
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

Jan 22, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 282: The Engine Should Not Be the Differentiator
This week we discuss Elasticsearch changing their license and the merits of Bitcoin. Plus, what is the prefect age for reincarnation.
Rundown
Elasticsearch and SSPL
The SSPL is Not an Open Source License
Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all
Truly Doubling Down on Open Source | Logz.io
Bitcoin and Blockchain
Is blockchain coming to your bank?
85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins
Relevant to your interests
Intel lured new CEO Pat Gelsinger with a package valued at $116 million
New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects
Cloud Native Predictions for 2021 and Beyond
How China Took Western Tech Firms Hostage
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
AWS is creating a 'new open source design system' with React
Malwarebytes said it was hacked by the same group who breached SolarWinds
The SolarWinds and US government breach is not a marketing opportunity
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
Apple Plans Podcasting Subscription Service in Threat to Spotify
We all love Atlassian ... the $60B SaaS leader that came out of Australia
GitLab CEO weighing options for going public after employee share sale valued company at $6 billion
Apple AirPods did ~$18 billion in revenue in 2020.
Man who called Cloud a Bookstore hasn’t learned any lessons.
BlackBerry (TSX:BB) Stock Soars 14% After Huge Win Over Facebook - The Motley Fool Canada
Wasmer - The Universal WebAssembly Runtime
CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers
Nonsense
President Biden’s Peloton exercise equipment under scrutiny
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Listener Feedback
JustWatch - The Streaming Guide recommend from Colin
Conferences
Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
SpringOne.io
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: MF DOOM X Tasuro Yamashita rabbithole
The Day the Mixtape Died: DJ Drama
Brandon: The Dark Forest
Coté: Baudolino.
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Jan 15, 2021 • 1h 2min
Episode 281: That’s a thing, I don’t need to read about it
This week we discuss VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumping to Intel and what is going on with DevSecOps. Plus, lots advice on picking movies both you and your partner will enjoy.
Rundown
VMware CEO → Intel
What’s the latest Solarwinds hack news?
Coté is figuring out “DevSecOps” - or is it “DevOpsSec”?
Relevant to your interests
M&A
Red Hat to Acquire Kubernetes-Native Security Leader StackRox
F5 to acquire @Volterra_
VMware/Intel
VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel
VMware Names Zane Rowe As Interim CEO
Prodigal Son Gelsinger Returns As Intel CEO
Bitcoin and Blockchain
Is blockchain coming to your bank?
85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins
RISC-V
BeagleBoard BeagleV
Raspberry PI
Why We Love the Raspberry Pi
Buy a Raspberry Pi Zero W – Raspberry Pi
Solarwinds
Details on SolarWinds Hack
SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs
NYT JetBrains story, I'm calling it - the story was irresponsibly released.
Deplatforming
Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services.
Parler Finds Refuge With the Far-Right's Favorite Webhost
Parler loses data
Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters
The balkanization of the cloud is bad for everyone
Decentralization Is A Necessity Now
It happened. Twitter shut down @realDonaldTrump for good
State of the World 2021
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe's website
‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom
Video games have replaced music as the most important aspect of youth culture | Sean Monahan
Intel CEO Bob Swan to be replaced with VMWare's Pat Gelsinger
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
First Oracle said it powered Zoom. Then AWS claimed it. Now Zoom says it uses co-located kit
Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal
Dropbox to cut workforce by 11%
Nonsense
I'm glad you have passed the certification! I just don't want to see it.
Coté in TikTok.
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Conferences
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Recommendations
Matt: Apple TV’s Ted Lasso
Brandon: Possessor.
Coté: Descript, so far. Bear app. Don’t spike your mind during family time with inserting work.
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Jan 8, 2021 • 50min
Episode 280: It would be nice if calendaring were fixed
This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files.
Rundown
Zoom to build a calendar
Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services
Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft
Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem
Relevant to your interests
A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020
Google, Alphabet employees unionize
How Google workers secretly built a union
Warren Ellis Returns For 2021
AWS IAM Talk
Stripe’s Developer Coefficient
VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company
VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami
Wondery to join Amazon Music
SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month
Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan
WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E
The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door
CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Introduction to WebAssembly
Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform
Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality
Reproducible builds and docker
Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking
Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files
An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way
Nonsense
KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer
In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner.
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail
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Recommendations
Matt:
Uncivil podcast
MF DOOM Will Never Really Die
Brandon:
Listen to the recent interviews with Sebastien on Serverless and Squire on Security.
Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud
Soul
Coté: Coconut Rice. Raised by Wolves.
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Jan 5, 2021 • 1h 31min
Episode 279: Squire Earle on securing the Enterprise
Brandon interviews Squire Earle who offers practical advice on how to secure your Enterprise. Plus, Squire shares some personal finance tips and explains how and why he takes mini-retirements.
Show Links
The 20 CIS Controls & Resources
Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps
Mr Money Mustache
Dan Balcauski interview on sabbaticals
Contact Squire
@squireearle
LinkedIn
Cloudentity
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Dec 29, 2020 • 53min
Episode 278: Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh on becoming Serviceful
Brandon interviews Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh. They discuss his time in academia, how he got into cloud computing and why he started TriggerMesh. Plus, Sebastien tells us why South Carolina is the OpenStack capital of the world!
Show Links
Register for the TriggerMesh Webinar Jan 12, 2021 11:30 AM EST
Kubecon Presentaton: Serverless or Servicefull
Contact Sebastien
LinkedIn: sebastiengoasguen
Twitter: @sebgoa
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Dec 23, 2020 • 1h 8min
Episode 277: This episode was way better than I expected
This week we answer listener questions, recap the year’s top stories and make a few predictions. Plus, we select the slides of the year!
Slides of the Year
SoftBank Unicorn
Forrester Survey
The State of Kubernetes 2020 from VMware
Cloud Native Survey 2020
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Listener Feedback
Justin Garrison from AWS recommends Containers from the Couch YouTube Channel
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Recommendations
Matt: Anti-pick Jabra Elite 75t Sport
Domino’s Anywhere Delivery
Brandon: Mini Motorways on Apple Arcade
Coté: Transmetropolitan. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
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Dec 17, 2020 • 1h 3min
Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more
This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it…?
The Rundown
AWS re:Invent
AWS CloudShell
AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization
Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Amazon Web Services
AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship
State of Cloud 2018 Report
Solarwinds
Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm
Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA
SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo
~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers
SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it
New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor
SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government
iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features
Relevant to your Interests
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai
Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas
After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes
New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch
AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge
Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight
Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage
Nonsense
‘Damn Good Taco’ Maker Torchy’s Sells Stake to General Atlantic
The Office’s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings
AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines
The 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 | Discover the Best Podcasts | Discover Pods
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Listener Feedback
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Recommendations
Matt: AppleTV+ and Tiny World.
Brandon: Tenet.
Coté: Eve strip lights.
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Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 6min
Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community
This week we discuss CentOS going upstream, Kubernetes removes Docker support and who’s buying the AirPods Max. Plus, Coté critiques Apple’s Notes App.
The Rundown
CentOS
CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream
Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry
Meet Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator
Docker
Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker
Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal
Mirantis to take over support of Kubernetes dockershim
Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design
Relevant to your Interests
Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations
SoftBank Is Discussing a ‘Slow-Burn’ Buyout to Go Private
Stocks, M&A and VCs
Why Snowflake's stock price just jumped 16%
DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share
SoftBank Vision Fund turns $680 million DoorDash investment into $11.5 billion based on Wednesday's opening price
Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing
Cisco to buy software firm IMImobile in $730 million deal
Calm raises $75M more at $2B valuation
Chips
Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt
Apple's 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips
Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
IBM bet the company on hybrid cloud. Analysts just rated it a mere 'contender' for hybrid management
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
Austin's popularity knows no limits | LinkedIn
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 Recap
U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition
The Google Disease Afflicting AWS - Last Week in AWS
The Return to the Office Gets Put on Hold
Puppet’s journey into Continuous Compliance
Nomad 1.0 is released!
GitHub introduces dark mode and auto-merge pull request
Daily Insights
VMware COO Jumps Ship To Become New Nutanix CEO
The State of the Octoverse
Nonsense
Warner’s 2021 releases also going to HBO Max
Hyundai spends almost $1B to buy Boston Dynamics, makers of Spot dog robot
Elon Musk confirms he has moved to Texas
Handwonden door ontpitten avocado's groeiend probleem
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Recommendations
Matt: Factorio.
Brandon: The Good Shepard.
Coté: 1Blocker.
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Dec 4, 2020 • 1h 14min
Episode 274: Can we start a Slack Channel to discuss this?
This week we discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack and recap all the important announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some advice on chopping onions and robot vacuums.
The Rundown
AWS Outage
Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it
The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident
AWS re:Invent
AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 | Amazon Web Services
Compute
AWS launches EC2 computing instances that run Apple's MacOS operating system
Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps
EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors
How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce
Databases
Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish
Kubernetes
Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) | Amazon Web Services
Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere
Amazon EKS Anywhere
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
AWS quietly enters the multicloud era
Serverless
Amazon Aurora Serverless | MySQL PostgreSQL Relational Database
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
DevOps Guru
New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes
Hybrid Cloud or a cloud close to you
In the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021
AWS Outposts 1U and 2U form factors
Slack
Best analysis ever
Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions
How a Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape
Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack - Salesforce News
Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring | Acquired Podcast
Slack: The Bulls are typing...
Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration, But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams
Relevant to your Interests
Splunk acquires network observability service Flowmill
Productivity Scores in Office 365
IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale
Apple Plans to Run Most of Its ‘Compute Management’ on Kubernetes
Tony Hsieh, iconic Las Vegas tech entrepreneur, dies aged 46
Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware
Robert Smith Breakup Exclusive: Billionaire Brian Sheth Reveals Why He’s Leaving Vista Following Tax Evasion Case
Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production
Should we really be worried about vendor lock-in in 2020?
Future of Online Security and Privacy is being decided now
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston
Nonsense
People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down
Listener Feedback
Brett from Slack recommends Upptime an open source Status Page
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Recommendations
Matt: 99% Invisible: You’ve Got Enron Emails
Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic
Brandon:
iRobot Roomba 985 Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum
Yahoo Mail discontinues automatic email forwarding for free users
Coté: Photoshop Express.
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Nov 27, 2020 • 56min
Episode 273: Look at my iPad
This week we preview AWS re:Invent, breakdown the latest CNCF Survey and discuss container adoption. Plus, a review of banking apps, Google Pay and an update on Coté’s quest to achieve the iPad Lifestyle.
The Rundown
AWS RE:invent
CNCF survey
Datadog Report 11 facts about real world container use
Relevant to your Interests
Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers
Cloud gaming services use iPhone's web browser door
Roblox IPO
2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi
FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M, announces $400M investment – TechCrunch
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools
CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract
The Substackerati
Act against Deep fakes
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
Nonsense
The Ultimate Texas Tacopedia — Texas Monthly
Professor Cold Takes 2: Freeze Harder
Kubernetes Services explained
Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers
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SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Matt: Shot: Build a DIY screen out of recycled parts for cheap
Brandon: Chefman 1.8 Liter Electric Glass Kettle With Removable Tea Infuser
Coté: PDF Expert. Dithering podcast is still good.
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