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Brandon interviews Grant Miller the CEO of Replicated. They discuss Grant's background, building enterprise software and how to deliver Kubernetes apps anywhere. Plus, Grant tell us what it's really like to be an intern at an investment bank. Show Links The Submarine by Paul Graham EnterpriseReady.io EnterpriseReady Podcast kURL Kots Contact Grant Twitter: @GrantM LinkedIn: grantlmiller Replicated Demo Special Guest: Grant Miller.

This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view. Rundown Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room M&A Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud Microsoft Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018 Kubernetes Usability SIG Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision Earnings Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34% Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor The Commodification of DevOps 7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map Atlassian’s Open DevOps Crypto miners are killing free CI Relevant to your interests Is Octopus Deploy Australia’s next unicorn? Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data Changes at Basecamp Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM) HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party The Slander Industry What really happened at Basecamp Changes at Basecamp In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters Nonsense YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993 Google Timelapse World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction "Microsoft Excel Influencer” N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font Sponsors 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 ConfigCat — Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan. Listener Feedback Samanyu wants you to work InfraCloud. They are hiring Solutions Architects and SREs. Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. 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: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3) Matt: Leeroy Jenkins Coté: MonitorControl. You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid. Image Credit Image CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.ConfigCat: Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

This week we discuss Grafana moving to the AGPL, Signal goes on offense and Grad Students infecting the Linux Kernel. Plus, how many door locks do you need? Rundown AGPL Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 Chris Aniszczyk’s take Another Thread Twitter Thread Hacking Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective A Twitter Thread on Signal and Celebrate Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on University of Minnesota hacks the Linux Kernel? Discord took our advice Discord Ends Deal Talks With Microsoft Relevant to your interests Oracle plans $1.2 billion campus in Nashville, creating 8,500 jobs IBM acquires Italy’s myInvenio to integrate process mining directly into its suite of automation tools New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it? – TechCrunch Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA Corporation: public interest intervention Dollars flow to live audio as moderation problems loom NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off on historic 1st powered flight on another world IBM beats across the board, posts revenue growth after four quarters of declines Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Mac getting complete overhaul with native UI and more The ascent of Lina Khan, tech antitrust icon Apple Podcasts launches in-app subscriptions Emerging storage-based cryptocurrency Chia could jack up SSD/HDD prices in the future Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective IBM and IPwe want to issue patents as NFTs and make them easier to monetize Security Incident Disclosure Netflix earnings are out – here are the numbers Netflix stock craters after subscriber miss — is now a great time to buy? Microsoft Edge, Safari, Firefox have no plans for FLoC yet Why Brave Disables FLoC Nonsense RIP, Apple TV remote: There’s finally a replacement and it’s only $15 at Amazon LMAO Amazon signs with ULA for rockets to launch Jeff Bezos' Kuiper internet satellites Sponsors 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 Listener Feedback CloudBees is hiring a Solution Architect, APAC Nate wants you to attend the AWS Strategic Accounts Solutions Architect Recruiting Event Jordi wants you to work out Weaveworks — The Original GitOps Company Read Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon THE THREAD exceeds 4k messages Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 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: iPad Stand. Matt: Boyue Likebook P10 Coté: “On Bullshit.” 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 IBM’s Kyndryl, AWS launches OpenSearch and what makes a good strategy. Plus, how much do you really need to know about wine? Rundown Kyndryl IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' after spinoff IBM spinoff joins a long list of questionable corporate names Introducing OpenSearch Relevant to your interests Social Media Use in 2021 Next Chapter for Gitpod Reddit is secretly exploring a Clubhouse-like voice chat feature JetBrains 2020/21 Annual Highlights Apple M1 hardware support merged into Linux 5.13 Apple TV Digital Signage: Low up-front cost and easy to deploy Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results China Fines Alibaba Record $2.8 Billion After Monopoly Probe Microsoft accelerates industry cloud strategy for healthcare with the acquisition of Nuance Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion Glow – Glow joins Libsyn Cloud transformation challenges in 9 cartoons Epic reportedly set to lose at least $330m in efforts to compete with Steam Sony adds $200M to its investment in Epic Games FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory' MicroStrategy Pivots to Bitcoin Payouts for Board of Directors Neelan Choksi posted on LinkedIn Senior execs Forsyth, Frasca and Lemieux leaving Shopify Bash Uploader Security Update Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support now available, up 30% faster VM performance than Intel Docker Desktop for Mac Updated With Apple Silicon Support Dell Selling Boomi Cloud iPaaS Business? Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company 1Password acquires SecretHub and launches new enterprise secrets management tool 1Password targets developers with Secrets Automation, acquisition of SecretHub Here’s how the FBI managed to get into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone Nonsense No more vests Software Defined Baby? The Problem with Time & Timezones Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback The Real Book - 99% Invisible via Chris Winters strongDM is hiring for Developer Relations Leader, Customer Support Engineer and a Data Engineer Come work on Coté’s team - developer advocate role: “The Technical Advocacy team at VMware is looking for a Technical Advocate focused on Kubernetes.” Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd. SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual Coté’s webinar, April 20th at 6pm CET: a “book tour” for his upcoming Mindset book. 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: Coherence Coté: Montreal Steak Seasoning Matt: Soviet-era Lord of the Rings Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

This week we discuss the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Google vs. Oracle and the future of open source business models. Plus, do you really need a yard? Rundown API’s for Everyone Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case SCOTUS Decision Oracle vs. Google Xinuos—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM OSS Business Models The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud GitHub Sponsors Everyone uses OpenSSL, but nobody's willing to fix it — except the Linux Foundation Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar Tidelift | A managed open source subscription backed by creators and maintainers Relevant to your interests Briefing: Amazon Plans for Return to ‘Office-Centric Culture’ Theme Studio: Create VS Code Themes! Software development is a losers game Amazon apologizes Gitlab acquired Peach Fuzzer Pro then open-sourced most of it VMware Taps Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes Abstraction - SDxCentral LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaks online Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019 Google will stop using Oracle's finance software and adopt SAP instead Biden allows Trump admin's H-1B visa program suspension to expire Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services - Container Journal IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86 Target CIO Mike McNamara makes a cloud declaration of independence T-Mobile’s 5G home internet service has become a reality KKR hands Box a $500M lifeline Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. JAB Guidance on CentOS Linux End of Life Nonsense Inside a viral website Engineers Sneakily Upgrade Apple M1 Mac Mini With More Storage, RAM Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback Ryan from DataDog wants you to know they are hiring a Technical Writer and Technical Curriculum Developer REMOTE available. Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET 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: Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Coté: Peanut M&M’s; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop? Rundown Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord Amazon Twitter War Work / Life Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager? Solomon Hykes is back McKinsey’s advice to European banks: don’t bring an entourage to meetings. Relevant to your interests IBM doubles down on OpenShift VMware Cloud announcement The New York Times x NFT | Foundation Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have Fintech comes to America at last Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images Introducing the Echo subsea cable LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom Nonsense 'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day Steer through the Suez Canal 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 learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback Dominic recommends NewsBlur to read newsletters Owen recommends Ioreader for newsletters Brian Gracely wants you to work on OpenShift at Red Hat. They are hiring over 10 Product Managers. Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET 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 Matt: GGloba International Power Board Strip. Brandon: Flame King Propane Torch Weed Burner. Coté: Brennenstuhl travel plug / travel adapter (travel socket adapter for: Schuko socket and USA & Japan plug) black. 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.

This week we discuss Discord rumors, Slack Connect, the new AWS CEO and what would make Tableau and Salesforce better. Plus, why did Google Reader really get canceled…? Rundown Messaging Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion Box shares rise on report company is exploring sale Slack Is About to Become a Nightmare The next Jassy Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS Nine things you need to know about the new AWS CEO Why Google Killed Reader Relevant to your interests COVID Accelerated the Future: Now Seize It Google buy real estate Google lays out real estate plans for Texas in 2021 Google announces expansion of Bakery Square campus Google picks Durham for engineering hub, aims to create 1,000 jobs Google to Invest $7 Billion in Bet on Post-Pandemic Office Worklife Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off Citigroup CEO ordains Zoom-free Fridays to ease 'relentless' pandemic workday Rackspace Technology gains on takeover speculation Kelsey Hightower on S3 Object Lambda Hackers are exploiting a server vulnerability with a severity of 9.8 out of 10 HAMR and MAMR will bring us giant hard drives | Engadget Apple’s HomePod mini reportedly has a secret temperature and humidity sensor Twilio and ValueFirst Come Together to Improve Customer Engagement Apple Developing New 'HomePod' Models With Screens and Cameras Google is gunning for faster hardware, whether or not you see it Powell calls cryptocurrencies 'not really useful stores of value' and says Fed will move slowly Managed open-source software startup Aiven raises $100M in Series C funding Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus – TechCrunch Robinhood Is Said to Have Filed Confidentially for U.S. IPO Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp How Google really feels about Amazon Redshift… A Brief History of Semiconductors: How The US Cut Costs and Lost the Leading Edge Kubecost raises $5.5 million to help teams monitor and reduce their Kubernetes spend Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud - Cisco Blogs Intel Intel invests $20 billion in two Arizona factories, 7nm chips coming in 2023 | Engadget Pat Gelsinger Hype Video SiFive collaborates with new Intel Foundry Services to enable innovative new RISC-V computing platforms DigitalOcean IPO Nonsense Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated Silverwood Grove Is A Board Game Bringing Aussie Culture To Tabletop Gaming Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off Each State's Favorite Easter Treat (Spoiler: Apparently some people DO like Peeps) - Zippia So, the #SuezCanal is blocked… Report: Houses in Austin selling for more over asking price than any major U.S. city You Can’t Trade Football Futures A Message From the Skype CEO Winter storm causes Austin home sales to dip in February for first time since Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET March 31st VMware Tanzu event. Cloud Native Rust Day 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 Coté: cote.io/downloads Brandon: Pixelmator Pro and SnagIT Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house. Rundown VC Stripe is now valued at $95 billion Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing Work Life This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard Relevant to your interests Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’ Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon Google’s plan to disrupt higher education Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage Boosting developer success on Google Play IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021 Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services Nonsense Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5? Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET Cloud Native Rust Day 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 Matt*:* 1917 & Thin Red Line Coté: Patagonia Torrentshell Pants. (Repeat?) Brandon: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture a16z Podcast 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 how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills. Rundown Post-pandemic Predications? Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain VC Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up How to pronounce Snyk Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up Excel Never Dies Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete Pickle Rick (Pure CSS) Relevant to your interests Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok? Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe Blame the Intern Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021 Presentations — Benedict Evans Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition - Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS Identity and Access Management Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019 Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA Brandon interviews Squire Earle Nonsense That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. 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 Matt: William Gibson’s Agency Brandon: WandaVision Coté: Werther’s Originals 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 Redmonk’s Language Rankings, Okta buys Auth0 and Zoom Fatigue. Plus, Matt gets a puppy and explains why he needs a longer sabbatical. Rundown Blameless Post Mortem Redux John Allspaw says we got it wrong How to run a blameless postmortem Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021 Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 to Provide Customer Identity for the Internet Zoom fatigue causes: 1 easy solution according to a Stanford professor Relevant to your interests Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you Twitter pulls a Patreon Enriching Excel with higher-order functional programming SolarWinds SolarWinds To Pay Ex-CEO $312K To Assist With Investigations Rep. Katie Porter ask SolarWinds CEO about password LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe AWS reorganizes DeepRacer League to encourage more newbies – TechCrunch Flash is back? Sort of in Rust Update Your Browser ASAP! Announcing Our Series C: What's Next for Hopin Microsoft’s Azure Arc multi-cloud platform now supports machine learning workloads Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs People are spending millions on NFTs. What? Why? Jack Dorsey's Square buys Jay-Z's Tidal music streaming service Nonsense Sheep Shearing CEO of Texas power grid operator "terminated" in aftermath of winter storm Building an External 9.7” Monitor from an iPad Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. 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 Matt History vs. Hollywood The Eggnoggin Toboggan feat. Briggs Brandon: Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ with Chris Evans Coté: Nat that's what i reckon Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.