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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

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.