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This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 423 Runner-up Titles Capitalizing on Competitors Bring the Go Bag There are no backpacks in Gucci ads No bad vibes Rundown Threads Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri Facebook's Threads is so depressing Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps Linux Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes. Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9 Shifting "Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)" Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left Matt’s packing list Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar Relevant to your Interests DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash Snowflake vs. Databricks WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030 Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022 Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation IBM watsonx ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023 Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. Nonsense If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan? Conferences August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Hijack Matt: Murderbot Diaries Coté: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss RHEL licensing changes, check the vibe of DevOps and some thoughts on programing language. Plus, has ChatGPT already become boring? Runner-up Titles I don’t like listening to fellow thought leaders. I listen to myself enough. Dammit, alarm was set for PM A massive failure of one The end of free It’s not all smiles and thumbs Goose-cow “I used to, but I don’t anymore.” The Podcast Review podcast. Rundown RHEL Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion] Rant about Red Hat's Licensing Change for REHL Reddit Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted Reddit doubles down Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit DevOps Second Wave DevOps Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve Kelsey Hightower Retires Even the best rides come to an end featuring Kelsey Hightower (Podcast) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 Relevant to your Interests AWS teases mysterious mil-spec ‘Snowblade’ server To fill offices, Google issues ultimatum while Salesforce tries charity Amazon is pursuing 'too many ideas' and needs to focus on best opportunities There are better places for Amazon to put their capital to work, says Bernstein's Mark Shmulik The best password managers for 2023 | Engadget After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work Twilio to sell ValueFirst business to Tanla (NYSE:TWLO) Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share CNET's Free Shopping Extension Saves You Time and Money. Give It a Try Today Modular: Our launch & what's next Exclusive-Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 billion VMware deal, sources say Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service | Engadget Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment Twitter stiffs Google Open Sourcing AWS Cedar Is a Game Changer for IAM Oracle beats on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue jumps America to halt $68.7bn Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard Meta's Open-Source 'MusicGen' AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees: Forrester Wave Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023 The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier 1 big thing: Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first For the first time in almost 30 years, a company other than IBM received the most US patents AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy | Amazon Web Services 40 photos from inside Metropolitan Park—the first phase of Amazon's HQ2 The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023 AWS US-EAST-1 wobbled after Lambda management issues spread The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle Apple Watch alerts 29-year-old Cincinnati woman to blood clot in lungs while sleeping Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover What happened to Oracle? Why do they keep acquiring companies? How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all WFH 4 ever Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter language model AI's next conflict is between open and closed Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations, A new law protecting pregnant workers is about to take effect Amazon launches AWS AppFabric to help customers connect their SaaS apps State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization Report FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS Surprise! You Work for Amazon. btop - the htop alternative We Raised A Bunch Of Money Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills Report: 2022 Microsoft Azure Revenue Less Than Estimated, Half That Of AWS | CRN Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace Is Waze next? The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses Who killed Google Reader? Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match IBM to Acquire Apptio Inc., IBM Re-ups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition Nonsense Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Mom and Dad's Ok Summer intern's commute goes viral: She flies from South Carolina to New Jersey Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament 'World's Largest' Buc-ee's store opens now on Bus-ee’s Map Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley. 'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know. At least a year younger on paper: South Korea makes changes to age-counting law Sony just spilled confidential PlayStation information because of a Sharpie Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health Listener Feedback Let's Get To The News | Craig Box | Substack When You Don't Have a Seat At the (Managed Database) Table by Doug Sillars Conferences August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking. October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023 Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Cloudcast: MidYear 2023 Update Governments Building Software This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software - Odd Lots The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth (via Coté’s newsletter) Coté: Hand Mirror app, also in Setapp if you have that. If Books could Kill Photo Credits Header Artwork

Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet. Nonsense ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet Glastonbury 2023 Guns N’ Roses UK: the full set on iPlayer Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl) Appetite for Destruction Rick Astley UK: the full set on iPlayer Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll) Interview links Basecamp HEY! Daily Rush Quake III Arena PHP and Ruby 37signals and Jason Fried Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Ruby on Rails “Groovy on Grails” 1000 true fans DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts” Backpack and Campfire Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire A podcast explaining it “The Building of Basecamp” (and review) David’s books: Getting Real Rework Remote It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work The programming books that meant the most to David Fast inverse square root David’s best tweet AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway The Celeron 4 David’s writing on leaving the cloud: “Why we’re leaving the cloud” "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives" “Five values guiding our cloud exit” “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit” "Cloud exit pays off in performance too” “We have left the cloud” HEY vs the App Store Deft and Dell MRSK Capistrano GitHub contributor community Maersk Harmony remotes discontinued The continuing demise of Reddit Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars? 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“ Result table David Heinemeier Hansson https://dhh.dk/ @dhh on Twitter LinkedIn David’s blog on HEY Guest hosts Craig Box Subscribe to “Let’s Get To The News” Adam Glick SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and Brandon will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).

Matt Ray interviews Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. Adam explains what led him to create System Initiative and why he believes it’s time for a fresh look at DevOps. Plus, plenty of discussion about monetization and open source. Show Links System Initiative Cue language Dagger Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities Contact Adam Twitter: adamhjk Linkedin: adamjacob SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Adam Jacob.

Matt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations. Show Links KubeDay Israel OpenObservability Talks Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron? OpenTelemetry CNCF Ambassadors Logz.io FinOps X KubeCon NA Contact Dotan LinkedIn Twitter: @horovits SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Dotan Horovits.

This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for DevOps platforms, Apple’s announcements and Cisco’s attempt to simplify. Plus, some thoughts on Meatloaf and Anime. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 418 Runner-up Titles The best engineers in Canada. Runny Eggs My tabs closed I got a whole bowl here. Pokémon back in the playlist Some people don’t want any sauce Are you still talking about meatloaf? The meatloaf zone The intestines of the Magic Quadrant He was probably a regular-sized human Everyone knows you’re a dork, a dork with disposal income What else are you going to do? Rundown 2023 Magic Quadrant for DevOps platforms (RedHat lead-gen). Link to picture in Slack Nvidia's 'iPhone moment' in AI signals tons of future growth. Here's our new price target Cisco simplifies its product portfolio with new Cisco Networking Cloud platform Apple’s 10 biggest announcements from WWDC 2023 'Ducking hell' to disappear from Apple autocorrect iPad OS 17's Live Collaboration on PDFs could challenge Google Docs Apple Announces New 'NameDrop' Feature for Sharing Between iPhones TVOS 17 Will Let You Download a VPN to Apple TV Apple Vision Relevant to your Interests Operation Bletchley Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar Salesforce is luring workers back to office with $10 per day to local charities Google created FREE comprehensive training on Generative AI Nonsense Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino Related, Coté learned a new Austalianism from Tasty Meats Paul this week: “In Australia the term ‘Chicken Maryland’ simply refers to a butcher's cut for a whole leg consisting of the thigh and drumstick” (Wikipedia). How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party Listener Feedback SDT Sticker in the wild by Eric De Witte Conferences June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 21st Cloud Foundry Day, Germany, Coté speaking. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Blackberry Matt: Because Internet. Coté: KESSER® Ice Cube Maker | Ice Cube Machine Stainless Steel | 150 W Ice Maker | 12 kg 24 h | 3 Cube Sizes | Preparation in 6 min | 2.2 Litre Water Tank | Timer | LCD Display | Self-Cleaning Function. Photo Credits Header Artwork

The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417 Runner-up Titles The MacGyver of podcasting Scooping up The Tube tickets Buy some velcro This email could have been a PR Who the hell is Brian? Perverse incentives What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats Rundown Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call) Clouded Judgement 5.26.23 Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic Relevant to your Interests Ivory for Mac The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks 1Password is rolling out passkey management next month Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks Nonsense HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120 Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years Conferences June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: YouTube will allow unlimited simultaneous streams for NFL Sunday Ticket Matt: Spotify Remastered/Deluxe albums The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants (Super Deluxe/Remastered) Coté: Bobby Fingers Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 416 Runner-up Titles How big are your almonds? It’s under consideration The Olympics of Monitoring Putting Hats on Cats Stanley Nickels for Monitoring The 3 Fines It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work I was told the test was log management IDC is the thin balogna Rundown New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ WSJ News Exclusive | Software Company New Relic in Talks to Be Sold 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability IDC APM marketshare from 2021 Relevant to your Interests Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog Historical software multiples at IPO Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023 Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms Nonsense A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted! The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0? Matt: Have a picnic Coté: Hoodie and shorts for the spring; the “web browsing” plugin in ChatGPT does not work well. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Coinbase's $65 million DataDog bill, the factors that drive developer experience, and Google Bard. Plus, some tips on London Airports and the ideal airport arrival time. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 415 Runner-up Titles Two hours before boarding $65 million is a lot of nines You can buy a lot of Nagios with that Just write the check for $65 million Boxes Inciting chaos Steady state is stopped Developers are just like the rest of us Unsummarizable AI in the Streets Rundown Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity Relevant to your Interests Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries It's not just cloud costs that are out of control Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco@mastodon.social) Goldman Sachs downgrades Twilio, other software names on 'limited catalyst' path (TWLO) Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. Netflix Reportedly Cutting Spending By $300 Million After Delay On Password Sharing Crackdown Thank you, Enterprisers! Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring Calendly Welcomes Former Salesforce Product Executive Stephen Hsu as CPO Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances | Eric Pauley The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: POLAR H9 Heart Rate Sensor Matt: Critical Mass Sydney Half Marathon Coté: Pipers Great Berwick Longhorn Beef “crisps.” Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Monolith vs. Microservices , PassKeys replacing passwords and the return of Watson(x). Plus, some thoughts on the media and BlueSky. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 414 Runner-up Titles All the takes you’ve heard, are probably true Links Only An Ombudsman of Tech Hype I’ve programmed before Rundown Monoliths are not dinosaurs Stevey's Google Platforms Rant US DoL considers replacing monolithic IT with modular design Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: ‘We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago’ IBM enters the generative-AI fray with Watsonx Estimated that they could reduce back-office people by 30%. But, said this would be done through attrition, not firing. RIP passwords: Google accounts now support passkeys Relevant to your Interests Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning Miracle working product manager was stuck in Lotus position Broadcom CEO Seeks to Persuade EU on USD 61 Billion VMware Deal GitHub replaces code search engine with Rust-based Blackbird Clouded Judgement 5.5.23 Nonsense Tall poppy syndrome Short Poppies Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold, Silver Medals in 1st-Ever Jiu-Jitsu Tournament Conferences May 11th, 2023 Devoxx UK in London. Get 25% tickets with the code SEEMESPEAK23. June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking. Listener Feedback Thanks to Mathis for giving SDT a subscription to Oh Dear. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Silo | Apple TV+ Coté: How to Idle. Photo Credits Header Artwork