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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

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400 Runner-up Titles You don’t want to toy with food poisoning Do you put all your eggs in one basket? The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT This is just Bing Bullshit as a Service It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine Bad dog The answer to every question is ChatGPT Linux under the desktop Rundown Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t? Earnings and Outlook Cloud Giants Update Red Hat OpenShift making money Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing. Cloud Earnings The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS A.I. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete Google has developed a music-making AI bot Why does ChatGPT constantly lie? Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders OpenAI API Infrastructure-as-Code Generator Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (The Cloudcast Podcast) This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year Relevant to your Interests Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left $NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality How We Learned to Be Lonely Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog Slack's second chance Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299 ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now? Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors 1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO Artifact GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs Visa vs. AMEX Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch Coté ponders IBM what-if in AI Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances Broadcom’s VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers PagerDuty Layoffs Affect 7 Percent Of Workforce Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff The Newer Geography of Jobs Nonsense Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia Boeing delivers its final 747 jet today, ending a run of more than 50 years King Charles will not appear on new Australia $5 note Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification 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 And, get 50% with the code SPEAK. Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 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: Hand Mirror Matt: StarFive VisionFiveV2 RISC V has arrived! Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:The New Stack: Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast

This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News newsletter and follow him on Mastodon and Twitter(?) This interview was done on January 16th, 2023. Runner-up Titles You sound like an Australian The Mystery of the Cold Open D-list Celebrities The Americans are asleep All the swans belong to the Queen A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it Rundown Global Entry, New Zealand-style Is there another podcast in the future? Learning by osmosis Developer advocacy at Google You’re not tall enough to ride this ride Joining ARMO Kubescape, the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform OpenCost and Kubescape, CNCF Sandbox Projects You’re already in my calendar ARMO monetization strategy All Blacks vs. Wallabies Who are these weird celebrities? The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter Conferences Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent. State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Coté! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, 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: Craig Box.

This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping… Rundown Tipping How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped Tipping Is Weird Now Mastodon The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io Follow SDT on Mastodon Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry Mastodon in two files Netflix Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, The Netflix Tech Blog What we want to see at DevOpsDays DevOpsDays Austin 2023 Nonsense ‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US Airlines squeeze rewards programs Salesforce, but for dating Conferences CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP 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 Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness Ideas That Changed My Life Follow Brandon on Mastodon JJ: For All Mankind Follow JJ on Mastodon Photo Credits Header CoverArt Special Guest: JJ Asghar.

This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne…. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397 Runner-up Titles I want to vest Call the middle I just didn’t have money XLT, that’s not a thing Yeah, I’m down for whatever Coté’s Culture Corner. Brandon’s Halo Hatrack. Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.” If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting. YOLO workers’ rights Rundown DHH from 37signals shows the numbers Our cloud spend in 2022 - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity Work Life Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (those that are left) Corey’s Take Relevant to your Interests CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom The Great Podcasting Market Correction Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app with Ukraine.ua Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs The Shit Show • furbo.org Extremely Hardcore Nonsense Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house Every Cloud Architecture Museum of Obsolete Media Conferences SpringOne, Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere. CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, 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: Atomic Habits with Atomic Habits Resources Also mentioned: What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health Matt: State of the World 2023 Coté: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 396 Runner-up Titles Work trying to get on my personal calendar Traveling with an infant =BLACKSWAN(A1:G453) Socks in a Costco Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it. Pay transparency for you, not me We don’t pay for things on the Internet Semper Nimbus Privatus Rundown Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, Digital Transformation Travel Edition Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1 The Southwest Airlines Meltdown Southwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo Point of Sale: Scan and Pay Work Life Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings Netflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary Information U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023 Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary information SFDC Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivity AI is everywhere Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT Relevant to your Interests 2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person 10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 A MultiCloud Rant Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies. AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO Top Paying Tools Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes List of defunct social networking services 2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd The infrastructure behind ATMs Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors Shift Happens: A book about keyboards Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills. Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability? Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle. How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects The golden age of the streaming wars has ended YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality ## Nonsense The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego. Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off SpringOne, Jan 24–26. Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent. State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, 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: Industrial Garage Shelves Matt: Oxide and Friends: Breaking it down with Ian Brown Wu Tang Saga Season 3 coming next month! Coté: Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson. Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely cohost of the The Cloudcast and they discuss starting a podcast. They cover the Who, What, Why and How of launching a podcast and recommend podcast recording gear, editing software and hosting services. Rundown The Cloudcast and SDT origin stories Who should start a podcast? Why you should or should not start a podcast? What should your podcast be about? Podcast gear, software and hosting Links Record Podcasts with Audio Hijack SDT Podcast Gear Recommendations Cloudcast Podcast Suggestions Cloudcast Sample Podcast Show Notes Podcasting 101 via Buzzsprout Podcasting Microphones Voice over Marketplace Royalty Free Music Purchase Music Site Subscribe to The Cloudcast Follow @bgracely and @thecloudcast 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, 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 CoverArt Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 394 Runner-up Titles Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore The Old Dr. Skateboard What a World The Pile-On Lifestyle A little more in booth directions Cloud Bucket We’ve done all the stuff Predictions and Hopes and Dreams Working from home is over like COVID is over It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense Bring in the Big Monkeys Rundown What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories? Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation What are we watching this year? What were the biggest missed opportunities? Best Digital Transformation Success of 2023 Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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, 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: Echo 3 Matt: Triple Trail Challenge 2023 Coté: Apple’s new app, Freeform - a little beta-ish (typical Apple 1.0), but worth checking out. Photo Credits Header CoverArt