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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Oct 28, 2022 • 1h
Episode 383: My bag did not make the flight
This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 383
Runner-up Titles
Serverless is the new OpenStack.
“I intended to read it.”
American Airline lounges are like bus terminals.
Made it to my hotel at 4 AM
Kubernetes is about the journey
That is your 3D chess
Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher.
Would you like to buy some YAML?
We’re gonna go with the ball pit money
DHH vs. Mr. Beast
Rundown
DHH
Why we're leaving the cloud
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’
Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD
Earnings
Microsoft beats but cloud growth comes in short
Alphabet misses on top and bottom lines as YouTube ad revenue drops in the quarter
Relevant to your Interests
Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud (2022)
Snap plunges more than 20% on third-quarter revenue miss
US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation
Are We Past Peak Newsletter?
IBM Consulting staff must work from office three days a week
Facebook shuttle bus drivers are losing their jobs as Meta slashes costs and employees stay home
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak
Apple's top designer is leaving the company three years after taking over from Jony Ive
Social media market caps (2021 peak to today
GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit
Cyber unicorn Snyk to sack 198 employees, 14% of workforce
Apple Releases macOS Ventura With FaceTime Handoff, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager, New Apps and More
Larry Ellison killed Oracle's first-generation cloud
PayPal shares rise after Amazon adds Venmo as checkout option
Tragedy of the Digital Commons
Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way
Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on?
Snowflake, Revisited
What’s going on with Serverless
Netflix launches new ‘Profile Transfer’ feature to help monetize account sharing
Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV+, Music Services for the First Time
Nonsense
American Airlines is ditching first class on all flights
The $30 Million Lottery Scam
Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C
Conferences
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
SDT news & hype
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SDT news & hype
Brandon: DALL-E 2
Generative A.I. Is Here. Who Should Control It?
Matt: Upgrade.
Coté: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
Tanzu Talk.
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Oct 21, 2022 • 1h 1min
Episode 382: The Ultimate Dogfooding
This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google Next. Plus, Matt Ray goes car shopping.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 382.
Runner-up Titles
Matt Ray is ready to buy.
That’s legal in Australia
When Ray Mail comes out, nobody cares
I am into workflow
This is the population of Hobart that we’re looking at
I want to help you, but you don’t even need help
Daddy’s Meeting Fort
Brandon hasn’t migrated his mainframe workloads to cloud.
All these problems are caused by developers
Rundown
Aboard.io is coming soon!
NTT Data buys digital consultancy Postlight
Linear
Americans Reclaim 60 Million Commuting Hours in Remote-Work Perk
Google Cloud Next ‘22 wrap-up
Dual Run for Google Cloud
Cloud Workstations
Google is serious about its giant video chat booths, starts real-world testing
Google Cloud Next ‘22 in under 13 minutes
Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective
Kubecost Adds SaaS Edition to Control Kubernetes Costs
macOS Ventura
Relevant to your Interests
Announcing Gloo Platform | Solo.io
Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale
Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta
Demystifying the PR/FAQ - Julian Dunn's Blog
Google's 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world
Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie
Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes
Netflix feels the heat
The creator of Amazon's Kindle has left the company, along with a top Alexa executive, adding to a leadership exodus under new CEO Andy Jassy
Google Fiber is launching 5-gig and 8-gig plans early next year
Bringing passkeys to Android & Chrome
US Army reportedly planning $1B cloud migration contract
iOS 16 quietly added native Dvorak keyboard support, delighting weirdos like me
Floppy disk fever. The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium
Anyone Who Does Business With Google Knows Philipp Schindler
The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job
Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale
DIY laptop offers Apple-like looks with PC repairability
Broadcom’s VMWare takeover: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna gives deal conditional blessing
How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees
Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Staff
With a $13B valuation, Celonis defies current startup economics
Computacenter CEO Bashes 'As a Service' as Bad for Customers
CEO Salaries in SaaS
Belkin’s mount to turn your iPhone into a camera is now available
Nonsense
ROI of a sticker
Conferences
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Sponsors
The MacGeekGab.com provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple.
SDT news & hype
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SDT news & hype
Brandon: InterStellar BBQ try the Peach Tea Pork Belly when available
Matt: The Peripheral
Coté: once again, OK burgers. Checking in with platform engineering: “Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals,” Gartner paper on platform engineering/IDP.
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Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 381: Aspiration Fatigue
This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 381.
Runner-up Titles
It’s on brand
I wish I could see Brandon’s legs
Running VM’s in the meta verse
They were so busy seeing if they could get VR to work that they didn’t ask if they should.
Basically, VR is for seeing through walls, including walls of flesh.
Lifehacks disrupting VC
They’ve got legs
Draw a Triangle
Rundown
Platform Engineering
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions
What Is Platform Engineering?
Coté’s Slack Message
Google Cloud Next
Exclusive: Google touts cloud deal with Ford
What’s next for digital transformation in the cloud
Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security
Cloud Workstations | Google Cloud
9 out of 10 banks still use mainframes. Google Cloud wants to reduce that.
MSFT Ignite
Relevant to your Interests
AMD missed Q3 revenue numbers by $1B
ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability
Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’
Is Nomad taking over Kubernetes?
Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by '95% of Stanford undergrads'
Register to secure your seat to join us at the exclusive premiere of Clouded - Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud. Autumn 2022
I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To
Confidential Containers brings TEE support to Kubernetes
All YouTube users will soon have an account handle — but some will get to pick theirs earlier
From cloud security to code security: why we've raised $25M to take on OSS dependency sprawl
ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo in Deal for $23.25 a Share
Meta announces legs
White House to unveil ambitious cybersecurity labeling effort modeled after Energy Star
High-profile failures Twitter Thread
It's 2021 and USB-C is still a mess
Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of PC Slowdown
The AI-generated podcast.
Meta unveils high-end Quest Pro VR headset
New Metaverse Dreams and Old Metaverse Questions
Nonsense
Adafruit’s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy
Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules
Clam-O-Naise® by Cards Against Humanity
Rollercoasters trigger iPhone 14 crash detection
Listener Feedback
Pat Gelsinger interivew on Decorder
COIN: A Founder's Story
Migrating from Heroku to Code-Engine
Conferences
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
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: House of Dragons.
Matt: Malcolm in the Middle.
Coté: Draw a Triangle.
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Oct 7, 2022 • 54min
Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts
This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 380.
Runner-up Titles
Leave it all in Brighttalk
Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later
Killed by Google Wins Again
Tell that to the WeWork founder
Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon
Anyone from software thinks they can do anything
Lots of learnings.
I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy.
A good Brandon issue
Rundown
Google’s Incentives
Google is shutting down Stadia
Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate
Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.
2022 State of DevOps Report
Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
Relevant to your Interests
GitLab beats expectations with impressive revenue growth, but its stock falls anyway
Two Former eBay Executives Sentenced to Prison for Cyberstalking
We’re excited to announce that the transaction to combine Citrix and TIBCO
Can a Zebra Change Its Stripes?
VR & AR headset designers should consider how their customers look like when wearing them
CEO Tim Cook says Apple avoids the word 'metaverse'
DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase
Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities
The Most Visited Website in Every Country (That Isn’t A Search Engine)
Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio Hands Over Control of Firm
World's First Laptop with RISC-V Processor Now Available
CoRecursive: Coding Stories: Android's Unlikely Success on Apple Podcasts
Database 2x2
Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around
State Of Developer Relations
Red Hat Storage strategy update
IBM Redefines Hybrid Cloud Application and Data Storage Adding Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings
IBM + Red Hat: Doubling Down on Hybrid Cloud Storage
DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering
Nonsense
Kim Kardashian pays over $1 million to settle SEC charges linked to a crypto promo on her Instagram
Test drive new McLaren Formula 1 themes in your Chrome browser
Tacos Are a Staple in Austin. How Is Inflation Impacting Taco Spots?
Google Japan’s latest version of it’s new keyboard, G-Board
"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
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:
Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk ****(Podcast)
The Chatter Toolbox (PDF)
Matt: Keyboard.io Model 100
Coté: classic microplane.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 1h 2min
Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap
This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379.
Runner-up Titles
You’re not proud of the product
You can have both
Landing Pages
It’s just like Serial
Don’t bring me these unqualified deals
It’s a Floppy Disk Problem
The better the metrics, the less useful they are
The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful
Highly Edited
Focus on Earnings
Rundown
AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started
Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast)
Google and Developer Toil
Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting
Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency
Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money'
Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive
Relevant to your Interests
PaaS Is Not Dead
How devops in the cloud breaks down
Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong
The Dead End from RedMonk
Building for the 99% Developers
Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs
Slack canvas has officially entered the chat!
Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air
Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile
Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition
Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday
Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us
What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption?
Did We Overeat on Software?
Someone is pretending to be me.
Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M
For teens to do better in school, they need to sleep in
Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers
The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security
Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers
Nonsense
The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid
Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it.
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: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode
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Sep 23, 2022 • 1h 14min
Episode 378: Email is not broken
This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.
Runner-up Titles
Freed from Intel
It works!
Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
It will be fun
The Apple Chip
A Demi Kettle
Pay for your own Flu
Free to interrupt me
Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
None of us can master the intranet.
The network is the calendar.
Rundown
Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
Adobe
Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion
Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?
Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window
Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google
Relevant to your Interests
Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
Ethereum Is Merging
Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk
Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile
Audio subscription platform Podimo raises €58.6M
Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language
Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong
Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live — here's what it does
Amazon Web Services — Acquired
It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors
Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing
Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120
McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data.
Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO
Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation
Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget
JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers
The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About
Document Foundation charges €8.99 for macOS LibreOffice
Sharp Tech
Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives
A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings
Charted: Big Tech market values
Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund
The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok
Nonsense
When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling
File this under: Old Bay goes with anything
I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack
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:
Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast
Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World
Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 47min
Episode 377: Coffee is for closers
This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee…
Runner-up Titles
It’s about me
Workshop it
I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs
This is their Popeye moment
Pulitzers and free coffee
Financial shenanigans
Hide the gift shop in the data center
Rundown
No more free coffee as bankers return to Goldman Sachs
Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor
Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey
André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative
Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it
Relevant to your Interests
What if those green bubbles aren’t Android’s fault? - The Hustle
Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles
Uber Eats goes driverless with Nuro partnership
GM is betting on its electric Equinox, starting at $30,000, to kick-start 'massive adoption' of EVs
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
Cheating Allegations Shake the Chess World After Champion Suffers Stunning Defeat
The Book of Reed Hastings, Revisited
Explainer: Understanding Ethereum's major 'Merge' upgrade
Patreon security team layoffs cause backlash in creator community
Bolt's $1.5 billion deal to buy Wyre dies
Citrix Plans to Explore Sale of Wrike Unit After Buyout Closes
Meta moves PyTorch to Linux Foundation
At Google, 'Rest and Vest' for Sr. Employees is Over, Says CEO
Large railroad labor unions say they will strike if quality of life is not addressed in new contract
Heat wave knocks Twitter data center offline
Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation - Linux Foundation
What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
Twitter shareholders approve $44 billion Elon Musk buyout
Tech stack
Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft
Squishable computer runs calculations depending on how you squish it
iOS 16 - New Features
Nonsense
IKEA Responds To Balenciaga’s $2,145 Bag That Looks Exactly Like IKEA’s 99-Cent Tote Bag, And It’s Hilarious
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Jordi recommend Dirty Tricks
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!
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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: Rotowire
Matt: Control
The Other Two
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Sep 9, 2022 • 1h 7min
Episode 376: Businesses that use computers
This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers?
Runner-up Titles
They were already in the system.
Headless Optimization Gone Amuck.
While sitting on the toilet
Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs.
All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution.
Bring Paul Ford out of retirement.
Great ideas, getting close
Prevent the typo
73 SaaS Companies
“Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.”
That may be his family crest
Rundown
Checking on Digital Transformation
Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use
Instant Payments in the U.S.?
You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button
SaaS spend ratios on R&D/S&M/G&A
Relevant to your Interests
Netflix’s Catch-22 Milestone
VMware Offers Sneak Peek at Tanzu App Platform
VMware customers optimistically wait for Broadcom’s impact
Ubiquiti Teaches AWS Security and Crisis Comms Via Counterexample
Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding – TechCrunch
Microsoft: The deadline to get off Basic Auth is approaching
1 big thing: What's behind chip giants' lawsuit
Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms harassment site
Open-source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M • TechCrunch
AWS Preps ‘Bastion’ Cloud Service for Advertisers
The cloud computing giants are vying to protect fat profits
Blackouts possible at height of California’s heat wave Tuesday as grid struggles with record usage
For homesick Marylanders
Google announces October 6th event to launch the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7, and new Nest devices
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise: For Kubernetes Networking & Security
Introducing Ambient Mesh
Muck Rack scores one of the largest growth equity investments in PR tech
Nonsense
Southwest Pilot Threatens to Turn Plane Around if Unruly Passengers Keep AirDropping Nudes
New escape room just opened in town
Jaws is a box office hit again, 47 years after it first hit theaters
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
Conferences
DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Patrick tweeted about Birdnet and his 5-year-son likes the pictures
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: ****
FRAKTA IKEA Duffle Bag
L.L.Bean Stowaway Pack
Coté: Cavender’s All Purpose Greek Seasoning.
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Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 12min
Episode 375: For the Birds
This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?
Runner-up Titles
Where’s my admin?
All my children qualify as adults
Start by eating their food
Put two letters in front of it
Where’s the grocery store
I got that everything bagel spice
Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?
In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.
The runbook’s already written.
Spagetti Bowl
Tanzu the Shih Tzu
A FinOps Type of Motion
The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff
Growth is best done in the shadows.
Wrapping bullshit with bullshit
Nopehouse, home of the fast follower
The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans
Thought-leadership suicide mission
Rundown
VMware Explore
How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users
Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado
Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions
Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon tries a new way to excite you about cybersecurity (it's called laughter)
The golden noose around Apple's neck
Campaign pushes Cloudflare to drop trans hate site
Mudge at Twitter
Bloomberg takes cut and paste seriously
Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog
World’s Most Popular Password Manager Says It Was Hacked
LastPass Says No Passwords Stolen in Data Breach
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Aug 26, 2022 • 1h 6min
Episode 374: Is there no Dev in DevOps?
This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King.
Runner-up Titles
Don’t have the USB cable
Barton, can you get me a drink?
Just like a beer
This is my own podcast, I can do whatever the fuck I want!
One day, I’m going to stop being the the butt of all the jokes
Throwing a lot of Harvard shade.
If you are in France, eat at the Burger King
They came for the DevOps glory
The jury’s still out for the Dev in DevOps
The same sane things
Security, always a problem
What if there was just one company?
Rundown
Dallas DevOpsDays
Devs don’t want to do ops
Twitter
Twitter's security alarm
Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s
Apple
Wait, When Did Everyone Start Using Apple Pay? — The Wall Street Journal
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The golden noose around Apple’s neck
1 big thing: Americans' beliefs are privacy law's hidden roadblock
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