-postgres-container-apps-behold-smooshing-database-meet-app-platform-app-platform-meet-database/) Update on “reader” app distribution (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=grjqafts) Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-03/will-i-be-able-to-subscribe-to-my-apple-aapl-iphone-and-pay-monthly-l1jc5o3e) Tinybird adds $37 million to run realtime analytics APIs for you (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/tinybird-adds-37-million-to-run-realtime-analytics-apis-for-you/?tpcc=tcplustwitter&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM6DbR0JNAhQ2Rv4GtlcllLuggWg2oYNbvCCwzAQ8XySmAM6W8JsJB5QZFYKELlABHfhkjv-SXS4YetXpmgIp0y1MfitJPfDZEwy3yW172Lvu51o_ReSpNixBd1ugWwg-mdixhwkw4i1WM1j8axSwYiOVI4XQrjGNhcjV4xjRcUS) Skillsoft and Codecademy: Equipping today’s workforce with the skills for tomorrow (https://www.skillsoft.com/blog/skillsoft-and-codecademy-equipping-todays-workforce-with-the-skills-for-tomorrow) A guide to pronouncing names of global tech companies (https://restofworld.org/2022/global-tech-company-pronunciation-guide/) Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/05/google_go_double_sign_off/) Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods (https://medium.com/paypal-tech/scaling-kubernetes-to-over-4k-nodes-and-200k-pods-29988fad6ed) Grafana Labs announces $240 million Series D round led by GIC and welcomes new investor (https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/06/grafana-labs-series-d/?mdm=social) Microsoft is integrating its Windows 365 Cloud PCs into Windows 11 (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23011183/microsoft-windows-365-11-integration-cloud-pcs-features?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4&stream=top) $120M to build a "checkout" button (https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1511420421937065984?s=21&t=RAHpnj-JXcBF2yfYUbjNaA) Google Cloud cross-platform data storage engine, BigLake (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/google-cloud-launches-biglake-a-new-cross-platform-data-storage-engine/) Announcing the next generation of Amazon Honeycode (https://honeycodecommunity.aws/t/announcing-the-next-generation-of-amazon-honeycode/16941) Boeing taps Amazon, Microsoft, Google for cloud mega-deal (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3821095-boeing-taps-amazon-microsoft-google-for-cloud-mega-deal-bloomberg) Facebook owner Meta targets virtual currency market with ‘Zuck Bucks’ (https://www.ft.com/content/50fbe9ba-32c8-4caf-a34e-234031019371) The first RISC-V portable computer is now available (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-v-portable-computer) Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night (https://interestingengineering.com/stanford-solar-panel-night) Global Unicorn Club (https://twitter.com/Brice2B/status/1511593493206077440) IBM 'misclassified' mainframe sales to enrich executives (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/?td=rt-3a) Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed late on Wednesday that it had purchased a stake in computer and printer maker HP Inc worth $4.2bn (https://on.ft.com/3r7tuPQ) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ready With Mesa 22.0, Early Intel Arc Graphics Enabled & Amber Added (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-22.04-Mesa-22.0) PaaS is back: Why enterprises keep trying to resurrect self-service developer platforms (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/paas-is-back-enterprises-self-service-dev-platforms/) We Don't Talk about PaaS - Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #59 (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/we-don-t-talk-about-paas-cote-s-commonplace-book-issue-59-970679?via=twitter-card&client=DesktopWeb&element=issue-card) Elon Musk is the new Product Manger of Twitter. (http://Elon> Musk just took a 9.2% stake in Twitter — what may happen next) Twitter plans edit button, says Elon Musk’s poll had nothing to do with it (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/twitter-plans-edit-button-says-elon-musks-poll-had-nothing-to-do-with-it/) Announcing AWS Lambda Function URLs: Built-in HTTPS Endpoints for Single-Function Microservices (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-function-urls-built-in-https-endpoints-for-single-function-microservices/) Why AMD Spent $1.9B for Pensando's DPU Biz (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/why-amd-spent-1-9b-for-pensandos-dpu-biz/2022/04/) Microsoft Azure vaults into the Arm server era with chips from Ampere (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere) Nonsense I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks (https://youtu.be/USKD3vPD6ZA) 300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day (https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/dallas-got-rick-rolled-with-a-giant-qr-code-on-april-fools-day-13716928) Comic Helvetic, an Unholy Combo of Comic Sans and Helvetica (https://kottke.org/22/04/comic-helvetic-comic-sans-and-helvetica) Footage of Jay Leno Hosting Windows 95 Launch Event Surfaces Online (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7d87a/footage-of-jay-leno-hosting-windows-95-launch-event-surfaces-online) American Airlines Restarts Philadelphia Regional Routes With Landline Buses (https://airlineweekly.com/2022/04/american-airlines-restarts-philadelphia-regional-routes-with-landline-buses/) Listener Feedback Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command (https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) Unity hiring: Senior Strategic Business Development @ Austin, TX, USA (https://careers.unity.com/position/senior-strategic-business-development/3969930) Brain Gracely wants you to join Solo.io in Tech Marketing. (https://twitter.com/bgracely/status/1511357915411750916?s=20&t=Ahsx4cjGziDZ4JQPYWQI2g) Happy Birthday Day to Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/nikiacosta/status/1508084723859533831?s=21&t=sMrz86c8vkj7Ja3mY_tOcQ). Sponsors Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers: https://origins.dev/ Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th. DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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Matt: Look at Them Beans - Johnny Cash Murder on the Orient Express (https://amzn.to/3JihaT9) (book, not the movie) Brandon: ****Yasso Bars (https://yasso.com/collections/greek-yogurt-bars) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/phEaeqe555M) Levels Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/gpiKdZmDQig)

This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes…. Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit). Rundown Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/23000148/eu-dma-damage-whatsapp-encryption-privacy) Europe says yes to messaging interoperability (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/) Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players (https://www.mmorpg.com/news/amazon-game-studio-head-steps-down-amid-declining-new-world-active-players-2000124647) Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/03/25/netflix-buys-boss-fight-in-latest-gaming-acquisition) As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/) Relevant to your Interests Mac Studio Teardown: No upgradable storage… yet (https://youtu.be/TYF527DqnwY) Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/teen-suspected-by-cyber-researchers-of-being-lapsus-mastermind?sref=ylv224K8) Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/138898/apple-acquires-uk-open-banking-startup-credit-kudos) PlanetScale Rewind (https://planetscale.com/blog/its-fine-rewind-revert-a-migration-without-losing-data) Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-launches-the-first-drivers-license-and-state-id-in-wallet-with-arizona/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/23/generaly-availability-google-cloud-now-lets-you-suspend-vms/) Sealed IBM files in age-discrimination case now public (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/confidential_ibm_docs_age_discrimination/) Want to smell in virtual reality? A Vermont-based startup has the technology (https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/03/14/virtual-reality-smell-ovr-technology) Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994814/apple-iphone-hardware-subscription-bundle-report) Nvidia CEO to Look at Intel for Foundry, Says Shift Will Be Hard (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/nvidia-ceo-to-look-at-intel-for-foundry-says-shift-will-be-hard?sref=GJfVw2fX) ( Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-25/instacart-slashes-its-valuation-by-almost-40-to-24-billion> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: iOS App Developer Settlement with Apple (https://www.smallappdeveloperassistance.com) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/YrUvoXDQuW0) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/0NRkVddA2fw)

This week we discuss how the software supply chain impacts business continuity and analyze the latest attempt to disrupt Microsoft Excel. Plus, some thoughts on bread heels…. Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit). Rundown On the weaponisation of open source (https://beny23.github.io/posts/on_weaponisation_of_open_source/) Hacker Group Claims Access to User Authentication Firm Okta (https://gizmodo.com/hacker-group-claims-extraordinary-access-to-user-authen-1848684491) The tyranny of Microsoft Excel may finally be over (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-tyranny-of-microsoft-excel-may-finally-be-over) Relevant to your Interests Website Builder Webflow Hits $4 Billion Valuation As It Nears $100 Million Revenue (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/03/16/webflow-series-c-4-billion-valuation-100-million-revenue/) Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM (https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852/) BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/) DeepMind's New AI: As Smart As An Engineer... Kind Of! (https://youtu.be/x_cxDgR1x-c) Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/netflix-ceo-says-account-sharing-is-ok/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) About Netflix - Paying to Share Netflix Outside Your Household (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/paying-to-share-netflix-outside-your-household?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) CURL is now 24 (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/20/curl-is-now-24/) Software is no longer sold; it's adopted (https://orbit.love/blog/software-is-no-longer-sold-its-adopted) Grafana Labs, raised $220 million in Series C (http://axios.link/fjLn) Coatue-Backed Grafana Seeks Funds at $5 Billion-Plus Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/coatue-backed-grafana-seeks-funds-at-5-billion-plus-valuation) Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/25/cribl-raises-200m-to-help-enterprises-do-more-with-their-data/) Elon Musk's SpaceX has activated more than 5,000 Starlink internet terminals in Ukraine, report says (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-satellite-terminals-active-ukraine-internet-2022-3) The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space. Here’s How It Would Work (https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/18/a-solar-power-station-in-space-heres-how-it-would-work-and-its-potential-benefits/) Harness Expands Software Delivery Platform With Acquisition of ChaosNative and Launches Two New Modules to Help Developers Rapidly Deliver Resilient, Reliable, Secure Software (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harness-expands-software-delivery-platform-with-acquisition-of-chaosnative-and-launches-two-new-modules-to-help-developers-rapidly-deliver-resilient-reliable-secure-software-301507809.html) Harness moves into chaos engineering with ChaosNative acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/22/harness-moves-into-chaos-engineering-with-chaosnative-acquisition/?guccounter=1) Apple hit with a widespread service outage (https://www.axios.com/apple-widespread-service-outage-c2331400-e1ba-492d-b209-dfe07900410c.html) SSH and Git, meet 1Password (https://blog.1password.com/1password-ssh-agent/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=march-product-updates) Twilio launches Flex Conversations, a unified chat API for contact centers (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/21/twilio-launches-flex-conversations-a-unified-chat-api-for-contact-centers/) Ford's F-150 Lightning will offer an EPA-rated 320 miles of range (https://www.engadget.com/ford-f-150-lightning-epa-range-estimates-164244122.html) NVIDIA Introduces Grace CPU Superchip (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-grace-cpu-superchip) Long-Enduring COBOL May Still Have A Shelf Life (https://spectrum.ieee.org/cobol-programming-shelf-life?utm_content=201673534&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-768512626586378240#toggle-gdpr) RapidAPI Raises $150M Series D Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to Empower Developers to Innovate and Build Software Faster with APIs (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220323005325/en/RapidAPI-Raises-150M-Series-D-Led-by-SoftBank-Vision-Fund-2-to-Empower-Developers-to-Innovate-and-Build-Software-Faster-with-APIs) The Ubuntu Application (https://i.redd.it/sw5nd1oj36o81.png) COBOL modernization startup CloudFrame bags $7M Series A funding (https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/22/exclusivecobol-modernization-startup-cloudframe-bags-7m-series-funding/) Updated Okta Statement on LAPSUS$ (https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/) Clocking in at $2.3 billion in losses, Business Email Compromise remains the elephant in the room. (https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-the-internet-crime-complaint-center-2021-internet-crime-report/) Nonsense Google's McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981140/mclaren-f1-android-chrome-google-mcl36-sponsor-2022) Plain Text Sports (https://plaintextsports.com/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers: https://origins.dev/ Conferences .Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online. 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This week, Coté and Matt define three sales model for doing developer-led sales. Also, we know that clown fish are optional, but do rocks need to exist? Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit). Mood Board: How many of you watch streaming? hotdogheadexplosion37 - “I’m your host, exploding hotdog.” hotdogheadexplosion37 solves agile financing problems. I’m your host, ExplodingHotDogMan What if rocks didn’t exist? I didn’t take “Philosophy of Rocks 101 in college, but I did take hydrobiology 379.” This is what happens when Brandon’s not here Legal week B to D sales The Janitorial Sales Model - vendor creates mess, drives uncontrolled/ungoverned/decentralized viral spread. The Mary Poppins Model Graffiti Proof Paint Model Rundown Rocks. The End of Daylight Saving Time? (https://twitter.com/senatecloakroom/status/1503797632745025542) Dell Striving To ‘Embrace Developers In A Big Way’: Michael Dell (https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/dell-striving-to-embrace-developers-in-a-big-way-michael-dell) Relevant to your Interests Congratulations to The Cloudcast, 600 Shows! (https://twitter.com/thecloudcastnet/status/1504070851376910341?s=20&t=g_261CFiP9bXnIgAxGhG6A) Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings (https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx) Birdeye Raises $60M Series C Funding Led by Accel-KKR to Help Local Businesses Grow (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/birdeye-raises-60m-series-c-funding-led-by-accel-kkr-to-help-local-businesses-grow-301499886.html) Commercial satellites test the rules of war in Russia-Ukraine conflict (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/10/commercial-satellites-ukraine-russia-intelligence/) Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership with focus on cloud migrations (https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/16/google-cloud-vmware-expand-partnership-focus-cloud-migrations/) The Conversation: Twitter Trends 2022 (https://marketing.twitter.com/en/insights/the-conversation-twitter-trends-2022-btc) Google's domain name registrar is out of beta after seven years (https://www.engadget.com/google-domains-beta-201056792.html?src=rss) Amazon just introduced a bizarre metaverse-like game to train people how to use AWS (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/amazon-launches-metaverse-like-game-to-train-people-how-to-use-aws.html) The first RISC-V portable computer is now available (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-v-portable-computer) Launching Valid Capital (https://zachholman.com/posts/launching-valid-capital) Veracode Announces Significant Growth Investment From TA Associates | Veracode (https://www.veracode.com/blog/security-news/veracode-announces-significant-growth-investment-ta-associates?mkt_tok=NzkwLVpLVy0yOTEAAAGDLUxgknNx2RnwA_RGOOCwibpdAPgKpM0oYFV4AIIlXQjBpYcPVvt3195gmAPK_qM8s9R_biDaz_muNzwGiEN1PbUqWtqKcfbsXiZDkm14z9aOAg) Canonical bullish on OpenStack (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/14/canonical_bullish_on_openstack/) Facebook’s Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/facebook-meta-perks.html) The next big SaaS player will be the company that solves enterprise billing (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/enterprise-saas-billing-market-sequoia#toggle-gdpr) The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/ibm_redhat_strategy/) HashiCorp beats expectations in first quarterly earnings report since going public (https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/10/hashicorp-beats-expectations-first-quarterly-earnings-call-since-going-public/) Oracle's cloud business seen as 'the driver,' of Q3 results (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811176-oracle-q3-results-on-tap-cloud-still-the-driver-moness-crespi-hardt-says) Nonsense Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died (https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb893f3) Winamp joins LimeWire in the emerging "legacy software comes back from the dead to do NFTs" trope (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-03-16-0) One of the greatest videos in all of sports (https://twitter.com/CJToledano/status/1502095289628332034) The time Vladimir Putin stole Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring (https://twitter.com/kendallbaker/status/1304007930975457280) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). 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This week we discuss the potential digital transformation of the Dollar and Snowflake’s Strategy. Plus, what exactly is Heavy Metal… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Digital Transformation of the Dollar The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world (https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1072406109/digital-dollar-federal-reserve-apple-pay-venmo-cbdc) Biden takes big step toward government-backed digital currency (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/us-government-digital-currency-rcna19248) Let’s check in on SNOW Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout) Clouded Judgement 3.4.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-3422) SNOW Investor Deck (https://s26.q4cdn.com/463892824/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/Q4-FY22-Snowflake-Investor-Presentation_vFinal.pdf) Relevant to your Interests Need to keep your SBC fresh? Armbian v22.02 is out (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/armbian_project_releases_version_2202/) Developing Games Around the World: Netflix to Acquire Next Games (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-next-games) Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman buys 7.5% stake in Splunk (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1499853648532103176?s=21) Report: Twitch confronted with staff "exodus" over strategy disagreements (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-03-04-report-twitch-confronted-with-staff-exodus-over-strategy-disagreements) As Nvidia hacker deadline looms, 71,000 employee accounts have reportedly been exposed (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22962217/nvidia-hack-lapsus-have-i-been-pwned-email-breach-password) Understanding the value of AWS and Amazon Retail integration - a perspective from a long-time $AMZN shareholder. (https://twitter.com/NayutSitachitt/status/1500071134166880256) Europe attempts to break the internet again: (https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1499543574190465024) Notable Internal Systems at Amazon (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/amazon-notable-systems/) Amazon's assistance in Ukraine (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/community/amazons-assistance-in-ukraine?_amp=true) Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't (https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/#shakedowns) DevOpsDays Austin donated $10,000 saved from 10 yrs of events to Ukraine relief (https://twitter.com/DoDAustin/status/1500954897054941187) For Its Next Trick, Nvidia Is Doing Software-Defined Storage (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/storage/its-next-trick-nvidia-doing-software-defined-storage?NL=DCK-01&Issue=DCK-01_20220308_DCK-01_396&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_b&utm_rid=CPNET000003016799&utm_campaign=45131&utm_medium=email&elq2=748e07ba5670467290e5ae0f0a6bc703) Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/amazon-announces-20-for-1-stock-split-10-billion-buyback.html) First Apple M1 Ultra Benchmark Posted, Nearly Matches Threadripper 3990X (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-m1-ultra-nearly-matches-amd-threadripper-3990x) Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project (https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-critical-infrastructure-defense/) Google to Acquire Mandiant (https://www.mandiant.com/company/press-release/mgc) Salesforce is opening four new office towers (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/salesforce-opening-new-towers) Tech giants move to reopen offices, but differ on hybrid-work plans (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3652538/tech-giants-move-to-reopen-offices-but-differ-on-hybrid-work-plans.html) Here's Everything Apple Announced Today (https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-march-2022-iphone-se-mac-studio/?bxid=5cec26a424c17c4c64607ba0&cndid=21662414&esrc=&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_GADGET_LAB_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_PaywallSubs_030822_Special_Apple&utm_mailing=WIR_PaywallSubs_030822_Special_Apple&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=P1) Nonsense When is a nanometer not nanometer? (https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume/status/1498435747065610244) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast Listener Feedback Borko wants you to work in DevRel at Render. (https://render.com/careers) Conferences .Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online. THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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Recommendations Brandon: The Last Du (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_duel_2021)e (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_duel_2021)l (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_duel_2021) Coté: complaint department grenade (https://www.google.com/search?q=complaint+department+grenade&sxsrf=APq-WBtkL9qxNC01q31Sn8P5QML2-fJE0w:1646945772678&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRofqNt7z2AhXK16QKHQLVB0IQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=2281&bih=1812&dpr=1)s (https://www.google.com/search?q=complaint+department+grenade&sxsrf=APq-WBtkL9qxNC01q31Sn8P5QML2-fJE0w:1646945772678&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRofqNt7z2AhXK16QKHQLVB0IQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=2281&bih=1812&dpr=1), The French Dispatch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Dispatch). Matt: Reincubate Camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/N__2iP37Z04) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/rGzUMs-QsCM)

This week we discuss how to measure DevRel, the legacy of Sun and a few thoughts on Markdown. Plus, we determine the TAM for trackballs… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Measuring Developer Relations (https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel) What if Sun called it Cloud? (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1498804338751275011?s=21) Relevant to your Interests A Visa exec's email to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy set off an internal scramble that's becoming increasingly common at the tech giant (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-execs-email-amazon-ceo-212121273.html) Clouded Judgement 2.25.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-22522?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email) Report: 76% of IT pros say that cloud has hit a wall (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/report-76-of-it-pros-say-that-cloud-has-hit-a-wall/) Out Of Scope - #0 (https://emilykager.substack.com/p/out-of-scope-0) Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower — Software Engineering Daily (https://overcast.fm/+E6UCo3rcM) Zendesk Scraps Takeover of SurveyMonkey Parent Company Momentive (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/zendesk-holders-said-to-reject-surveymonkey-parent-s-takeover) EPAM Systems Withdraws Financial Forecasts. It Makes Software in Ukraine. (https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/epam-systems-stock-ukraine-russia-51646072988?mod=mw_quote_news) Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games (https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/) Introducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-google-cloud-architecture-diagramming-tool?utm_campaign=6039766a0836ec00015b0fc5&utm_content=620ed18194703000011ebabc&utm_medium=smarpshare&utm_source=twitter) Kyndryl signs partnership deal with AWS (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/kyndryl_aws/) Apple is said to be working on a foldable MacBook/iPad hybrid device (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/apple-is-said-to-be-working-on-a-foldable-macbook-ipad-hybrid-device/) Amazon Luna – Cloud Gaming Service (https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page) TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28/22954525/tiktok-maximum-video-length-10-minutes) Intel energizes decades-old Linux kernel sub-project (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/intel_linutronix_linux/) Nonsense You’ve Been Wearing Your Travel Pillow Wrong This Whole Time (https://www.lifesavvy.com/83514/youve-been-wearing-your-travel-pillow-wrong-this-whole-time/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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Recommendations Brandon: Mimestream - A native macOS email client for Gmail (https://mimestream.com) (BETA) Coté: The Nineties (https://slate.com/culture/2022/02/chuck-klosterman-nineties-book-contrarian-review.html), Tyler Cowen interview with him (https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/chuck-klosterman/). Matt: Hail Mary (https://amzn.to/3CdUYrf) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/sp0U9eW2h7c) Cover Art (https://twitter.com/codeprincess/status/874266503511769088)

Brandon interviews Ev Kontsevoy the CEO and Cofounder of Teleport. They discuss Ev’s early career, his experience at Mailgun and Teleport’s opinionated approach to providing secure access. Episode Links: YouTube Clip of the question to Jeff Bezos that inspired Mailgun (https://youtu.be/6nKfFHuouzA?t=1441) Teleport (https://goteleport.com/) Teleport Slack (https://goteleport.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-midnn9bn-AQKcq5NNDs9ojELKlgwJUA#/shared-invite/email) 5 Best Practices for Securing SSH (https://goteleport.com/blog/5-ssh-best-practices/) Contact Ev: LinkedIn: kontsevoy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kontsevoy/) Twitter: @kontsevoy (https://twitter.com/kontsevoy) Special Guest: Ev Kontsevoy.

This week we discuss Kubernetes adoption, the State of Open Source Survey and the search for a better Developer Experience. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash and conflict resolution. Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Ten takeaways from the 2022 State of Open Source survey (https://opensource.org/node/1183) What is Developer Experience? a roundup of links and goodness (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/02/21/what-is-developer-experience-a-roundup-of-links-and-goodness/) Developer Experience Is Security (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2022/02/17/devex-is-security/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Relevant to your Interests California Will Stick Solar Panels Over Canals to Fight Two Disasters at Once (https://gizmodo.com/california-will-stick-solar-panels-over-canals-to-fight-1848550514) Salesforce teams with AWS on direct-to-consumer streaming media solution – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/17/salesforce-teams-with-aws-on-direct-to-consumer-streaming-media-solution/) Snyk expands into cloud security with acquisition of Fugue (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/17/snyk-leaps-into-cloud-security-with-acquisition-of-fugue/) Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/arts/music/spotify-joe-rogan-misinformation.html) Using a LinkedIn QR Code to Connect with Members (https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525286/using-a-linkedin-qr-code-to-connect-with-members?lang=en) Tiger Global, D1 Capital Signal Pullback From Big Private Tech Deals Amid Market Rout (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiger-global-d1-capital-signal-pullback-from-big-private-tech-deals-amid-market-rout) Thoughts On Markdown — Smashing Magazine (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/thoughts-on-markdown/) Salesforce employees protest against its NFT ambitions (https://www.engadget.com/salesfore-employees-protest-nft-ambitions-153913396.html) Exam software is booming, but is it ethical? (https://thehustle.co/02222022-Exam-software/) Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/18/texas-led-the-country-in-new-renewable-energy-projects-last-year.html) Introducing Gitpod for Open Source (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-for-opensource) Tech billionaire makes power play (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2022/tech-billionaire-makes-power-play.html) Why Big Tech is cooperating on smart homes (https://thehustle.co/02222022-smart-homes/) Edgeless Systems wants to make public clouds the ‘safest place for sensitive data’ (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/21/edgeless-systems-wants-to-make-public-clouds-the-safest-place-for-sensitive-data/) Goldman Sachs hands out biggest bonuses on Wall Street as talent shortage rages (https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/goldman-sachs-hands-out-biggest-bonuses-on-wall-street/) Intel Ramps Up Linux Investment By Acquiring Linutronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Acquires-Linutronix) KubeDoc Follow Up (http://Follow> up on the K8s documentary from Joe Beda) Nonsense Texas Weather (https://twitter.com/makeitrainshane/status/1496486188332593161?s=21) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast Listener Feedback macOS Utilities and Clip Board Managers Chris recommends Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com) Rookie recommends Mac tools like shuffle, flux and spectacle. (https://earthly.dev/blog/command-line-tools/) Conferences .Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online. THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 THAT Conference Wisconsin Call for Speakers is open (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Severance (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx) on Apple TV+ (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx). Coté: Hilda (https://www.netflix.com/title/80115346); All Killa, No Filla podcast #69 (https://allkillanofilla.libsyn.com/all-killa-no-filla-episode-69-peter-sutcliffe-part-6), “toe-mat-oes”; Indonesian ribs (https://www.plus.nl/product/plus-spareribs-indische-stijl-vacu-m-600-gram-782203). Matt: The Flight Attendant (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7569576/). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/LEswk_fL8RE) Survey Response (https://www.openlogic.com/resources/2022-open-source-report#top) Show Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/pKeF6Tt3c08)

The week we review Kubernetes: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU) and Matt explains why there is no Diet Coke in Australia. Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Movie Review: Kubernetes: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU) The improbable rise of Kubernetes to become the operating system of the cloud (https://siliconangle.com/2022/02/12/improbable-rise-kubernetes-become-operating-system-cloud/) CNCF Sees Record Kubernetes and Container Adoption in 2021 Cloud Native Survey (https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2022/02/10/cncf-sees-record-kubernetes-and-container-adoption-in-2021-cloud-native-survey/) Mirantis on run rate over $100M two years after buying Docker Enterprise assets (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/09/mirantis-on-run-rate-over-100m-two-years-after-buying-docker-enterprise-assets) Relevant to your Interests Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy's first all-hands meeting ends early as laid-off employees crash it (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/09/peloton-ceos-first-all-hands-meeting-cut-short-as-ex-staff-crash-it.html) There Are Now 1,000 Unicorn Startups Worth $1 Billion or More (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-09/there-are-now-1-000-unicorn-private-company-startups-worth-1-billion-or-more) Zendesk Fields Takeover Offer From Private Equity Group (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-11/zendesk-fields-takeover-offer-from-private-equity-group) ISS, Glass Lewis urge Zendesk investors vote against Momentive deal (https://www.reuters.com/business/glass-lewis-recommends-zendesk-investors-vote-against-momentive-deal-2022-02-11/) Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/10/republics-metaverse-real-estate-arm-spins-off-rebrands-as-everyrealm/) Apple Announces AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/10/airtag-updates-unwanted-tracking/) Amazon and Spotify mull bids for London-listed podcaster Audioboom (https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-and-spotify-mull-bids-for-london-listed-podcaster-audioboom-12541467?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter) Microsoft is reopening its Washington and Bay Area offices this month (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/14/microsoft-is-reopening-its-washington-and-bay-area-offices-this-month.html) Why Startup Founders Should Check In With Their Investors About Compliance (https://thedefiant.io/vc-startups-compliance/) Cyber security company Securonix raises $1 billion in Vista-led round (https://wtvbam.com/2022/02/14/cyber-security-company-securonix-raises-1-billion-in-vista-led-round/) IBM wanted to correct 'seniority mix' by firing older staff (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/ibm_age_discrimination_court_documents/) JPMorgan Is the First Bank Into the Metaverse, Looks at Business Opportunities (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/15/jpmorgan-is-the-first-bank-into-the-metaverse-looks-at-business-opportunities/) Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/13/22932397/coinbases-qr-code-super-bowl-ad-app-crash) VMware, Nvidia team up on AI-powered hybrid cloud platform (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/14/vmware-nvidia-team-up-on-ai-powered-hybrid-cloud-platform/) Google Search Is Dying | DKB (https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying) Fantastical update adds cloud-based scheduling features (https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/02/fantastical-update-adds-cloud-based-scheduling-features/) 20 years of .NET: Microsoft's Scott Hunter on the developer platform's "amazing journey" (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/20-years-of-net-microsofts-scott-hunter/) ****- 'Where is my office anyway?' As COVID recedes, remote workers prepare to head back (https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1080881870/return-to-the-office-remote-work-hybrid-schedule-worker-productivity) AWS brings its Local Zones mini data centers to 32 new cities (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/16/aws-brings-its-local-zone-mini-data-centers-to-32-new-cities/) Launching and Scaling Data Science Teams: Three Years Later (https://ian-macomber.medium.com/launching-and-scaling-data-science-teams-three-years-later-f1fa6f25b4ae) Shades of DevOps - Related Job titles (https://www.jedi.be/blog/2022/02/11/shades-of-devops-roles/) Snyk Acquires Fugue, Enters Cloud Security Market (https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-fugue-enters-cloud-security-market/) 1Password for SSH & Git (Beta) | 1Password Developer Documentation (https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/) Nvidia writes off $1.4bn in aftermath of failed Arm merger (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/nvidia_arm_results/) Intel to acquire contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/15/intel-to-acquire-contract-chipmaker-tower-semiconductor-for-5-4b/) Meta closes Kustomer deal after regulatory approval (https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-closes-kustomer-deal-after-regulatory-approval-2022-02-15/) Introducing Gitpod for Open Source (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-for-opensource) Spotify acquires Podsights and Chartable to advance its podcasting business (https://www.reuters.com/business/spotify-acquires-podsights-chartable-advance-its-podcasting-business-2022-02-16/) Nonsense Buc-ee's plans first store outside of the South (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2022/02/11/buc-ees-expansion-colorado.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMFB_AU&csrc=6398&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2g1jbZKpebJ2D5BSLlURVrZzEZTDPxPy6rXi1EGmpkgSRgN0b78gprzI0) Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige & Kendrick Lamar FULL Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show (https://youtu.be/gdsUKphmB3Y) Recycled bulletproof vests may boost the range of electric cars 5-fold, and extend battery life to 10 years (https://www.businessinsider.com/recycled-bulletproof-vests-may-increase-electric-car-range-5-fold-2022-2) All Blacks sale gets green light after players agree to private equity deal (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/17/all-blacks-sale-gets-green-light-after-players-agree-to-private-equity-deal) Learning Things From Internet Videos — Postlight — Digital Strategy, Design and Engineering (https://postlight.com/insights/learning-things-from-internet-videos) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast Listener Feedback Ryan recommends Invasion on Apple TV+ (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/invasion/umc.cmc.70b7z97fv7azfzn5baqnj88p6) Conferences .Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online. THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 THAT Conference Wisconsin Call for Speakers is open (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: PasteBot (https://tapbots.com/pastebot/) and speeding up your mouse tracking on macOS (https://paulminors.com/blog/how-to-speed-up-mouse-tracking-on-mac/) Coté: Max Headroom TV show - search Daily Motion (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7zvy3a). Pastie app. B2B TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@firmlearning/video/7050578875159547141?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1). And, Streaming Coté (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8cRg_d0Qzq_1b6KUS3yI5w). Matt: Hands on a Hardbody (https://mailchimp.com/presents/film/hands-on-a-hardbody/) - On MailChimp? Photo Credits Header Image (https://unsplash.com/photos/TFRezw7pQwI) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/wSkfttEaBw8)

This week we discuss what to expect in cloud in 2020 and the prospect of building a better Kubernetes Developer Experience. Plus, Coté explains the Dutch concept of Gezellig. Rundown What to expect in cloud computing in 2022 and beyond (https://siliconangle.com/2022/02/07/expect-cloud-computing-2022-beyond/) A Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers is Key in 2022 (https://containerjournal.com/features/a-better-kubernetes-experience-for-developers-is-key-in-2022/) Relevant to your Interests AWS Earnings (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1489349176014036992) TriggerMesh, Case Study in Open Sourcing Enterprise Software (https://thenewstack.io/triggermesh-case-study-in-open-sourcing-enterprise-software/) Strange Computer Languages: A Hacker’s Field Guide (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/strange-computer-languages-a-hackers-field-guide/) Real-time code sharing for your lectures and presentations (https://brunosimon.github.io/keppler/) Demostack - Spin up a demo, tailor the story, win more deals faster (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/demostack) Microsoft Responds to OneDrive Mac User Criticism Following Decision to Enforce Files On-Demand Feature (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/03/microsoft-responds-mac-onedrive-criticism/) Docker. Highlights from our fiscal year: (https://twitter.com/scottcjohnston/status/1489606304058548226?s=21) The end of the metaverse hopefully (https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-end-of-the-metaverse-hopefully) YouTube vs. Netflix (https://twitter.com/austin_rief/status/1490481914075131907?s=21) Chrome is changing its logo for the first time in eight years (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22919398/chrome-logo-change-eight-years) Why rapid wage growth makes the Fed nervous (https://www.axios.com/federal-reserve-inflation-wage-growth-c34de73f-1822-46dc-9e9c-c6aeb777a6da.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) SoftBank’s $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses (https://www.ft.com/content/59c0d5f9-ed6a-4de6-a997-f25faed58833?shareType=nongift) DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914085/alphacode-ai-coding-program-automatic-deepmind-codeforce) Meta says it may shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe over data-sharing dispute (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/meta-threatens-to-shut-down-facebook-and-instagram-in-europe.html) Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/apple-unveils-contactless-payments-via-tap-to-pay-on-iphone/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Square dongle could be in trouble (https://www.axios.com/square-dongle-trouble-37bed05e-2368-44b1-a145-0c59e993fe67.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) PopSQL Raises $14M in Series A Funding (https://www.finsmes.com/2022/02/popsql-raises-14m-in-series-a-funding.html) Report: Google Quietly Ditching Stadia (https://kotaku.com/google-stadia-streaming-failing-shutdown-report-stream-1848487185) Amazon raises the maximum base pay for corporate and tech employees (https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1490709656083124225) Amazon and Nike are reportedly thinking of buying Peloton (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-nike-peloton-150402603.html) Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing two-step authentication by default (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/8/22923618/google-account-hacks-dropped-half-two-step-authentication) NCAA is adding 2 factor authentication to its suite of web apps (https://twitter.com/rj_writes/status/1491214001275285504?s=21) Microsoft Considers Pursuing a Deal for Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-08/microsoft-is-said-to-pursue-deal-for-cybersecurity-firm-mandiant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Peloton takedown PPT (https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf) Nonsense Wild Hipster Couple Accused in $4.5 Billion Crypto Crime (https://www.thedailybeast.com/heather-morgan-rapping-tech-ceo-accused-of-laundering-billions-in-hacked-crypto-with-ilya-lichtenstein) How to Make an NFT (https://www.howtogeek.com/783359/how-to-make-an-nft/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF’s new project and Tim Bray’s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity… Rundown Earnings Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales (https://www.axios.com/apple-earnings-top-estimates-strong-iphone-4a850376-e1f2-445f-90b4-2d3216a1e36f.html) Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1486876801314000903?s=21) Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/alphabet-crushes-earnings-announces-20-212516853.html) Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/) OSS Security Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) (https://openssf.org/) OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects (https://openssf.org/press-release/2022/02/01/openssf-announces-the-alpha-omega-project-to-improve-software-supply-chain-security-for-10000-oss-projects/) Citrix goes private (https://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2022/takeprivate.html) Tim Bray’s take on Cloud (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In) Relevant to your Interests Confluent and AWS just announced a "Strategic Collaboration Agreement." (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1486876801314000903?s=21https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1486790805029199872) Internal messages show Amazon is telling employees to warn customers away from using Microsoft's or Google's clouds as a hedge against AWS outages (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-multi-cloud-outages-messaging-sales-marketing-2022-1) Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html) Google cloud unit shuffles partnerships and sales groups as CEO Kurian chases market share (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/28/google-cloud-unit-shuffles-partnerships-and-sales-groups-email-says.html) Science says ‘Zoom fatigue’ is real — and worse when you don’t like your face (https://thehustle.co/01282022-zoom-fatigue) Power tool companies have discovered USB-C (https://twitter.com/verge/status/1486883202102923269?s=21) Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/27/life360-says-it-will-stop-selling-precise-location-data) Germany will break the Internet (https://twitter.com/fascinatingtech/status/1487342734906171393) A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs (https://mirror.xyz/dhaiwat.eth/O5CK6Tjfv8uhl6FPbjT0yZ8LUwViDPWGYHdu9khRWpM) Meta doubles down on Oculus Quest name change and everyone hates it (https://www.androidcentral.com/meta-quest-oculus-name-change) Streaming Service Retention Rates (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1488249269433872384?s=21) Okta Chart for Cloud Adoption (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1488233622934933504?s=21) Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/commentary-how-homeowners-defeated-zillows-ai-ultimately-leading-to-zillow-offers-demise/) Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/ryanbreslow-bolt/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) The numbers behind Spotify's Rogan (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-f981e6a4-e379-409c-aba4-83ee55beb79f.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare) How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy” (https://charity.wtf/2022/01/20/how-engineering-driven-leads-to-engineering-supremacy/) Universal Control was worth the wait – here's how it's changing the way I work (https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/28/universal-contorl-ipad-and-mac-feature/) Craob X: World's First Portless Laptop on The Way (Exclusive Leak) - My Laptop Guide (https://mylaptopguide.com/craob-x-worlds-first-portless-laptop-on-the-way-exclusive-leak/) .NET Beyond (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond) Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant (https://www.fintechfutures.com/2022/02/bolt-founder-ryan-breslow-announces-new-ceo-after-silicon-valley-twitter-rant/) SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22913921/spacex-starlink-premium-satellite-internet-faster-speed-expensive) MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation (https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-corporation-ab-to-become-a-publicly-traded-company-via-combination-with-angel-pond-holdings-corporation/) Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion) Serverless less trendy? (https://twitter.com/LawrenceHecht/status/1486723915393101836) Nonsense Tesla launches 'TeslaMic,' a microphone for in-car karaoke (https://electrek.co/2022/01/28/tesla-launches-teslamic-microphone-in-car-karaoke/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback Brian recommends you read Amp It Up (https://www.audible.com/pd/Amp-It-Up-Audiobook/B09QBTJZJL) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 THAT Conference Wisconsin Call for Speakers is open (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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This week we discuss the SAT going online, the Pyramid of Open Source and dealing with tech debt. Plus, some thoughts on expense reports… Rundown Starting in 2024, U.S. students will take the SAT entirely online (https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075315337/new-digital-sat-college-admissions-test-requirement-2024-us) Enforcing the Pyramid of Open Source (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/17/enforcing-the-pyramid-of-open-source/) Microsoft cloud revenues power Microsoft's $51.7 billion second FY'22 quarter | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-cloud-revenues-power-microsofts-51-7-billion-second-fy22-quarter/) Relevant to your Interests Twitter brings NFTs to profile photos, but only for Twitter Blue subscribers | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/twitter-blue-nft-profile-photos-193912407.html) Peloton hires McKinsey to review cost structure; cycle maker may cut jobs, close stores (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/peloton-hires-mckinsey-to-review-cost-structure-as-equipment-sales-slow-.html) Michael Dell Op-ed: There will never be a post-Covid world (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/there-will-never-be-a-post-covid-world-michael-dell.html) Merck wins cyber-insurance lawsuit related to NotPetya attack (https://therecord.media/merck-wins-cyber-insurance-lawsuit-related-to-notpetya-attack/) Anitian Raises $55 Million Series B to Further Transform the Cloud Security and Compliance Automation Industries with Pre-Engineered, Zero Trust Cloud Platforms (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anitian-raises-55-million-series-b-to-further-transform-the-cloud-security-and-compliance-automation-industries-with-pre-engineered-zero-trust-cloud-platforms-301464500.html) Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/25/google-kills-off-floc-replaces-it-with-topics/) Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon $40 Billion Arm Bid (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-25/nvidia-is-said-to-quietly-prepare-to-abandon-takeover-of-arm?srnd=deals&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) SparkCognition, which develops AI solutions for a range of industries, nabs $123M (https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/25/sparkcognition-which-develops-ai-solutions-for-a-range-of-industries-nabs-123m/) Oracle audit also a 'sales enablement tool' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/oracle_audits/) Apple pays record $100,500 to student who found Mac webcam hack | AppleInsider (https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/25/apple-pays-record-100500-to-student-who-found-mac-webcam-hack?utm_medium=rss) This Post Was Written by GitHub Copilot | flower.codes (https://flower.codes/2021/07/08/this-post-was-written-by-github-copilot) Can CNN make streaming work? (https://thehustle.co/01272022-CNN-streaming/) Kelsey Hightower vs. Chris Dixon (https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1486141993910738947) Meta-backed Diem in talks to sell off assets: report (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/131658/meta-backed-diem-in-talks-to-sell-off-assets-report) Nonsense Boeing Adds $450 Million to Air-Taxi Effort (https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-expands-focus-on-air-taxis-11643022001) A bot tried to ruin Wordle by posting the next day’s answer. Twitter suspended the account. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/25/twitter-suspends-wordle-ruining-bot/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback From Slack: Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs (https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g) by Dan Olson Michale wants you to work at ****Honeycomb as a Senior Product Marketing Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/honeycomb/fbaf1073-5ed0-44f1-aeea-2e8da4abb300) Brian wants you to be a Senior Product Manager - Cloud Infrastructure in Remote (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/93594/senior-product-manager---cloud-infrastructure/job?mode=view&mobile=false&width=1140&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=540&jun1offset=540) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 THAT Conference Wisconsin Call for Speakers is open (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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This week we discuss Open Source Model Business Models, Cloud Migrations and the prospect of cloud providers becoming “dumb pipes.” Plus, some thoughts on the rise of Professor Galloway. Rundown There is such a thing as an open source business model (https://tracymiranda.com/2022/01/18/there-is-such-a-thing-as-an-open-source-business-model/) Web3 | No Mercy / No Malice (https://www.profgalloway.com/web3/) AWS is Not a Dumb Pipe (https://matt-rickard.com/aws-is-not-a-dumb-pipe/) Clouded Judgement 1.14.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-11422?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta) Remote work and cloud adoption lands 1Password with $620M Series C, now valued at $6.8B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/1password-series-c-funding/) Relevant to your Interests Kubernetes needs a developer platform (https://odedia.org/kubernetes-needs-a-developer-platform) Observable raises $35.6M to bring better visibility to enterprise data (https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/13/observable-raises-35-6m-to-bring-better-observability-to-enterprise-data/) People Building 'Blockchain City' in Wyoming Scammed by Hackers - Slashdot (https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/01/14/2049248/people-building-blockchain-city-in-wyoming-scammed-by-hackers?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Custom Models Production Reportedly Halted Amidst BIOS & Design Issues (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-custom-models-production-reportedly-halted-amidst-bios-design-issues/) Superior Court judge rules that Google's nondisclosure agreements are so broad they violate the state's ban on noncompete agreements (https://twitter.com/josheidelson/status/1482172137100103681?s=21) Dutch competition authority recently ruled that Apple must allow dating apps to offer alternative payments. (https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1482352249359765504?s=20) Web3 is going just great (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/) It was nice to be invited but I wish I hadn’t been. #aws #tektok (https://www.tiktok.com/@quinnypig/video/7051805142575828229?_d=secCgwIARCbDRjEFSADKAESPgo8n%2BSYoNkGjICEDwLtsEq5Vw8vYOrCeKA%2BYdnbH2q%2BGzCJSq0PR6HDK9dRZrD9ybwiTPzGCTYAE5wzEUzOGgA%3D&checksum=39492f2b99a6e16e45d03599f4c740f13d168c4885ba087d002c9da02d345c79&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAloz292Ou8nd0JpLkbR5Ni1HtvoxFxXznJH7K8cTaC-sb_PTSx0Gz3VJhg0IaQE-y&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7051805142575828229&share_link_id=ED4E7720-207C-4CE8-B721-3156FE8CBB61&source=h5_m×tamp=1642380671&tt_from=copy&u_code=dh620mifaijla3&user_id=6930822818507047942&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy&_r=1) 10 real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines (https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/01/13/10-real-world-stories-of-how-weve-compromised-ci-cd-pipelines/) Ford signs five-year payments deal with Stripe for e-commerce drive (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/ford-signs-five-year-payments-deal-with-stripe-for-e-commerce-drive.html) Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device - Stories (https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/) I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone. (https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s2igq9/i_automated_my_job_over_a_year_ago_and_havent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Tales From Crypto: A Billionaire Meme Feud Threatens Industry Unity (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/business/dealbook/web3-venture-capital-andreessen.html) Better.com CEO Who Fired 900 Workers On Zoom Call Reinstalled (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/01/18/better-ceo-vishal-garg-returns-softbank/?sh=3d7d30903595) Charted: Big tech's ballooning deals (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1a493767-1c76-4401-bcde-04aaa86927e2.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare) Airlines warn of "catastrophic disruption" in 5g service deployment (https://www.axios.com/airlines-catastrophic-disruption-flights-5g-55446670-0f98-4f7b-8a89-c76bdacb2675.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Harness releases open version of continuous delivery product with access to source code – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/harness-releases-open-version-of-continuous-delivery-product-with-access-to-source-code/?tpcc=tcplustwitter&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADLmrkm7w_e6Izxgu7aR_NvVW7P0_mJUDI6o-fuqX4cafEZWt6pA7YDzu1R1QI58Z1Abyd6nBlRaz3J99j3TJdT7rBb_-hdPut3zznMQrSKhqeexm71mz9m5wJ4sG6InSkB4lr-mS63m7GT2EDpUFDyvAfhEoDoos75FVvDKH8An) Kubernetes needs a developer platform (https://odedia.org/kubernetes-needs-a-developer-platform) ‘It’s All Just Wild’: Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth (https://dnyuz.com/2022/01/19/its-all-just-wild-tech-start-ups-reach-a-new-peak-of-froth/) SaaS acquisition multiples in 2021 (https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/saas-acquisition-multiples-in-2021-d9f646f914ba) Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/) Zoom multiple (https://twitter.com/gilbert/status/1482075188602699779?s=21) Nonsense Busy Simulator (https://busysimulator.com/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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This week we discuss NPM corruption, why Web3 may not be different and the future focus of Hyperscalers. Plus, some thoughts on Dutch Doctors. Rundown NPM corruption Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects (https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected) Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/) Web 3 is exciting because incumbents like solving known problems Computing and data infrastructure in '22 (https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/computing-and-data-infrastructure-in-22/) Aneel Lakhan take on Web3 and the need for a currency but not necessarily bitcoin via The Cloud Cast. (https://overcast.fm/+RrQyCAW4/33:45) Reasons why Web3 may not be all that different Matt Mullenweg on Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0 (https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1479998907123863554?s=21) My first impressions of web3 (https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html) The Cloud Cast episode Look Ahead VC Funding (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/01/2022-look-ahead-vc-funding.html) Maybe Hyperscalers should just focus in on primitives? (https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/computing-and-data-infrastructure-in-22/) I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months. (https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/) Relevant to your Interests Is Clubhouse dead? Not if you are in South Asia (https://restofworld.org/2022/is-clubhouse-dead-not-if-you-are-in-south-asia) NFT kingpin OpenSea lands monster $13.3B valuation in new raise (https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nft-kingpin-opensea-lands-monster-024228291.html) Andreessen Horowitz completes massive $9B fundraise for startups - FinLedger (https://finledger.com/2022/01/07/andreessen-horowitz-completes-massive-9b-fundraise-for-startups/) The Multicloud Engineer (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1479518107207143432) Lyft did a four part blog series on scaling engineering productivity (https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1478552675293696000) Podcasting Hasn’t Produced A New Hit in Years (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-09/podcasting-hasn-t-produced-a-new-hit-in-years) Take-Two is buying Zynga (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1480529880240558095?s=21) This company just decided to give employees a 4-day workweek permanently (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/the-4-day-workweek-becomes-permanent-for-tech-company-bolt.html) Free to read: Coronavirus tracked: has the epidemic peaked near you? (https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areas=aus&areas=can&areas=chn&areas=jpn&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usnh&areasRegional=uspr&areasRegional=usdc&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=usmi&cumulative=0&logScale=0&per100K=1&startDate=2021-06-01&values=cases) New year, new CEO (https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/) Carriers Are Pissed About Apple's Best New Privacy Feature (https://gizmodo.com/carriers-are-pissed-about-apples-best-new-privacy-featu-1848334572) CEO Of $10 Billion Open-Source Company Elastic Steps Down, President Leaves (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/01/12/elastic-ceo-shay-banon-steps-down/?sh=7b9d03e43aa8) Nonsense Forced by shortages to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM warnings (https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/forced-by-shortages-to-sell-chipless-cartridges-canon-tells-customers-how-to-bypass-drm-warnings.html) Every few years Australia takes an international superstar hostage for unclear reasons (https://twitter.com/andrewriddle36/status/1480324097024270343?s=21) Snoop Dogg Is Planning To Launch A Hot Dog Brand Called “Snoop Doggs” – Billboard (https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/snoop-dogg-trademark-hot-dogs-1235017107/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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This week we discuss why cloud numbers don’t add up, Oracle buys Cerner and the demise of BlackBerry. Plus, Matt gives advice for keeping up with Web3. Rundown Cloud numbers don’t add up (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3645135/cloud-numbers-dont-add-up.html) A Look Back at Q3 '21 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q3-21-public-cloud) Oracle to buy medical records company Cerner in its biggest acquisition ever (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/oracle-to-buy-medical-records-company-cerner.html) Apple hits $3 trillion market cap, becoming first company to hit the mark (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-hits-3-trillion-market-cap-184825195.html) If you're clinging to an old BlackBerry, it will officially stop working on Jan. 4 (https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1069938727/blackberry-phones-will-stop-working-january-4) Relevant to your Interests AWS Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan’s FTC (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/amazon-cloud-unit-draws-fresh-antitrust-scrutiny-from-khan-s-ftc) You have asked for this, it is basically your fault! (https://twitter.com/loujaybee/status/1473946267713777668) MongoDB Poaches Top Amazon Executives to Compete With AWS (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-21/mongodb-poaches-top-amazon-executives-to-compete-with-aws) AWS DynamoDB architect who recently left for MongoDB (https://twitter.com/houlihan_rick/status/1472969503575265283) Enterprise Strategy Blog 2021: Year-End Roundup (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/enterprise-strategy-blog-2021-year-end-roundup/) Amazon announces broad cloud and AI collaboration with auto giant Stellantis (https://u5080173.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/mU8jup-SNFzYvtbX4uPzDyL1IAz5Ln7YgpEcFyupWXkYVfffvkmVk3BhLDlVzDFIeRw_P95DEa2HqI_BexBNjAKvt6FfRZthQGF2WSCjJiYFiPMVhizyP2yS5z_xaIxS9XEABf95iIZIf6WpIvoRag/3ih/XiBZVWqJTIeD_85_O-P01Q/h92/VZ-TuO40kMGZGcvR-G4w0vWL0MmFfxA7Qn8k94v91FM) M&A and VC Google confirms it acquired cybersecurity specialist Siemplify, reportedly for $500M, to become part of Google Cloud’s Chronicle (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/google-confirms-it-acquired-cybersecurity-specialist-siemplify-reportedly-for-500m-to-become-part-of-google-clouds-chronicle/) Google confirms it acquired cybersecurity specialist Siemplify, reportedly for $500M, to become part of Google Cloud’s Chronicle (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/google-confirms-it-acquired-cybersecurity-specialist-siemplify-reportedly-for-500m-to-become-part-of-google-clouds-chronicle/) PitchBook: seed and early stage startups in the US raised $93B in 2021 through December 15, up from $52B in 2020 and $30B in 2016 (http://www.techmeme.com/220103/p8#a220103p8) Spotify acquires podcast tech company Whooshkaa which turns radio broadcasts into on-demand audio (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/spotify-acquires-podcast-tech-company-whooshkaa-which-turns-radio-broadcasts-into-on-demand-audio/) Cal.com, Inc. raises $7.4m Seed (https://cal.com/blog/seed) Redpoint Ventures is Launching a Media Operation—And Embracing TikTok (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/redpoint-ventures-is-launching-a-media-operation-and-embracing-tiktok) Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreesen are still working (https://twitter.com/bhorowitz/status/1469063034765250562?s=21) Crypto Money in the Metaverse (https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/money-in-the-metaverse) The Block Unicorn Index (https://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1472256861252501509?s=21) RadioShack goes Crypto (https://www.radioshack.com) Pay Google will pay top execs $1 million each after declining to boost workers’ pay (https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22867419/google-execs-million-salaries-raise-sec) Apple Pays Its Engineers $180,000 Bonuses to Stop Them From Joining Meta (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-28/apple-pays-unusual-180-000-bonuses-to-retain-engineering-talent) Apple Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a full native app with macOS 12.2 beta (https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/16/apple-is-rebuilding-apple-music-as-a-full-native-app-with-macos-12-2-beta/) Apple is reportedly going to make more of its own chips (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22839850/apple-office-develop-chips-in-house-broadcom-skyworks) Alexa Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/amazon-s-voice-controlled-smart-speaker-alexa-can-t-hold-customer-interest-docs) Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383) Security LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-warned-their-master-passwords-are-compromised) Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp users targeted in phishing scheme (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/facebook-messenger-instagram-and-whatsapp-users-targeted-in-phishing-scheme/) Misc TikTok is accused of violating GPL with new live streaming software (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/tiktok-obs-gpl-violation) Retailers To Lose $828 Million Of Sales Over Christmas Due To Inaccessible Websites (https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/12/19/retailers-to-lose-828-million-of-sales-over-christmas-due-to-inaccessible-websites/) What’s next for Cloud Foundry (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/27/whats-next-for-cloud-foundry/) A big video game company enters the metaverse (https://thehustle.co/01062022-square-enix) IBM has restarted attempts to sell its unprofitable Watson Health division (https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1479085532902612994?s=20) Minecraft as a k8s admin tool (https://eric-jadi.medium.com/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-cf16f890de42) Web3 (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) For (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) and (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) Against (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) Jack Dorsey says VCs really own Web3 (and Web3 boosters are pretty mad about it) (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848162/jack-dorsey-web3-criticism-a16z-ownership-venture-capital-twitter) Nonsense U Refill Toner | Laser printer cartridge refills you do yourself (https://www.urefilltoner.co.uk/index.html) Pedant-friendly millipede discovered: First with 1,000+ legs (https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/16/newly_discovered_millipede_earns_its/) Largest ever giant millipede fossil found on UK beach (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/largest-ever-giant-millipede-fossil-found-on-uk-beach) A DAO wants to make Blockbuster a decentralized film streaming service (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/128564/a-dao-wants-to-buy-blockbuster-and-turn-it-into-a-decentralized-film-streaming-service?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss) Marvel Cinematic Universe is taking over the box office (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1477657032798846979) Researchers make world's thinnest Christmas tree (https://phys.org/news/2021-12-world-thinnest-christmas-tree.html) Dieser Tortilla ist köstlich! Kein Öl, kein Backofen! Einfaches und leckeres Frühstück # 110 (https://youtu.be/t5C-6yrevHo) Crypto CEO Brian Armstrong Buys Los Angeles Home for $133 Million (https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-ceo-brian-armstrong-buys-los-angeles-home-for-133-million-11641249787) Taco Bell launches taco-a-day subscription program nationwide to drive visits (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/06/taco-bell-launches-taco-a-day-subscription-program-nationwide-to-drive-visits.html) North Koreans enjoy burritos after paper bizarrely claims Kim Jong-il invented them (https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/north-korea-burritos-kim-jong-il-vda90265d) ****## Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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Recommendations Brandon: Station Eleven on HBO (https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYZWoOQ6F9cLDCAEAAABP) Book originally recommend on episode 137 (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/137) Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)State of the World 2022 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/516/State-of-the-World-2022-page01.html) Photo Credits CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/_mp8b9l0nC0) Banner Picture (https://unsplash.com/photos/zbpgmGe27p8)

This week we discuss the stories of the year, make a few predications and answer listener questions. Plus, some thoughts on grammar… Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/) Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT (https://that.us/activities/onqzzIqfp9NOeyLm67SY) Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Apple Photo Widget. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207023) Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)Hades (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dulle_Griet,_by_Pieter_Brueghel_(I).jpg). Coté: Chateau La Fleur Perey, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, 2018 (https://www.vivino.com/NL/en/chateau-la-fleur-perey-saint-emilion-grand-cru-st-emilion-grand-cru/w/1239347). Photo Credits Banner Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/nXXXgGHyfdw) Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/Vn1m4tSCUt0)

This week Brandon interviews Michael Wilde. They discuss Wilde's career progression from Sales Engineer to Account Executive and Honeycomb's approach to Observability. Plus, some thoughts on yoga... Show Links Honeycomb.io (https://www.honeycomb.io) BubbleUp (https://docs.honeycomb.io/working-with-your-data/bubbleup/) Contact Wilde LinkedIn: michael wilde (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelwilde/) Twitter: @michaelwilde (https://twitter.com/michaelwilde) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/honeycomb) Special Guest: Michael Wilde.

This week we discuss how the industry reacted to the Log4j vulnerability and the merits of going Multicloud. Plus, some thoughts on printer paper. Rundown Log4j and OSS Security warning: New zero-day in the Log4j Java library is already being exploited (https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-warning-new-zero-day-in-the-log4j-java-library-is-already-being-exploited/) ‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22828303/log4j-library-vulnerability-log4shell-zero-day-exploit) What you need to know about the Log4J vulnerability rocking the internet (https://blog.f-secure.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-log4j-vulnerability-rocking-the-internet/) Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Popular Java Library Log4j (https://www.govcert.ch/blog/zero-day-exploit-targeting-popular-java-library-log4j/) Paying people to work on OSS (https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1470074108327215118?s=21) Don’t pay people to work on OSS? (https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/1470393230256533505?s=21) AWS Outage and Multicloud Is multi-cloud getting more popular? (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/12/aws-outage-and-hashicorp-ipo-point-to-a-multicloud-future.html) It always has been, also, it means a lot (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/cote-s-commonplace-book-issue-56-889420). Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region (https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/) https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com Relevant to your interests Oracle swings to loss because of payment tied to dispute over former CEO Hurd's employment (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/oracle-orcl-earnings-q2-2022.html) Snowflake stock soars after software sales more than double (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/snowflake-stock-soars-after-software-sales-more-than-double-11638393921) Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’ (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/10/better-com-ceo-vishal-garg-steps-back-as-employees-detail-how-he-led-by-fear/) Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend (https://www.pcworld.com/article/559001/the-future-of-esports-is-microsoft-excel-and-its-on-espn.html) Is multi-cloud getting more popular? (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/12/aws-outage-and-hashicorp-ipo-point-to-a-multicloud-future.html) Who gets left out of ‘bootstrapping’? (https://thehustle.co/who-gets-left-out-of-bootstrapping/?utm_source=sunday%20-%2012/12) SnapLogic raises $165M to accelerate enterprise automation via data integration (https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/13/snaplogic-raises-150m-accelerate-enterprise-automation-via-data-integration/) Take one last look at Google Toolbar, which is now dead (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/happy-21st-birthday-to-google-toolbar-which-inexplicably-still-exists/) The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ) Apple Officially Delays macOS Monterey Universal Control Until Spring 2022 (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/13/apple-delays-universal-control/) Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/13/low-code-software-start-up-airtable-worth-11-billion-in-new-funding.html) Noname Security Becomes First API Security Unicorn (https://nonamesecurity.com/blog/noname-security-becomes-first-api-security-unicorn) Catching Up On Cloud Infrastructure Startups After The HashiCorp IPO (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2021/12/14/catching-up-on-cloud-infrastructure-startups-after-the-hashicorp-ipo/) GitLab acquires Opstrace - FAQ (https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-acquires-opstrace-faq/62844) Nonsense How to speak Australian : Abbreviate Everything (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDb_WsAt_Z0) Recycling Center - Sorting Aluminum and Steel (https://youtu.be/BuBIDn9kkY8?t=79) NIKE, Inc. Acquires RTFKT (https://news.nike.com/news/nike-acquires-rtfkt) A Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All (https://spectrum.ieee.org/delivery-robot-anymal) Busy Simulator (https://busysimulator.com/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. 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Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Apple Legacy Contact (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/14/how-to-set-up-legacy-contacts-on-ios-15) Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)A.P. Bio (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6461726/) Coté: Texas Sun (https://open.spotify.com/album/4HFO9PDRxsdbcegkcNhxgz?si=1VPg7l8NRriNVxR03eJ7LQ). Also, the song Coté was trying to remember, “Didn’t I,” by Darondo (https://open.spotify.com/track/6Dq2LzijkY9WNPwBGDah4L?si=wBlYORO7RV6GOTfWSZILRA) - an example of perfection. Number two on that list (https://open.spotify.com/track/3PrqRBsMdy8eZkbDqDb32p?si=88b4da23bcd94c84). Photo Credits Banner Picture (https://unsplash.com/photos/UdDCjj0rR7c) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/Wpnoqo2plFA)

Brandon interviews Jordan Tigani, Chief Product Officer at SingleStore. They discuss Jordan's experience at Google building BigQuery and how to use SingleStore to build data intensive applications. Plus, some good stories on caviar and marathon running. Links Google Big Query (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) A Return to the General Purpose Database (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/10/26/general-purpose-database/) SingleStore (https://www.singlestore.com) SingleStore Free Trial (https://www.singlestore.com/managed-service-trial/) Work at SingleStore (https://www.singlestore.com/careers/) SingleStore Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant (https://www.singlestore.com/blog/recognized-in-the-gartner-magic-quadrant/) Contact Jordan @jrdntgn (https://twitter.com/jrdntgn) LinkedIn: jordantigani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/) Banner Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/11KDtiUWRq4) Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.

This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash. Rundown State of devrel 2021 (https://www.stateofdeveloperrelations.com/_files/ugd/383279_55d4ef5b6f3847c188639d20f3f31b01.pdf) The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues (https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-cloud-in-2021-adoption-continues/) Relevant to your interests AWS Primitives (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1466464691312594955?s=21) An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) (https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take) Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005108/en/Meta-Selects-AWS-as-Key-Long-Term-Strategic-Cloud-Provider) @Werner vs @QuinnyPig (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1466803730934734849?s=21) Unleash the Booch on No Code (https://twitter.com/grady_booch/status/1467278429221384193?s=21) A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/business/softbank-marcelo-claure-masayoshi-son.html) Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum) FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/ftc-sues-nvidia-to-preserve-arms-status-as-switzerland-of-semiconductors/) How H-E-B got into livestreaming (https://www.grocerydive.com/news/how-h-e-b-got-into-livestreaming/610935/) The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M (https://www.builtinnyc.com/2021/11/22/gemini-raises-400m-7b-valuation-winklevoss-crypto-hiring) Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365 (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1467932100527632389) Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5 (https://m.tiktok.com/v/7038608341731691823.html?_d=secCgwIARCbDRjEFSACKAESPgo85n%2BtKIwo1Zhqn4KTcyroixZ%2FDA8lQYFxeSIpCqXVWLAncwFASfJBaYShvEGUS%2FMGXSehfMJ3NZVGOvAZGgA%3D&checksum=eaad8d27a15f6b79885fc253d8a2c4e8c08460d79884cbf7bc70c937b1a945d1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAA0HTt90iOfdDeuCxbCJ90nZmvHaieIsIe8dMxMIXWtMD0S9s2k4mM58aBqknhPDlp&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7038608341731691823&share_link_id=412686F9-9887-49F9-A2AB-D70149209B02&source=h5_m×tamp=1638830750&tt_from=copy&u_code=dkl91gk6a054k8&user_id=7011150160509174789&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy) Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests) AWS Top Secret-West (https://twitter.com/aselipsky/status/1468062726656167937?s=21) Social Media Trends 2022 (https://www.hootsuite.com/research/social-trends) $50M to reinvent security automation (https://torq.io/blog/a-new-beginning-security-automation/) Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed (https://www.anyscale.com/blog/the-future-is-distributed) GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model (https://blog.gitguardian.com/announcing-our-44m-fundraise-to-further-enable-the-appsec-shared-responsibility-model/) Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows (https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/07/liqid-raises-100m-demand-composable-data-center-infrastructure-grows/) Launched Managed Kubernetes service (https://serverspace.io/services/managed-kubernetes/) An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage) The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-06/the-trump-spac-did-a-pipe) Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3777464-salesforce-zoom-lead-580m-investment-in-call-center-software-company) Kelsey wades into Bitcoin (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1468263886323261443?s=21) AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises (https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/appneta-acquired-by-broadcom-in-order-to-bring-its-award-winning-visibility-platform-to-the-world-s-largest-enterprises-835894275.html) New Horizons for Open Source (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_Annual_Report_120721c.pdf) VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/vmware-tanzu-application-platform-with-triggermesh) A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future (http://) Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source (http://) Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent? (https://diginomica.com/hyperscalers-dont-appreciate-needs-smbs-what-should-aws-be-doing-reinvent) An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage) Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge (https://www.itbusinessedge.com/development/devops-trends-2022/) Nonsense icanhazdadjoke (https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api) Estonian capital began with a traffic jam (https://twitter.com/kane/status/1466883996315308032?s=21) Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. 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This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and Knative joins the CNCF. Plus, some discussion on trademarks… Rundown AWS re:Invent Recap Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021/) AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansion-100-gb-from-regions-and-1-tb-from-amazon-cloudfront-per-month/) Where new AWS CEO Adam Selipsky plans to take cloud computing next (https://siliconangle.com/2021/11/28/new-aws-ceo-adam-selipsky-plans-take-cloud-computing-next/) Announcing Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-pull-through-cache-repositories-for-amazon-elastic-container-registry/) AWS launches its Graviton 3 processor (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/aws-launches-its-graviton-3-processor/) Amazon launches preview of new AWS Private 5G managed service (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/amazon-announces-the-preview-of-aws-private-5g/) re:Invent Keynote Rebuttal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uuLGsK89-Y) Goldman’s Cloud Will Pitch Trades (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-01/goldman-s-cloud-will-pitch-trades) Knative Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/Knative-applies-to-become-CNCF-incubating-project.html) Serverless offerings like AWS Lambda haven't hit the big time, but Kubernetes can help (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/serverless-offerings-like-aws-lambda-havent-hit-the-big-time-but-kubernetes-can-help/) Relevant to your interests Why Sabre is betting against multi-cloud – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/19/why-sabre-is-betting-against-multi-cloud/?guccounter=1) Kubernetes: what are the key benefits for companies? (https://blog.sparkfabrik.com/en/kubernetes-key-benefits-for-companies) Cloud security startup Lacework valued at $8.3 bln after mammoth funding round (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cloud-security-startup-lacework-valued-83-bln-after-mammoth-funding-round-2021-11-18/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Buyer Beware: Not All Names Are Created Equal (https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/buyer-beware-not-all-names-are-created-equal-24-11-2021-en) Shopify’s BFCM Live Map (http://datastories.shopify.com/) Inside Amazon's struggle to break into the lucrative market for SaaS business applications, including an internal pitch to buy $38 billion HubSpot (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-struggles-in-saas-business-applications-cloud-market-hubspot-2021-11?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10_things_tech&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20sai:%2010%20things%20in%20tech%20you%20need%20to%20know%20today&utm_term=10%20THINGS%20IN%20TECH%20YOU%20NEED%20TO%20KNOW%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED) WSJ News Exclusive | AT&T, Verizon Propose 5G Limits to Break Air-Safety Standoff (https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-verizon-propose-5g-limits-to-break-air-safety-standoff-11637778722) cryptoji | encrypted emoji (https://cryptoji.com/) CITC - About | Greylock (https://greylock.com/castles/) Professions are most Vulnerable to Automation (https://twitter.com/mitsmr/status/1465123356395683840) The Essential Components of Digital Transformation (https://hbr.org/2021/11/the-essential-components-of-digital-transformation) Quest Software Acquired: Private Equity Buys IT Management, Security Software Company (Again) (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/private-equity/quest-software-acquired-again/) Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/29/upbound-grabs-60m-series-b-to-grow-open-source-crossplane-cloud-management-project) Bill Gates Predicts the Future in a Rediscovered Microsoft Video from 1994 (https://thenewstack.io/bill-gates-predicts-the-future-in-a-rediscovered-microsoft-video-from-1994/) Oxide / Hubris and Humility (https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility) Britain's Blue Prism agrees to $1.65 bln takeover by SS&C, snubs Vista (https://www.reuters.com/business/britains-blue-prism-agrees-165-bln-takeover-by-ssc-2021-12-01/) Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship engine crisis is creating a 'risk of bankruptcy' (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/elon-musk-to-spacex-starships-raptor-engine-crisis-risks-bankruptcy.html) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down, sources say (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/29/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-is-expected-to-step-down-sources-say.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? (https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/technology/parag-agrawal-twitter.amp.html) Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/01/square-changes-corporate-name-to-block-.html) Nonsense Cloth watch (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/model-this-apple-pricing-decision.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=model-this-apple-pricing-decision) Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with massive shortage ... of maple syrup (https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059236116/canada-taps-into-strategic-reserves-to-deal-with-massive-shortage-of-maple-syrup) Want a meal on the fly? A drone can bring you chicken wings in one Triangle neighborhood (https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/article255262531.html) Chatter Telephone| Fisher Price (https://www.fisher-price.com/en-us/product/chatter-telephone-hgj69) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/) Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT (https://that.us/activities/onqzzIqfp9NOeyLm67SY) DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/) CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, Event Date: May 10 & 11th, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al) CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, Event Dates: April 18 & 19th, 2022 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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This week we discuss the rise of Web3 and make a few AWS re:invent predications. Plus, what if Billy Joel and Huey Lewis formed a band… Rundown It's a Web3 World Now — How the Hype Compares to Web 2.0 (https://thenewstack.io/its-a-web3-world-now-how-the-hype-compares-to-web-2-0/) Crypto group tries to claw back fees after failed Constitution bid (https://www.axios.com/crypto-constitution-bid-high-cost-6ab84b3b-79c0-40d0-be6b-232172a3ed7a.html) $10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/23/10b-is-the-new-1b-and-we-need-a-new-framework-for-startup-valuations/) AWS Re:Invent Predictions 5 Things To Know About New AWS Channel Chief Ruba Borno (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/5-things-to-know-about-new-aws-channel-chief-ruba-borno) Andy Jassy was reportedly surprised when Jeff Bezos asked him to take on the job of Amazon CEO: 'I wasn't clamoring for it' (https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-choosing-andy-jassy-surprised-amazon-ceo-2021-11) “Who Is He?”: Andy Jassy, Amazon’s New CEO, Enters the Ring (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/andy-jassy-amazons-new-ceo-enters-the-ring) Relevant to your interests Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data (https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-data-investigation/) Apple's Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started (https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/256904-apples-plan-to-scan-handset-images-stopped-before-it-started/fulltext) Andy Jassy’s Big Idea for AWS Expansion Marred by Glitches, High Prices (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andy-jassys-big-idea-for-aws-expansion-marred-by-glitches-high-prices) The NFT Bay Debuts to Save You a Right-Click on Someone's Precious Digital Art (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nft-bay-debuts) Follow Matthew Ball for MetaVerse Info (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1462787490272759811) IBM tells POWER8 owners: the end is nigh for upgrades (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/ibm_power8_eol/) VMware withdraws major vSphere release due to bugs (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/vsphere_7_update_3_withdrawn/) Webhooks provider Svix snags $2.6M to simplify software management (https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/21/no-code-webhooks-provider-svix-snags-2-6m-to-simplify-software-management/) Drama in the Rust community — mod team resignation (https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671) The bitcoin fanatics fuel GPU shortages for gamers (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/19/gpu_makers_not_keen_on_crypto/) AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/amazon_linux_2022/) Announcing $150M to build the end-to-end platform for the modern Web (https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-funding-series-d-and-valuation) Oracle and Google join Microsoft and Amazon in bidding for Defense Department's Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-and-google-join-microsoft-and-amazon-in-bidding-for-defense-departments-joint-warfighter-cloud-capability/) Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/18/passwordless-authentication-platform-stytch-raises-90m/) Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/18/passwordless-authentication-platform-stytch-raises-90m/) We got an exclusive look at the 13-slide pitch deck Stytch, a passwordless startup, used to raise $90 million from Coatue (https://www.businessinsider.com/stytch-startup-used-this-pitch-deck-to-raise-90m-from-coatue-2021-11#-13) Nonsense Dollar Tree will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1463225256131375110) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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This week we discuss Splunk’s CEO Transition, Crypto.com renames the Staples Center and Netlify’s attempt to realize Git Push Nirvana. Plus, when do house shoes become just shoes. Rundown Splunk stock plunges as CEO Doug Merritt steps down (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/splunk-stock-plunges-as-ceo-doug-merritt-steps-down.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Git Push Nirvana Heroku itself isn’t what people want. What we actually want is (https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1460286401199718401?s=21) git push heroku main (https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1460286401199718401?s=21) Netlify Raises $105 Million to Transform Development for the Modern Web (https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web) Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-16/crypto-staples) Relevant to your interests ManualsLib - Makes it easy to find manuals online! (https://www.manualslib.com/) Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/11/spotify-expands-into-audiobooks-with-acquisition-of-findaway/) Apple’s unexciting 2021 Mac and iPhone software prove it should take a break from annual OS updates (https://www.theverge.com/22771079/apple-macos-monteray-ios-15-mac-iphone-software-operating-system-updates-space-out-features) Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/11/red_hat_8_5/) Business Essentials (https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/) FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-system-hacked-to-email-urgent-warning-about-fake-cyberattacks/) Citrix Systems Inc. Layoffs - TheLayoff.com (https://www.thelayoff.com/citrix-systems) if you use the "Cost Explorer" to check the details of your bill, they will charge you $0.01 (yes, 1 cent) per each request? (https://twitter.com/preraksanghvi/status/1458126728900001796?s=21) Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021) Seven years after last venture investment, Mixpanel scores $200M Series C – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/seven-years-after-last-venture-investment-mixpanel-scores-200m-series-c/) Twitter acquires Threader, an app that compiles and shares threads – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/twitter-acquires-threader-an-app-that-compiles-and-shares-threads/) PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/16/planetscale-raises-50m-series-c-as-its-enterprise-database-service-hits-general-availability) Frontpage -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read (https://tosdr.org/) Snowflake adds Python option for developers (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/16/snowflake_python_support/) 5 ways to improve mental health for software developers (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/11/5-ways-to-improve-mental-health-for-software-developers/) Here's why identity software firm Okta plans to open a retail location in New York City (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/heres-why-identity-software-firm-okta-plans-to-open-a-retail-location-in-new-york-city.html) Akamai Exec Rick McConnell to Succeed John Van Siclen as Dynatrace CEO - GovCon Wire (https://www.govconwire.com/2021/11/akamai-exec-rick-mcconnell-to-succeed-john-van-siclen-as-dynatrace-ceo/#:~:text=Rick%20McConnell%2C%20president%20and%20general,2022%2C%20the%20company%20said%20Monday) Twilio CEO touts company's long-term growth outlook after recent stock plunge (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/twilio-ceo-touts-companys-growth-outlook-after-recent-stock-plunge.html) AWS Channel Chief Doug Yeum Stepping Down (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-channel-chief-doug-yeum-stepping-down) The future of work (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEV0DS0UUAUZtl8.jpg) Apple announces Self Service Repair (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/) Nonsense Introducing the Icelandverse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI) MoviePass is coming back, under original founder Stacy Spikes (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/moviepass-is-coming-back) Dude, he’s back. (https://twitter.com/DellTech/status/1460344411863322632) Mattress company Casper to be sold in private equity deal (https://www.axios.com/casper-sells-private-equity-dc40779f-57af-402a-9f62-40285b1434fe.html) Corey Quinn explains AppConfig (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1458667547818016769?s=21) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. 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This week we discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…? Rundown The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-serverless) Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/9/22766286/twitter-blue-subscription-service-scroll-nuzzel-undo-tweets-ad-free-articles-us?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4) From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021? (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-amazon-to-zoom-what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-in-2021/) Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/08/clubhouse-record-room-replay/) Relevant to your interests HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/hashicorp-benchmarking-the-s-1-data) Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-announces-third-quarter-2021-201500627.html) Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl_ibm_spinoff/) Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763374/google-drive-search-chips-filters-beta-test) Habitica - Gamify Your Life (https://habitica.com/static/home) Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/red_hat_jobs/) Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode (https://oz-code.com/blog/general/datadog-acquires-ozcode) What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms (https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html) To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock (https://thehustle.co/to-reinvent-work-we-have-to-destroy-the-clock/) We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/calendar_backwards/) AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005823/en/AWS-Announces-Plans-to-Open-Second-Region-in-Canada) Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22769910/mcafee-private-investor-group-acquisition-software) Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/) Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-cloud-boss-is-girding-to-defend-turf-in-the-field-company-pioneered-11636300800?st=5gwylbkkz0bug3s&reflink=article_email_share) GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/ge-to-break-up-into-3-companies-focusing-on-aviation-healthcare-and-energy.html) You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/one-on-one-meetings) Nonsense Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/elon-musk-faces-a-15-billion-tax-bill-which-is-likely-the-real-reason-hes-selling-stock.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: macOS disk size utility (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net) Matt: Cloud Native AF #5: (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/5) Charming Pirates and the Funnel to Contributors Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/-mwNJswDlXE) Show Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/5mZ_M06Fc9g) Internet Minute Graphic (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-amazon-to-zoom-what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-in-2021/)

This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase. Rundown Cloud software vendor HashiCorp files for IPO as investors pour money into high-growth tech stocks (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/cloud-software-vendor-hashicorp-files-for-ipo.htmlCot) Coté’s highlights (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1456344043433177091). Understanding the 2021 State of Open Source Report (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-open-source-report-highlights) Amazon Amazon badly misses on earnings and revenue, gives disappointing fourth-quarter guidance (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/amazon-amzn-earnings-q3-2021.html) Amazon Web Services tops analysts' estimates on profit and revenue (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/aws-earnings-q3-2021.html) Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register (https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/29/amazon-is-the-flywheel-aws-is-the-cash-register/) A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline! (https://github.com/localstack/localstack) Your hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy just got better with Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/your-hybrid-multicloud-and-edge-strategy-just-got-better-with-azure/) Compliance in a DevOps Culture (https://martinfowler.com/articles/devops-compliance.html) Relevant to your interests Abacus.ai snags $50M Series C as it expands into computer vision use cases (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/abacus-ai-snags-50m-series-c-as-it-expands-into-computer-vision-use-cases/) NeuVector is excited to announce we are joining SUSE (https://www.suse.com/c/accelerating-security-innovation/) Monitor Your Azure Environment Using Amazon Managed Grafana (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5z4ysfz_gA) Facebook’s new name will be Meta (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22745234/facebook-new-name-meta-metaverse-zuckerberg-rebrand) New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-2/) Universal Search & Productivity App | Command E (https://getcommande.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Software services firm Zendesk to buy SurveyMonkey parent for nearly $4 bln (https://www.reuters.com/technology/software-services-firm-zendesk-buy-surveymonkey-parent-nearly-4-bln-2021-10-28/) Kalshi (https://kalshi.com/markets) Popular gaming platform Roblox back online after multi-day crash (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/popular-gaming-platform-roblox-suffers-multi-day-crash-01635713002) Dell spins off $64 billion VMware as it battles debt hangover (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/dell-spins-off-64-billion-vmware-as-it-battles-debt-hangover/) BMC Unveils New Data Management and Analytics Capabilities (https://thenewstack.io/bmc-helix-and-control-m-data-management-and-analytics/) Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million (https://gizmodo.com/squid-game-cryptocurrency-scammers-make-off-with-2-1-m-1847972824) AI programming tool Copilot helps write up to 30% of code on GitHub (https://www.axios.com/copilot-artificial-intelligence-coding-github-9a202f40-9af7-4786-9dcb-b678683b360f.html) Introducing the Free Java License (https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license) Backblaze’s IPO a test for smaller tech concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/backblazes-ipo-a-test-for-smaller-tech-concerns/) Happy 1.0, Knative (https://off-by-one.dev/happy-1-0-knative/) A Return to the General Purpose Database (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/10/26/general-purpose-database/) Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (https://www.theverge.com/e/22523015) Nat Friedman to step down as head of Microsoft's GitHub (https://www.zdnet.com/article/nat-friedman-to-step-down-as-head-of-microsofts-github/) Microsoft launches Google Wave (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/microsoft-launches-google-wave/) Nonsense Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth — Engadget (https://apple.news/A5hFyYAq3RgG35nJT1AX6bA) Aussie++ (https://aussieplusplus.vercel.app/) Microsoft resurrects Clippy again after brutally killing him off in Microsoft Teams (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/1/22756973/microsoft-clippy-microsoft-teams-stickers-return) Allbirds shares surge 60% in eco-friendly shoe maker's market debut (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/03/allbirds-ipo-bird-to-start-trading-on-the-nasdaq.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 Coté speaking at DevOops (https://devoops.ru/en/) (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?” (https://devoops.ru/en/talks/kubernetes-is-not-for-developers/) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/) Listener Feedback Mailed stickers to Stephan in Berlin. Brian wants you to work at Red Hat as a Senior Product Manager (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/88701/senior-product-manager) or Principle Product Manager (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89053/principal-product-manager) in Security. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Success Equation (http://success-equation.com) — The spiritual sequel to “The Halo Effect” Podcast Interview with Author (http://Michael> Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More | Acquired Podcast) YouTube Talk by Author (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLfqBsX5Lc) Paradox of Skill (https://research-doc.credit-suisse.com/docView?language=ENG&format=PDF&source_id=em&document_id=805456950&serialid=LsvBuE4wt3XNGE0V%2B3ec251NK9soTQqcMVQ9q2QuF2I%3D) Matt: The Art and Soul of Dune (Companion Book Music) (https://open.spotify.com/album/0FGr97xSOQLD596ZebfU1T?si=9rTrMK_wTiWZOtwiKfvZMA) Dune (the book) (https://amzn.to/3whLKHx) Coté: LaserWriter II (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56269270-laserwriter-ii). Also, check out my Tiny Tanzu Talk videos playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiV6sJUlKx_4dse8U2tLjjn0) - 18 months of video madness. Also, I watch Frozen from three to ten times a day now with Dutch subtitles turned on. So, I’m trying to memorize “als een kip met het gezicht van een aap.” (https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=nl&text=like%20a%20chicken%20with%20the%20face%20of%20a%20monkey&op=translate&hl=en) Photo Credits Show Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/UMfGoM67w48) Hashicorp S1 Screenshot Show Art (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1456349608775491585re) Banner Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/dwBZLRPhHjc)

Brandon interviews Jack Naglieri, Founder & CEO at Panther Labs. They discuss the challenges of security at scale and the current state of security tools. Plus, we learn how Jack transitioned from Security Analyst to Security Engineer and now CEO. Links: StreamAlert (https://www.streamalert.io) Website: https://runpanther.io (https://runpanther.io/) Request a Demo (https://runpanther.io/request-a-demo/) Jack’s Podcast: Detection at Scale (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/detection-at-scale/id1582584270) Contact Jack: LinkedIn: jacknaglieri (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacknaglieri/) Twitter: @jack_naglieri (https://twitter.com/jack_naglieri) Github: jacknagz (https://github.com/jacknagz/) Special Guest: Jack Naglieri.

This week we recap Datadog’s announcements, discuss Sequoia’s investment pivot and hot takes on Facebook’s intent to rebrand. Plus, some thoughts on heated pools… Rundown Dash 2021: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/dash-2021-new-feature-roundup/) The Sequoia Fund: Patient Capital for Building Enduring Companies (https://sequoia.medium.com/the-sequoia-fund-patient-capital-for-building-enduring-companies-9ed7bcd6c7da) Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse) Relevant to your interests Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/sam-altmans-worldcoin-wants-to-scan-every-humans-eyeball-and-give-them-crypto-in-exchange/) Sphere has joined Twitter! (https://blog.sphere.me/sphere-has-joined-twitter-e7127cfe0467) Red Hat continues to grow, but IBM’s struggles continue (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/red-hat-continues-to-grow-but-ibms-struggles-continue/) Apple Safari browser might become the new Internet Explorer (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/safari_risks_becoming_the_new_ie/) VMware/Dell split confirmed for November 1st (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/21/vmware_dell_split_nov_1_2021/) Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/23/22742282/microsoft-dotnet-hot-reload-u-turn-response) Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework 2.4 - Enterprise transformation without the risk of culture change! (https://scaledagiledevops.com/) Amazon Web Services plans to design more of its own semiconductors, CEO says (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/amazon-web-services-plans-to-design-more-of-its-own-semiconductors-ceo.html) Hertz Orders 100,000 Teslas, Part of Plan to Electrify Fleet (https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-orders-100-000-teslas-11635167670?st=cc9kqzrd339yvqr&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter) Web 2 Map (https://twitter.com/amoration/status/1452360953425633286/photo/1) Australia Buys Telecom in Expensive Push to Keep China Out of Pacific (https://gizmodo.com/australia-buys-foreign-telecom-in-expensive-push-to-kee-1847927415) Microsoft acquires Clear Software to enhance connectivity to systems of record (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2021/10/22/microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-enhance-connectivity-to-systems-of-record/) NewRelic acquires CodeStream to provide chat in developer environments, inks Microsoft IDE partnership (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/newrelic-acquires-codestream-to-provide-chat-in-developer-environments-inks-microsoft-ide-partnership/) Cisco Accelerates Innovation of AppDynamics Business Observability Platform with Intent to Acquire replex (https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-corporate-news-1021) vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web (https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev) EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/) Nonsense Open enrollment video for Facebook employees (https://vimeo.com/622520807/1e34c19767) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Jordi wants you to work at Cypress.io (https://www.cypress.io/jobs/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Dune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk) Dune Part 2 Official: Denis Villeneuve Can Complete the Sci-Fi Tale (https://gizmodo.com/dune-part-2-is-official-will-be-here-october-2023-1847938646) Coté: The Complete Works of Bruegel (https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all/01154/facts.pieter_bruegel_the_complete_works.htm#). Photo Credits Cover Art (https://imgix.datadoghq.com/img/blog/dash-2021-new-feature-roundup/observability-pipelines.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&w=698)

This week we discuss TriggerMesh going open source, the new Enterprise Mac and Honeycomb raising VC . Plus, will Matt become a TikTok influencer…? Rundown Introducing TriggerMesh Open Source (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/introducing-triggermesh-open-source) Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachDB Serverless (https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/10/cockroachdb-serverless/) The Enterprise of the MacBook Pro macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/18/macos-monterey-reverts-safari-changes/) HDMI Port Limitations (https://twitter.com/tapbot_paul/status/1450166030446235650) Apple innovators do it again with $19 'Polishing Cloth' (https://mashable.com/article/apple-polishing-cloth) Apple’s new 140W charger can fast charge a lot more than just your MacBook Pro (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22734233/apple-140w-macbook-charging-brick-gan-usb-c-pd-3-1-third-party-chargers) Funny Tweet Storm of Apple Event (https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1450146483030749184) Steven Sinofsky on Apple (https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1450255227945242628?s=21) How Honeycomb Is Using $50M in New Funding to Bring Observability to All (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/series-c-funding-bringing-observability-to-all) Expensify builds a SQLite Database from their S-1 (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/1450459102975565829?s=21) Yes, there’s a market for Excel influencers on TikTok (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/productivity-app-influencers) Relevant to your interests Welcome to Dagger.io (http://dagger.io/) Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58911297) How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/13/how_ntfs_finally_made_it/) GitLab jumps 22% in its Nasdaq debut after code-sharing company priced IPO above expected range (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/14/gitlab-jumps-in-nasdaq-debut-after-pricing-ipo-above-expected-range.html) Elastic to buy 'continuous profiling' startup Optimyze (https://www.zdnet.com/article/elastic-to-buy-continuous-profiling-startup-optimyze/) Slackers of the World, Unite! (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/slack-office-trouble/620173/) Amazon To Allow Employees To Work Remotely Indefinitely (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/amazon-to-allow-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely-7573211.html) Google bets on the cloud breaking up (https://www.ft.com/content/ab36b9e2-00e0-469c-9388-fa034f9bfd63) The replacement for Google Reader? (https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1446503789586894850?s=20) Why a Key Google Cloud Product Ended Up Generating Less Than 0.1% of Revenue (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-a-key-google-cloud-product-ended-up-generating-less-than-0-1-of-revenue?utm_source=ti_app) Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers (https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare) The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers On The Right… (https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73) Expensify Announces Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211015005640/en/Expensify-Announces-Filing-of-Registration-Statement-for-Proposed-Initial-Public-Offering) Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: (https://twitter.com/mit_csail/status/1450135081226489857?s=21) Yes, there’s a market for Excel influencers on TikTok (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/productivity-app-influencers) IBM shares drop on weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/ibm-earnings-q3-2021.html) Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse) ****- Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/cloud-object-storage-company-backblaze-files-to-go-public.html) Snowflake Launches A Media Cloud, As It Builds Out Programmatic Services (https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/snowflake-launches-a-media-cloud-as-it-builds-out-programmatic-services/) Twilio delves more deeply into marketing with new tool built on $3.2B Segment acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/20/twilio-delves-more-deeply-into-marketing-with-new-tool-built-on-3-2b-segment-acquisition/) Nonsense this is hilarious but also really awesome ux (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBs8RaiVEAAlDJL.jpg) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences TriggerMesh Open Source Software Webinar (https://www.triggermesh.com/oss-intro) - October 28, 2021 MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback InfraCloud is hiring a Site reliability Engineer (SRE) in India (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2763208585/?alternateChannel=search&refId=eSIVvVIqBdTCFUIIcV6Fvw%3D%3D&trackingId=E8rnW8pH9WYFNfz1ZMtONw%3D%3D) James wants you to superorbital.io as a Kubernetes focused Cloud Engineer (https://superorbital.io/careers/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Foundation (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/foundation/umc.cmc.5983fipzqbicvrve6jdfep4x3?ign-itscg=MC_20000&ign-itsct=atvp_brand_omd&mttn3pid=Google%20AdWords&mttnagencyid=a5e&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019859_1-547710607871-c&mttnsubkw=104006946180__BCaSlfl0_&mttnsubplmnt=) and Squid Game (https://www.netflix.com/title/81040344) Netflix's "Squid Game" Generated $891 Million In Value: Report (https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/netflixs-squid-game-generated-s891-million-in-value-report-news.141147.html) Matt: Gauntlet Slayer Edition (https://store.steampowered.com/app/258970/Gauntlet_Slayer_Edition/) MacOS Mission Control drag & drop between screens Photo Credits Banner Image (https://unsplash.com/photos/IckkprBRmUU) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/QSBm03YHtrI)

This week we discuss the real-world use of containers, recap the Google Cloud Next announcements and make some Apple predications. Plus, how often do you wash jeans…? Rundown Containers in the Real World 10 trends in real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/) What Workloads Do Businesses Run on Kubernetes? (https://thenewstack.io/what-workloads-do-businesses-run-on-kubernetes/) Google Cloud Next `21 What’s New at Google Cloud Next ‘21 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/whats-new-at-next) Introducing Google Distributed Cloud—in your data center, at the edge, and in the cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-distributed-cloud-edge-and-hosted) Introducing Anthos for VMs and tools to simplify the developer experience (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/introducing-anthos-for-vms-and-other-app-modernization-tools) Build a more secure future with Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/next21-how-google-cloud-secures-the-world) Google Cloud will show users their gross carbon emissions (https://www.engadget.com/google-cloud-platform-carbon-footprint-emissions-environment-163339146.html) GKE AutoPilot not new but mentioned (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview#security) Google Cloud launches a managed Spark service (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/google-cloud-launches-a-managed-spark-service/) Weave & Chick-fil-A: Managing Fleets of Kubernetes Clusters... (https://youtu.be/ta9jJc-RVvE) Relevant to your interests Eating the Cloud from Outside In (https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go/) The Confidential Computing Consortium Year in Review, 2021 - Confidential Computing Consortium (https://confidentialcomputing.io/2021/10/06/the-confidential-computing-consortium-year-in-review-2021/) Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges (https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-trends-and-challenges/) Microsoft and Amazon reach truce allowing former AWS executive Charlie Bell to start in new role (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-amazon-reach-truce-allowing-former-aws-executive-charlie-bell-start-new-role/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Series A Funding Announcement | cloudtamer.io (https://www.cloudtamer.io/announcing-our-series-a/) Reddit hires former Google Cloud exec as its first chief product officer (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/11/reddit-hires-former-google-cloud-exec-as-its-first-chief-product-officer/) The next big thing in podcasts is talking back (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722468/spotify-amazon-facebook-audio-podcast-polls-interact) 1Password’s new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/1passwords-new-feature-lets-you-safely-share-passwords-using-just-a-link/) Coinbase is launching its own NFT platform to take on OpenSea – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/coinbase-is-launching-its-own-nft-platform-to-take-on-opensea/) The Air Force’s First Software Chief Stepped Down—But He Won’t Be Quiet (https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2021/10/air-forces-first-software-chief-stepped-down-he-wont-be-quiet/186047/) Nonsense Tesla is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas (https://www.theverge.com/22715458/tesla-move-headquarters-to-austin-texas) VC firm associate has built a crypto marketplace designed for fantasy startup investing (https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1445830869151748101The> Confidential Computing Consortium Year in Review, 2021 - Confidential Computing Consortium) Musk vs. Bezos in a Tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447426189660880898?s=20) Pon agrees to buy Dorel Sports for $810 million (https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2021/10/11/pon-agrees-buy-dorel-sports-810-million#.YWWYtC-B0dk) The first USB-C iPhone is here thanks to a mod (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722123/first-iphone-usb-c-port-robotics-engineering-student-custom) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 (https://www.gitopsdays.com/) TriggerMesh Open Source Software Webinar (https://www.triggermesh.com/oss-intro) - October 28, 2021 MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Ed wants you to be Product Manager at VMware based in Spain (https://vmware.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/VMware/job/ESP-Seville-Av-de-Republica-Argentina/Product-Manager-for-RabbitMQ_R2111712) Brian wants you to be a Senior Product Manager - Pipelines in Bangalore (https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89894/senior-product-manager---technical/job?mobile=false&width=1140&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240) or Senior Product Manager - GitOps in Remote, UK (https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89893/senior-product-manager---gitops/job) Brian recommends this jump box (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082ZZ2W14/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Universel Dual Monitor Arm with Pistons (https://www.bestar.com/product/dual-monitor-arm-ak-ma01d-17/) Coté: A Carnival of Snackery (https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Carnival-of-Snackery-Audiobook/1549108212), new David Sederis diaries, audio of course. Tasty Meats Paul’s Whole Hair Thing (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/1448351873614827521). Also (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1448556155266084866). Photo Credits Header Image (https://unsplash.com/photos/3oejsU5OQVk) Show Artwork (https://cdn.thenewstack.io/media/2021/09/dbdf6555-image4.png) Show Artwork (https://imgix.datadoghq.com/img/container-report/2021-container-orchestration-report-FACT-10_part-1v3.png?ch=Width,DPR,Save-Data&fit=max&fm=png&auto=format)

This week we discuss AWS Step Functions, VMware Tanzu Community Edition and Zoom’s M&A Strategy. Plus, some thoughts on car batteries… Rundown AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-aws-step-functions-supports-200-aws-services-to-enable-easier-workflow-automation/) Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-community-edition-announcement) Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzucommunityedition.io/) Zoom M&A And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/30/and-thats-that-as-the-zoom-deal-to-buy-five9-is-called-off/) Zoom loses Five9 - leaves the cloud contact center business open to innovative alternatives (https://diginomica.com/zoom-loses-five9-leaves-cloud-contact-center-business-open-innovative-alternatives) Telegram added 70M new users amid six-hour WhatsApp outage (https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/05/telegram-added-70m-new-users-amid-six-hour-whatsapp-outage/e) Relevant to your interests Announcing Trusted Cloud Principles (https://trustedcloudprinciples.com/) Australian Bureau of Statistics runs 2021 Census on the AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/australian-bureau-of-statistics-runs-2021-census-on-the-aws-cloud/) "A New Strategy, R2" (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/09/30/a-new-strategy-r2/) Cloudflare’s Disruption (https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/) PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/01/pspdfkit-raises-116m-its-first-outside-money-now-nearly-1b-people-use-apps-powered-by-its-collaboration-signing-and-markup-tools/) Microsoft announces Office 2021 features and pricing (https://www.theverge.com/22704168/microsoft-office-2021-features-pricing-release-date) Paperlike, the Screen Protector for iPad: write and draw like on paper (https://paperlike.com/) Microsoft sets Oct. 5 as Windows 11 launch date (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-oct-windows-11-launch-date-7202798e-fa64-421a-835a-4c625c97e728.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) COVID Breathalyzers Could Transform Rapid Testing (https://spectrum.ieee.org/covid-breathalyzers-could-transform-rapid-testing) AWS Mistakes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493193) The Verica Open Incident Database (https://www.thevoid.community/) Developer-focused infrastructure security platform Mondoo raises $15M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/05/developer-focused-infrastructure-security-platform-mondoo-raises-15m/) 1 big thing: Enterprise software's reawakening (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-846feca0-b1b3-40c1-92b0-88c5cd3c0d46.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) FB Outage Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/) Tools to explore BGP (https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/05/tools-to-look-at-bgp-routes/) Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22708989/instagram-facebook-outage-messenger-whatsapp-error) Security The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked | VGC (https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/) DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html) Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw/) Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xpm8/company-that-routes-billions-of-text-messages-quietly-says-it-was-hacked) Nonsense There are six internet links on my office on wheels. Seven when Starlink arrives. (https://ghuntley.com/internet/) Australia accelerates its plans to allow international travel. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/australia/australia-international-travel-covid.html) As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAv7UPuVEAA87S9.jpg) April Fools' copy-paste button for lazy programmers now actually for sale (https://www.cnet.com/news/april-fools-copy-paste-button-for-lazy-programmers-now-actually-for-sale/?PostType=link&ServiceType=twitter&UniqueID=5A6C2A44-2481-11EC-97B3-AFC2BDCD475E&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&TheTime=2021-10-03T19:37:32&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 (https://www.gitopsdays.com/) MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback James wants you to wort at GoCardless in London as a IT Engineering Manager (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3190118.), IT Support Manager (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3501701) or Business Systems Engineer - HR Systems (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3334891) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: Bayco LBC-400 Recessed Light Bulb Changer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GAUSCO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Drones changing bulbs (https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1435753919817429000) Matt: Lee “Scratch” Perry A Live Injection: Anthology 1968-1979 (https://open.spotify.com/album/1W3cKgwqmprjq24abdSThm?si=ZOBFrj2FQpqxdjylhaUFEQ&dl_branch=1) Cloud Native AF: Farmers Don't Care About Kubernetes with Mike Dvorkin (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/4) (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/4) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/ovGrEUgrkyE) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/--kQ4tBklJI)

This week we discuss the launch of Cloudflare R2 Storage and the DevRel Salary Survey. Plus, some thoughts on nuts… Rundown Cloudflare Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/) How Cloudflare thinks it can become ‘the fourth major public cloud’ (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloudflare-r2-storage-aws) @Cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52. (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1443076111651401731?s=21) DevRel 2021 DevRel Salary Survey results (https://dev.to/bffjossy/2021-devrel-salary-survey-results-table-of-contents-43fe) Big tech and promotion processes that lead to unnecessary complexity and waste. (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1442162670753431559) Relevant to your interests iPhone Carrier Deal Spreadsheet (https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1441509334324707329?s=21) We asked celebrities what they think Tanzu and Kubernetes means (https://twitter.com/VMworld/status/1441095517438550018) Dev Ops Solutions | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/) Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/26/google-lowers-its-cloud-marketplace-revenue-share-to-3percent-from-20percent.html) Online Learning Company Udemy Plans October IPO (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/online-learning-company-udemy-plans-october-ipo) 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (https://www.engadget.com/fastmail-1password-masked-email-110028257.html) AWS US East region wobbles for eight hours (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/28/aws_east_brownout/) Vista bets on software robotics with $1.5 billion Blue Prism takeover (https://www.reuters.com/article/blue-prism-grup-m-a-vista-equity/vista-bets-on-software-robotics-with-1-5-billion-blue-prism-takeover-idUSKBN2GO0GO) Amazon announces Astro home robot that roams around your house (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/amazon-event-2021-live-updates-amazons-set-to-announce-new-products.html) Akamai to acquire cloud security firm Guardicore for about $600 million (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guardicore-m-a-akamai-tech/akamai-to-acquire-cloud-security-firm-guardicore-for-about-600-million-idUSKBN2GP119) Facebook Reels exits beta in the US with offers to pay creators for well-performing videos (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/facebook-reels-exits-beta-in-the-u-s-with-offers-to-pay-creators-for-well-performing-videos/) The cloud is NOT just someone else’s computer (https://cloudpundit.com/2021/09/22/the-cloud-is-not-just-someone-elses-computer/) Netflix Has Acquired Its First Video Game Studio (https://gizmodo.com/netflix-has-acquired-its-first-video-game-studio-1847767078) How IBM lost the cloud (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud) Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/09/30/apple-pay-flaw-risks-letting-hackers-drain-money-iphones/) Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-tv-as-a-service/) First cryptocurrency fund approved in Switzerland (https://cointelegraph.com/news/first-cryptocurrency-fund-approved-in-switzerland) OS/2’s Last Stand: IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Turns 25 (https://www.howtogeek.com/755650/os2s-last-stand-ibm-os2-warp-4-turns-25/) Nonsense Costco placing purchase limits on toilet paper, other products due to COVID-related demand (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/09/24/costco-limiting-purchases-toilet-paper-other-items/5841158001/) Release Notes (https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1441423424337764362?s=21) William Shatner's Going to Space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Ship (https://www.tmz.com/2021/09/24/william-shatner-going-space-jeff-bezos-blue-origin/) A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500 (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/hamster-trading-cryptocurrencies-rigged-cage-goxx-bitcoin-price-ether-doge-2021-9) Heatbit - electric heater that earns you money (https://heatbit.com/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Anova Precision® Cooker Nano was highly recommended (https://anovaculinary.com/anova-precision-cooker/nano/) OpenNebula is hiring (https://opennebula.io/all-remote-manifesto-opennebula-systems-goes-fully-distributed/) Biogen needs a Digital Health Program Manager (https://smrtr.io/6H9cZ) and Sr. Manager- Quality Engineering (https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Biogen/743999765854224-sr-manager-quality-engineering-automation-performance-) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: https://claimittexas.org Matt: Emacs M-x zone (https://twitter.com/mickeynp/status/1443513130831728647) Cloud Native AF: Jacques Chester (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/3) Coté: Sandman Act 2 (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sandman-Act-II-Audiobook/B098TWVZVD?ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true&pf_rd_p=27448286-da3b-4d18-b236-d4299a63a797&pf_rd_r=80RBYZH1WGDFKCCAZK82), in Audible. Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/fZ7-IAReeSo)

This week we discuss GitLab going public, review iOS 15 and a few more thoughts on remote work. Plus, should the EU impose a universal phone charger? Rundown GitLab Microsoft GitHub rival GitLab files to go public after annualized revenue tops $200 million (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/github-rival-gitlab-files-to-go-public-on-revenue-over-200-million.html) GitLab: Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/gitlab-benchmarking-the-s-1-data) GitLab S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/gitlab-s-1/) Apple iOS 15 Review Buy a 'free' iPhone 13 with trade-in at Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T: All you need to know (https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/buy-a-free-iphone-13-with-trade-in-at-verizon-t-mobile-and-at-t-all-you-need-to-know/) Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone13-review.html) EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple (https://punchng.com/eu-to-impose-universal-phone-charger-in-blow-to-apple/) 1Password’s iOS Safari extension looks good (https://support.1password.com/getting-started-safari-ios/) Ship / Show / Ask (https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html) Spend the money on Zoom-Box-Discord instead! Relevant to your interests Original Creators of Apache Pulsar Raise $23M Series-A for StreamNative, Round Led by Prosperity7 Ventures (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/original-creators-apache-pulsar-raise-130000869.html) Werner tweet on NDAs (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1438536990211858436?s=21) Amazon gives Kindle e-readers a rare user interface overhaul (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/a-quick-tour-of-amazons-new-ui-for-kindle-e-readers/) Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22675175/microsoft-account-passwordless-no-password-security-feature) Over the last 90-days, if you average more than 6-viewers, you are in the top 6.7% of Twitch. (https://twitter.com/zachbussey/status/1367868296473813001) Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t (https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/) WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-detect-depression-cognitive-decline-sources-say-11632216601) WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-target-crypto-ransomware-payments-with-sanctions-11631885336) WeWork shares expected to start trading in late October (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/wework-ipo-spac-deal-bowx) Salesforce rival Freshworks raises $1.03 bln in U.S. IPO, valued at $10.13 bln (https://www.reuters.com/technology/freshworks-valued-1013-bln-after-raising-103-bln-us-ipo-source-2021-09-22/) Apple rolls major Safari redesign out to Macs ahead of Monterey release (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/apple-rolls-major-safari-redesign-out-to-macs-ahead-of-monterey-release/) This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/red_hat_pandemic_certification_generosity_over/) Facebook introduces portable Portal Go for $199 (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-new-portals-go-170004952.html) Raspberry Pi attracts $45m after lockdowns fuel demand for PCs (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/09/20/raspberry-pi-attracts-45m-lockdowns-fuel-demand-personal-computers) Zoom's $14.7 billion deal for Five9 under US national security review (https://www.zdnet.com/article/zooms-14-7-billion-deal-for-five9-under-us-national-security-review/) Rundown Follow the millimetres (https://twitter.com/kosso/status/1438847578586718209?s=21) It Has Come to Subscription Tacos (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/taco-bell-subscription-netflix-for-tacos/620109/) A 10-Foot Wide House In Boston Sells For $1.25 Million (https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039324508/boston-skinny-house-spite-house-sold) Samuel Adams' latest potent beer is illegal in 15 states (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/20/Samuel-Adams-Utopias-beer-illegal-15-states/7301632163091/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.comDeveloper> Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). 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Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! TriggerMesh is hiring! 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This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes… Rundown Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-10/apple-s-app-store-dealt-blow-by-judge-in-epic-antitrust-case?sref=HQB7G2wY&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business) Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store) Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/injunction-apple-must-open-up-app-store-payments-in-90-days/) FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild (https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/) Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html) The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event (https://www.theverge.com/22663657/apple-iphone-13-pro-ipad-mini-watch-event-biggest-announcements) iPadOS 15 (https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-15/features/). Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/study-microsoft-employees-shows-remote-work-puts-productivity-innovation-risk/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Relevant to your interests Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open (https://frame.work/) Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-stories-camera-smart-glasses-hands-on) EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-corporate-america-2021-09-10/) Epic is shutting down Houseparty (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22663531/epic-games-shutting-down-houseparty-october) Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances (https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instances/) Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22664284/microsoft-office-reopening-plans-us) Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-passwords-for-500-000-fortinet-vpn-accounts/) How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe (https://markn.ca/2021/how-a-new-user-can-run-just-one-container-in-the-aws-cloud-maybe/) Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-is-on-the-verge-of-another-big-step-forward/) Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/oracle-orcl-earnings-q1-2022.html) Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ) Open Scheduling Infrastructure (https://cal.com/,), Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape (https://www.ft.com/content/fa7ff4c3-4694-4409-9ca6-bfadf3a53a62) Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/thoughtworks-rises-in-trading-debut-after-ipo-exceeds-target) strongDM Raises $54M Series B (https://www.strongdm.com/press-release/strongdm-raises-54m-series-b-led-by-tiger-global-to-transform-secure-infrastructure-access-management) **** Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/chat-app-discord-is-worth-15-billion-after-new-funding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-standoff-amazon-big-hire-names-charlie-bell-lead-bold-new-security-group/) Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html) Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/) Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/canva-raises-200-million-at-a-40-billion-valuation/) Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion (https://www.axios.com/intuit-buy-mailchimp-12-billion-85feba65-e142-4756-8fa6-b8af63988902.html) Nonsense They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas (https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/business/dallas-restaurant-employs-robots-trnd/index.html) How long are you in meetings? (https://twitter.com/ericabrescia/status/1437091131867602944) Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About (https://hackaday.com/2021/09/11/dont-sleep-on-the-lawn-theres-an-ai-powered-flamethrower-wielding-robot-about/) Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/unicode-14-final-emoji-list-183855308.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Matt wants you to work at Github. Hiring, both senior (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/2830098) and non-senior (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/2797203) roles. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: Reverse Sear a Steak (https://jesspryles.com/how-to-cook-a-steak-with-reverse-sear-method/) Matt: Halo Master Chief Collection (https://store.steampowered.com/app/976730/Halo_The_Master_Chief_Collection/) Coté: AirServer (https://www.airserver.com/). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/G2lgiBBzeEM) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/tQQ4BwN_UFs)

This week we discuss the history of Docker, the rise of Kubernetes and the launch of AWS EKS Anywhere. Plus, how much lumber fits in a cubic meter…? Rundown How Docker broke in half (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632142/how-docker-broke-in-half.html) Migrating from Docker to Podman (https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2021-09-01-migrating-from-docker-to-podman/) AWS rolls out EKS Anywhere and EKS Connector (https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/08/aws-rolls-out-eks-anywhere-and-eks-connector/) Relevant to your interests This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/vmwares_new_tanzu_application_platform/) How the 5G experience compares across 50 states and 250 US cities (https://www.opensignal.com/2021/09/02/how-the-5g-experience-compares-across-50-states-and-250-us-cities) HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/hashicorp_pause/) Terraform Understaffed? (https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/6562466c32a8750d7a71a6cc6232e6b5a28fe13a) OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion (https://onezero.medium.com/openai-sold-its-soul-for-1-billion-cf35ff9e8cd4) Open source is selfish (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632360/open-source-is-selfish.html) Mainframes, ML and digital transformation — Benedict Evans (https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation) Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/docker_tier_shakeup_opinion_column/) DigitalOcean embraces serverless computing with Nimbella acquisition (https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/07/digitalocean-embraces-serverless-computing-with-nimbella-acquisition/) Tripwire CEO steps down after supporting Texas abortion law (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tripwire-ceo-steps-down-after-supporting-texas-anti-abortion-law) 1 big thing: Inside the SolarWinds response (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-53936069-fe59-430e-a95f-784c877dacc3.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business (https://www.planetmainframe.com/2021/09/the-ibm-mainframe-the-most-powerful-and-cost-effective-computing-platform-for-business/) ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours) A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image (https://github.com/wagoodman/dive) Where does AWS profit come from? (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1434520165438296065) AWS EC2 egress data transfer pricing ($0.05-$0.09/GB) is more expensive than Israeli internet access, cool, cool. (https://twitter.com/rhowe212/status/1435197534553743360) Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-reddit-seeks-hire-advisers-us-ipo-sources-2021-09-02/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top) Nonsense Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]" (https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1433837480449613839?s=21) HTTP Request Header Proposal (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jZfnrVgAQnx9T.png) El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Crypto Become Currency Tuesday (https://gizmodo.com/el-salvador-buys-400-bitcoin-as-crypto-officially-becom-1847627336) Man Gets 4 Years in $126 Million Printer Toner Fraud (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/us/california-man-printer-toner-fraud.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Nate sent in this video on What is a Lake House and why it matters (http://What> is Lake House and why it matters) Peter recommended Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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Recommendations Brandon: Recursion (https://www.audible.com/pd/Recursion-Audiobook/1984886878?qid=1631147912&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=2BCDWA97JMC0A9227G05) Matt: Hammocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammock) Coté: Webster’s Original Dictionary (http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/w5inNVfSyNU) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/roawQ825Pr8)

This week we discuss Docker’s new licensing, Wirecutter goes behind a paywall and Serverless COBOL. Plus, Coté explains why open source is like College Football. Rundown Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions - Docker Blog (https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/) New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-wirecutter-product-review-site-moves-behind-paywall-11630436401) Serverless COBOL in Knative (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/serverless-cobol-in-knative) Announcing VMware Tanzu Application Platform: A Better Developer Experience on any Kubernetes (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/announcing-vmware-tanzu-application-platform?utm_campaign=content-social_&utm_content=1630455965&utm_medium=social-sprout&utm_source=twitter) VMware’s new Tanzu platform aims to unify Kubernetes development (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3631384/vmware-s-new-tanzu-platform-aims-to-unify-kubernetes-development.html) Databricks raises $1.6B series H funding round (https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/) Relevant to your interests EXCLUSIVE Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/) Apple loosens rules for developers in major concession amid antitrust pressure (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-app-store-payment-settlement/) Introducing a16z's seed fund - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/08/27/introducing-a16zs-seed-fund/) 30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/30_years_of_linux_red_hat/) Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple (https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icloud-id) The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D (https://semianalysis.com/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century-arm-china-has-gone-completely-rogue-operating-as-an-independent-company-with-their-own-ip/) Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/hyper_v_server_discontinued/) NGINX Commits to Open Source and Kubernetes Ingress - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/nginx-commits-to-open-source-kubernetes-ingress-involvement/) CITC - About | Greylock (https://greylock.com/castles/) Decentralized Investing Platform Syndicate Raises $800K From 100 Investors (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/06/30/decentralized-investing-platform-syndicate-raises-800k-from-100-investors/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) What you don’t know about working with AWS (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3631376/what-you-dont-know-about-working-with-aws.html) Forrest Brazeal going to GCP (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1431324536096628738) Clubhouse embraces spatial audio for more lifelike conversations (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/30/22648050/clubhouse-spatial-audio-3d-360-sound) Nonsense A (possibly fake?) high school apparently duped its way into playing on ESPN (https://footballscoop.com/news/bishop-sycamore-online-only-prep-school-espn-img-academy) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. 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THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) Listener Feedback Barton wants you to be a Consultant Product Manager: Cloud Native - Remote, US (https://buff.ly/3zyrKBi) at Dell SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: WATOE Wireless Charger 3 in 1 Qi Fast Charging Station (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089G6RM6Z/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Matt: Broad City (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2578560/) Coté: Short Life in a Strange World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46178718-short-life-in-a-strange-world). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/o7SvheEZoks) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/AT77Q0Njnt0)

This week we discuss Gartner’s Emerging Tech Hype Cycle and analyze 10 years of “Software Eating the World.” Plus, is Willie Nelson a good singer…? Rundown 3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/3-themes-surface-in-the-2021-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=SM_GB_YOY_GTR_SOC_SF1_SM-SWG&utm_content=&sf248828168=1) Chris Dixon Blockchain Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1427452454543663129) Ten Years Software Is Eating the World - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/) Disney wins this round: Here's where the streaming giants stand at the end of earnings season (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/13/disney-gaining-fast-on-netflix-in-streaming-wars.html) Relevant to your interests Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale (https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/after-spending-28b-salesforce-announces-first-direct-integrations-with-slack/) Custom Silicon (https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/08/tesla-project-dojo-overview/) LEAKED MEMO: Google is dismantling its embattled health division as the tech giant reconsiders its strategy for healthcare (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-health-shutting-down-david-feinberg-leaves-2021-8?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10_things_tech&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20sai:%2010%20things%20in%20tech%20you%20need%20to%20know%20today&utm_term=10%20THINGS%20IN%20TECH%20YOU%20NEED%20TO%20KNOW%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED) 'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/23/aws_memorydb_reaction/) 'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/23/gnome_asahi_linux/) Turing Pi V2 is here - Turing Pi (https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-v2-is-here/) Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/google_cloud_australia_southeast2_outage/) A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging app (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673505)s (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673505) Grafana Labs Raises $220 Million Round at $3 Billion Valuation (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-24/grafana-labs-raises-220-million-round-at-3-billion-valuation) Serverless, Multicloud Popular with K8s Users, Survey Says (https://thenewstack.io/serverless-multicloud-popular-with-k8s-users-survey-says/) Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/23/elastic-acquires-build-security-for-security-policy-definition-and-enforcement/) The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition (https://www.datafold.com/blog/the-modern-data-stack-open-source-edition) ****## Nonsense ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. (https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464889307762688?s=21) Rejected Old Bay Jingle (https://youtu.be/xMJMDEDXwec) Ford doubles Lightning production target on strong pre-launch demand -sources (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-ford-doubles-lightning-production-target-on-strong-pre-launch-demand-sources-0) Streaming Churn (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1430326411487846411?s=21) New Tilting Stops $100 Million Fix of San Francisco's Millennium Towe (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-tilting-stops-100-million-fix-of-san-franciscos-millennium-tower/2639941/)r (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-tilting-stops-100-million-fix-of-san-franciscos-millennium-tower/2639941/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. 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This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber… Rundown Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/16/users-lobby-1password-to-abandon-new-electron-version) Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/16/cisco-beefing-up-app-monitoring-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-epsagon-for-500m/) Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3915010,00.html) Relevant to your interests Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA (https://clearlake.com/clearlake-capital-completes-strategic-equity-investment-in-rsa/) Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/13/apple-svp-craig-federighi-responds-to-confusion-over-ios-15-icloud-child-safety-policies-in-new-interview/) Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets. (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html) PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty (https://cryptopotato.com/polynetworks-hacker-returns-all-funds-on-ethereum-and-refuses-a-500k-bug-bounty/) Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers (https://deadline.com/2021/08/disney-q3-beats-estimates-streaming-116-million-subscribers-1234813827/) (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html) Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects (https://github.com/triggermesh/aktion) Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-16/music-distributor-distrokid-raises-money-at-1-3-billion-valuation?srnd=markets-vp) HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud) T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-investigating-claims-of-massive-data-breach/) Funding, Buyback, and Hiring (https://ma.tt/2021/08/funding-buyback-hiring/) Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/palantir-bought-50-million-in-gold-bars-in-august-as-cash-accumulates.html) In No Code you delete code as you write it. (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1427707854090215429?s=20) Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021 (https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/16/roblox-bookings-grow-35-to-665-5m-for-q2-2021/) WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvy5/whatsapp-says-its-not-banning-the-taliban-because-it-cant-read-their-texts) OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/18/poly_network_job/) Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World (https://blog.postman.com/postman-announces-series-d/) Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/would-the-math-work-if-databricks-were-valued-at-38b/) Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/debian_11_bullseye_released/) This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/) Nonsense The Most Dangerous Writing App (https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app) Suicide Linux (https://qntm.org/suicide) Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/austin-expected-to-become-least-affordable-metro-for-homebuyers-outside-of-california/269-6bbed38e-ce06-453e-a659-aece44c6c111) These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-people-who-work-from-home-have-a-secret-they-have-two-jobs-11628866529) How QR codes are made (https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1425606620265000965) Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips (https://blog.bostondynamics.com/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backflips) Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes (https://news.yahoo.com/every-hot-dog-eaten-shortens-142355450.html) Progress Report: August 2021 (https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/) PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink (https://linuxstoney.com/pine64-presents-pinenote/) EC2 offers 400 Instance Types (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1426323051168165891?s=20) Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6i-instances-powered-by-the-latest-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Clubhouse.io — is project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up to day at www.clubhouse.io/sdt (https://clubhouse.io/sdt) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: The White Lotus (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/2) Mitani Chicken Salt (https://www.mitani.com.au/) Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave (https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/746608/sharp-r20ds.html). Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1423964819787485184). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/vKyp17kj31w) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/exf4mcFw4zg)

This week we discuss Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch, Reorgs and Remote Pay. Plus, some thoughts on IKEA and QBRs. Rundown This Week in Programming: The ElasticSearch Saga Continues (https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-the-elasticsearch-saga-continues/) Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/09/elasticsearch_python_client_change/) Twitter Thread on Elasticsearch (https://twitter.com/xeraa/status/1423071203753869313) Google staff could see pay cut if they opt to work from home (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/12/google-staff-could-see-pay-cut-if-they-opt-to-work-from-home) Steven Sinosky: Hardcore Software (https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/) Relevant to your interests 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built (https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/) Amazon delays employee office return until 2022 amid COVID-19 surge (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-delays-hq-office-return-until-2022-amid-covid-19-surge-055819058.html) Red Hat tells U.S. workers they must be vaccinated to come to office (https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2021/08/06/red-hat-announces-vaccine-mandate-for-u-s-workers.html) Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595060/tesla-chip-shortage-software-rewriting-ev-processor) All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/06/aws_google_dns/) The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/end_of_itanium_shipments/) Hard Drive Reliability: A Look at HDD and SDD Failure Rates (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2021/) Microsoft announces new 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge (https://therecord.media/microsoft-announces-new-super-duper-secure-mode-for-edge/) Salesforce enters the streaming wars with new video service for professionals (https://www.axios.com/salesforce-streaming-service-professionals-30a58e49-77fc-469d-9ff7-99f866678a98.html) Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell is leaving after 23 years as shakeup continues at AWS (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/amazon-cloud-exec-charlie-bell-leaving-after-23-years-amid-aws-shakeup.html) VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/vcs-are-betting-big-on-kubernetes-here-are-5-reasons-why/) Accenture gets hacked (https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1425420813281505289?s=20) Why can we not have an explicit statement about 1Password being a subscription-only service (https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917) The “Cloud MQ” for 2021 is Out! (https://blogs.gartner.com/bob-gill/2021/08/11/the-cloud-mq-for-2021-is-out/) Reddit Numbers (https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1425774330911277057) GitHub Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces) HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud?utm_source=social) Now Microsoft is protesting after Amazon won a $10 billion NSA cloud contract (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22618764/nsa-10-billion-microsoft-aws-cloud-services-protest) a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation (https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-6-the-cost-of-cloud-vs-repatriation-IU1rwMMk) TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL (https://containerjournal.com/features/triggermesh-previews-integration-language-based-on-hcl/) Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing (https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-captcha-pictures-are-so-unbearably-depressing-20679b8cf84a) Announcing AI21 Studio and Jurassic-1 Language Models (https://www.ai21.com/blog/announcing-ai21-studio-and-jurassic-1) Nonsense Cabin fever in "Fortress Australia" due to slow vaccination rate (https://www.axios.com/australia-coronavirus-border-ban-lockdowns-1e58fb57-2666-47b4-bcba-1b305a5b66ab.html) AMC theaters will start accepting Bitcoin this year (https://www.engadget.com/amc-theaters-bitcoin-tickets-143803440.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Clubhouse.io — Project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up at www.clubhouse.io/sdt (https://clubhouse.io/sdt) Listener Feedback Jordy wants you to work at as a Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/p/76a86071360001-senior-software-engineer) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) (Virtual Event) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: The Suicide Squad (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_suicide_squad) Matt: Uniqlo Fluffy Yarn Fleece Full-Zip Jacket (https://www.uniqlo.com/au/en/products/E419505-000?colorCode=COL09) Coté: PÅHL (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/pahl-desk-white-s49128945/) desk (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/pahl-desk-white-s49128945/). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/z3Mg-MMM4mM) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/K5DY18hy5JQ)

This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary? Rundown Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020 (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/08/02/update-on-cncf-and-open-source-project-velocity-2020/?utm_content=174974774&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-3286770860) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021) Heroku and Digital Ocean make the Cloud Platforms list (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-platform) The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-21/) AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-named-as-a-leader-for-the-11th-consecutive-year-in-2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services-cips/) Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers (https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/08/03/gartner_verdict_on_public_cloud/) Relevant to your interests Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/aws-earnings-q2-2021.html) Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/07/use-new-google-meet-web-app-for-better.html) The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22601191/fireside-app-mark-cuban-falon-fatemi-libsyn-rode-invest) Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country (https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1421315244660559874?s=20) Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit (https://www.axios.com/zoom-settle-85-million-privacy-suit-4674b13a-b062-46fa-b72d-32fdf62d97d1.html) Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/02/microsoft-teams-rolls-out-native-notification-on-its-macos-app/) Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace (https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/02/salesforces-mulesoft-buys-rpa-specialist-servicetrace/) Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-foundry-summit-kubernetes-must-do-better-by-developers/) IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/03/ibm_sev_one_outages/) Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available (https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/red-hat-openshift-4.8-is-now-generally-available) Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall (https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/08/03/deal-of-the-century-how-michael-dell-turned-his-declining-pc-business-into-40-billion-windfall/) Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-analyze-encrypted-messages-ad-targeting-175739715.html) Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/04/nvidias-40-billion-bid-for-arm-could-be-in-jeopardy.html) Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-clients-of-opensearch-and-elasticsearch-compatible-with-open-source/) Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3627407/oracle-launches-verrazzano-container-platform-for-kubernetes.html) Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform (https://verrazzano.io/) Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/08/05/investing-in-polywork/) Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence (https://thehustle.co/08052021-Amazon-drone-project) One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/08/02/linked-in-permanent-remote-work.html) Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life) LISA Community Message (https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement) Nonsense Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit (https://www.axios.com/zoom-settle-85-million-privacy-suit-4674b13a-b062-46fa-b72d-32fdf62d97d1.html) Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/02/goldman-sachs-joins-wall-street-rivals-in-boosting-junior-banker-salaries-.html) HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the stor (https://www.statesman.com/story/lifestyle/food/2021/07/27/heb-butter-tortilla-candles-texas-grocery-store-bakery-scents/5391681001/)e (https://www.statesman.com/story/lifestyle/food/2021/07/27/heb-butter-tortilla-candles-texas-grocery-store-bakery-scents/5391681001/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Let Him Go (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/let_him_go). Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/) podcast. Coté: La Vallade (https://lavallade.nl) restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline (https://www.wijnbeurs.nl/la-pauline-classique-merlot-cabernet) wine, which you should also try. Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/NLSvKQTJOz0) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/qIu77BsFdds)

This week we discuss Infrastructure as Code, GCP's new API policy and The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey. Plus, some thoughts on Olympic Swimming. Rundown Evolving Infrastructure-as-Code to Integration-as-Code (https://containerjournal.com/features/evolving-infrastructure-as-code-to-integration-as-code/) Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-record-revenue-profit-youtube-ad-cloud-search) Saved by Google? New API policy promises stability and availability. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-enterprise-apis) The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/) Relevant to your interests Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu Is Now GA, Plus an Integration with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/cloud-native-runtimes-for-vmware-tanzu-advanced-ga) Big-name San Antonio tech company axing 10 percent of workforce (https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/technology/article/San-Antonio-based-Rackspace-10-percent-layoffs-16332426.php) Facebook’s cloud gaming service hits iOS devices as a web app | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-gaming-ios-pwa-163440977.html) Clubhouse Breach (https://twitter.com/mruef/status/1418693478574346242?s=20) Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 1 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/serverless-cobol-rejuvenating-legacy-code-with-open-source-software/) Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/ably_doesnt_need_kubernetes/) No, we don’t use Kubernetes | Ably Blog: Data in Motion (https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes) Replicated $50M Series C To Advance Multi-Prem Software Adoption - Replicated (https://www.replicated.com/blog/series-c-announcement/) a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation | a16z Live (https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-6-the-cost-of-cloud-vs-repatriation-IU1rwMMk) Amazon pulls the plug on 3-year effort to migrate from PeopleSoft to Workday. (https://twitter.com/TonyBaer/status/1420035381383385092) Discord is adding Slack-like threads to keep conversations better organized (https://www.xda-developers.com/discord-slack-threads/) AWS’s Egregious Egress (https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/?s=09) Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp) Report: Vista Equity Partners could sell Tibco for $7.5B+ (https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/23/report-vista-equity-partners-sell-tibco-7-5b/) Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/1password-raises-100m-at-a-2b-valuation/) The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596120/apple-q3-2021-earnings-iphone-ipad-mac) Microsoft posts big earnings beat and gives optimistic revenue forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-msft-earnings-q4-2021.html) Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-bests-earnings-estimates-as-azure-posts-51-growth-shares-fall/) Nonsense United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-sells-unique-wu-tang-clan-album-forfeited-convicted-hedge-fund-manager) Meet the typical Costco shopper (https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-costco-shopper-demographic-asian-american-woman-earning-high-income-2021-7) Kangaroo vs Human population across Australia. (https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1420111843058720770) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Listener Feedback Nate from Slack recommends Oceanhorn 2 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oceanhorn-2/id1141837408) in the Apple Arcade Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Criminal Podcast Episode 48 Hours (https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-167-48-hours-6-18-21/) Matt: King Tubby and other dub music on Spotify Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/SiflIx5IlRI) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/LqKhnDzSF-8)

This week we discuss Netflix getting into games and review the latest State of DevOps Report. Plus, what do you call a domicile in Amsterdam? Rundown Why Netflix is getting into games (https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/7/20/22586084/netflix-gaming-strategy-earnings-explained) State of DevOps Report 2021 (https://puppet.com/resources/report/2021-state-of-devops-report/) Relevant to your interests Twitter Is Shutting Down Fleets, Its Vanishing-Post Format, After Less Than a Year (https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-fleets-shutting-down-1235019174/) Morgan Stanley‘s CIO survey shows a significant moderation in expectations for the migration of workloads to the public cloud. (https://twitter.com/Atreidesmgmt/status/1414945521026875393) Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner (https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-microsofts-own-linux-cbl-mariner/) Austin sees pay-off from pandemic-era tech reshuffling (https://www.axios.com/austin-pandemic-reshuffling-tech-entrepreneurs-investors-11669cb1-edf5-4d00-8043-036c49215fe6.html) Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders (https://www.axios.com/pegasus-spyware-journalists-activists-report-5af14a4f-dce1-454d-b0e2-dc2b043b2b0e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs) IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? (https://blog.newagealpha.com/can-ibm-deliver) The end of open source? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/18/the-end-of-open-source/) DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/16/devrev-genius-nutanix-pair-envisage-massive-new-saas-opportunity/) Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle? (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/19/gartner_hype_cycle/) Rapid7 + IntSights: Own Your Entire Attack Surface, Internally and Externally (https://www.rapid7.com/rapid7-acquires-intsights/) Apple to delay office returns to October - Bloomberg News (https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-delay-office-returns-october-bloomberg-news-2021-07-20/) Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx5bw/amazon-aws-shuts-down-nso-group-infrastructure) Apple's AirPods did ~$16B in 2020 (https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1417500092395753472?s=21) You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/21/amazon_aws_recruitment/) Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/21/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks) Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders (https://www.axios.com/pegasus-spyware-journalists-activists-report-5af14a4f-dce1-454d-b0e2-dc2b043b2b0e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs) IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? (https://blog.newagealpha.com/can-ibm-deliver) IBM shows strongest revenue growth in three years (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/ibm-earnings-q2-2021.html) What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-ibm-watson.html) Why Zoom bought Five9 for $14.7 billion: Enterprise wallet share and a big customer engagement play (https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-zoom-bought-five9-for-14-7-billion-enterprise-wallet-share-and-a-big-customer-engagement-play/) Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/zoom-is-buying-cloud-contact-center-provider-five9-for-14point7-billion.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1626659760) Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556500/zoom-kites-acquisition-machine-translation-real-time-captions) Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/21/22585980/zoom-apps-events-launch-onzoom) (https://twitter.com/Atreidesmgmt/status/1414945521026875393)## Nonsense Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom! (https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066) Noise cancellation neither helps productivity nor perceived performance (https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1416764559159742469) World's First 3-D-Printed Steel Bridge Debuts in Amsterdam (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-first-3-d-printed-steel-bridge-debuts-amsterdam-180978228/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Craig in Fort Worth. Craig bought the Doc Martin’s recommended in episode 82. See the pictures. (https://www.instagram.com/p/CRnMmSGL6m5/) Conferences THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29 SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Dark Sky (https://darksky.net/app) Matt: BOM Weather (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.bom.metview) Coté: 8ball newsletter (https://www.8ball.report); Buienradar (https://www.buienradar.nl/) in the Netherlands. Image Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/M_eB1UjE0do) Image Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/By-tZImt0Ms)

This week, Coté and Matt Ray finally nail the secrets of enterprise devrel. You won’t want to miss this one! Also: Coté gives up on streaming PowerPoint and IT survey show that it’s time to ask for a raise. Mood board: Free glowsticks for leadgenning yourself. Our tragic doppleganger. DevRel secrets. If you open a terminal you win streaming. Memes are serverless. You gotta spend money to lose money. All about the pincher. Rundown Cloud Native Integration Platform TriggerMesh Receives Strategic Funding from Cisco Investments, Existing Investors (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/cloud-native-integration-platform-triggermesh-receives-strategic-funding-from-cisco-investments-existing-investors). Cisco leads $5M round for multicloud application integration startup TriggerMesh (https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/13/cisco-leads-5m-round-multicloud-application-integration-startup-triggermesh/). Checking in on Matt’s devrel notes. Twitter is shutting down Fleets on August 3, citing low usage (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/14/twitter-is-shutting-down-fleets-on-august-3-citing-low-usage/). Labor shortages in IT, but growing IT budgets. (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/799caf53-ac05-45b3-a99c-bf54be456c99.pdf) Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/8/22568582/microsoft-employee-pandemic-bonus-1500-dollars) Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/biden-noncompete-clauses-workers.html?referringSource=articleShare) Relevant to your interests Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm (http://https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/british_airways_data_breach_rival_lawsuit/) Stamps.com Agrees to Thoma Bravo Buyout in $6.6 Billion Deal (http://https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thoma-bravo-buys-stamps-com-120837681.html) CentOS Stream: 'I was slow on the uptake, but I get what they are doing now,' says Rocky Linux founder (http://https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/09/centos_stream_greg_kurtzer/) Experts analyzed Andy Jassy's first memo to Amazon employees as CEO (http://https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/experts-analyzed-andy-jassys-first-memo-to-amazon-employees-as-ceo-heres-why-its-nearly-perfect/) Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ for >$500 million (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-11/microsoft-is-said-to-be-buying-cybersecurity-company-riskiq) Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity startup RiskIQ; reports peg deal at more than $500M (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-reportedly-acquire-cybersecurity-startup-riskiq-500m/) @vladtenev (CEO of @RobinHoodApp) is now following @profgalloway (https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1414581950677934090?s=20) The Future IBM We Will Probably Never See (http://https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/07/08/the-future-ibm-we-will-probably-never-see/) Q3 IPO cycle starts strong with Couchbase pricing and Kaltura relisting (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/12/q3-ipo-cycle-starts-strong-with-couchbase-pricing-and-kaltura-relisting/) Report: Broadcom in talks to buy SAS for as much as $20B (http://https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/07/12/report-broadcom-in-talks-to-buy-sas-for-as-much-as-20b/) Broadcom No Longer in Talks to Buy SAS Institute, Sources Say (https://www.wsj.com/articles/broadcom-no-longer-in-talks-to-buy-sas-institute-sources-say-11626212065) Probably Wrong Flowchart, this time on AWS database services! (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1414956493561077761?s=21) Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war) Person advises Principal AWS engineer not to build AWS on AWS, because a16z’s cloud repatriation piece said it’s too expensive at scale. (https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1415106401177907200?s=21) The Windows 365 Cloud PC (http://https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/14/introducing-a-new-era-of-hybrid-personal-computing-the-windows-365-cloud-pc/) SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware campaign’ targeting its EOL equipment (https://therecord.media/sonicwall-warns-of-imminent-ransomware-campaign-targeting-its-eol-equipment/) Analyzing the Legal Implications of GitHub Copilot (https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-copilot/) Kelsey Hightower changing Roles (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1415156964380880898) Nonsense Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/spike-in-chain-gang-destructive-attacks-on-atms/) Tesla finally releases Full Self-Driving Beta v9 (http://https://electrek.co/2021/07/10/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-v9-first-videos-release-notes/) Netflix to offer Video Games (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-14/netflix-nflx-to-offer-video-games-on-its-streaming-platform) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14 Carolina VMUG, July 22 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1415326605291950083?s=21) - Coté gives DevOps metrics talk. THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29 SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Matt: McGruff's SMART KIDS Album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4P4plYXKFE) Coté: Cumin Beef, from FuLu Mandarijn (https://fulumandarijn.com).

This week we discuss Copilot’s use of Open Source, changes at IBM and the Infinidash Meme. Plus, an update on Coté’s return to Twitter. Rundown Adam Jacob on OSS (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1413173291909484558) IBM Leadership Changes (https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Leadership-Changes) IBM (IBM) Announces President Jim Whitehurst Leaving (https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=18638012) IBM Email Woes (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/) IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/) Amazon Eyeing 'Rebel Alliance' With Dropbox, Slack To Challenge Microsoft: Insider (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-eyeing-rebel-alliance-dropbox-173352783.html) New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/) Relevant to your interests Who's Winning in the Container Software Market (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/whos-winning-container-software-market) Do the costs of the cloud outweigh the benefits? (https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-of-the-cloud-outweigh-the-benefits) After Jeff Bezos: the changing of the guard at Amazon (https://www.ft.com/content/7475ae98-7e25-4d6f-8470-e8b9effb0ee7) Russia Linked Group Hacks 200 Businesses With Ransomware (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTD2pkJHs4) A Large Ransomware Attack Has Ensnared Hundreds of Companies (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEGqxeYOWfy8AZ_smpDvRjdoqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowipWZCzCan7EDMKS42wY?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen) Independence Day: REvil uses supply chain exploit to attack hundreds of businesses (https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/07/04/independence-day-revil-uses-supply-chain-exploit-to-attack-hundreds-of-businesses/amp/) Gurman: Apple rapidly expanding outside of Silicon Valley as it struggles to recruit and retain talent (https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/04/apple-expanding-silicon-valley-talent/) Are you ready to become a TV company? The future of tech events is media. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/06/29/are-you-ready-to-become-a-tv-company-the-future-of-tech-events-is-media/) Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-26Q47L81&ct=210706&st=sb) We Replaced Splunk at 100TB Scale in 120 Days (https://medium.com/lets-xplore/how-we-replaced-splunk-at-100tb-scale-in-120-days-e5a59db63f6) Roblox partners with Sony Music to connect artists with money-making activities in the metaverse (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/roblox-partners-with-sony-music-to-connect-artists-with-money-making-activities-in-the-metaverse/) Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-06/russian-state-hackers-breached-republican-national-committee) Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/7/22549338/apple-google-apps-comscore-study-facebook) Layoffs hit a record low as companies hold onto employees for dear life (https://www.axios.com/layoffs-all-time-low-656979a1-38e0-48d4-b3bb-5ad9b5345aa3.html) TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/tiktok-resumes-job-applications/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEHDmvKOaaLh3HshMxX8UZq11CLj9pXU9brF854gAzMY59GYmPKqB6viF4iJzAuAll_J1nhSSYrbuxaDvrWBA_9HSRY2kKHeI9hwg8vntjRda0KWK7eG3cTUThM4-snNbwX01cesPdy6l_dJu_5PzpHOStKn1i2qEKOb9sGh1FhO) Box claims activist investor wanted in on deal it publicly opposed (https://www.axios.com/box-activist-investor-starboard-deal-opposed-kkr-02f529dd-6870-41b3-8f5b-de5c89033859.html) Nonsense job description: must be willing to work in a fast-paced unpredictable high-energy environment (https://twitter.com/_robertschultz/status/1412470172485521408?s=21) Puppy in a cone is 2% unhappy? (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1412594479895175170?s=21) Google Reader (https://twitter.com/ronamadeo/status/1412909940474265602?s=12) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14 Carolina VMUG (https://www.vmug.com/vmug2019/events2/power-sessions/network-security-power-session), July 22nd - Coté giving a talk on DevOps metrics, and BEYOND! THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29, Special Promotion (https://that.us/promo/claim?eventId=7wiuRWI7EZjcdF4e9MDz) SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Some Kind of Heaven (https://decider.com/2021/01/14/where-to-watch-some-kind-of-heaven-doc/) Coté: Newsify (https://newsify.co) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/5vPDKmMvBkk) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/L4YGuSg0fxs)

This week we discuss the future of PaaS and working for home. Plus, some thoughts on kids and zone defense. Rundown What AWS Tells Us About Heroku 2.0 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/06/23/aws-heroku/) This is the Awful Voice Inside My Head (https://warzel.substack.com/p/this-is-the-awful-voice-inside-my) Amazon, Microsoft lead 40% growth of IaaS public cloud services market in 2020 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-microsoft-lead-40-growth-of-iaas-public-cloud-services-market-in-2020-gartner/). Relevant to your interests CentOS replacement Rocky Linux 8.4 arrives, and proves instantly popular | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/centos-replacement-rocky-linux-8-4-arrives-and-proves-instantly-popular/) “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social) Ad tech stocks surge as Google delays killing third-party cookies until 2023 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/24/google-pushes-back-deadline-to-deprecate-third-party-cookies-to-2023.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Twilio and Asana first to dual-list shares on Long-Term Stock Exchange (https://www.axios.com/twilio-asana-long-term-stock-exchange-945bad08-c5f0-4968-bd5f-ef3f1a27c71b.html) BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC (https://www.axios.com/buzzfeed-spac-ba1d9673-b6da-4228-ab58-dd8ab2ef525a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-aws-buys-wickr-152819656.html) Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda (https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda) Discord acquires augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/28/discord-acquires-augmented-reality-startup-ubiquity6/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL2F4aW9zLmxpbmsvS0VOOT91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249bmV3c2xldHRlcl9heGlvc3Byb3JhdGEmc3RyZWFtPXRvcA&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB0ZS5LFqMvediQoO3h5WSgI9zcWLTpuxxKuDv_KWrX85j3PEhD3iGzBSIiEaH_ci97L2TeqDP1eZ_Lal2cxnhd1XN-oJiSmUbODYyTP5psZpAPdhY4VH5QhXqHm4GuO2FKtzd4va34sMg334PDzKEJaxBRnnB5TTuloMg0fgT5u) HashiCorp built its own online events platform and it's awesome. Tiny Wins. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/06/28/hashicorp-built-its-own-online-events-platform-and-its-awesome-tiny-wins/) Intel Delays New Chip in First Setback for CEO Gelsinger’s Turnaround Effort (https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-delays-new-chip-in-first-setback-for-ceo-gelsingers-turnaround-effort-11624988292) Kindle Vella (https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GR2L4AHPMQ44HNQ7) AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud (https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html) A Clubhouse for the office? Slack unveils ‘Huddles’ audio chat rooms (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3623628/a-clubhouse-for-the-office-slack-unveils-huddles-audio-chat-rooms.html) Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. (https://copilot.github.com) L (https://jamesthom.as/2021/06/lessons-learnt-in-developer-relations/)essons Learnt in Developer Relations (https://jamesthom.as/2021/06/lessons-learnt-in-developer-relations/) Nonsense Owner of venomous zebra cobra previously bitten by green mamba snake (https://www.wral.com/owner-of-venomous-zebra-cobra-previously-bitten-by-green-mamba-snake/19748492/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Stuart in Lake Stevens, WA. Show notes workaround for Apple Podcasts. Example (https://www.instagram.com/p/CQjpA9rHxIs/) Thanks to Brian White Eagle for enabling Nightbot (https://nightbot.tv) and adding SDT Twitch Commands (https://nightbot.tv/t/sdtpodcast/commands) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14 THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29 SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: A Quiet Place II (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_part_ii) Matt: The Pulsars Lost Transmissions (https://thepulsars.bandcamp.com/album/lost-transmissions) Coté: Election Profit Makers Episode 100 (https://overcast.fm/+r_rsbYTNw) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/wR5u40w3GMw) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/fUIDHNjwbto)

He's one of the best #devrel avocado person I know, so I asked Josh Long all my questions about how #devrel works, plus the Spring Framework community, of course. Also: why Josh stays up so late. If you prefer, see the original, video recording (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1408337754732171270). Special Guest: Josh Long.

This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office. Rundown Did we market Knative wrong? (https://ahmet.im/blog/knative-positioning/) Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/newsroom/press-releases/2021/splunk-announces-1-billion-investment-from-silver-lake.html). Relevant to your interests Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack (https://datastax.medium.com/four-reasons-why-apache-pulsar-is-essential-to-the-modern-data-stack-b90a8bddcb9) ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/thoughtworks-ipo-details/) Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/spotify-acquires-podz-a-podcast-discovery-app/) Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum (https://www.axios.com/broadband-maps-infrastructure-66a91da4-c0f4-415c-8e84-1f58b829b323.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hbo-max-subscribers-confused-amused-042408215.html) Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ferrari-amazons-aws-enter-agreement-data-2021-06-18/) Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/good-go-not-washington-states-tolling-software-switchover-will-take-2-weeks/) How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/06/21/how-h-e-b-achieved-four-nines-of-reliability-using-kubernetes-and-linkerd/) Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-to-detail-major-windows-update-at-june-24-event-1b386dd1-ef2f-4e59-b3a6-934ddce400b6.html) Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/22/dutch-payments-startup-mollie-raises-another-800m-at-a-6-5b-valuation/) Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO (https://www.reuters.com/technology/database-company-couchbase-files-us-ipo-2021-06-21/) PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now (https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/summit-2021-platform-release/) Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-wipes-out-2021-gains-as-china-crackdown-continues-142206939.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADvOhiBIzA99Wiine1MSCEKIcUNPEcBBfnJuJgPAQOKNcoRBhJq-8CFJmCVpeKDHlw8kQRoZpox0lDs_kf-nI3qV0Ad4xHt71mgVSGGmsky0BWep7AyET6al7b5VP5bCKp_tg_GzXo-nWqEiKCcGs2ZkcdYo4YaeQMBZtjCT-oyc) The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer (https://linuxfoundation.org/press-release/the-linux-foundation-appoints-industry-veteran-as-chief-marketing-officer/) Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software (https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/22/unity-acquires-3d-data-firm-pixyz-software/) Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-rolls-out-tool-to-show-its-employees-compensation-changes-for-transferring-offices/) CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control (https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/06/21/centos-replacement-rocky-linux-is-now-in-ga-and-under-independent-control/) Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/confluent-prices-ipo-above-range-at-36-a-share-11624487558) Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-announces-windows-11-generally-available-by-the-holidays/) Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/insight-partners-has-acquired-the-new-stack/) Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/23/oracle_support_rewards/) Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-announces-windows-11-generally-available-by-the-holidays/) Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar (https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-microsoft-teams-integrated-153343398.html) Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406472/microsoft-teams-145-million-daily-active-users-stats) Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier (https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-snap-groups-snap-layouts/) PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now (https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/summit-2021-platform-release/) State of Digital Operations (https://www.pagerduty.com/state-of-digital-ops/) Nonsense Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville (https://www.wate.com/news/buc-ees-to-built-worlds-largest-convenience-store-in-sevierville/) 24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oyG1Vl1Vc) Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank (https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosedge&stream=business) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/). Conferences Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30 RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14 THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29 SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Listen to my appearance on (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/mid-year-cloud-hot-takes.html) The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/mid-year-cloud-hot-takes.html) Framing Britney Spears on Hulu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee) Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee) Matt: We Are the Champions (https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81034679) ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers (https://amzn.to/2SUzTAd) Coté: La La IJs (http://lalaijs.nl). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/zE007SNgcdE) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/B587f4cdHgw)

This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter. Rundown SFDC Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-on-slack-acquisition-135151402.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAZTuzt_LffvaHAIFHpv23I9rjDmGt1XwjYl4AMPO9BHFYTmw7-9RFppK4J4pjkhVV6Ps8HjRBW3j4pg-QWpkmwmgAbtqZxLbmjIeR3ms__vrbn6YUP3lyHgAkHmLkAEZ8nZ3dJA80yvzUfImTO_FJXAIKYKPxFPz2U1Q2KHDNSo) Salesforce Targets ServiceNow: Slack Delivers “Human Workflow” (https://cloudwars.co/salesforce/salesforce-targets-servicenow-slack-human-workflow/) Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/15/andreessen-horowitz-goes-into-publishing-with-future/) Relevant to your interests AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Proton (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aws-announces-general-availability-aws-192000056.html) Amazon rethinks full-time return to office as competitors tout remote flexibility (https://www.axios.com/amazon-office-remote-work-07f05dcc-f716-4fb9-8ed1-242b20e2ef34.html) Write for DOnations (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digitalocean) Side-by-side comparisons between GCP, AWS, and Azure (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/handy-new-google-cloud-aws-and-azure-product-map) Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative For Sight Impaired (https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/06/13/mojo-visions-smart-contact-lens-could-be-transformative-for-sight-impaired/) Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater (https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater) Google Workspace for everyone (https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/) Google’s unified Gmail interface (and Google Chat) launches for everyone (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/gmails-big-merger-with-google-chat-meet-and-docs-launches-for-everyone/) Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-shifts-to-hybrid-workweek-allowing-20-of-its-employees-to-work-remotely-11620240694?mod=e2tw) RISC-V and Intel? (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-set-to-address-ai-and-supercomputer-workloads) Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chipmaker-sifive-said-draw-intel-182107339.html) Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/14/ubuntu_pro_gcp/) Future - Understand the Future, How Tech Shapes It, and How We Build It (https://future.a16z.com/) Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu) Oracle revenue growth accelerates as pandemic recedes (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/oracle-orcl-earnings-q4-2021.html) Slack goes Clubhouse (https://uit.stanford.edu/blog/new-audio-only-space-lets-you-gather-slack-channels-and-talk) Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms (https://dev.to/n3wt0n/crypto-mining-is-killing-all-free-ci-cd-platforms-4chc) Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market (https://future.a16z.com/community) Has Serverless Jumped the Shark? (https://thenewstack.io/has-serverless-jumped-the-shark/) A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners” (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1774162) Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/spotify-launches-its-live-audio-app-and-clubhouse-rival-spotify-greenroom/) Neo4j raises $325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/neo4j-series-f/?tpcc=ECTW2020) The public cloud could evolve like streaming services (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3620963/the-public-cloud-could-evolve-like-streaming-services.html) Nonsense 10 fully remote engineering jobs? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589) iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/10/22527395/ios-4-oldos-iphone-app-testflight) ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert (https://twitter.com/EvilMopacATX/status/1404500623454838785) Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/14/22533512/doom-ikea-tradfri-smart-light-bulb-hack) Peak binge: Consumers are now gravitating towards shows that are released weekly (https://www.axios.com/netflix-disney-amazon-streaming-binge-episodes-47896f59-bec8-4e36-97a3-3f5369a36598.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback IBM Cloud Podcast (https://ibm.biz/cloudpodcast) hosted by Dan Bettinger Conferences Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Innovation Talk by Cote on June 21st (https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/13490-cloudnative-exchange-forum-21?utm_campaign=eXchange%20Forum%20—%C2%A02021%20–%2002%20–%C2%A0CloudNative&utm_content=169720987&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-16345873#program) RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Children of Time (https://www.audible.com/pd/Children-of-Time-Audiobook/B071Y9TTHC?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=85df3330-9dc4-4a45-ae69-93cc2fc25ca4&pf_rd_r=Q3NWNW35KE913J1E0SRV) Matt: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (https://amzn.to/3wD1ODk) and The Obelisk Gate (https://amzn.to/3q5zNBQ) Coté: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra_and_the_Princesses_of_Power), in Netflix. Also: Wooster and Jeeves books narrated by Jonathan Cecil - included in Audible membership! Cover Art Credit (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1405168707123519491) Header Art Credit (https://twitter.com/jjasghar/status/1393645064061083649?s=20)

This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school. Rundown Confluent IPO Everything you need to know about the Confluent IPO (https://www.protocol.com/confluent-ipo) Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/confluent-benchmarking-the-s-1-data) Confluent (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm) S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm) Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson (https://www.jesse-anderson.com/2021/06/analysis-of-confluents-s1/) Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22461782/apple-wwdc-2021-recap-biggest-announcements-ios-15-macos-monterey-ipados) Relevant to your interests Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/gong-going-gangbusters-grabs-250m-series-e-on-7-25b-valuation/) Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/outreach-lands-200-million-pushing-valuation-sales-software-startup-4-4-billion/) FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion (https://www.fireeye.com/company/press-releases/2021/fireeye-announces-sale-of-fireeye-products-business-to-symphony-technology-group.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps (https://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/why-every-cloud-customer-needs-finops/) Passport (https://stratechery.com/2021/passport/) Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023 (https://www.axios.com/twitter-subscription-products-revenue-366893aa-4638-4dab-b4d4-8f506106934f.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer (https://www.vox.com/2021/6/4/22507896/supreme-court-computer-crime-amy-coney-barrett-van-buren-hacking-fraud-abuse-clarence-thomas) Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/medium-exodus-culture-memo) Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210603005559/en/Blackstone-to-Acquire-International-Data-Group-a-Leading-Market-Intelligence-and-Data-Platform-for-the-Technology-Industry) Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/6/2/22465862/norton-360-crypto-mining-ethereum-coinbase) Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-crime-bust-an0m-cash-drugs-murder/100197246) Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour) (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/08/numerous-popular-websites-are-facing-an-outage/) Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations (https://www.zdnet.com/article/snowflake-announces-new-data-marketplace-and-powered-collaborations/) Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/google-is-moving-parts-of-youtube-to-its-cloud-service.html) The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22461782/apple-wwdc-2021-recap-biggest-announcements-ios-15-macos-monterey-ipados) The Oncoming Ransomware Storm (https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/ransomware.html) Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-seizes-23-million-cryptocurrency-paid-ransomware-extortionists-darkside) Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? (https://overcast.fm/+oIe_QB4LY) Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-2-3m-paid-by-colonial-pipeline-to-ransomware-gang/) Nonsense MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/business/moviepass-settlement-ftc.html) The Great Wings Rush (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22456930/chicken-wings-delivery-virtual-brands) AMC is the new meme stock posterchild. (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1400578540601450497?s=21) Introducing the United supersonic fleet. (https://twitter.com/boomaero/status/1400406948546220036?s=21) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback Noe wans you to work as Senior Systems Engineer at Riot Games (https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/job/2459100/senior-systems-engineer-developer-connections-los-angeles-usa) based in L.A. Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing (https://careers.vmware.com/main/jobs/R2106437). Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: NYT Games Subscription (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games) Matt: Secrets of the Whales (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOySOlB78dM) documentary Magnetic USB charging cables (https://amzn.to/3gn4eyT) (recommended by Mykel Alvis) Coté: The Hidden Palace (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36300633-the-hidden-palace). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/7K_agbqPqYo) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/fgm3VWev8UY)

Coté talks with John about the subject of his new podcast series: Deming. Find his podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1758599 Special Guest: John Willis.

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh, the cost of Public Cloud and more M&A. Plus, Coté published a new book that everyone must read. Rundown Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh (https://www.triggermesh.com) Interview with Sebastien Goasguen Cofounder of TriggerMesh (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278) Coté’s new book is out: Changing Mindsets (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/changing-mindsets-the-missing-ingredient-to-digital-transformation?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=SDT). Johnny Leadgen’s can get it for free (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/changing-mindsets-the-missing-ingredient-to-digital-transformation?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=SDT). The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/) it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity (https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1399013516107948037?s=21) Cloud is great. But we show it hurts share price of public (https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/) M&A KKR and CD&R Close to $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Out Cloudera (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kkr-cd-r-close-4-022454722.html) Sumo Logic buys Sensu (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-signs-definitive-agreement-acquire-sensu-extend-open) Prosus buys StackOverflow for $1.8 Billion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400) Relevant to your interests Docker introduces developer environments in containers (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/27/docker_introduces_developer_environments_in_containers/) A handy new Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure product map (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/handy-new-google-cloud-aws-and-azure-product-map) Apple says Malware is a problem on Macs. So how bad is it? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dwightsilverman/2021/05/27/apple-says-malware-is-a-problem-on-macs-so-bad-is-it/?sh=648f84cc36da&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter) DevRel Collective (https://devrelcollective.fun/#resources) Wordpress powers 40% of Websites (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2ZyH5gWYAEcyIf.jpg) Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion (https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399058952336277505) Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home) It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs are Coming to the Data Center (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arm/its-happening-arm-server-cpus-are-coming-data-center) H1B Visa Salary Database 2021 - By Employer, Job, or City (https://h1bdata.info/) Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7egp8/why-corporations-wont-hire-any-remote-workers-in-colorado) Twitter to launch local weather news service (https://www.axios.com/twitter-holthaus-tomorrow-weather-meteorologists-6ca8692a-112c-45a4-92f2-3fae5ea813f0.html) Life at Google vs. Life at Amazon: From Hiring to Firing (and Everything in Between) (https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/life-at-google-vs-life-at-amazon-from-hiring-to-firing-and-everything-in-between.html) You'll Have to Wait Until June for Apple's Paid Podcast Subscription Service (https://gizmodo.com/apple-delays-paid-podcast-subscription-launch-until-jun-1846999142) Zoom reports blowout earnings but warns of a coming slowdown (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/zoom-zm-earnings-q1-2022.html) Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru (https://acloudguru.com/blog/news/pluralsight-to-acquire-a-cloud-guru) Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/) The State of Kubernetes 2021 (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/the-state-of-kubernetes-2021) Hackers hit JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, in ransomware attack (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/01/jbs-cyberattack-meat-supply-chain/) Nonsense Formatting show and episode notes (https://learn.acast.com/en/articles/3505626-formatting-show-and-episode-notes) Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/28/bitcoin-mine-discovered-by-uk-police-on-cannabis-farm-raid-.html) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) Knative Eventing Training (https://www.triggermesh.com/knative-eventing-training) - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Mare of Easttown (https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown) Finale Matt: macOS Automator & AppleScript. Coté: Stir fry sauce (https://www.bonappetit.com/story/tangy-cabbage-stir-fry) with black vinegar (https://www.bonappetit.com/story/black-vinegar#intcid=_bon-appetit-bottom-recirc_598549a4-29e9-4470-9237-96407ad96745_text2vec1). 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This week we try to make sense of Snowflake’s stance on open source and review the State of Serverless. Plus, some advice on parking cars in Amsterdam. Rundown Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3617938/striking-a-balance-with-open-at-snowflake.html) Matt Asay’s Take on Snowflake (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1395809597806366720?s=21) Data Warehouse Wars: Snowflake Vs. Google BigQuery (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4429909-data-warehouse-wars-snowflake-vs-google-bigquery) The State of Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/) Relevant to your interests Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus (https://sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/) SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern (https://www.cyberscoop.com/solarwinds-ceo-reveals-much-earlier-hack-timeline-regrets-company-blaming-intern/) U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/us-treasury-calls-for-stricter-cryptocurrency-compliance-with-irs.html) The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told (https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/) Coinbase suffers outages as cryptos plummet in massive sell-off (https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/coinbase-suffers-outages-as-cryptos-plummet-in-massive-sell-off/) Snapchat's partner summit this year was done entirely in augmented reality (https://www.axios.com/snapchat-ar-spectacles-partner-summit-8bb68470-aa48-402f-a531-aa6c5a78b17b.html) Snap says it now has 500 million monthly active users (https://www.axios.com/snapchat-500-users-developer-tools-92932ae6-a26c-445f-87b6-92775a454f71.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Snap buys WaveOptics, a company that makes parts for augmented reality glasses, in $500 million deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/21/snap-buys-augmented-reality-company-waveoptics-in-500-million-deal.html) Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/20/microsoft_azure_outage/) Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it’ll take a 20 percent cut of sales (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447328/twitter-ticketed-spaces-monetization-stripe-approval) Oracle insiders say there is a ‘culture of fear’ under the leadership of its key cloud unit (https://nullednow.in/trending/oracle-insiders-say-there-is-a-culture-of-fear-under-the-leadership-of-its-key-cloud-unit/2021/) It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/21/linux_5_13_patches/) The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/the-unstoppable-battery-cavalcade/) Netflix Reportedly Wants To Get Into The Video Games Industry (https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2021/05/23/netflix-reportedly-wants-to-get-into-the-video-games-industry/) Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing (https://www.wsj.com/articles/auto-makers-retreat-from-50-years-of-just-in-time-manufacturing-11620051251?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1) Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds (https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997462169/thousands-of-people-are-dying-from-working-long-hours-a-new-who-study-finds) Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/oracle_ampere_cloud/) Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/twilio-invests-in-adaptive-communications-platform-hyro/) Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News (https://news.microsoft.com/build-2021-book-of-news/) Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/) Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3 (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22451144/microsoft-gpt-3-openai-coding-autocomplete-powerapps-power-fx) Green Software Foundation (https://greensoftware.foundation/) The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-containers-on-aws/) Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt (https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/please-fix-the-aws-free-tier-before?ck_subscriber_id=512830314) Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: CISOs React (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-cisos-react-a-16698) Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y) Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine (https://blog.discord.com/happy-blurpthday-to-discord-a-place-for-everything-you-can-imagine-fc99ee0a77c0) Nonsense The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia (https://www.wired.com/story/ford-lightning-f150-electric-vehicle-dystopia/) Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has an unusual approach to his finance (https://twitter.com/robaeprice/status/1396483218954543113?s=21) Twitch launches a dedicated "hot tubs" category after advertiser pushback (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447898/twitch-hot-tub-category-launches-amouranth-advertising) Nonstop flights to Amsterdam back on Austin's horizon (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/05/24/nonstop-flights-to-amsterdam-rescheduled-for-2022.html) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Jobs Work with Coté (https://twitter.com/tiffanyfayj/status/1397339215021547521) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd. June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1394655403468804105) THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Last Breath | Netflix (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj5q_Tm9ufwAhVFG80KHUbWCZUQFjAKegQIDBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2Ftitle%2F80215139&usg=AOvVaw2apUD-Dg8ldP5UFF1a7D5H) Coté: American Gods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods_(season_3)), season 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods_(season_3)) laylacodesit (https://www.twitch.tv/laylacodesit)’s Twitch Channel The Leprechauns of Software Engineering (https://leanpub.com/leprechauns) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/vMneecAwo34) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/44EOhICreKo)

Brandon interviews Justin McCarthy the CTO and Co-founder of strongDM and they discuss Zero Trust, securing hybrid clouds and keeping auditors happy. Plus, a few tips on gardening during a pandemic. Links strongDM Free Trial (https://www.strongdm.com/sdt) What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) (https://www.strongdm.com/blog/what-is-zero-trust) Contact Justin Email: justin@strongdm.com (mailto:justin@strongdm.com) LinkedIn: justinmccarthy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinmccarthy/)

This week we discuss cloud migration strategies, the rise of Serverless and the future of PaaS. Plus, advice on how to start your day. Rundown AWS introduces new Application Migration Service (https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-introduces-new-application-migration-service/) AWS App Runner – Fully managed container application service (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/) Develop production-scale modern web apps quickly with Azure Static Web Apps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/develop-production-scale-modern-web-apps-quickly-with-azure-static-web-apps/) Relevant to your interests Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/07/only-4-of-ios-users-in-us-are-opting-in-to-ad-tracking-report-says) Lightstep is joining ServiceNow (https://lightstep.com/blog/lightstep-joins-servicenow/) Pentagon Weighs Ending JEDI Cloud Project Amid Amazon Court Fight (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-weighs-ending-jedi-cloud-project-amid-amazon-court-fight-11620639001?mod=hp_lead_pos4) Crypto Markets Are Where the Fun Is (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-11/crypto-markets-are-where-the-fun-is) You can now buy NFTs on eBay, and ‘blockchain-driven collectibles’ are coming soon (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/11/22430827/ebay-nft-collectibles-blockchain-sale) TikTok is launching a job hiring service to help find gigs for Gen Z (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-job-hiring-tiktok-576f3b99-602c-46ac-afed-218ddf61a9ba.html) VMware CEO Raghuram On ‘Vigorously’ Competing With Nutanix (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/vmware-ceo-raghuram-on-vigorously-competing-with-nutanix) Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-hiring-antonio-garcia-martinez-chaos-monkeys-facebook) A Conversation With a Dogecoin Millionaire (https://overcast.fm/+oIe8VShIo) Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network Exploited via Bluetooth (https://threatpost.com/apple-find-my-exploited-bluetooth/166121/) Jeff Blackburn Returns To Amazon To Oversee Combined Media & Entertainment (https://deadline.com/2021/05/jeff-blackburn-returns-amazon-oversee-media-entertainment-operations-1234755875/?stream=top) Goldman Sachs Executive Quits After Making Fortune on Dogecoin: Report | The Daily Hodl (https://dailyhodl.com/2021/05/14/goldman-sachs-executive-quits-after-making-fortune-on-dogecoin-report/) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2MqBm19mRz9SYLsw4kfQBrC) Antonio García Martínez’s controversial exit from Apple — Recode Media (https://overcast.fm/+QL2c_llMU) Google Cloud CEO predicts boom in business-process-as-a-service (https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/13/google-cloud-ceo-predicts-boom-in-business-process-as-a-service/) GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/14/github-now-lets-all-developers-upload-videos-to-demo-bugs-and-features/) 1 big thing: The new digital extortion (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d0286b8d-d3fb-4652-8ad5-14f21c899c8d.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/oracle_sues_envisage/) Apple robbed the mob's bank | Mobile Dev Memo (https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank/) Apple Music subscribers will get lossless and spatial audio for free next month (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-music-subscribers-will-get-lossless-and-spatial-audio-for-free-next-month/) Top 15 Kubernetes Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021 (https://blog.feedspot.com/kubernetes_podcasts/) Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine (https://blog.discord.com/happy-blurpthday-to-discord-a-place-for-everything-you-can-imagine-fc99ee0a77c0) Apple’s M1 is a fast CPU—but M1 Macs feel even faster due to QoS (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apples-m1-is-a-fast-cpu-but-m1-macs-feel-even-faster-due-to-qos/) First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives, (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210518005942/en/Industry%E2%80%99s-First-Enterprise-Grade-Distribution-of-the-Popular-CNCF-Project-Crossplane-Arrives-Bringing-the-Kubernetes-Powered-Universal-Control-Plane-Approach-to-Platform-Teams-Everywhere) PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/18/planetscale_promises_vitess_dbaas/) Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together (https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/) Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator (https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-programming-we-want-to-make-the-language-twice-as-fast-says-its-creator/) Google Workspace turns to "smart chips" to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22440226/google-workspace-smart-canvas-features-docs-updates) Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/18/google-cloud-launches-vertex-a-new-managed-machine-learning-platform/) Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network (https://boingboing.net/2021/05/19/freenode-irc-staff-quit-after-new-owner-seizes-control.html) Service Mesh Wars, Goodbye Istio (https://medium.com/polymatic-systems/service-mesh-wars-goodbye-istio-b047d9e533c7) Google revives RSS (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/undead-again-google-brings-back-rss/) Google Wants to Make Everyone Use Two Factor Authentication (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyqe/google-wants-to-make-everyone-use-two-factor-authentication?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/14/cloudflare_cryptographic_attestation_of_personhood_captcha_killer/) Media Statement Updated May 8, 2021: Colonial Pipeline System Disruption (https://www.colpipe.com/news/press-releases/media-statement-colonial-pipeline-system-disruption) Snyk Acquires FossID to Accelerate Worldwide Developer-First Security Adoption (https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-fossid-to-accelerate-worldwide-developer-first-security-adoption/) We raised $100M in our Series F: here’s what we’re building next (Circle CI) (https://circleci.com/blog/series-f/) Amazon Said to Make $9 Billion Offer for MGM (https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/amazon-mgm-acquisition-talks-9-billion-1234975168/) What to Know Ahead of the Squarespace's Direct Listing (https://www.barrons.com/articles/squarespace-direct-listing-51621376597?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) WarnerMedia and Discovery combine to create a $150B streaming giant (https://thehustle.co/05182021-WarnerMedia-Discovery/) Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/12/cisco-to-acquire-indy-startup-socio-to-bring-hybrid-events-to-webex/) A Big Day for Business Texting: Twilio Acquires Zipwhip for $850 Million (https://www.zipwhip.com/blog/twilio-acquires-zipwhip-for-850m/) SoftBank Reports Highest-Ever Annual Profit for a Japanese Company (https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-reports-highest-ever-annual-profit-for-a-japanese-company-11620803131) Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek and Launches Next Generation of Deploy Previews to Streamline Collaboration for Web Teams (https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acquires-featurepeek-and-launches-next-generation-of-deploy-previews-to-streamline-collaboration-for-web-teams) Nonsense Video shows man making slow escape in ride-on mower 'test drive' (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-13/video-shows-alleged-ride-on-mower-thief-cairns-qld/100137376) Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes (https://www.theolognion.com/company-forgets-why-they-exist-after-11-week-migration-to-kubernetes/) Reborn: Journals and Notebooks (https://www.amazon.com/Reborn-Notebooks-1947-1963-Susan-Sontag/dp/0312428502/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/131-0459878-9390864?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0312428502&pd_rd_r=f0c639d8-2be9-4acc-a954-350a8fa89913&pd_rd_w=ZJBem&pd_rd_wg=snlZD&pf_rd_p=a0d6e967-6561-454c-84f8-2ce2c92b79a6&pf_rd_r=Y0JR2H6A0SZVRHVH29P1&psc=1&refRID=Y0JR2H6A0SZVRHVH29P1) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd. June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1394655403468804105). SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). 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This week we take a deep look inside life at Amazon by discussing the book Working Backwards (https://www.workingbackwards.com) written by two former Amazon Executives. Rundown Working Backwards (https://www.workingbackwards.com) Amazon Leadership Principles (https://aws.amazon.com/careers/culture/) Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611) AWS Compensation Explained (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-compensation-explained/) The Everything Store (https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-ebook/dp/B00BWQW73E) Nonsense 17 Remarkable Facts About Outdoor Amsterdam Urinals (https://www.nicerightnow.com/destinations/europe/netherlands/amsterdam-urinals/) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback Michael wants to work as a Senior DevOps Engineer in EMEA (https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudbees/jobs/3113686) Dell Jobs Data Governance Lead (https://jobs.dell.com/job/austin/data-governance-domain-lead-senior-manager/375/19221536), Senior Manager Software Engineering (https://jobs.dell.com/job/austin/data-governance-domain-lead-senior-manager/375/19221536), Business Process Management (https://jobs.dell.com/job/bengaluru/sr-analyst-business-process-management-data-governance-quality-and-sustaining/375/18941323) Doug wants you to work at Ethos Life lots of jobs (https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/) after recent funding Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021. SLOConf - (https://www.sloconf.com/) Virtual May 17-20 - Matt (https://twitter.com/SLOconf/status/1386643722616676354)’s talk is in the can SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Amazon Unbound (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Unbound-Invention-Global-Empire/dp/1982132612/ref=asc_df_1982132612/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475873515737&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3773888045350623501&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028293&hvtargid=pla-1167175049944&psc=1) by Brad Stone Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/FtiXADBTqGY) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/r22qS5ejODs)

This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat. Rundown Red Hat Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/red_hat_stackrox_kubernetes/) Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-delivers-full-gitops-ci-cd-built-on-tekton-and-argo/) RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/rocky_linux_wouldbe_centos_replacement/) AWS Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion (https://johnfurrier.substack.com/p/earnings-amazon-and-aws-results-blow?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta) AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/30/amazon_q1_2021/) The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough? (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/05/is-public-cloud-growing-quickly.html) The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Relevant to your interests Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech. (https://www.businessinsider.com/austin-nashville-raleigh-miami-oracle-apple-incentives-competition-2021-4) DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/digitalocean-data-breach-exposes-customer-billing-information/) How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source) Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-its-90-days-until-the-end-of-skype-for-business-online-heres-what-to-expect/) About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting. (https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1388212468510380034?s=21) How Basecamp blew up (https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up) Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/basecamp-employees-quit-ceo-letter/) The ransomware surge ruining lives (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56933733) Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations (https://www.matthewball.vc/all/epicprimer6) The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/05/04/epic-games-vs-apple-trial-takeaways/) AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks (https://www.ifixit.com/News/50145/airtag-teardown-part-one-yeah-this-tracks) Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online (https://www.wired.com/story/vastaamo-psychotherapy-patients-hack-data-breach/) Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/05/04/kubernetes-at-the-edge-organizations-are-using-edge-technologies-but-there-is-room-to-grow/) Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/style/zed-run-horse-racing.html) In huge demand right now: Warehouses (https://thehustle.co/05042021-Warehouses/) Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions (https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-acquires-news-startup-scroll-push-subscriptions-2021-05-04/) Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-reports-2-ios-0days-that-let-hackers-compromise-fully-patched-devices/) Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation (https://www.reuters.com/technology/messaging-app-discord-ties-up-with-sonys-playstation-2021-05-03/?taid=609090e9c73c080001080ac8&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:%20Trending%20Content&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&stream=top) Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/03/clubhouse-downloads-plummet-to-900000-in-april-as-competition-grows/) Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/04/goldman-sachs-ceo-is-summoning-workers-back-to-the-office-by-june-14.html) Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them. (https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1389661120500174856?s=21) Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire (https://observer.com/2021/05/etherum-founder-buterin-billionaire-cryptocurrency-surge-bitcoin/) New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-relic-open-sources-pixie-its-kubernetes-native-in-cluster-observability-platform/) How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer (https://www.axios.com/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-4ecfbfe6-4640-428e-9c78-e9a609b4f76b.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email) Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty (https://www.oversightboard.com/news/226612455899839-oversight-board-upholds-former-president-trump-s-suspension-finds-facebook-failed-to-impose-proper-penalty/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report (https://www.crn.com/news/security/forgerock-ipo-expected-in-2021-with-valuation-of-over-3b-report) Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio (https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/where-to-start-modernizing-your-legacy-portfolio) Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-b57d1701-05a2-4339-8dea-8d7725cfd4b7.html?chunk=4&utm_term=twsocialshare#sto