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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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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
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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!
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Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
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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,
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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
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Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
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DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
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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
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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
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DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
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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,
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Join us in Slack.
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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
Password policies of 120 websites
iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion
Senate considers ban on data brokers selling health and location info
Full List of Data Broker Opt-Out Guides: How to opt-out of the internet
Anna Sorokin plans to launch an NFT collection
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup
Median software multiple is now 5.7x.
The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud
The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution
I Should Be Able to Mute America
Capital One fraudster got in via 'misconfigured' AWS storage
Better.com loses three more senior executives, including SVP and VP of sales
Veza Raises $110M in Funding - FinSMEs
The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security
Nonsense
The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021
Jira gets fired by ClickUp - Exit Interview commercial advertisement
Amazon demos Alexa reading a bedtime story in the voice of a boy's deceased grandma
Could You Really Not Just Put This In An Email?
Listener Feedback / Jobs
Mantalus hiring Client Account Executive in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
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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: The Old Man **on FX/Hulu
Matt: Patagonia Black Hole 25L
Coté: Elgato 4k Cam Link.
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Jun 17, 2022 • 1h 2min
Episode 363: Bad Bosses
This week we discuss Oracle buying Corner, drama at Coinbase and the Gartner MQ for Observability. Plus, some thoughts on European Design Style…
Runner-up Titles
Secular Winds.
Internet Hygiene
Don’t Bang the Table
Do you own a motorcycle?
The Hilda World-building Executive Retreat for Toxic Crytpo Execs.
That’s some flavor
Client/server Bias.
Power of Privilege
Rundown
Everyone tries to fix verticals like healthcare but can an outsider really do it?
Oracle thinks it can fix healthcare’s biggest tech issue
Oracle stock jumps 9% on strong cloud revenue
CEO Bias
Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses
Coinbase CEO Twitter Thread
An Open letter to Elon…
Productivity
Google’s changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern
Who the **** Enjoys Using Outlook?
Honeycomb Cements Its Position as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - Honeycomb
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Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey | The GitHub Blog
Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month
MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips – TechCrunch
Spotify comes for audiobooks
[Joe Beda retires, sort of.](http://: https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/1535319525851205633)
Microsoft will soon post salary ranges for ALL job openings
Amazon Prime Air prepares for drone deliveries
Apple CEO Tim Cook heaps praise on ‘cutting-edge’ Chinese software developers
The Origin of Git
Snowflake switches gears, from data warehouse to application cloud
The Washington Post is not selling its software business, despite offers
Nonsense
The SDT THREAD is now over 7k messages.
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Listener Feedback / Jobs
Jesus has written the perfect SDT comment. See here.
Conferences
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
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
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: Top Gun: Maverick
Coté: D&D Adventure Begins.
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Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 8min
Episode 362: Are we using version control?
This week we discuss work life balance, the State of Continuous Delivery Survey and recap WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on Buddha and parenting…
Runner-up Titles
The Buddha had no kids
The Air Fryer is a PaaS.
Rundown
Work vs. Life
Office workers get little reward for returning to the office – an idle factory is taboo
CEOs had a phenomenal year. Workers, less so
Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push
Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit
Ford factory workers get 40-hour week
Survey Says
State of Continuous Delivery
Chainguard raises $50M Series A for supply chain security
WWDC
Apple WWDC 2022: the 16 biggest announcements
Create macOS or Linux virtual machines - WWDC22 - Videos
Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura
All the New Features Coming to Your Mac This Fall
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
Relevant to your Interests
Earnings
HashiCorp quarter
MongoDB quarter
GitLab quarter
Salesforce stock jumps as it raises profit forecast
Tech Valuations Tumble, but Business Software Stocks Are Cushioned by the Cloud
A Framework for Navigating Down Markets
VMware
Good thread (VMware history)
Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure
Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware
Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure
Brian Madden’s brutal and unfiltered thoughts on the Broadcom / VMware deal
Broadcom will tame the VMware beast
VMware Blockchain
Bolt, the payments start-up, has begun laying off employees.
Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
OpenStack, except it's outer space,
Microsoft confirms it's taking a 'new approach' with its game streaming device | Engadget
How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person
Over 380 000 open Kubernetes API servers | The Shadowserver Foundation
Twitter fined $150M for misusing 2FA data
First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto.
Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone'
Microsoft won't lower software costs on AWS, Google clouds
A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says
Forget LinkedIn—Your Next Job Offer Could Come via Slack
Sheryl Sandberg will leave Meta after 14 years this fall
This crypto startup believes 'sex-to-earn' is the future of web3
ExpressVPN rejects CERT-In directives, removes its India servers
MongoDB CTO on (no)SQL, Superapps, and Southeast Asia
Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls
This VR headset will measure a user's brain activity
Tesla has to respond to increase in phantom braking complaints
Amazon’s retail CEO is resigning after 23 years
Zoom Hires Greg Tomb as President
Peloton hires Amazon Web Services executive Liz Coddington as new CFO in latest shakeup
Musk accuses Twitter of 'resisting and thwarting' his right to information on fake accounts
‘A new IBM’: How the tech giant simplified its marketing
Coinbase extends hiring pause for 'foreseeable future' and plans to rescind some offers
Evading the Big Blue Name Police
IBM CEO explains why company offloaded Watson Health
MongoDB fires up new cloud, on-premises releases
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
OpenCost: Open Source Collaboration on Kubernetes Cost Standards
Kubecost launches open-source OpenCost project
Datadog’s 2022 State of Serverless report
The IRS needs digital transformation
Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner
Nonsense
The Cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW)
WSJ News Exclusive | Justin Timberlake Sells Song Catalog to Blackstone-Backed Fund
Every person in the U.S. now receives an average of 65 packages a year.
Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise
Flying ice cream? Unilever links with drone delivery service Flytrex
Texas to reclaim home of the largest Buc-ee’s
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Listener Feedback / Jobs
Tim wants you to work at Biogen as a Global DevOps Lead, Commercial & Medical IT
Walmart is hiring Principal Software Engineer - Linux Kernel in Sunnyvale, California
Ryan wants you to work at DataDog as the Vice President, Events and Field Marketing
J&J Senior Algorithm Analytics Engineer in Redwood City, California | Medical Devices
NYTimes is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - CI/CD Platform
Conferences
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 - $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 - $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
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!
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Brandon: Apple Watch SE for Tweens
Coté: Matt Levine interview on The Longform podcast.
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Jun 3, 2022 • 51min
Episode 361: This is Bonkers
This week Brandon is joined by special guest host JJ Ashgiar and they record a live episode at the THAT Conference. Brandon and JJ interview Clark Sell and Brett Slaski about the origins and purpose of the THAT Conference and then the group discusses Broadcom acquiring VMware.
Relevant to your Interests
THAT Conference
Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61 Billion in Cash and Stock
Guests
Clark Sell
Brett Slaski
Recommendations
Brandon — The Bond King
JJ — Between
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May 27, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 360: Radical Transparency
This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad.
Runner-up Titles
I’m here for the sandwich talk
I want to get back to the garbage chairs
Paying for Petrol
Paying at the Pump
Anonymize your trash
I don’t want to improve
Making life hard for HR
Radical transparency for you, not me
Where’d this public cloud come from?
Don’t ever fall into the trap of sucking
That’s a Circle
Rundown
Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings
Bridgewater Principles & Culture
You need meeting knobs like this
Seth Green's Stolen NFT Puts His New Animated Bored Ape Series in Jeopardy
Adam Neumann’s Web3 Startup Raises $70 Million From VCs, ‘Goddess Nature Token’
How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud?
Zoom’s QTR
Relevant to your Interests
Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
Cloud Foundry Launches Korifi to Ease Kubernetes Development
Get The Report: State of Observability 2022
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS | Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2022
Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware
Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware
Dell Becomes Billionaire Kingmaker in Broadcom, VMware Deal
Broadcom Discussing Paying Around $140 a Share for VMware, People Say
DevOps inspiration from Toyota Production System and Lean considered harmful
Artifice and Intelligence
Klarna fires 10% of its team amid valuation crunch
New – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processors
Planview Acquiring Long-Time Partner Tasktop - Mike West
Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield
K8s (@kubernetesio) startups raised $500M ~ in funding over the last 30 months alone.
The results are in, and the longlist of management books for 2022 is being revealed!
Joining Docker
LogDNA Unveils New Brand Identity Reflecting Vision for Observability Data
SlashData: Cloud native continues to grow with more than 7 million developers worldwide
We Sign Tomorrow? Inside A Tech Acquisition | Paddle Documentary
Nonsense
Resolution in Rackspace slide lawsuit
Central Texas man takes on Elon Musk's Boring Company, unkept promises
Spreadsheet The Game
A message from the staff of Reply All:
It’s the end of Superman.
National bank hit by ransomware trolls hackers
Conferences
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual
40% Discount Code: CdCon22SDPod
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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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.
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Recommendations
Brandon: After Steve
Matt: REI Anniversary Sales
Screaming in the Cloud: AWS Commerce Platform
Reply All: Flying the Coop
Coté: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem.
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May 20, 2022 • 1h 6min
Episode 359: Sell the Slide
This week we discuss the "sum of the parts" of Rackspace, Rocky Linux recreates CentOS and thoughts on the economy. Plus, a debate: rental car vs. Uber.
Rundown
Rackspace Technology Reports First Quarter 2022 Results; Company Evaluating Strategic Alternatives
Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services
Rocky Linux developer CIQ raises $26M to recreate CentOS for enterprises
Snowflake Stock: Finally, This Software Titan Is Worth A Nibble (NYSE:SNOW)
Job vacancies outpace unemployment for first time
Relevant to your Interests
Observability Engineering - O'Reilly Book 2022 Download
Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform
Apple discontinues its last iPod
Ploopy. Open-source hardware.
[DigitalBridge to Buy Switch for $11 Billion as Data Center M&A Binge Continues](http://)
Aiven Raises $210M to Invest in Sustainable Open Source Cloud
Workforce management startup Rippling raises $250M at $11.25B valuation
Google finally announces the Pixel Watch
IBM's massive 'Kookaburra' quantum processor might land in 2025
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service
Komodor provides a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform
Nvidia Does the Unexpected: Open Sources GPU Drivers for Linux
Hands-Free Voice Control | Sonos
Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-content-moderation law
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Redbox
Hasura raises $100M to create GraphQL APIs for databases
Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for PowerShell
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's $214 million pay package is 'excessive' and should be vetoed by shareholders, say advisory firms
Netflix tells employees they can quit if they don't want to work on content they disagree with, according to new company culture guidelines
Not all open-source leaders are jerks
Intel Poaches Open Source Execs from Netflix, Apple to Boost Linux Efforts
Jeff Bezos turns up heat on Joe Biden over US inflation
Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation
Musk: Twitter deal at lower price "not out of the question"
Google Lets Personal Users Stay On 'No-Cost Legacy G Suite' With Custom Gmail Domain
Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces
For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over
The State of Kubernetes Security in 2022
Facebook’s hiring crisis: Engineers are turning down offers
Twitter bleeds more top talent in the midst of Musk acquisition
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Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust security services
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May 17, 2022 • 46min
Episode 358: Philip Griffiths on Zero Trust Networking and OpenZiti
Brandon interviews Philip Griffiths, the VP of Global Business Development at NetFoundry. They discuss how OpenZiti enables zero trust networking and how to build certificate-based security into your applications. Plus, some thoughts on creating an open source mascot.
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LinkedIn: philipleonardgriffiths
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Special Guest: Philip Griffiths.Sponsored By:NetFoundry: NetFoundry is the originator and leading contributor to the Ziti open source networking projects, and provides all the modules required for zero trust networking as a service.


