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This week we discuss the stories of the year, make a few predications and answer listener questions. Plus, some thoughts on grammar… Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers, May 10 & 11th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers, April 18 & 19th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 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: Apple Photo Widget. Matt: Hades. Coté: Chateau La Fleur Perey, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, 2018. Photo Credits Banner Art Cover Art Sponsored 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 Brandon interviews Michael Wilde. They discuss Wilde's career progression from Sales Engineer to Account Executive and Honeycomb's approach to Observability. Plus, some thoughts on yoga... Show Links Honeycomb.io BubbleUp Contact Wilde LinkedIn: michael wilde Twitter: @michaelwilde Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Michael Wilde.Sponsored 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 how the industry reacted to the Log4j vulnerability and the merits of going Multicloud. Plus, some thoughts on printer paper. Rundown Log4j and OSS Security warning: New zero-day in the Log4j Java library is already being exploited ‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system What you need to know about the Log4J vulnerability rocking the internet Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Popular Java Library Log4j Paying people to work on OSS Don’t pay people to work on OSS? AWS Outage and Multicloud Is multi-cloud getting more popular? It always has been, also, it means a lot. Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com Relevant to your interests Oracle swings to loss because of payment tied to dispute over former CEO Hurd's employment Snowflake stock soars after software sales more than double Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’ Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend Is multi-cloud getting more popular? Who gets left out of ‘bootstrapping’? SnapLogic raises $165M to accelerate enterprise automation via data integration Take one last look at Google Toolbar, which is now dead The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience Apple Officially Delays macOS Monterey Universal Control Until Spring 2022 Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors Noname Security Becomes First API Security Unicorn Catching Up On Cloud Infrastructure Startups After The HashiCorp IPO GitLab acquires Opstrace - FAQ Nonsense How to speak Australian : Abbreviate Everything Recycling Center - Sorting Aluminum and Steel NIKE, Inc. Acquires RTFKT A Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All Busy Simulator Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.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 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers, May 10 & 11th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers . April 18 & 19th, 2022 CFP closes on Jan 31, 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: Apple Legacy Contact Matt: A.P. Bio Coté: Texas Sun. Also, the song Coté was trying to remember, “Didn’t I,” by Darondo - an example of perfection. Number two on that list. Photo Credits Banner Picture 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.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

Brandon interviews Jordan Tigani, Chief Product Officer at SingleStore. They discuss Jordan's experience at Google building BigQuery and how to use SingleStore to build data intensive applications. Plus, some good stories on caviar and marathon running. Links Google Big Query A Return to the General Purpose Database SingleStore SingleStore Free Trial Work at SingleStore SingleStore Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Contact Jordan @jrdntgn LinkedIn: jordantigani Banner Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Jordan Tigani.Sponsored By:SingleStore: The Database for the Data-Intensive Era

This podcast discusses the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. They also touch on trash disposal methods, challenges in trash sorting and recycling in Amsterdam, and different perspectives in developer relations. Additionally, they explore reputation and trust in the Kubernetes ecosystem, survey results on cloud usage and migration, and cloud technology use and modernization. The episode concludes with recommendations for the lens desktop app, a compact monochrome laser printer, and tips on gingerbread.

This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and Knative joins the CNCF. Plus, some discussion on trademarks… Rundown AWS re:Invent Recap Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021 | Amazon Web Services AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month Where new AWS CEO Adam Selipsky plans to take cloud computing next Announcing Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry | Amazon Web Services AWS launches its Graviton 3 processor Amazon launches preview of new AWS Private 5G managed service re:Invent Keynote Rebuttal Goldman’s Cloud Will Pitch Trades Knative Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project Serverless offerings like AWS Lambda haven't hit the big time, but Kubernetes can help Relevant to your interests Why Sabre is betting against multi-cloud – TechCrunch Kubernetes: what are the key benefits for companies? Cloud security startup Lacework valued at $8.3 bln after mammoth funding round Buyer Beware: Not All Names Are Created Equal Shopify’s BFCM Live Map Inside Amazon's struggle to break into the lucrative market for SaaS business applications, including an internal pitch to buy $38 billion HubSpot WSJ News Exclusive | AT&T, Verizon Propose 5G Limits to Break Air-Safety Standoff cryptoji | encrypted emoji CITC - About | Greylock Professions are most Vulnerable to Automation The Essential Components of Digital Transformation Quest Software Acquired: Private Equity Buys IT Management, Security Software Company (Again) Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project – TechCrunch Bill Gates Predicts the Future in a Rediscovered Microsoft Video from 1994 Oxide / Hubris and Humility Britain's Blue Prism agrees to $1.65 bln takeover by SS&C, snubs Vista Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship engine crisis is creating a 'risk of bankruptcy' Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down, sources say Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block Nonsense Cloth watch Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with massive shortage ... of maple syrup Want a meal on the fly? A drone can bring you chicken wings in one Triangle neighborhood Chatter Telephone| Fisher Price Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, Event Date: May 10 & 11th, 2022 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022, Event Dates: April 18 & 19th, 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: Plain English: The Omicron Variant: So, How Bad Is It? Matt: Cautionary Tales: Wrong Tools Cost Lives Knative in Action author Jacques Chester on Cloud Native AF Coté: War Horse Photo Credits Web Banner CoverArt Sponsored 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 the rise of Web3 and make a few AWS re:invent predications. Plus, what if Billy Joel and Huey Lewis formed a band… Rundown It's a Web3 World Now — How the Hype Compares to Web 2.0 Crypto group tries to claw back fees after failed Constitution bid $10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations AWS Re:Invent Predictions 5 Things To Know About New AWS Channel Chief Ruba Borno Andy Jassy was reportedly surprised when Jeff Bezos asked him to take on the job of Amazon CEO: 'I wasn't clamoring for it' “Who Is He?”: Andy Jassy, Amazon’s New CEO, Enters the Ring Relevant to your interests Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data Apple's Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started Andy Jassy’s Big Idea for AWS Expansion Marred by Glitches, High Prices The NFT Bay Debuts to Save You a Right-Click on Someone's Precious Digital Art Follow Matthew Ball for MetaVerse Info IBM tells POWER8 owners: the end is nigh for upgrades VMware withdraws major vSphere release due to bugs Webhooks provider Svix snags $2.6M to simplify software management Drama in the Rust community — mod team resignation The bitcoin fanatics fuel GPU shortages for gamers AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year Announcing $150M to build the end-to-end platform for the modern Web Oracle and Google join Microsoft and Amazon in bidding for Defense Department's Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M We got an exclusive look at the 13-slide pitch deck Stytch, a passwordless startup, used to raise $90 million from Coatue Nonsense Dollar Tree will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers PaperCall.io - DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Listener Feedback InfraCloud is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer Brian recommends Outliers 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! Recommendations Brandon: Wave Mic Arm LP The Infinite Machine Matt: Corn Pudding for Thanksgiving Coté: J. Kenji López-Alt’s videos, for example, Beef with Broccoli. Photo Credits Banner Cover Art Sponsored By:Arrested DevOps: Subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/ or by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in your favorite podcast app.strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Splunk’s CEO Transition, Crypto.com renames the Staples Center and Netlify’s attempt to realize Git Push Nirvana. Plus, when do house shoes become just shoes. Rundown Splunk stock plunges as CEO Doug Merritt steps down Git Push Nirvana Heroku itself isn’t what people want. What we actually want is git push heroku main Netlify Raises $105 Million to Transform Development for the Modern Web Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena Relevant to your interests ManualsLib - Makes it easy to find manuals online! Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway Apple’s unexciting 2021 Mac and iPhone software prove it should take a break from annual OS updates Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 Business Essentials FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks Citrix Systems Inc. Layoffs - TheLayoff.com if you use the "Cost Explorer" to check the details of your bill, they will charge you $0.01 (yes, 1 cent) per each request? Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs Seven years after last venture investment, Mixpanel scores $200M Series C – TechCrunch Twitter acquires Threader, an app that compiles and shares threads – TechCrunch PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability – TechCrunch Frontpage -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read Snowflake adds Python option for developers 5 ways to improve mental health for software developers Here's why identity software firm Okta plans to open a retail location in New York City Akamai Exec Rick McConnell to Succeed John Van Siclen as Dynatrace CEO - GovCon Wire Twilio CEO touts company's long-term growth outlook after recent stock plunge AWS Channel Chief Doug Yeum Stepping Down The future of work Apple announces Self Service Repair Nonsense Introducing the Icelandverse MoviePass is coming back, under original founder Stacy Spikes Dude, he’s back. Mattress company Casper to be sold in private equity deal Corey Quinn explains AppConfig Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 — Now with the right link Listener Feedback Tim wants you to work as a Principal Architect, Commercial and Medical IT in Warsaw, Boston or RTP Jeffrey wants to work at Blizzard as Reliability Engineer 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! Recommendations Brandon: InterStellar BBQ Coté: Travels with My Aunt. Photo Credits Banner Art Cover Art Sponsored 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 discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…? Rundown The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021? Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later Relevant to your interests HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive Habitica - Gamify Your Life Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings Nonsense Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences Coté speaking at DevOops (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?” THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 — Now with the right link Listener Feedback Jordan wants you to work as an SRE at Shopify. Fully remote in Americas, Hawaii, APAC and EMEA 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! Recommendations Brandon: macOS disk size utility Matt: Cloud Native AF #5: Charming Pirates and the Funnel to Contributors Photo Credits Banner Show Art Internet Minute Graphic Sponsored 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 discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase. Rundown Cloud software vendor HashiCorp files for IPO as investors pour money into high-growth tech stocks Coté’s highlights. Understanding the 2021 State of Open Source Report Amazon Amazon badly misses on earnings and revenue, gives disappointing fourth-quarter guidance Amazon Web Services tops analysts' estimates on profit and revenue Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline! Your hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy just got better with Azure Compliance in a DevOps Culture Relevant to your interests Abacus.ai snags $50M Series C as it expands into computer vision use cases NeuVector is excited to announce we are joining SUSE Monitor Your Azure Environment Using Amazon Managed Grafana Facebook’s new name will be Meta New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 - Raspberry Pi Universal Search & Productivity App | Command E Software services firm Zendesk to buy SurveyMonkey parent for nearly $4 bln Kalshi Popular gaming platform Roblox back online after multi-day crash Dell spins off $64 billion VMware as it battles debt hangover BMC Unveils New Data Management and Analytics Capabilities Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million AI programming tool Copilot helps write up to 30% of code on GitHub Introducing the Free Java License Backblaze’s IPO a test for smaller tech concerns Happy 1.0, Knative A Return to the General Purpose Database Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings Nat Friedman to step down as head of Microsoft's GitHub Microsoft launches Google Wave Nonsense Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth — Engadget Aussie++ Microsoft resurrects Clippy again after brutally killing him off in Microsoft Teams Allbirds shares surge 60% in eco-friendly shoe maker's market debut Sponsors 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 your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences MongoDB.local London 2021 - November 9, 2021 Coté speaking at DevOops (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?” THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Listener Feedback Mailed stickers to Stephan in Berlin. Brian wants you to work at Red Hat as a Senior Product Manager or Principle Product Manager in Security. 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! Recommendations Brandon: Success Equation — The spiritual sequel to “The Halo Effect” Podcast Interview with Author YouTube Talk by Author Paradox of Skill Matt: The Art and Soul of Dune (Companion Book Music) Dune (the book) Coté: LaserWriter II. Also, check out my Tiny Tanzu Talk videos playlist - 18 months of video madness. Also, I watch Frozen from three to ten times a day now with Dutch subtitles turned on. So, I’m trying to memorize “als een kip met het gezicht van een aap.” Photo Credits Show Art Hashicorp S1 Screenshot Show Art Banner Header Sponsored 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.