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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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Apr 15, 2022 • 52min
Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans
This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…
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Rundown
Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet
The PE Yo-Yo
Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion
Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks
How big could the cloud get? Part 1
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Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge
Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch
Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon
Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids
What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don’t Get
Are Microsoft’s days as the ‘friendly’ tech giant over? – POLITICO
The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week
Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems
Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer
ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost
Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs
How do you know when a business leads with technology?
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders
Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey
Nonsense
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert
CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report
The Origins of the Dutch Angle
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DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
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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Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations
To Scale
Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it?
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Apr 8, 2022 • 54min
Episode 352: Layers of Abstraction
This week we discuss Dagger’s Launch, Employee Tacking and Executive Compensation. Plus, some thoughts on beans and broccoli…
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Rundown
Dagger
Introducing Dagger: a new way to create CI/CD pipelines
Docker founder Solomon Hykes launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup
CUE
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger earned $178.6M in 2021
Goldman Sachs is tracking ID swipes so it can crack down on employees who are breaking its return-to-office rules. Here's what happens to those who don't show up enough.
Relevant to your Interests
On Postgres Container Apps. Behold Smooshing: database meet app platform, app platform meet database.
Update on “reader” app distribution
Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone
Tinybird adds $37 million to run realtime analytics APIs for you
Skillsoft and Codecademy: Equipping today’s workforce with the skills for tomorrow
A guide to pronouncing names of global tech companies
Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change
Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods
Grafana Labs announces $240 million Series D round led by GIC and welcomes new investor
Microsoft is integrating its Windows 365 Cloud PCs into Windows 11
$120M to build a "checkout" button
Google Cloud cross-platform data storage engine, BigLake
Announcing the next generation of Amazon Honeycode
Boeing taps Amazon, Microsoft, Google for cloud mega-deal
Facebook owner Meta targets virtual currency market with ‘Zuck Bucks’
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night
Global Unicorn Club
IBM 'misclassified' mainframe sales to enrich executives
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed late on Wednesday that it had purchased a stake in computer and printer maker HP Inc worth $4.2bn
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ready With Mesa 22.0, Early Intel Arc Graphics Enabled & Amber Added
PaaS is back: Why enterprises keep trying to resurrect self-service developer platforms
We Don't Talk about PaaS - Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #59
Elon Musk is the new Product Manger of Twitter.
Twitter plans edit button, says Elon Musk’s poll had nothing to do with it
Announcing AWS Lambda Function URLs: Built-in HTTPS Endpoints for Single-Function Microservices
Why AMD Spent $1.9B for Pensando's DPU Biz
Microsoft Azure vaults into the Arm server era with chips from Ampere
Nonsense
I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks
300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day
Comic Helvetic, an Unholy Combo of Comic Sans and Helvetica
Footage of Jay Leno Hosting Windows 95 Launch Event Surfaces Online
American Airlines Restarts Philadelphia Regional Routes With Landline Buses
Listener Feedback
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command
Unity hiring: Senior Strategic Business Development @ Austin, TX, USA
Brain Gracely wants you to join Solo.io in Tech Marketing.
Happy Birthday Day to Matt Ray.
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Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
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Coté: Cojonudos Espárragos.
Matt: Look at Them Beans - Johnny Cash
Murder on the Orient Express (book, not the movie)
Brandon: ****Yasso Bars
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Apr 1, 2022 • 57min
Episode 351: You can’t put it all on one slide
This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes….
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Rundown
Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability
Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players
Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
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Mac Studio Teardown: No upgradable storage… yet
Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind
Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos
PlanetScale Rewind
Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona
Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs – TechCrunch
Sealed IBM files in age-discrimination case now public
Want to smell in virtual reality? A Vermont-based startup has the technology
Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
Nvidia CEO to Look at Intel for Foundry, Says Shift Will Be Hard (
Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B
Texas has enough wind and solar power to replace coal almost entirely
The Overcast Redesign: Part One
Malicious Packages in npm Targeting Azure Developers
Google Issues Emergency Security Warning For 3.2 Billion Chrome Users
The public really have no idea what we do, do they
The single-largest wind farm in North America comes online in Oklahoma
Apple’s iPhone SE is the nail in the mmWave 5G coffin
Gravity - Issue 1: Analytics
HP seeks to ride hybrid work boom with $1.7 billion Poly buyout
Chrome and Edge hit with V8 type confusion vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit
Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa.
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
Arm plans transfer of shares in renegade China unit to speed up IPO
20 Kubernetes Blogs, Journals, and Podcasts to Follow in 2022
Okta: "We made a mistake" delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure
Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert
More Okta
The Okta Mess Is Even Worse Than It Appears
Google Calendar now lets paid users create a “booking page” website
Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar speaks to The Reg
Nonsense
Reference Letter
Cybersecurity and Skin Care
U.S. Nuclear Power to China? - Freakonomics
Some news from Austin
Dyson's First Wireless Headphones: Fresh Tunes and Fresh Air
Listener Feedback
Jordi wants you to work at Harness
Ryan wants you to become the Chief of Staff - CISO at DataDog
Andrew wants you to work at Deepfactor where you will be known as a “Deepfactorianm.”
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Conferences
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DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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: iOS App Developer Settlement with Apple
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Mar 25, 2022 • 47min
Episode 350: Email in Excel
This week we discuss how the software supply chain impacts business continuity and analyze the latest attempt to disrupt Microsoft Excel. Plus, some thoughts on bread heels….
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Rundown
On the weaponisation of open source
Hacker Group Claims Access to User Authentication Firm Okta
The tyranny of Microsoft Excel may finally be over
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Website Builder Webflow Hits $4 Billion Valuation As It Nears $100 Million Revenue
Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM
BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war
DeepMind's New AI: As Smart As An Engineer... Kind Of!
Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK – TechCrunch
About Netflix - Paying to Share Netflix Outside Your Household
CURL is now 24
Software is no longer sold; it's adopted
Grafana Labs, raised $220 million in Series C
Coatue-Backed Grafana Seeks Funds at $5 Billion-Plus Value
Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data
Elon Musk's SpaceX has activated more than 5,000 Starlink internet terminals in Ukraine, report says
The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space. Here’s How It Would Work
Harness Expands Software Delivery Platform With Acquisition of ChaosNative and Launches Two New Modules to Help Developers Rapidly Deliver Resilient, Reliable, Secure Software
Harness moves into chaos engineering with ChaosNative acquisition
Apple hit with a widespread service outage
SSH and Git, meet 1Password
Twilio launches Flex Conversations, a unified chat API for contact centers
Ford's F-150 Lightning will offer an EPA-rated 320 miles of range
NVIDIA Introduces Grace CPU Superchip
Long-Enduring COBOL May Still Have A Shelf Life
RapidAPI Raises $150M Series D Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to Empower Developers to Innovate and Build Software Faster with APIs
The Ubuntu Application
COBOL modernization startup CloudFrame bags $7M Series A funding
Updated Okta Statement on LAPSUS$
Clocking in at $2.3 billion in losses, Business Email Compromise remains the elephant in the room.
Nonsense
Google's McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car
Plain Text Sports
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Conferences
.Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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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Coté: The Confidential Agent, **Graham Greene.
Matt: Secrets of The Bullshark
Brandon: Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
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Mar 18, 2022 • 1h 7min
Episode 349: The Janitor Strategy for Developer-led Sales, also, The School of the Philosophy of Rocks and Time
This week, Coté and Matt define three sales model for doing developer-led sales. Also, we know that clown fish are optional, but do rocks need to exist?
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Mood Board:
How many of you watch streaming?
hotdogheadexplosion37 - “I’m your host, exploding hotdog.”
hotdogheadexplosion37 solves agile financing problems.
I’m your host, ExplodingHotDogMan
What if rocks didn’t exist?
I didn’t take “Philosophy of Rocks 101 in college, but I did take hydrobiology 379.”
This is what happens when Brandon’s not here
Legal week
B to D sales
The Janitorial Sales Model - vendor creates mess, drives uncontrolled/ungoverned/decentralized viral spread.
The Mary Poppins Model
Graffiti Proof Paint Model
Rundown
Rocks.
The End of Daylight Saving Time?
Dell Striving To ‘Embrace Developers In A Big Way’: Michael Dell
Relevant to your Interests
Congratulations to The Cloudcast, 600 Shows!
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings
Birdeye Raises $60M Series C Funding Led by Accel-KKR to Help Local Businesses Grow
Commercial satellites test the rules of war in Russia-Ukraine conflict
Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership with focus on cloud migrations
The Conversation: Twitter Trends 2022
Google's domain name registrar is out of beta after seven years
Amazon just introduced a bizarre metaverse-like game to train people how to use AWS
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
Launching Valid Capital
Veracode Announces Significant Growth Investment From TA Associates | Veracode
Canonical bullish on OpenStack
Facebook’s Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry
The next big SaaS player will be the company that solves enterprise billing
The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase
HashiCorp beats expectations in first quarterly earnings report since going public
Oracle's cloud business seen as 'the driver,' of Q3 results
Nonsense
Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died
Winamp joins LimeWire in the emerging "legacy software comes back from the dead to do NFTs" trope
One of the greatest videos in all of sports
The time Vladimir Putin stole Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring
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Conferences
.Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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Coté: Amazon Fresh store in London
Matt: The Kubernetes Podcast 170: The Kubernetes Documentary
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Mar 11, 2022 • 50min
Episode 348: Jevons Paradox
This week we discuss the potential digital transformation of the Dollar and Snowflake’s Strategy. Plus, what exactly is Heavy Metal…
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Rundown
Digital Transformation of the Dollar
The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world
Biden takes big step toward government-backed digital currency
Let’s check in on SNOW
Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout
Clouded Judgement 3.4.22
SNOW Investor Deck
Relevant to your Interests
Need to keep your SBC fresh? Armbian v22.02 is out
Developing Games Around the World: Netflix to Acquire Next Games
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman buys 7.5% stake in Splunk
Report: Twitch confronted with staff "exodus" over strategy disagreements
As Nvidia hacker deadline looms, 71,000 employee accounts have reportedly been exposed
Understanding the value of AWS and Amazon Retail integration - a perspective from a long-time $AMZN shareholder.
Europe attempts to break the internet again:
Notable Internal Systems at Amazon
Amazon's assistance in Ukraine
Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't
DevOpsDays Austin donated $10,000 saved from 10 yrs of events to Ukraine relief
For Its Next Trick, Nvidia Is Doing Software-Defined Storage
Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split
First Apple M1 Ultra Benchmark Posted, Nearly Matches Threadripper 3990X
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Google to Acquire Mandiant
Salesforce is opening four new office towers
Tech giants move to reopen offices, but differ on hybrid-work plans
Here's Everything Apple Announced Today
Nonsense
When is a nanometer not nanometer?
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Listener Feedback
Borko wants you to work in DevRel at Render.
Conferences
.Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Brandon: The Last Duel
Coté: complaint department grenades, The French Dispatch.
Matt: Reincubate Camo
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Mar 4, 2022 • 56min
Episode 347: Son of Beagle
This week we discuss how to measure DevRel, the legacy of Sun and a few thoughts on Markdown. Plus, we determine the TAM for trackballs…
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Rundown
Measuring Developer Relations
What if Sun called it Cloud?
Relevant to your Interests
A Visa exec's email to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy set off an internal scramble that's becoming increasingly common at the tech giant
Clouded Judgement 2.25.22
Report: 76% of IT pros say that cloud has hit a wall
Out Of Scope - #0
Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower — Software Engineering Daily
Zendesk Scraps Takeover of SurveyMonkey Parent Company Momentive
EPAM Systems Withdraws Financial Forecasts. It Makes Software in Ukraine.
Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games
Introducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool | Google Cloud Blog
Kyndryl signs partnership deal with AWS
Apple is said to be working on a foldable MacBook/iPad hybrid device
Amazon Luna – Cloud Gaming Service
TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes
Intel energizes decades-old Linux kernel sub-project
Nonsense
You’ve Been Wearing Your Travel Pillow Wrong This Whole Time
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Listener Feedback
Listen to The Kubernetes Developer Experience? on The CloudCast
Conferences
.Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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: Mimestream - A native macOS email client for Gmail (BETA)
Coté: The Nineties, Tyler Cowen interview with him.
Matt: Hail Mary
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Mar 1, 2022 • 51min
Episode 346: Ev Kontsevoy with an opinionated approach to secure access
Brandon interviews Ev Kontsevoy the CEO and Cofounder of Teleport. They discuss Ev’s early career, his experience at Mailgun and Teleport’s opinionated approach to providing secure access.
Episode Links:
YouTube Clip of the question to Jeff Bezos that inspired Mailgun
Teleport
Teleport Slack
5 Best Practices for Securing SSH
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Twitter: @kontsevoy
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Feb 25, 2022 • 55min
Episode 345: It’s always the last place you look
This week we discuss Kubernetes adoption, the State of Open Source Survey and the search for a better Developer Experience. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash and conflict resolution.
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Rundown
Ten takeaways from the 2022 State of Open Source survey
What is Developer Experience? a roundup of links and goodness
Developer Experience Is Security
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Salesforce teams with AWS on direct-to-consumer streaming media solution – TechCrunch
Snyk expands into cloud security with acquisition of Fugue
Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On.
Using a LinkedIn QR Code to Connect with Members
Tiger Global, D1 Capital Signal Pullback From Big Private Tech Deals Amid Market Rout
Thoughts On Markdown — Smashing Magazine
Salesforce employees protest against its NFT ambitions
Exam software is booming, but is it ethical?
Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year
Introducing Gitpod for Open Source
Tech billionaire makes power play
Why Big Tech is cooperating on smart homes
Edgeless Systems wants to make public clouds the ‘safest place for sensitive data’
Goldman Sachs hands out biggest bonuses on Wall Street as talent shortage rages
Intel Ramps Up Linux Investment By Acquiring Linutronix
KubeDoc Follow Up
Nonsense
Texas Weather
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The week we review Kubernetes: The Documentary and Matt explains why there is no Diet Coke in Australia.
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