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This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving… Rundown DevOpsDays Austin Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn Relevant to your Interests Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work Podcast Details 3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets? Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc. 4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022 A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto Nonsense Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M Sponsors IT Brew — Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST. Register Here! Conferences 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 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022 FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022 Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 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 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: Outer Range Matt: IKEA Hektar lamp Treasury Series I Bonds via Planet Money Coté: EPICKA Universal Travel Adapter Photo Credits Banner Sponsored By:IT Brew: From cybersecurity and big data to software development and gaming. Our IT Brew newsletter delivers the latest news and analysis of trends shaping the IT industry, like only The Brew can. Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST.

This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro… Rundown How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple Passwords Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO How FIDO Works 1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable? Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works Relevant to your Interests Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings: Big Tech revenue growth rates. Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time Actual is going open-source Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better) Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help. Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com Nonsense AOC and Elon Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID Sponsors IT Brew — The IT Brew newsletter delivers the latest news and analysis of trends shaping the IT industry, like only The Brew can. Subscribe today! Conferences 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 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod 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 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: Ozark Series Finale Matt: Debian preseed Photo Credits Banner Art Cover Art Sponsored By:IT Brew: From cybersecurity and big data to software development and gaming. Our IT Brew newsletter delivers the latest news and analysis of trends shaping the IT industry, like only The Brew can. Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft… Rundown Kubecost Istio Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo Earnings AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter Microsoft earnings beat across the board Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB Twitter Back to the Future of Twitter Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter Bezos on Twitter being acquired Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover Relevant to your Interests 7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers Is Firefox OK? After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch Good SDT Slack Thread on this The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience YouTube’s growth struggles to load Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you Nonsense Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head' Conferences 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 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 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: F1 TV Matt: Factorio Story Missions Photo Credits Banner CoverArt

This week we discuss the disruption happening to Netflix, Corporate Metrics and a few thoughts on Heroku. Plus, some summer travel tips. Rundown Netflix Netflix shares crater 25% after company reports it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords Netflix slowdown leaves streaming biz reeling Reporting is hard Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count by @ttunguz Heroku Heroku is practically down for 4 days Heroku is like a fallen civilization of elves. Beautiful, immortal, beloved by all who encountered it - but still a dead end. - Adam Jacob Relevant to your Interests How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. "Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost" The Chips That Rebooted the Mac The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time Apollo Global weighs going in on bid to buy Twitter: report Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules Discovery is shutting down CNN+ and is expected to provide details to staffers Thursday... Nonsense Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund Listener Feedback Brian wants you to work at Solo.io: Gloo Edge Product Manager Software Engineer (Front-End Systems) Software Engineer (Back-End Systems) New Business Developer (BDR/SDR) Conferences Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50. 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 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 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: Rectangle App on macOS Photo Credits CoverArt Banner

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… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups 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 Relevant to your Interests 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 Sponsors Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences 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 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 Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations To Scale Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it? Photo Credits Banner Header CoverArt Sponsored By:Drata: Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot

This week we discuss Dagger’s Launch, Employee Tacking and Executive Compensation. Plus, some thoughts on beans and broccoli… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups 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. Sponsors Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers: https://origins.dev/ Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences 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 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 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 Coté: Cojonudos Espárragos. Matt: Look at Them Beans - Johnny Cash Murder on the Orient Express (book, not the movie) Brandon: ****Yasso Bars Photo Credits Header Levels Art Sponsored By:Drata: Put Security and Compliance on AutopilotTraceroute: Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers.

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…. Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups. 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 $2B valuation Relevant to your Interests Mac Studio Teardown: No upgradable storage… yet Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ 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.” Join the jobs channel in SDT Slack to learn more Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers: https://origins.dev/ Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences .Net Beyond conference watch the replay 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 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! 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: iOS App Developer Settlement with Apple Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:Drata: Put Security and Compliance on AutopilotTraceroute: Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers.strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

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…. Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups. 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 Relevant to your Interests 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 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers: https://origins.dev/ 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 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! 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 Coté: The Confidential Agent, **Graham Greene. Matt: Secrets of The Bullshark Brandon: Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Photo Credits Header CoverArt Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Postlight: Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast.Traceroute: Traceroute — The Podcast for digital pioneers.

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? Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups. 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 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast\ 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 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. 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 Coté: Amazon Fresh store in London Matt: The Kubernetes Podcast 170: The Kubernetes Documentary Sponsored By:Postlight: Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast.strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss the potential digital transformation of the Dollar and Snowflake’s Strategy. Plus, what exactly is Heavy Metal… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups 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? Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast 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 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: The Last Duel Coté: complaint department grenades, The French Dispatch. Matt: Reincubate Camo Photo Credits Banner CoverArt Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Postlight: Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast.