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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! 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 Multiview Matt: Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats its Young Manly Dam 21k Jabulani Challenge 22k Coté: EQPMNT inflight bag, steel grey, toiletry bag. Photo Credits Header Sponsored By:Mac Geek Gab: The Mac Geek Gab Podcast provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple.

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.

Everything about this is wrong This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403 Runner-up Titles Forbidden Everything needs cables Got to be Grammarly I’ve got a lot of hills to die on A hatred for their customers They wanted to hate your corpse Except for The Wu-Tang Saga You’ve abandoned the ship No, no, we need to spy on you You are gaslighting what your selling I wouldn’t touch this Full of chef kiss quotes Rundown What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it Screaming in the Cloud #357: Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield US Digital Service Individual Master File Introducing MRSK mrsked/mrsk Justin Garrison @rothgar’s take Relevant to your Interests After Fraud Charges Against Slync’s Ex-CEO, Goldman Sachs Doubles Down With $24 Million Investment ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft Why everyone’s talking about Section 230 - The Hustle Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges For 2023 Microsoft previews cost-efficient Azure VMs DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 - Moor Insights & Strategy DoJ to block Adobe purchase of Figma on competition concerns Your jailbroken ChatGPT might violate OpenAI’s safety guidelines when role-playing as ‘DAN’ Is WebAssembly Really the Future? Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th Salesforce weighing up more job cuts to hit margin goal Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults Stack Overflow Stats Nonsense Twitter had 88,188 channel but they don’t have THE THREAD. Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com Podcast provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. Subscribe now! Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. 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! 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: Drive to Survive Season 5 Matt Factorio Story Missions Recent podcast appearances Software Engineering Daily The Cloudcast Open Observability Talks Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:Mac Geek Gab: The Mac Geek Gab Podcast provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple.

This week we take a critical look at DHH’s plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402 Runner-up Titles Cycled the Power The Principles are Amazing The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog Does this mean the public cloud is over? Where was the Oracle rep? We fear change SaaS for me, not for you The author of this text does not like Amazon Adventure-driven development You’ve got great a manifesto Intolerable! Cory Doctorow amped up Rundown We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit Five values guiding our cloud exit Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million Two racks. My friends, a thread from Adam Jacob Relevant to your Interests Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon's return to office plans Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter The SSO Wall of Shame Twitter spent $60 M on SMS? Predicting Resource Cost Before Deployment Oakland Declares State of Emergency Due to Ransomware Attack US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets Twilio Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results Big 1Password update for iOS and Mac brings over 100 improvements and changes Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition Most Londoners would quit before they give up WFH YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You – The Markup Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership Digital Ocean Earnings Karan B. on LinkedIn: Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople ByteDance's Slack-like tool generated $100M in 2022 Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after 'cyber incident' Open-source is broken: the sad story of Denis Pushkarev (core-js) Pixelfed - Decentralized social media VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition How websites can still easily track you in incognito mode Meta Verified YouTube As Infinite File Storage Biden won’t save the Apple Watch from potential ban Apple TV+ growth has 'flat-lined' as users say service lacks value: UBS Gartner: Oracle targets users on Java compliance Software is a hell of a drug KKR-Backed BMC Plans IPO Valuing It at Up to $15 Billion Nonsense We Tested Tiny11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App! United Airlines Eases Family Seating After Call to Cut Fees Listener Feedback Thanks to Christopher for sending the article on Mastodon: We tried to run a social media site and it was awful Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast. Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP or SPEAK (50% off) Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 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: Demon Copperhead Matt: Fabulous Secret Powers Peep Show Coté: Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum. Photo Credits CoverArt Sponsored By:The New Stack: Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast

This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401 Runner-up Titles Going Hardcore Sleeping under the desk The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet Rundown Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter The Twitpocalypse may have begun today What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake The maze is in the mouse Relevant to your Interests Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS' The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins AI Homework Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’ Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does. "The New Gatekeepers" A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime Can this man turn Amazon around? A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij Nonsense De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast. Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 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: The Last of Us Matt: Sennheiser Pro Audio HD 25 Special Edition SOULWIT Cooling Gel Ear Pads Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:The New Stack: Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast