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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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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
Relevant to your interests
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
Join us in Slack.
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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.
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Recommendations
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
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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
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: 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!
Recommendations
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
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022
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: Let Him Go.
Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows podcast.
Coté: La Vallade restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline wine, which you should also try.
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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
Relevant to your interests
Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu Is Now GA, Plus an Integration with TriggerMesh
Big-name San Antonio tech company axing 10 percent of workforce
Facebook’s cloud gaming service hits iOS devices as a web app | Engadget
Clubhouse Breach
Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 1 | Amazon Web Services
Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website
No, we don’t use Kubernetes | Ably Blog: Data in Motion
Replicated $50M Series C To Advance Multi-Prem Software Adoption - Replicated
a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation | a16z Live
Amazon pulls the plug on 3-year effort to migrate from PeopleSoft to Workday.
Discord is adding Slack-like threads to keep conversations better organized
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
Nonsense
United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album
Meet the typical Costco shopper
Kangaroo vs Human population across Australia.
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Listener Feedback
Nate from Slack recommends Oceanhorn 2 in the Apple Arcade
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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Jul 23, 2021 • 58min
Episode 312: Crossing The Brown Horizon
This week we discuss Netflix getting into games and review the latest State of DevOps Report. Plus, what do you call a domicile in Amsterdam?
Rundown
Why Netflix is getting into games
State of DevOps Report 2021
Relevant to your interests
Twitter Is Shutting Down Fleets, Its Vanishing-Post Format, After Less Than a Year
Morgan Stanley‘s CIO survey shows a significant moderation in expectations for the migration of workloads to the public cloud.
Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner
Austin sees pay-off from pandemic-era tech reshuffling
Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders
IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver?
The end of open source?
DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm – Blocks and Files
Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?
Rapid7 + IntSights: Own Your Entire Attack Surface, Internally and Externally
Apple to delay office returns to October - Bloomberg News
Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
Apple's AirPods did ~$16B in 2020
You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between
Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks
Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders
IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver?
IBM shows strongest revenue growth in three years
What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?
Why Zoom bought Five9 for $14.7 billion: Enterprise wallet share and a big customer engagement play
Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion
Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation
Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls
## Nonsense
Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!
Noise cancellation neither helps productivity nor perceived performance
World's First 3-D-Printed Steel Bridge Debuts in Amsterdam
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Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Craig in Fort Worth. Craig bought the Doc Martin’s recommended in episode 82. See the pictures.
Conferences
THAT Conference, July 26-29
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: Dark Sky
Matt: BOM Weather
Coté: 8ball newsletter; Buienradar in the Netherlands.
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Jul 16, 2021 • 49min
Episode 311: The Enterprise #devrel Path-to-Profit Pincer Movement
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.

Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 11min
Episode 310: Never Talk
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
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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
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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
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Jul 2, 2021 • 55min
Episode 309: They’re your kids
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
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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
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Jun 29, 2021 • 53min
Episode 308: Developer Relations with Josh Long
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.


