Software Defined Talk

In this episode, the hosts recap KubeCon Chicago and discuss Apple's claim about the memory in their devices. They also talk about OpenAI's new developments, the tension between project maintainers and AI spam, the significance of open telemetry, funding of monitoring companies, the concept of an App Store for GPTs, keyboards and job families at Google, and limitations of the MacBook Air for external displays.

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

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

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

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

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

Discussing Cisco's acquisition of Splunk, AWS investment in Anthropic, VC Market Overview Presentations. Also touching on Dungeons and Dragons, standardized testing, control plane provider technology, iPhone restoring Apple TV, Neuralink's human trial, Roblox's acquisition of Speechly, Harness launching Gitness, Broadcom-VMware deal in China, 1Password's public passkey support, Intel's glass substrates, Amazon Prime Video's ads, Salesforce's acquisition of Airkit.ai

The podcast discusses Google's internal dev tools, the state of Git, 37 Signals' ONCE software licensing, and the Salesforce CEO's comments on remote work. They also mention major technical investigations, PostgreSQL's bogus CVE, David Sacks' new SaaS startup, and IBM's return to office mandate.

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

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