Software Defined Talk

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

Brandon interviews Mike Long, CEO and Co-founder of Kosli. They explore the concept of DevOps compliance, the importance of governance and compliance in banking, source control for databases, and the value of visibility and auditing. They also discuss the significance of export to CSV feature, a new notifications engine, and attractions of Oslo.

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

Special guest host Brian Gracely joins Brandon and Coté to discuss HashiCorp's transition to BSL, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky's interview, and the use of the word 'orthogonal.' They explore the changing landscape of open source, building new cloud services, and the strengths of tech companies. They also highlight AWS's unique features and upcoming conferences, share personal AI recommendations, and discuss Bruce Sterling's keynotes and the Elements hotel.

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

This week, we discuss New Relic going private, Dell buying Moogsoft and digital transformation comes to Border Control. Plus, ideas for a last minute family vacation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 426 Runner-up Titles The Paris economy is all croissants. The Euphoria of the Buffet All that firing people gave us a soft landing. Is it going to be New Logic, or SumoRelic? You drive a hard bargain, now we’re billionaires The tinfoil hat of complexity Just buy more backpacks Here in the United States, we have a lot of banks. Can Americans use it? Bigger numbers are smaller numbers. It’s pretty easy to quarantine with Internet. Rundown More Monitoring, More Money Dell Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Moogsoft What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS by @ttunguz Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic Francisco Partners & TPG to take New Relic private in $6 billion all-cash deal Inside the $6.5 billion buyout of New Relic Government IT Federal Reserve announces that its new system for instant payments, the FedNow® Service, is now live CBP Goes Paperless with Global Entry Mexico Phasing Out Use of Paper Visitor Permits (FMM) New requirements coming in 2024 for Americans traveling to Europe Passport Palooza Relevant to your Interests Broadcom's $61 billion VMware deal wins conditional EU antitrust OK Broadcom claims VMware's strategy isn’t succeeding Moderation actions Shopify's anti-meeting crusade is failing and it's taken to shaming employees instead: 'Most of the modern work environment is broken' Investors and business owners for 3x more likely to invest after reading a GPT-4 pitch deck 3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta macOS Sonoma lets Chrome use passwords stored in iCloud Passkeys in iOS 17: Watch a sneak peek at what's coming to 1Password for iOS | 1Password Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System Amazon Shares Jump 2% After Reporting Record Prime Day Sales Threads Is About to Make All the Money That Twitter Isn’t Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads Jamin Ball (@jaminball) on Threads Introducing NotebookLM Ford CEO explains why legacy car manufacturers cannot compete with Tesla in software Cloudflare as an AI play. An interview with CEO Matthew Prince. This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! The Rise Of DIY In FinOps Announcing Akita Has Joined Postman — Akita Software Announcing the New Lightweight Postman API Client | Postman Blog Does ‘Buy American’ Policy Make Sense? The Answer Is Key for Your AI Portfolio Too AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro Twitter becomes X The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name Meta Profit Is Up 16% to $7.8 Billion in Recent Quarter Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023 | Amazon Web Services AWS Easily Beats Microsoft In $120B IaaS Cloud Market: Gartner Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more A Day in the Life of a Senior Manager at Amazon 7 generative AI innovations from AWS Summit New York 2023 TikTok is adding text posts Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in Israel AMD revenue falls 18% as PC market shows continued weakness From Docker to Dagger with Solomon Hykes (Changelog Interviews #550) A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers Q2 2023 is the largest quarter ever in the number of startup closures. VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them VC firm says their companies are good/leading, and you should invest in them too Nonsense FIGHTING The Best Buy It for Life Backpack (Please Don’t Call It Tactical) (Published 2020) Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts Americans spark backlash after claiming that Europeans ‘don’t believe in water’ The Spongmonkeys, Fast Food’s Most Unhinged Mascots, Are Back Here's why Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to 'X' is good, actually The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor Conferences August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Full Circle Matt: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. Coté: A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City. Coté’s Newsletter Photo Credits Header Artwork

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

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