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It’s be a shame if something were to happen to that nice API implementation of yours This week, Matt and Coté talk about possible implications of the Google vs. Oracle fight over API stuff. YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN. Mood-board A clean approach to streaming Then we can synchronize it with a GitHub Chyron: Could have big repercussions Light on details, like us Your New Zealand bug out sheep farm You’re not helping. Getting out of your head. When it comes to law stuff, it’s hard for us to be experts Back to back victories. You should buy it, yarr! There’ll be a lot of shakedowns The Era of API Troll Companies Those guys, those guys are getting their own company! The Rundown Oracle vs. Google (not the DoD one) - scenarios and implications! If Oracle wins: more charging for using “ideas”/APIs (even data formats?!) in code? If Google wins: less legal control over people using your code (e.g., lessons GPL, etc, powers)? Google will give up direct control of the Knative open-source project. Breaking Up Big Blue IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth IBM plans to spin off infrastructure services as a separate $19B business. @NaomiEide: “Once split, IBM expects the new company to earn $19 billion in annual revenue, with IBM bringing in $59 billion in annual revenue. The new company is expected to have 90,000 employees; In 2019, IBM had more than 350,000 employees worldwide.” Relevant to your Interests See #sdt-topics-back for link for more. Chef leaves a bad taste: Staff cut in 'horrid, bleak' week after Progress swallows DevOps darling for $220m. Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Anton in Sweden Sent to stickers to Kari in Minnesota Robert sent us the Spell Checker algorithm discussed in episode 260 Jordy sent Brandon some fun stickers. Conferences EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 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. Recommendations Matt: 30 Rock, the TV show. Coté: Paste app, available in SetApp too.

Brandon interviews Arnav Hiray from Stony Point High School. Arnav is an accomplished High School Senior who has a passion for learning and technology. They discuss what it's like to go to High School during a pandemic, Arnav's tech projects and Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Plus, Arnav tells us why he joined the IB Diploma Programme. Show Links Stock Talk Techsavvygen Global Hack Contact Arnav LinkedIn: Arnav Hiray Photo Credit Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Arnav Hiray .

This week we recap the latest announcements at VMworld, discuss App Modernization and rate the best software features of all time. Plus, lots of talk on what makes for a great EBC experience. The Rundown VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack VMworld 2020 Media Kit VMware's conversion into a cloud-agnostic management and development platform A little bit of the Dormain presentation we mention. Coté’s thoughts on EBCs from earlier today. Relevant to your Interests When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number We have a few questions about Amazon’s flying indoor security camera drone Nikola shows Silicon Valley can’t stop worshipping founders Can TikTok help Oracle stay relevant in the cloud-computing age? Deloitte Consulting ‘Doubling Down’ On $750M AWS Business Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless No one likes a heart-stopping AWS bill shock so now there's a machine learning tool to help detect cost anomalies Release notes | Anthos GKE on-prem | Google Cloud VMware to Acquire SaltStack for Advanced Multicloud Automation How to Change the Default Mail App in iOS 14 – The Sweet Setup With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft ## Nonsense The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more. Listener Feedback Jonathon suggested Raspbernetes an opensource project for aspiring SREs or DevOps engineers to learn how to cut their teeth on kubernetes using a distilled set of security, networking and enablement tools. Conferences EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 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. Recommendations Brandon: Under the Radar: #201: Widgetsmith The Talk Show with David Smith Coté: iOS 14 bed time alarm. Also, Coté does daily streams for the moment in VMware Tanzu land. Check out the archives in YouTube. Sponsored By:Twilio: Twilio is the platform that millions of developers trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. It’s time to build. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more.

Brandon interviews Michael Levan from Octopus Deploy. They discuss developer relations, Go Programming and Code Quality. Plus, Michael offers some tips for lighting your home office. Show Links From Desktop to Developer in under Seven years Quality Code with Go on Gumroad Michael on the Web Blog: clouddev.engineering LinkedIn: michaellevan Twitter: @TheNJDevOpsGuy Special Guest: Michael Levan.Sponsored By:Twilio: Twilio is the platform that millions of developers trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. It’s time to build. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more.

Cote and Brandon discuss PagerDuty's acquisition of Rundeck, the current state of AIOps and why is Reed Hastings writing a book about Netflix’s Culture. Plus, some advice on haircuts. The Rundown PagerDuty PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck to Expand DevOps Automation Capabilities Across Digital Operations | PagerDuty PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck Exclusive: Netflix, Google, GitHub top employer survey Survey. Relevant to your Interests Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. Judge blocks US ban on WeChat that was set to go into effect today New downloads of TikTok, WeChat to be blocked in U.S. on Sunday Larry Ellison’s statement about the TikTok Snowflake May Melt Before Your Eyes Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon – TechCrunch Chef Gets Gobbled Up (Whiteboard Confessional) - Last Week in AWS Who wants to buy a video service no one watches? Quibi is trying to find out. Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm How BT is shifting its engineers into the fast lane Microsoft unveils Azure Orbital, competing with Amazon to connect satellites to the cloud SUSE Announces Third Quarter Financial Results - insideHPC Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps? TransferWise reports accelerating revenue growth to 70% in its March, 2020 fiscal year Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff' Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables State of Cloud Learning Report 2020 Nonsense LAMBDA - A Serverless Musical (Hamilton "My Shot" Parody) Classic crispy tacos | Homesick Texan Qantas' 'Flight to Nowhere' Sells Out in Just 10 Minutes Costco co-founder once said ‘I will kill you’ to CEO who wanted to hike the price of the $1.50 hot dog combo Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 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. Recommendations Brandon: The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One How to use iOS 14’s App Library to organize your apps Coté: Pilot G-2 07, blue. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:Twilio: Twilio is the platform that millions of developers trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. It’s time to build. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Snowflake’s IPO, Forrester’s Multicloud Container Wave and Nvidia buying ARM. Plus, an extensive discussion of what constitutes a breakfast taco. The Rundown IPOs Snowflake shares more than double. It's the biggest software IPO ever Worth more than VMware. Sumo Logic's IPO prices above the expected range Tech investors await IPO bonanza next week, highlighted by Snowflake and Unity, even as market looks shaky Multicloud Red Hat Named a Leader in Forrester Multicloud Container Development Platforms Wave VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup Simplify Your Approach to Application Modernization with 4 Simple Editions for the Tanzu Portfolio Tiffany’s overview of VMware Tanzu kubernetes stuff. ARM SoftBank is reportedly preparing to sell ARM to Nvidia for more than $40 billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Nvidia’s Integration Dreams It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40B To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut SiPearl Lets Rhea Design Leak: 72x Zeus Cores, 4x HBM2E, 4-6 DDR5 AWS is bursting with pride for its Arm CPU cores – so much it’s put them behind a burstable instance type Relevant to your Interests Hyland enters definitive agreement to acquire Alfresco Mellanox Technologies now called NVIDIA Networking after acquisition Oracle's stock jumps as company returns to growth Michael Dell: ‘We Are Not Selling VMware’ VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture Using JAAS in the Cloud Era GitLab’s radical vision for the future of remote work Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. Marc Andreessen On Productivity Building YouTube Shorts, a new way to watch & create on YouTube Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years The S-1 Club | Unity is Manifesting the Metaverse Amazon's profits, AWS and advertising — Benedict Evans A $200 Million Seed Valuation - Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation Microsoft Says Its Bid for TikTok Was Rejected in U.S.-China Standoff TikTok Reaches Deal to Sell U.S. Operations to Oracle | Digital Trends Oracle poised to become TikTok's U.S. technology partner after Chinese owners reject Microsoft's bid Nonsense The billionaire behind 'Fortnite' has played over 1,600 matches without anyone knowing it was him Paul Rudd, Certified Young Person Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 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. Recommendations Matt: Supersizers Go. Brandon: Raised by Wolves. Coté: Beyond the Phoenix Project. Image Credit Image CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Cote and Brandon discuss Chef being acquired, the Private Equity Operating Model and Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant. Plus, Cote offers advice on peanut better and jelly sandwiches. The Rundown Chef Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef | Progress Software Corporation Adam Jacob on Chef’s acquisition Progress snags software automation platform Chef for $220M – TechCrunch The Fourth Chapter of Chef Has Arrived: Progress to Purchase Chef - Chef Blog Chef launched careers Gartner MQ Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Relevant to your Interests JEDI Oracle loses $10B JEDI cloud contract appeal yet again – TechCrunch Pentagon Awards JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft for the Second Time Epic v. Apple Tim Sweeney on Fortnite's Metaverse ambitions (from Epic's Friday filings in Epic v Apple) Apple will seek damages from Epic Games for breach of App Store contract Netflix Culture Work from home? Reed Hastings on Netflix's ‘Hunger Games’ culture: Only focus on employees you'd fight to keep JFrog JFrog sets terms for Nasdaq IPO at valuation of over $3b JFrog Video Security Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise – TechCrunch Giving developers the tools to do security checks Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all Kube Corner No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too Why Adopting Kubernetes for Application Portability Is Not a Good Idea - Marco Meinardi Should You Run a Database in Docker? Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to plow more than $550 million into Snowflake when the cloud-data company goes public | Markets Insider CloudBees Supports General Public License (GPL) Cooperation Commitment Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic | APNIC Blog SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation TikTok plans Los Angeles "transparency center" to assuage critics Red Hat Launches an OpenShift-Based Marketplace to Aid Multicloud Portability Nonsense These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat CNCF Landscape Puzzle | Etsy Carol Baskins Recommends Emacs Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Sidequest — Start tracking your tasks in Slack. Start your free 30-day trial today at: getsidequest.app/sdt. Use promo code SDT for 50% off the first six months. Conferences Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 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. Recommendations Brandon: Epic Games episode of Acquired Podcast. Coté: Kubernetes and portability (Simon Sharwood summary, original from Marco Meinardi). Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Sidequest: Start tracking your tasks in Slack. Start your free 30-day trial today at: getsidequest.app/sdt. Use promo code SDT for 50% off the first six months. Promo Code: SDT

Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads. The Rundown VMware’s app modernization chief: ‘We’ve put to bed the debate about containers versus virtual machines’ Zoom — Fad or new dominant over lord Zoom crushes Q2 analyst expectations amid pandemic I have never seen such numbers in my life. $ZM. What happened at Kubecon: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary BPF Performance Tools Security Valley private equity firm pays Dell $2.1B for RSA security business Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market Follow up Discord is a thing…Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots Apple New Apple TV in the works with 'upgraded' remote, Find My Apple TV remote feature Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil Is anyone going to buy TikTok Poll: Google is the best fit to buy TikTok Relevant to your Interests AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability Facebook may block news from being shared on its platforms in Australia Tencent's Dreams, Part II: Investing In The Metaverse Dell enjoys solid earnings beat thanks to remote-work demand surge Nonsense The Resilience of Costco Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | email with nuance Airline pilots reported seeing 'a guy in a jetpack' flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790) Sponsor strongDM strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Johan in Sweden. Sent to stickers to Sacha in Belgium Conferences Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 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. Listen to Brandon’s Interview Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design Recommendations Matt Ray: FTL: Faster Than Light Brandon: The Vow on HBO Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Alexandra Martinez and they discuss the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, API Design and ProstDev. Plus, Alexandra recommends the best tacos in Monterrey, Mexico. Show links ProstDev MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Contact Alexandra Image CreditSpecial Guest: Alexandra N. Martinez.

This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…? The Rundown IPOs the Palantir IPO mission statement is an amazing artifact. Software Developer Tools Company JFrog Adds to Tech IPO Rush. Asana files to go public via direct listing. Snowflake files for IPO, taking on Amazon and Microsoft cloud database businesses. Unity’s IPO filing shows how big a threat it poses to Epic and the Unreal Engine. Redis Labs, Maker Of Database Software, Hits $1 Billion Valuation With New Fundraise. Gamers are logging millions of hours a day on Roblox. Relevant to your Interests Apple A14X Bionic to Be ‘Nearly on Par’ With 8-Core Intel Core i9-9880H, According to Fresh Performance Analysis. Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all. Epic Games wins temporary ruling barring Apple from retaliation. Online Retailing Executives The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company. Downtown Las Vegas fixture Tony Hsieh leaves Zappos. Tony Hsieh out as CEO of shoe and clothing giant Zappos. MSFT Cloud Revenue: Microsoft Bigger than Amazon and Google, 2X IBM. Microsoft plans cloud contract push with foreign governments after $10 billion JEDI win. Microsoft’s new Transcribe in Word feature is designed for students, reporters, and more. TikTok Plans to Challenge Trump Administration Over Executive Order. At scale, all B2B products converge. It’s reports, alerts, workflow, permissions and approvals all the way down. Malicious Chinese SDK In 1,200 iOS Apps With Billions Of Installs Causing ‘Major Privacy. Concerns To Hundreds Of Millions Of Consumers.’ Freedom of cloud choice: The myths and truths about multi-cloud. Application modernization requires more than just technology, lots of consultative analysis. Fun fact: Nvidia is now worth more than Intel + AMD combined. TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?” Nonsense @PopeyesChicken mobile app doesn't think @heyhey email addresses are real. Sponsor CloudBees Register for DevOps Worlds by CloudBees and visit cloudbees.com to learn more about their products. Listener Feedback Eric wants you to work on monitoring Get a job at DigitalOcean. Conferences SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 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. Recommendations Matt Ray: Connected:Digits Benford’s Law. Anti-recommendation: San Miguel Nacho Cheese. Brandon: Yellowstone Season 3 Finale. Coté: Microsoft OneNote…? Photo CreditSponsored By:CloudBees: CloudBees invites you to attend their DevOps World Conference on September 22-24, 2020. It’s a free virtual event with talks on CI/CD at scale, DevSecOps, Chaos Engineering and AI and Machine Learning. Register today!