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This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413 Runner-up Titles Airplane Ghost No Hashtag for That Sorry Fellow Travelers That’s what they said about Google Reader That’s the beauty of nonsense stories How do you really feel Brandon? Nobody wants monitoring data Airport Hotels I don’t remember Security Line Sick Rundown Checking in on Cloud Earnings Cloud Giants Update Clouded Judgement 4.28.23 IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022 Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz OpenCost Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org Relevant to your Interests FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - Moor Insights & Strategy Clubhouse ↓ Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT How SQLite helps you do ACID On-prem still cheaper but don't rule out the cloud yet Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices Today in Apple history: Apple-1 starts a revolution How Incumbents Survive and Thrive Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta Announcing the deps.dev API: critical dependency data for secure supply chains Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Pay Falls to $1.3M, Touts Ad Business in Annual Letter Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services Venture Capital Deals Zoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering WSJ News Exclusive | IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet (The Verge) Keith White On Why He Is Leaving HPE, Dell Apex And Why The ‘Sky Is The Limit’ For The HPE GreenLake Ecosystem Apple's batteries will use 100 percent recycled cobalt by 2025 Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY Introducing Gloo Fabric MillerKnoll CEO sparks backlash after telling employees to "leave Pity City" over lack of bonuses Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown A 12% decline in global smartphone shipments is what passes for stability these days Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break Silver Lake to buy Germany's Software AG in $2.42 billion deal "Verified" becomes a badge of dishonor Apple throws VR spaghetti against the wall GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains Zed - Code at the speed of thought U.S. appeals court upholds lower court order forcing Apple to allow third-party App Store payments Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees Replit ⠕ on Twitter Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With Red Hat lays off 4% of its global workforce There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster | Semafor BMC to Acquire Model9 - BMC Software Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips ChatGPT could cost over $700,000 per day to operate. Microsoft is reportedly trying to make it cheaper. Google Cloud suffers outage in Europe amid water leak, fire Automate Your Meetings - Magical Web3 Funding Continues To Crater — Drops 82% Year To Year ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says | WRAL TechWire The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrived Cloud exit pays off in performance too So, You Want To Build A DBaaS State of Kubernetes 2023 Survey Shows Companies Moving away from DIY Kubernetes The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine on Galaxy phones Netflix cancels 'Love is Blind' livestream after technical issues and hour delay Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history Citigroup technology expenses grow as it pushes transformation Ask Axios: What's the deal with "cashless" businesses in Columbus? Opinion | Why does the IRS need $80 billion? Just look at its cafeteria. Kroger Begins Accepting Apple Pay After Years of Holding Out Nonsense The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS Map of Buc-ees Locations The Gambler Who Beat Roulette Tech companies are hiring — a lot — despite recent wave of layoffs Elon Musk Painted Over the ‘W’ on the Twitter Headquarters Sign Postage stamp prices expected to increase again in July Why pull weeds when you can zap them with AI-powered lasers? Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows Americans Have Nearly $1 Trillion in Credit Card Debt FTX Founder Suffers Personal Nightmare as Courts Cut Him Off From League of Legends Google gives Bard the ability to generate and debug code | Engadget Jekkmaster of Drip on Twitter 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 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 TV Announces New Details About NFL Sunday Ticket Including Multiview, Family Plans, DVR, & More Huddle up football fans, the NFL Sunday Ticket presale kicks off today Matt: Prometheus: Up & Running Second Edition Schipol Airport Sheraton / Abu Dhabi Airport Hotel Photo Credits Header Artwork

Matt, Coté and guest host Barton George record live from KubeCon EU. They discuss the Keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet… Runner-up Titles The CNCF invades Amsterdam So nice not to talk to anyone Kubecon EU 2023 recap Curve Fits Rundown Thanks to developer.dell.com team for help with show production. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 Self Scanning in Dirk Conferences DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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 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! Photo Credits Header Artwork Special Guest: Barton George.

Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022. Show Links A Look Back at Q4 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings The Cloudcast, The Evolution of SaaS Business Models, Episode 708 Clouded Judgement Contact Jamin LinkedIn 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 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: Jamin Ball.

This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck. Show Links Big Data is Dead DuckDB DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners MotherDuck Google Big Query Contact Jordan LinkedIn: jordantigani Twitter: @jrdntgn 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 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! Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Jordan Tigani.

This week we discuss regulators slowing Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Nutanix’s delayed earnings, GitHub's origins, Tech Stocks and staplers at Google. Plus, some thoughts on GM and Apple CarPlay. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 409 Runner-up Titles Why not Linux? I remain skeptical Let’s complain about some software Think of the listeners Going to need a bigger Post-it Note We’ve baked too many muffins on a Monday 88.1 on your dial Rundown Everybody hates GM’s decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its EVs GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs CMA to probe Broadcom and VMware merger more deeply Nutanix CIO Exits Amid Software Misuse Probe Origins of GitHub Biz Model Tom Preston-Werner interview on Kubelist After layoffs, tech stocks boom Google letting people leave Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm "author_is_elon" Relevant to your Interests Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns State of startup compensation, H2 2022 Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough Ex-Grubhub Driver Wins $65 in 8-Year-Fight to Be Called Employee Saudi Arabia Is Investing $38 Billion to Become a Video-Game Hub Former Start-up Founder Charged by Prosecutors for Defrauding JPMorgan Chase Amazon announced eliminating another 9,000 roles Nonsense The last O'REILLY book 3 Pieces of Military Tech From "The Mandalorian" That We're Already Working on Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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 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: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out The Evolution of SaaS Business Models (Brandon co-hosts The Cloudcast) Matt: Bernie Worrell: Elevation (The Upper Air) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week we discuss Docker’s reversal, Amazon's return to office, Apple’s headset, the state of the Metaverse and the rise of LLMs. Plus, Matt shares his sleep study experience and an after-show about Hawaii. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 408 Runner-up Titles Tyranny of 16x9 College Sports of Mastodon Sleep Study NPS survey at the end Dependent on Goodwill This is best for the customer Worlds greatest employer Apple, we were counting on you Mechanized Mansplaining Rundown We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition (Insider) At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs Cheating is All You Need Relevant to your Interests Introducing World ID and SDK You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage De-cloud and de-k8s — bringing our apps back home Venture Firms And Startups Are Returning To Government-Backed SVB In Droves OpenStack starts wrapping around the alphabet to name it's latest release. 51 Tips For Surviving in a BIG Company New York Times touts continued Wordle success SVB Capital Owned Pieces Of Top VC Firms. With A Sale Ongoing, Their Future Is In Flux. First Citizens agrees to buy Silicon Valley Bank Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative Let's Get To The News #11: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock Rackspace cutting workforce in response to downturn. Amid string of losses, its stock has plummeted. Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows 11 audio mixer Twilio's IoT business unit to be acquired by KORE to build first 'IoT Hyperscaler' Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with New Emoji, Notifications for Web Apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for Cellular Calls, New Shortcuts Actions, and More The Bank Regulators Are Disappointed ChatGPT plugins AI changes the software-making game Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is GA | Google Cloud Blog Alibaba to split into 6 units and explore IPOs; shares up 14% in the U.S. Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter 'For You' feed Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race Nonsense Beaver fossil named after Buc-ee's The Ultimate Texas Brand Bracket Crowns Its Champion — Texas Monthly After Show Coté’s interview with Barton Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 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 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: Duo Lingo Matt: Hardcore History Addendum: Rick Rubin/Dan Carlin Conversation Kubernetes Cloud Cost Monitoring with OpenCost & Optimization Strategies Photo Credits Header Artwork Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss Docker’s Business Model, the Stack Overflow’s Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 Runner-up Titles Free isn’t good enough I’m not that disconnected It’s a presentation with yourself We still hate this Open Source Continuity Founder Magic Syntactic Sugar How cool do you feel, Tim Cook? Rundown Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know Docker’s bad week After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition Meta's metaverse is on the back burner Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets Mark Gurman details Apple's Reality Pro headset Relevant to your Interests 4K Blu-Rays Vs. 4K Streaming: Which Is the Best Way to Enjoy Movies? Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month | Eli Lilly and Company Adrian Cockcroft on LinkedIn: Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages Introducing Service Weaver A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life Ford announces it hired 550 former Argo devs Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington National Cybersecurity Strategy Richard Seroter’s take on Web Assembly VMware’s SaaS Sales Surge As Broadcom Deal Nears Technology Chiefs Seek Help Wrangling Cloud Costs (The Wall Street Journal) Top Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans Major India Expansion Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’ A cloud migration in wartime Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite NO_SSH_JJ talking about 1Password Alphabet headcount on Google Cloud How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API | Amazon Web Services Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10th in front of a 'limited' in-person audience Datadog’s software is down — and so is its stock Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users | Engadget SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing After Stadia, Google's new gaming roadmap GM offers buyouts to 'majority' of U.S. salaried workers Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network VMware turns to containerization to improve virtual apps Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon Oracle shares sink nearly 5% after third-quarter revenue miss How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud U.S. government steps in and says people with funds deposited at SVB will be able to access their money Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC GitLab loses one-third of its value after software company issues weak revenue forecast Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment Amazon's New Home Internet Service Announces New Details | Cord Cutters News Grammarly's New AI Tool Can Do More Than Check Your Spelling Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is stepping down The Four Domains of Wasm Navigating SVB's new era Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management Proximus and Google Cloud to Deliver Sovereign Cloud Services in Belgium and Luxembourg Netflix plans 40 more game releases in 2023 Dragonfly - Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21m) HPE picks up OpsRamp for Greenlake multi-cloud AIOps Nutanix To Miss SEC Deadline Amid Internal Software Probe Nutanix's latest bumper financials overshadowed by 3rd party evaluation software probe – Blocks and Files AWS Cost Leaderboard GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service Cloud Repatriation Trends: Where Are We Now? The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises Nonsense Goldman Sachs arm among bidders with appetite for $10bn Subway This smart toaster lets you cook two slices of bread at different temperatures at the same time (Yanko Design) A Matt Levine Effect? Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings Over ‘Boneless’ Wings Metallica Acquires Furnace, One of America’s Largest Vinyl-Manufacturing Companies Got a question for Twitter's press team? The answer will be a poop emoji Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com Podcast provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. Subscribe now! Conferences PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! 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John Willis joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering. There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well. Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode. Links: Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here. Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age. SCaLE 20x. DevOpsDays LA. Special Guest: John Willis.

Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere. They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend. Links: Ampere Altra Developer Platform Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 Ampere Developer Program Contact Peter: LinkedIn 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 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! Photo Credits Header Special Guest: Peter Pouliot.

Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur , Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard. They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO. Show Links: Byteboard Contact Sargun LinkedIn Twitter: @justsargs 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 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! Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Sargun Kaur.