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This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 387 Runner-up Titles From Montessori to your Funeral The Shit Pile of Enterprise Software Software Expires Bring in all the Kubernetes you can find You’re in Some Kind of Password Genie Hell. The salesperson at Gartner doesn’t want this report to go away Going back to the Monolith SRElon doesn’t do blameless postmortems Mastodon as a Service at re:Invent I am still betting on status quo outcome Keep the Twitter off the phone Bury me with my MP3 backup drives Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Musk's Twitter chaos opens door to challengers Rivals see opening in Twitter's chaos Here’s Mastodon Sign Up Link Mastodon as an Open Source experience Trust Thermocline Twitter Blue Checks not exactly working out CISO, Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Compliance Officer resign at same time Inside the Twitter meltdown Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks Fake Eli Lilly Twitter account drop stock 'Killed It:' Elon Backtracks From 'Official' Twitter Badges Hours After Rollout Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer Inside the Twitter meltdown Relevant to your Interests Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value Gmail will no longer allow users to revert back to its old design Amazon is subjecting Alexa to a performance review Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features Tumblr will sell you two useless blue check marks for $8 New in Docker Desktop 4.14: Greater Visibility Into Your Containers - Docker Does Kubernetes really give you multicloud portability? Report: The Evolution of DevOps | A Contrary Research Deep Dive Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees 5 of the Best Kubernetes Training Courses for Beginners in 2022 Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services Snowflake gets caught in the storm clouds AWS is 'not done building' as cloud computing matures Video editor Descript raises $50M in round led by OpenAI Startup Fund MotherDuck: Hello, World! Quack. Quack. Tech Layoffs The nefarious new way companies are discriminating against remote workers Angry Taylor Swift fans rail about Ticketmaster glitches Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy Who Will Cisco Buy? Sources Say a Big Deal is Near Nonsense Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Listener Feedback Overcast was recommend in the SDT Slack as a replacement for Apple Podcasts 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: The White Lotus Season 2 Matt: TweetBot macOS Photo Credits Header CoverArt

This week we recap VMware Explore Europe and discuss the Battery Ventures 2022 State of the OpenCloud report. Plus, some thoughts on cologne… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 386 Runner-up Titles I have conference voice. I thought I had conference voice, but it’s COVID. I painted a door. Blue blazer to black t-shirt ratio. The Java hyphen-hyphen capital X talk. I’ve been to VMware Media Training. Go to the Lenovo Booth. iBanker Butt Sniffing. The Sagrada Familia of iBanker Decks, except the summer interns finished it. That’s like buying your steaks at Walmart. Like I said, yesterday I painted a door. Rundown VMware Explore Europe State of the OpenCloud 2022 Them interns are busyAF over there. Relevant to your Interests DevOps company JFrog grows at a healthy clip but investors aren’t impressed The future of writing software happens in Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) Markets Weekend: Moneyball Kyndryl loses $281m as modernization agenda continues Twilio’s stock crumbles on poor revenue guidance Aboard: From clutter to clarity for you and your team. Apple is now valued more than Alphabet, Amazon and Meta combined CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees 1 big thing: Passkeys enter the mainstream Nix Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion - sources Amazon EC2 Introduces Replace Root Volume to Patch Guest Operating System and Applications EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service Kindness, Tech Staffing and Resource Allocation Google and Meta Hiring Levels Ionic + Outsystems: The Future of Enterprise App Development New OSS Security Projects: cnquery and cnspec Apple Supposedly Dumping the 'Hey!' From Siri's Wake Phrase Imploded Stocks of the Day: Carvana, Twilio, Atlassian, Cloudflare Twilio Stock: Absolute Disaster (NYSE:TWLO) Twitter user growth is at “all-time highs” under Elon Musk Legacy’s Revenge: Oracle, SAP, IBM Market Caps Rise as Cloud Natives Fall Nonsense Big announcement pre-re:Invent (if true) Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. Conferences All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 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: The Vow, Season 2 Matt: Good customer support Fractal Design Bare Creek Trail Run Coté: whatever version of “Wheelz of Steel” they have in Apple Music is so much more detailed. You can everything, like you’re in the room. There’s all sorts of asides and little comments that I’ve never heard before. Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:Teleport: The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 385 Runner-up Titles Cormac will give her a ride home The Baby is asleep Maybe she will get angry. Lectures don’t work See you on Mars, motherfucker! You can have 1 piece of dog walk It’s only stupid until it works. Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win. Armchair strategists. I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal. How long have I been working The CTA of Twitter An exercise for the listener Rundown As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown Cloud Giants Update Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates Meta Meta Myths Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user Twitter Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance Welcome to hell, Elon Relevant to your Interests Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules Documentary Film “Inside Prometheus” Highlights Open Source Impact and the Innovators That Make it Happen Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators What a combined Broadcom and VMware can deliver to our customers Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT Big Tech's ranks swelled last year Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app List of KubeCon Sponsors Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst? Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok DevOps de los Muertos Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2 Singapore to phase out checks by 205 Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. Nonsense Wirecutter Recommendation Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes. 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 use code SDT for 5% off CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 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: Southwest Airlines Lost and Found The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit Coté: micro.blog. Coté’s setup over there (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register to see my legacy trap talk tomorrow, maybe see the replay? Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:Teleport: The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

Matt reports in from Detroit with all the news at KubeCon NA 2022. Plus, some tips on proper etiquette when stretching on International Flights. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 384 Runner up titles Detriot style pizza I’m not doing high knees in the airplane bathroom Masks were required Not gonna get a lot of leads from your friendsd Maybe we’re in the trough of disillusionment We Didn’t Start the Fire for CNCF Projects He has to eat the spreadsheet Rundown CNCF Wasm microsurvey Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling WebAssembly Platform Company Cosmonic Raises $8.5 Million Seed Funding, Launches PaaS WeRun313 Detroit Running Club Relevant to your interests Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability Introducing Honeycomb Service Map Documentary Film: Inside Prometheus 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 Matt and Bridget Matt on the Run Job Board

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 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! 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. Photo Credits Banner CoverArt

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 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! 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. Photo Credits Banner 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 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. Photo Credits CoverArt Banner Sponsored By:Teleport: The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

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. Photo Credits Glasses Banner Sponsored By:Teleport: The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

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 Photo Credits Banner CoverArt

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. Photo Credits Banner Photo CoverArt