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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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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
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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
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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
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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
AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers | Amazon Web Services
Pandas Pivot Table Explained
Charted: Big Tech's bigness
UK's Micro Focus shares nearly double after Canada's OpenText agrees $6 bln takeover
Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform
The State of the Mainframe Market - Summer 2022
City2Surf face recognition raises concerns
IBM Watson Health layoffs disguised as staff 'redeployment'
David Young on LinkedIn: The metaverse economy is set to boom... gambling will be a significant
OCI History
VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns as 'next transition'
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier
Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation
Nonsense
Sounds right
When the development team meet their first Scrum Master
Chart of the year nominee
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
Enlightning from Whitney
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: Black Bird
Matt: BirdNetPi
Festival of Feet Half-Marathon
Coté: Spigen ArcDock 120W [GaN III] 4-Port USB C Charging Stantion USB-C PD/USB-A Hub with Spigen USB 4 Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Cable 100W Charging 40Gbps Data Transfer for MacBook Pro Air iPad USB-C Laptop.
C7/C8 coupler cables
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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
Ad Revenues
The golden noose around Apple’s neck
1 big thing: Americans' beliefs are privacy law's hidden roadblock
Relevant to your Interests
Charted: Streaming surpasses cable
AIOps startup BigPanda raises Series E extension, bringing its total capital to $340M
Sync Computing nabs $15.5M to automatically optimize cloud resources
GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
Cybersecurity platform Aceiss unveils product after seed close
Excel @ mentions feature approaches GA on the desktop
Cisco pops as guidance, Q4 results top expectations amid concerns of slowdown
There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet
Google Cloud claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever attempted
Excel Formula Generator - Excel Formula AI Bot
WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health
Twitter tests a special tag to highlight phone number-verified accounts
YouTube․com/podcasts goes live as simple 'Explore' page
Will MoviePass’ return help struggling theaters?
Zoom pares back annual forecast as revenue growth slows to single digits
Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’
The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable
Sony confirms PS VR2 is coming to market 'in early 2023'
Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws
SSH Security Best Practices using Certificates, 2FA and Bastions
Twitter CEO @paraga weighs in on whistleblower story.
The House passed a defense spending bill saying you can't sell software to the DoD that has any known CVEs in it.
There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet
Neumann’s Resurrection & The Trump Org’s Future
Nonsense
Shouting in the Datacenter
Kubernetes
CS Final Exam
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28
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: The Sandman Audio Book
Coté: Amazing Oriental
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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
Relevant to your Interests
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
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: 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
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
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 .
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Jul 19, 2022 • 21min
Episode 368: Managing Cloud Costs
Barton George interviews Matt Ray about how to manage costs in the cloud.
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