
Software Defined Talk
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).
Latest episodes

Oct 1, 2021 • 1h 19min
Episode 322: I didn’t make these rules
This week we discuss the launch of Cloudflare R2 Storage and the DevRel Salary Survey. Plus, some thoughts on nuts…
Rundown
Cloudflare
Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees
How Cloudflare thinks it can become ‘the fourth major public cloud’
@Cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52.
DevRel
2021 DevRel Salary Survey results
Big tech and promotion processes that lead to unnecessary complexity and waste.
Relevant to your interests
iPhone Carrier Deal Spreadsheet
We asked celebrities what they think Tanzu and Kubernetes means
Dev Ops Solutions | Google Cloud
Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores
Online Learning Company Udemy Plans October IPO
1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins
AWS US East region wobbles for eight hours
Vista bets on software robotics with $1.5 billion Blue Prism takeover
Amazon announces Astro home robot that roams around your house
Akamai to acquire cloud security firm Guardicore for about $600 million
Facebook Reels exits beta in the US with offers to pay creators for well-performing videos
The cloud is NOT just someone else’s computer
Netflix Has Acquired Its First Video Game Studio
How IBM lost the cloud
Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones
Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service
First cryptocurrency fund approved in Switzerland
OS/2’s Last Stand: IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Turns 25
Nonsense
Costco placing purchase limits on toilet paper, other products due to COVID-related demand
Release Notes
William Shatner's Going to Space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Ship
A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500
Heatbit - electric heater that earns you money
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Conferences
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person
MongoDB.local London 2021 - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
Listener Feedback
Anova Precision® Cooker Nano was highly recommended
OpenNebula is hiring
Biogen needs a Digital Health Program Manager and Sr. Manager- Quality Engineering
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Brandon: https://claimittexas.org
Matt: Emacs M-x zone
Cloud Native AF: Jacques Chester
Coté: Sandman Act 2, in Audible.
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Sep 24, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 321: Cambrian explosion of screw drivers
This week we discuss GitLab going public, review iOS 15 and a few more thoughts on remote work. Plus, should the EU impose a universal phone charger?
Rundown
GitLab
Microsoft GitHub rival GitLab files to go public after annualized revenue tops $200 million
GitLab: Benchmarking the S-1 Data
GitLab S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up by @ttunguz
Apple iOS 15 Review
Buy a 'free' iPhone 13 with trade-in at Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T: All you need to know
Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever
EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple
1Password’s iOS Safari extension looks good
Ship / Show / Ask
Spend the money on Zoom-Box-Discord instead!
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Original Creators of Apache Pulsar Raise $23M Series-A for StreamNative, Round Led by Prosperity7 Ventures
Werner tweet on NDAs
Amazon gives Kindle e-readers a rare user interface overhaul
Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless
Over the last 90-days, if you average more than 6-viewers, you are in the top 6.7% of Twitch.
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions
WeWork shares expected to start trading in late October
Salesforce rival Freshworks raises $1.03 bln in U.S. IPO, valued at $10.13 bln
Apple rolls major Safari redesign out to Macs ahead of Monterey release
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
Facebook introduces portable Portal Go for $199
Raspberry Pi attracts $45m after lockdowns fuel demand for PCs
Zoom's $14.7 billion deal for Five9 under US national security review
Rundown
Follow the millimetres
It Has Come to Subscription Tacos
A 10-Foot Wide House In Boston Sells For $1.25 Million
Samuel Adams' latest potent beer is illegal in 15 states
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Conferences
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
Listener Feedback
Go Slack Discussion on Ship / Show / Ask
Brian recommends The Disconnect | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station
Jordi wants you to be a Developer Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks
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Brandon: iPhone Battery & Power Repair
Matt: Deep Rock Galactic
Coté: Hornbach; box cutters; Drunker & Retireder.
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Sep 17, 2021 • 1h 3min
Episode 320: Hash codes for everyone
This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes…
Rundown
Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products
Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments
FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw
The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event
iPadOS 15.
Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk
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Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open
Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video
EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America
Epic is shutting down Houseparty
Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances
Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen
Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts
How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe
Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet
Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
Open Scheduling Infrastructure, Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation
The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape
Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs
strongDM Raises $54M Series B ****
Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding
Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly
Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M
Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation
Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion
Nonsense
They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas
How long are you in meetings?
Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About
Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget
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Conferences
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
Listener Feedback
Matt wants you to work at Github. Hiring, both senior and non-senior roles.
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Brandon: Reverse Sear a Steak
Matt: Halo Master Chief Collection
Coté: AirServer.
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Sep 10, 2021 • 1h 11min
Episode 319: We need two elephants
This week we discuss the history of Docker, the rise of Kubernetes and the launch of AWS EKS Anywhere. Plus, how much lumber fits in a cubic meter…?
Rundown
How Docker broke in half
Migrating from Docker to Podman
AWS rolls out EKS Anywhere and EKS Connector
Relevant to your interests
This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained
How the 5G experience compares across 50 states and 250 US cities
HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests
Terraform Understaffed?
OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion
Open source is selfish
Mainframes, ML and digital transformation — Benedict Evans
Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future
DigitalOcean embraces serverless computing with Nimbella acquisition
Tripwire CEO steps down after supporting Texas abortion law
1 big thing: Inside the SolarWinds response
The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business
‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
Where does AWS profit come from?
AWS EC2 egress data transfer pricing ($0.05-$0.09/GB) is more expensive than Israeli internet access, cool, cool.
Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources
Nonsense
Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]"
HTTP Request Header Proposal
El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Crypto Become Currency Tuesday
Man Gets 4 Years in $126 Million Printer Toner Fraud
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Conferences
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
Listener Feedback
Nate sent in this video on What is a Lake House and why it matters
Peter recommended Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human
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Brandon: Recursion
Matt: Hammocks
Coté: Webster’s Original Dictionary
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Sep 3, 2021 • 57min
Episode 318: The sounds of Excel
This week we discuss Docker’s new licensing, Wirecutter goes behind a paywall and Serverless COBOL. Plus, Coté explains why open source is like College Football.
Rundown
Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions - Docker Blog
New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall
Serverless COBOL in Knative
Announcing VMware Tanzu Application Platform: A Better Developer Experience on any Kubernetes
VMware’s new Tanzu platform aims to unify Kubernetes development
Databricks raises $1.6B series H funding round
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EXCLUSIVE Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases
Apple loosens rules for developers in major concession amid antitrust pressure
Introducing a16z's seed fund - Andreessen Horowitz
30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple
The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D
Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling
NGINX Commits to Open Source and Kubernetes Ingress - The New Stack
CITC - About | Greylock
Decentralized Investing Platform Syndicate Raises $800K From 100 Investors
What you don’t know about working with AWS
Forrest Brazeal going to GCP
Clubhouse embraces spatial audio for more lifelike conversations
Nonsense
A (possibly fake?) high school apparently duped its way into playing on ESPN
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Conferences
DevOpsDays Zurich, Sep 7th and 8th.
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person
Listener Feedback
Barton wants you to be a Consultant Product Manager: Cloud Native - Remote, US at Dell
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Brandon: WATOE Wireless Charger 3 in 1 Qi Fast Charging Station
Matt: Broad City
Coté: Short Life in a Strange World.
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Aug 27, 2021 • 1h 11min
Episode 317: Fahrenheit is perfect for BBQ
This week we discuss Gartner’s Emerging Tech Hype Cycle and analyze 10 years of “Software Eating the World.” Plus, is Willie Nelson a good singer…?
Rundown
3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Chris Dixon Blockchain Tweetstorm
Ten Years Software Is Eating the World - Andreessen Horowitz
Disney wins this round: Here's where the streaming giants stand at the end of earnings season
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Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale
Custom Silicon
LEAKED MEMO: Google is dismantling its embattled health division as the tech giant reconsiders its strategy for healthcare
'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response
'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1
Turing Pi V2 is here - Turing Pi
Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
Grafana Labs Raises $220 Million Round at $3 Billion Valuation
Serverless, Multicloud Popular with K8s Users, Survey Says
Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement
The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition
****## Nonsense
ASML is the most important company you've never heard of.
Rejected Old Bay Jingle
Ford doubles Lightning production target on strong pre-launch demand -sources
Streaming Churn
New Tilting Stops $100 Million Fix of San Francisco's Millennium Tower
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Conferences
SpringOne, Sep 1-2
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
SDT news & hype
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Brandon: Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks
Coté: Noppes thrift store.
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Aug 20, 2021 • 59min
Episode 316: All we need is cURL
This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber…
Rundown
Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version
Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M
Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million
Relevant to your interests
Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA
Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview
Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets.
PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty
Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers
Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects
Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com
HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach
Funding, Buyback, and Hiring
Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
In No Code you delete code as you write it.
Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021
WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts
OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief
Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World
Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B?
Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye
This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS
Nonsense
The Most Dangerous Writing App
Suicide Linux
Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California
These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs
How QR codes are made
Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips
Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes
Progress Report: August 2021
PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink
EC2 offers 400 Instance Types
Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
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Conferences
SpringOne, Sep 1-2
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: The White Lotus on HBO
Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart
Mitani Chicken Salt
Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave. Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves.
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Aug 13, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 315: Field of Code
This week we discuss Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch, Reorgs and Remote Pay. Plus, some thoughts on IKEA and QBRs.
Rundown
This Week in Programming: The ElasticSearch Saga Continues
Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments
Twitter Thread on Elasticsearch
Google staff could see pay cut if they opt to work from home
Steven Sinosky: Hardcore Software
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700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
Amazon delays employee office return until 2022 amid COVID-19 surge
Red Hat tells U.S. workers they must be vaccinated to come to office
Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage
All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability
The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay
Hard Drive Reliability: A Look at HDD and SDD Failure Rates
Microsoft announces new 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge
Salesforce enters the streaming wars with new video service for professionals
Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell is leaving after 23 years as shakeup continues at AWS
VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why – TechCrunch
Accenture gets hacked
Why can we not have an explicit statement about 1Password being a subscription-only service
The “Cloud MQ” for 2021 is Out!
Reddit Numbers
GitHub Codespaces
HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey
Now Microsoft is protesting after Amazon won a $10 billion NSA cloud contract
a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation
TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL
Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing
Announcing AI21 Studio and Jurassic-1 Language Models
Nonsense
Cabin fever in "Fortress Australia" due to slow vaccination rate
AMC theaters will start accepting Bitcoin this year
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Listener Feedback
Jordy wants you to work at as a Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks
Conferences
SpringOne, Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (Virtual Event)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
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Brandon: The Suicide Squad
Matt: Uniqlo Fluffy Yarn Fleece Full-Zip Jacket
Coté: PÅHL desk.
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Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 7min
Episode 314: Prime Minster of Thinking
This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary?
Rundown
Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021
Heroku and Digital Ocean make the Cloud Platforms list
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021
AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS)
Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers
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Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2
Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices
The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest
Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country
Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit
Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app
Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace
Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers
IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours
Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available
Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall
Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget
Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy
Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services
Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes
Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform
Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz
Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence
One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
LISA Community Message
Nonsense
Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit
Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries
HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the store
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Conferences
SpringOne, Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021
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Brandon: Let Him Go.
Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows podcast.
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Jul 30, 2021 • 60min
Episode 313: My kids are listening to Stevie Nicks
This week we discuss Infrastructure as Code, GCP's new API policy and The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey. Plus, some thoughts on Olympic Swimming.
Rundown
Evolving Infrastructure-as-Code to Integration-as-Code
Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar
Saved by Google? New API policy promises stability and availability.
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic
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Amazon pulls the plug on 3-year effort to migrate from PeopleSoft to Workday.
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AWS’s Egregious Egress
Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp
Report: Vista Equity Partners could sell Tibco for $7.5B+
Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation
The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter
Microsoft posts big earnings beat and gives optimistic revenue forecast
Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall
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Meet the typical Costco shopper
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Listener Feedback
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Conferences
SpringOne, Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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: Criminal Podcast Episode 48 Hours
Matt: King Tubby and other dub music on Spotify
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