Software Defined Talk

This week, the hosts dive into the secrets of effective developer relations, revealing strategies that really work. They discuss the financial landscape with insights on the $5 million funding for TriggerMesh and highlight the importance of proactive compensation to retain talent. The conversation also touches on the cultural quirks of work-life balance in Australia and the challenges of shifting from audio to interactive video content. Meme-worthy moments and serverless trends add a fun twist to their expert discussions.

This week we discuss Copilot’s use of Open Source, changes at IBM and the Infinidash Meme. Plus, an update on Coté’s return to Twitter. Rundown Adam Jacob on OSS IBM Leadership Changes IBM (IBM) Announces President Jim Whitehurst Leaving IBM Email Woes IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out Amazon Eyeing 'Rebel Alliance' With Dropbox, Slack To Challenge Microsoft: Insider New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional Relevant to your interests Who's Winning in the Container Software Market Do the costs of the cloud outweigh the benefits? After Jeff Bezos: the changing of the guard at Amazon Russia Linked Group Hacks 200 Businesses With Ransomware A Large Ransomware Attack Has Ensnared Hundreds of Companies Independence Day: REvil uses supply chain exploit to attack hundreds of businesses Gurman: Apple rapidly expanding outside of Silicon Valley as it struggles to recruit and retain talent Are you ready to become a TV company? The future of tech events is media. Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management We Replaced Splunk at 100TB Scale in 120 Days Roblox partners with Sony Music to connect artists with money-making activities in the metaverse Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps Layoffs hit a record low as companies hold onto employees for dear life TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig – TechCrunch Box claims activist investor wanted in on deal it publicly opposed Nonsense job description: must be willing to work in a fast-paced unpredictable high-energy environment Puppy in a cone is 2% unhappy? Google Reader Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 Carolina VMUG, July 22nd - Coté giving a talk on DevOps metrics, and BEYOND! THAT Conference, July 26-29, Special Promotion SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: Some Kind of Heaven Coté: Newsify Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss the future of PaaS and working for home. Plus, some thoughts on kids and zone defense. Rundown What AWS Tells Us About Heroku 2.0 This is the Awful Voice Inside My Head Amazon, Microsoft lead 40% growth of IaaS public cloud services market in 2020. Relevant to your interests CentOS replacement Rocky Linux 8.4 arrives, and proves instantly popular | ZDNet “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted Ad tech stocks surge as Google delays killing third-party cookies until 2023 Twilio and Asana first to dual-list shares on Long-Term Stock Exchange BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr | Engadget Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda Discord acquires augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 – TechCrunch HashiCorp built its own online events platform and it's awesome. Tiny Wins. Intel Delays New Chip in First Setback for CEO Gelsinger’s Turnaround Effort Kindle Vella AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud A Clubhouse for the office? Slack unveils ‘Huddles’ audio chat rooms Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. Lessons Learnt in Developer Relations Nonsense Owner of venomous zebra cobra previously bitten by green mamba snake Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Stuart in Lake Stevens, WA. Show notes workaround for Apple Podcasts. Example Thanks to Brian White Eagle for enabling Nightbot and adding SDT Twitch Commands Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: A Quiet Place II Matt: The Pulsars Lost Transmissions Coté: Election Profit Makers Episode 100 Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

He's one of the best #devrel avocado person I know, so I asked Josh Long all my questions about how #devrel works, plus the Spring Framework community, of course. Also: why Josh stays up so late. If you prefer, see the original, video recording.Special Guest: Josh Long.

This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office. Rundown Did we market Knative wrong? Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake. Relevant to your interests Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now State of Digital Operations Nonsense Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville 24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks. Conferences Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: Listen to my appearance on The Cloudcast Framing Britney Spears on Hulu Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Matt: We Are the Champions ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers Coté: La La IJs. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter. Rundown SFDC Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first Salesforce Targets ServiceNow: Slack Delivers “Human Workflow” Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future Relevant to your interests AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Proton Amazon rethinks full-time return to office as competitors tout remote flexibility Write for DOnations Side-by-side comparisons between GCP, AWS, and Azure Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative For Sight Impaired Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater Google Workspace for everyone Google’s unified Gmail interface (and Google Chat) launches for everyone Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely RISC-V and Intel? Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud Future - Understand the Future, How Tech Shapes It, and How We Build It Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more Oracle revenue growth accelerates as pandemic recedes Slack goes Clubhouse Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market Has Serverless Jumped the Shark? A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners” Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom Neo4j raises $325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise The public cloud could evolve like streaming services Nonsense 10 fully remote engineering jobs? iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb Peak binge: Consumers are now gravitating towards shows that are released weekly Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback IBM Cloud Podcast hosted by Dan Bettinger Conferences Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Innovation Talk by Cote on June 21st RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. 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: Children of Time Matt: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate Coté: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, in Netflix. Also: Wooster and Jeeves books narrated by Jonathan Cecil - included in Audible membership! Cover Art Credit Header Art CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school. Rundown Confluent IPO Everything you need to know about the Confluent IPO Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data Confluent S1 Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements Relevant to your interests Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps Passport Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023 The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour) Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote The Oncoming Ransomware Storm Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang Nonsense MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says The Great Wings Rush AMC is the new meme stock posterchild. Introducing the United supersonic fleet. Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Noe wans you to work as Senior Systems Engineer at Riot Games based in L.A. Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing. Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. 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: NYT Games Subscription Matt: Secrets of the Whales documentary Magnetic USB charging cables (recommended by Mykel Alvis) Coté: The Hidden Palace. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

Coté talks with John about the subject of his new podcast series: Deming. Find his podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1758599Special Guest: John Willis.

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh, the cost of Public Cloud and more M&A. Plus, Coté published a new book that everyone must read. Rundown Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh Interview with Sebastien Goasguen Cofounder of TriggerMesh Coté’s new book is out: Changing Mindsets. Johnny Leadgen’s can get it for free. The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity Cloud is great. But we show it hurts share price of public M&A KKR and CD&R Close to $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Out Cloudera Sumo Logic buys Sensu Prosus buys StackOverflow for $1.8 Billion Relevant to your interests Docker introduces developer environments in containers A handy new Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure product map Apple says Malware is a problem on Macs. So how bad is it? DevRel Collective Wordpress powers 40% of Websites Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs are Coming to the Data Center H1B Visa Salary Database 2021 - By Employer, Job, or City Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado Twitter to launch local weather news service Life at Google vs. Life at Amazon: From Hiring to Firing (and Everything in Between) You'll Have to Wait Until June for Apple's Paid Podcast Subscription Service Zoom reports blowout earnings but warns of a coming slowdown Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors The State of Kubernetes 2021 Hackers hit JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, in ransomware attack Nonsense Formatting show and episode notes Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. 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: Mare of Easttown Finale Matt: macOS Automator & AppleScript. Coté: Stir fry sauce with black vinegar. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we try to make sense of Snowflake’s stance on open source and review the State of Serverless. Plus, some advice on parking cars in Amsterdam. Rundown Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake Matt Asay’s Take on Snowflake Data Warehouse Wars: Snowflake Vs. Google BigQuery The State of Serverless Relevant to your interests Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told Coinbase suffers outages as cryptos plummet in massive sell-off Snapchat's partner summit this year was done entirely in augmented reality Snap says it now has 500 million monthly active users Snap buys WaveOptics, a company that makes parts for augmented reality glasses, in $500 million deal Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it’ll take a 20 percent cut of sales Oracle insiders say there is a ‘culture of fear’ under the leadership of its key cloud unit It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught Netflix Reportedly Wants To Get Into The Video Games Industry Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3 Green Software Foundation The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS - Last Week in AWS Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: CISOs React Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine Nonsense The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has an unusual approach to his finance Twitch launches a dedicated "hot tubs" category after advertiser pushback Nonstop flights to Amsterdam back on Austin's horizon Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Jobs Work with Coté Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 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: Last Breath | Netflix Coté: American Gods, season 3 laylacodesit’s Twitch Channel The Leprechauns of Software Engineering Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.