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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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Aug 19, 2022 • 56min
Episode 373: Everything is a nail, find your hammers
This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means.
Runner-up Titles
All I am doing is sharing anecdotes
That’s the problem with spellcheck
Maccas?
College here is High School
Every cloud has its own sausage
Here’s a unicode cow
All Rust looks the same
Too Good for GitHub
The Shameful GitHub
Rundown
Simplifying Kubernetes,
Introducing Acorn
Waypoint
CNAB
Habitat
Dagger
25 Most Popular Programming Languages Used By DevOps Pros
Making sense of CSV
The Microsoft Excel World Championship is as brilliantly entertaining as it sounds
Data Prep with Power Query
https://jupyter.org
Passwords still a problem
Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins
Cisco Confirms Network Breach Via Hacked Employee Google Account
Remove my password from lists so hackers won’t be able to hack me
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Malcolm Gladwell doesn't want you to have a life
Disney says it has 221 million streaming subscribers. Netflix has 220.7 million.
AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal
No-code isn’t scalable. Our learnings at FINN going from 1000 toward 100,000 car subscriptions
Google fined $60 million over Android location data collection
Software is eating the world (of farm equipment)?
Investing in Flow
Tencent veterans secure $13M to build cross-chain decentralized identities
Bad Visualisations
TikTok says Project Texas will bolster security for US users – TechCrunch
Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays
Corey’s Thoughts on GCP canceling IoT
Securing apps for Googlers using Anthos Service Mesh
Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after security breach
WebOps: A DevOps for Websites, but the Tools Let It Down
Citrix Bankers Pitch Fresh Structure for $15 Billion Buyout Debt
Scammers targeting recent grads
Lift and shift Windows applications to containers
Nonsense
Snake bites 2-year-old girl, who bites it back until it dies
A man returning from Indonesia to Australia was fined thousands of Australian dollars after airport security found several McDonalds food items in his luggage
Listener Feedback
Join the Cloud Austin Meetup
Recent Event: CloudAustin's Dog Days of DevOps
Amazon hosting a hiring event in Austin on Aug 23, 2022
Follow @cloudaustinmeet
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Piranesi
Matt: Tailscale
Beach2Beach 13k
Festival of the Feet Half-Marathon
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Aug 12, 2022 • 1h 3min
Episode 372: Don’t do any editing
This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th.
Runner-up Titles
Strategy for eating mixed nuts.
Finish in a flurry
Eat Dessert First
It’s about where you is, not where you was.
We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator
Lost his fastball
Just a paycheck
It’s cool to be the “turns out” person
Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment
McKinsey Titles, the movie
Rundown
App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem
Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO
Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers
Gladwell’s take on Work from Home
Relevant to your Interests
Cisco Networking And Cloud Leader Todd Nightingale To Join Fastly As CEO
Aviatrix CEO On Potential Post-Broadcom VMware Layoffs And Why On-Prem Market Is ‘The Titanic Going Down’ | CRN
Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains
Amazon and iRobot Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire iRobot
Companies Disney Owns
S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even
Twilio Shares Stumble as Investors Fear a Demand Slowdown
Closing the cloud strategy technology, and innovation gap
Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast
Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million
New request for comments on improving npm security with Sigstore is now open
The Billionaire’s Dilemma
Intel launches Arc Pro GPUs that are designed for workstations and pro apps
AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms
AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history
Acorn launches from the Cloud.com and Rancher Alumni
Nonsense
French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo
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Listener Feedback
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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: Sea of Tranquility
Coté: The Sympathizer
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Aug 5, 2022 • 48min
Episode 371: What’s your TAM
This week we do a deep dive into the Total Addressable Market of Cloud and discuss the rise of Cloudflare. Plus, details about the SDT Meetup in Austin on August 27th.
Runner-up Titles
“Have a good time at least once” is in my vacation OKRs
The podcast of the Slack
Analog Clocks
Digital Clock Native
Pretending to have a sidekick
The First Business Case for the Metaverse
I was a liberal arts major
The TAM Episode
Rundown
Cloud Earnings
Clouded Judgement 7.29.22
Amazon says cloud-computing revenue rose 33%, topping Wall Street estimates
60% of Amazon's net revenue growth YoY was AWS.
AWS continues to show strength, but there are a few things to watch out for
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 3% in 2022
How Cloudflare emerged to take on AWS, Azure, and GCP
Relevant to your Interests
Apple beats on revenue and profit, expects growth to accelerate despite 'pockets of softness'
Instagram walks back its changes
Meta posts its first-ever quarterly revenue decline
Why Kylie is mad at Instagram?
There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter
CHIPS for America Acte
JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit for $3.8B. It would create the 5th largest U.S. airline
The pandemic impulse purchases we grew to hate
AMD and Nvidia leaks show we are drunk on power, and the hangover is going to be brutal
Intel To Wind Down Optane Memory Business - 3D XPoint Storage Tech Reaches Its
On the huge importance of non-tech roles in Open Source: Empirical study on NPM - Livable Software
VMware Fusion beta joins Parallels in supporting Windows VMs on Apple Silicon
Apple Arcade finally got the boost it needed
Apple Nabs Key Lamborghini Executive to Work on Its Electric Car
IBM board of directors investigates sales fraud claims
Apparently Linus Torvalds is using an M2 Mac?
Oracle Cuts Workers in US Customer Experience Unit
Gmail gets a new look and tighter intergration to celebrate 18 years of service
Uber reports positive cash flow for first time
Pinterest shares surge after Elliott discloses it is the largest shareholder
How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense)
Former VMware Star Sanjay Poonen Becomes CEO Of Cohesity
Thoma Bravo picks up Ping Identity for $2.8B in an all-cash deal
Software Is No Longer Eating The World
GitLab plans to delete dormant projects from free accounts
Raspberry Pi Zero vs MangoPi MQ Pro Benchmarks
Highest. Close. Ever. - All Star Charts
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Nonsense
Murder Hornets get new name
An Australian Artist Pulled a Pickle from a McDonald’s Cheeseburger and Slapped It on a Gallery's Ceiling. Now It Costs $6,200
MAKRO | Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights 3/19
British Airways suspends the sale of short-haul flight tickets from Heathrow
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Slack is increasing prices, changing how its free plan works
What is DevRel? — Cloudcast Podcast
Good discussion on changing jobs in SDT Slack
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM ****
DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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: Ambulance and The Terminal List
Ringer Podcast: ‘The Gray Man’ and the Top 10 Trash Special Ops Movies
Matt: Jabulani Challenge
City2Surf
Coté: Vienna. Specifically: 12 Bruegels, old movies at old cinemas, Miznon.
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Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 15min
Episode 370: In the long run…
This week we discuss developer toil, local vs. remote development and Facebook’s management woes. Plus, some thoughts on business books…
Runner-up Titles
The Instant Acquisition
Belly of the Beast
We can’t be bothered, but we bothered
I’m done with that
I don’t have those problems
More Money, More Weirdness
Occam’s Razor is always handy
Ghost ride it into production
Let’s take the offline online
We’re just doing stuff with computers
Rundown
Coté and Brian attempt to summarize Facebook’s current state.
Developer Toil: The Hidden Tech Debt
Original webinar, from Susie and Tyson.
Will Local Dev ever go away? and Swyx’s take
Relevant to your Interests
How to Misuse & Abuse DORA Metrics
Elon Musk’s Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair
Non-Obvious Docker Uses
T-Mobile agrees to cough up $500 million for its disastrous data breach last year
AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's cloud licenses
NFL enters media streaming market with 'NFL+'
How Software Is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation
San Francisco Races Clock for Comeback With Tech Gloom Deepening
DALL·E 2
Adam Mosseri on Insta Changes
Here are the 37 tech companies most likely to be acquired by private-equity firms after valuations plunged, according to bankers and private data
Clouded Judgement — Recession Impact
Nonsense
A new plasma robot can dig tunnels 100 times faster and 98% cheaper
Mattel to launch SpaceX vehicles as new Matchbox toys and collectibles
The US Records Its First Case Of Polio Since 2013
Urgent Care with Matt Ray
Listener Feedback
Demo of Apple Badges at the 187 Buildings
Chase wants you to work at Octopus Energy Group
UK Lead Platform Engineer
UK Senior Platform Engineer
APAC Platform Engineer
US Platform Engineer
Opportunities globally
Work with Matt Ray: Kubecost hiring Product Manager in US
Conferences
Coté’s August 4th webinar on platform engineering - register and watch, my homies
DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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: Global Entry Enrollment on Arrival
Viajero Confiable Mexico
Matt: Synology MR2200ac Mesh Wi-Fi Router
The Maintenance Race
Coté: Truefitt & Hill Shaving Cream Bowl - Trafalgar | Smooth Glide for Incredibly Close, Yet Comfortable Hydrating Shave, 6.7 ounces
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Jul 22, 2022 • 56min
Episode 369: DJ .pptx FINAL_0707-V2
If capitalism is so great, why aren’t we working less? We discuss the potential for the GDP to finally do something for us, plus simplifying “sovereign cloud” and the potential of containers with their own jurisdiction. Also, thoughts on PowerPoint filenames.
Runner-up Titles
Also true, Less Money, Mo Problems
Should have just been titled “Mo’ Problems.”
Pancakes in Australia
Australian names for pancakes: jackies, thin roundies, carbo-jacks, Yankee Breakfast Discs, flappies/flappos.
Rentie and Rentos - “I’m renting, so it’s terrible.”
Presentation-Final-V2.pptx
DJ .PPTX Final_V2
I learned nothing about slide naming in college
conference_keynote-rough_draft_feedback_welcome.pptx
The Software Defined Fund
Surfboard popped up and slapped my willies.
Lean into it, or be leaned into.
Rundown
Sovereign cloud as a test of cloud differentiation
Microsoft adding in more sovereign cloud stuff .
There’s a stack of software you can move to different Datacenters globally, and you can bind compote and data to that region.
How different are each of the clouds? Do they offer kind of the same things?
Do they have patent fights over things to prevent each other from copying capabilities?
Is differentiation in price and their management skills? Performance based on how they they spend on the hardware?
TextExpander gets $41.4m funding round
Marco Polo is no more, people gave up.
Wut? Such confusion.
Says they have 100,000 monthly users - what is the math there?
TextExpander origin story .
If we can’t work less, what’s the point of all this capitalism?
No one wants to work on Friday .
Coté’s too many types of screw drivers point in another form.
See also “what did GDP ever do for me?”
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore .
Relevant to your Interests
Tau T2A is first Compute Engine VM to run on Arm | Google Cloud
First Cyber Safety Review Board report finds Log4j has become an ‘endemic vulnerability’
Matt Levine On What to Watch In Twitter vs. Elon Musk — Odd Lots
Microsoft tapped to provide advertising on ad-supported Netflix tier
Steering with a Madman in the Car
Unity caught some dogfood poisoning
IBM shares slide after company trims cash forecast
Netflix loses nearly 1 million subscribers, and its stock soars
http://free-for.dev
Nutanix Objects Violates MinIO’s Open Source License
Amazon and One Medical agree to acquisition of One Medical
Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++
a16z is Moving to the Cloud
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox
Microsoft is adding video stories to Teams to liven up the chat app
Google, Oracle cloud servers suffer outage in UK heatwave
Nonsense
Pringles Texas BBQ Sauce chips, review from two Texans
Next level Excel
Nerd Power Move
https://www.amazon.com/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi/dp/B07MXD75TR
America’s Love Affair With Iced Drinks
Lawn Mowing Simulator will be free on the Epic Games Store next week
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin , July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x , July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays DFW , August 24-25, 2022 -
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform , SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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
Matt: Sydney Harbour 10k
Coté: Silverview .

Jul 19, 2022 • 21min
Episode 368: Managing Cloud Costs
Barton George interviews Matt Ray about how to manage costs in the cloud.
Links
FinOps Foundation
OpenCost
Kubecost
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Special Guest: Barton George.

Jul 15, 2022 • 58min
Episode 367: Exit Ramps
This week we discuss Musk vs. Twitter, Apple Wallet Employee Badges and using Slack for incident management with Incident.io. Plus, some thoughts on European Highways…
Runner-up Titles
Tasty Jambalaya
Cars Rules
Exit Ramps
The Autobahn
The Driving Episode
Muscle Memory
Norman Doors
Screenshotting
Screensharts
Count the pixels
Digital Nirvana
Free Ketchup
An ROI cul-de-sac
Rundown
Musk vs. Twitter
Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal
How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off
Digital Transformation mean outages in IRL
A DoorDash glitch temporarily allowed hundreds of users to order free food
American Airlines pilots get triple pay for trips dropped in scheduling glitch
167 Green Launches Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For All Tenants
Incident.io raises $28.7M for Slack-based incident response
Relevant to your Interests
Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyr
Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore
PlayStation Store removes purchased movies from libraries after service shutdown
AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
South by Southwest in Australia: Austin event plans a Down Under version in 2023
Nothing (event): Return to Instinct.
Oracle Considered $1B In Cuts, ‘Thousands’ Of Layoffs: Report | CRN
YouTube Rolling Out Picture-in-Picture Support on iOS for All U.S. Users,
Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security key | Amazon Web Services
SingleStore raises additional cash to grow database business
BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI
Honda key fob flaw lets hackers remotely unlock, start cars
Spotify to acquire music trivia game Heardle
AWS squashes authentication bugs in Kubernetes service
Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium
Nonsense
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
I compared food courts at Sam's Club and Costco, and this is why Costco comes out on top
Every Windows boot screen ever!
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
Tricentis - Deliver cloud-based applications with confidence.
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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: GE Profile Opal.
Coté: History of The Netherlands podcast.
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Jul 8, 2022 • 1h 11min
Episode 366: 'Zero mainframe, zero datacenter'
This week we discuss Fedex going all-in on cloud, app modernization at the IRS and how to take unlimited PTO. Plus, some thoughts on rental property and telling time.
Runner-up Titles
Spreadsheets in your mind
More ETF less Van Gogh
The baby likes ducks
The sticky stuff was not working
I’ve read books
Modernization takes 30 to 40 years
No time is good
Can I go to the beach
Take a vacation
The Kitchen Table Board
Rundown
A scheduling glitch temporarily canceled thousands of American Airlines flights
Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud
Cloud infrastructure spend to top non-cloud in 2022
Brian has thoughts see Slack Thread
FedEx to close all datacenters by 2024
Mark Zuckerberg: We’re ‘turning up the heat’ at Meta so employees will quit
Relevant to your Interests
AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere
Bessemer is now an RIA
Exclusive: Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
Azure said to be having capacity issues, supply chain blamed
Need A Linux Kernel Module? Scratch That
Leaked Videos Show Disney Is the Biggest Ad Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of
NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new 'quantum-proof' cryptography standards
Amazon Bringing Grubhub To Prime Users After Buying 2% Stake
A Look Back at Q1 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings
Oracle slashes minimum commitment for on-prem cloud
Euro slides to 20-year low against the dollar as recession fears build
Nonsense
I fucking hate Jira.
This Nuclear-Powered ‘Flying Hotel’ Can Stay Airborne for Years
Dave & Buster’s completes its Main Event acquisition
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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: Shining Girls
Coté: renting bikes at Het Zwarte Fietsenplan.
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Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 365: Automating for Auditing
This week we discuss the Stack Overflow Dev Survey, Securing the Supply Chain and Slack Huddles. Plus, some thoughts on coffee down under.
Runner-up Titles
Waiting for my wife to get up and out of the bedroom/office
My wife is still asleep
I feel a Liberal Arts rant coming on
That’s not the full stack baby
How deep does this chasm go?
This was your chance to own the SaaS 10 years ago
Rundown
Starbucks down under
Why there are almost no Starbucks in Australia
Survey Says
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
The 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report - Linux Foundation
Supply Chain
Aqua Security and CIS release first formal guidelines for software supply chain
Direct link to CIS Doc
Chain Bench
The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security
Productivity
The Future of Slack Looks a Lot Like Zoom
Discord Improved My Marriage
IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch June 30
Relevant to your Interests
Netflix Cuts 300 Employees In New Round of Layoffs
Remote Workers Make More Money, Cloud Salary Survey Says
Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone's voice
Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (Update: confirmed) – TechCrunch
Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation for better access to information
Oracle slashes minimum commitment for on-prem cloud
Zendesk to Be Acquired by Investor Group Led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira for $10.2 Billion
He's the first buyer of the electric F-150. Why he's the future of the car industry
Here’s Google’s letter saying employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
Report: Apple is gearing up to launch a ‘flood’ of new devices starting this fall
Valorant Is Planning to Monitor Voice Chat, Tests Begin Next Month
Politics trumps business in Truth Social’s war on Big Tech
Geofence and keyword warrants
The GitOps market: driving progressive delivery and experimentation's expansion by The Art of Modern Ops
Jeffrey Snover retires
Pinterest CEO steps down, Google executive to take over in e-commerce push
VMware Unveils vSphere+ and vSAN+
Consentomatic
Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
Google Workspace head Javier Soltero is leaving the company
DevOps is a failure | lbr.
Developer-Led Landscape: Complexity, Automation & A Future of Autonomous Development
How Thomas Kurian made Google Cloud into an enterprise-first company
Nonsense
New favorite #barcelona #bar #travel #spain #abroad
SXSW expands to Australia for 2023
Listener Feedback
There are indeed a Smart Sprinkler System: Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controllers and Rain Bird
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 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: Gmail Top Senders Script, Google Storage Manager and Gmail Search Operators
Brandon’s on the Cloudcast this week: A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update
Matt: MangoPi MQ-PRO (RISC-V SBC)
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Jun 24, 2022 • 1h 5min
Episode 364: First class SaaS
This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs.
Runner-up Titles
Chrome fixes everything
Plateau of Productivity
When the curve nopes.
When the parabola yeets.
First class SaaS
Thanks for the legwork fool
The cash cow has run out of milk
Sign-a-tar
Tumbler is now HIPAA compliant
Working has its privileges
Let go of this dog now
Rundown
Fermyon Launches With First Cloud-Native WebAssembly PaaS
Cloudflare
Cloudflare Post Mortem
Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error
The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps
Oracle
Oracle Versus Amazon: Oracle Will Rip and Replace AWS at Cerner
Exclusive: TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers
DocuSign CEO Dan Springer steps down
Removing people from security
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