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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

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.