Software Defined Talk

We discuss Zoom’s new phone system, debate the merits of Serverless and reflect on how SaaS has taken over the enterprise. Plus, Coté explains why he is trying to live the iPad Pro life. The Rundown Zoom Get Zoom Phone Service in 40+ Countries & Territories for One Flat Monthly Price Introducing Zapps, Bringing Best-of-Breed Apps Into the Zoom Experience Severless or Serverful Serverlessconf New York 2019: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | Simon Wardley TheNewStack - From DevOps to DevApps IBM Introduces IBM Cloud Code Engine When (and why) not to go serverless Relevant to your Interests 2020, the unexpected Requirement AMD to buy chip peer Xilinx for $35 billion in data center push Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker | Brave Browser Can We Replace YAML With an Easier Markup Language? - Slashdot OpenStack at 10 years old: A failure on its own terms, a success in its own niche PayPal to let you buy and sell cryptocurrencies in the US – TechCrunch Backstage Pass with Arctiq - Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Anthos with Kf Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes Turing Pi 2 announcement - Turing Pi Cluster Board Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet Sponsors Linode — Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. Find all the details at linode.com/SDT. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Nonsense AWS Multicloud Snark Tweet 168 AWS services in 2 minutes Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat Hema's veggie smoked sausage is ok but original is a 'culinary high point' - DutchNews.nl Conferences KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 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 $5 total. Recommendations Matt: Song Exploder Run the Jewels: Ju$t 100 Strong kettlebells Brandon: Otter.ai see example transcript in interview with Dan Balcauski Coté: Darondo. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:Linode: Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Software Defined Talk. You can find all the details at linode.com/sdt. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Promo Code: SDTstrongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Dan Balcauski from Product Tranquility. They discuss Dan's mid-career "mini retirement", what it's like to be a consultant and some strategies for B2B companies to reduce churn. Plus, Dan shares two of the most interesting places he visited on his trip around the world. Show links The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris Kellogg School of Management Conway's Law Contact Dan Product Tranquility Dan's LinkedIn Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Dan Balcauski.

Coté, Matt and Brandon discuss the latest news from the Cloud Foundry and OpenStack conferences, Docker alternatives, Google getting sued and the downfall of Quibi. The Rundown Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes It's Time to Forget About Docker The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation Quibi Is Shutting Down as Problems Mount Relevant to your Interests 2020 State of the API Report | Brought to You by Postman Zoom is getting into ticketed online events Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee Justice Department Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Intel to sell its NAND business to South Korean rival for $9 billion Atlassian to end sale and support of on-premise server products by 2024 Turing Pi 2 announcement - Turing Pi Cluster Board Backstage Pass with Arctiq - Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Anthos with Kf Sponsors Linode — Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. Find all the details at linode.com/sdt. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/sdt Nonsense Emacs is a multi-generational project. How it started, How it’s going, DevOps Edition. Southern Conundrum: Can You Use Soap to Clean Your Cast Iron? Conferences KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 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: New PC build out Dell 32” UHD curved monitor Brandon: Jabra 40 USB Headset Coté: Anatomy of Norbiton. Camo to use your iPhone as a webcam on your computer. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Linode: Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Software Defined Talk. You can find all the details at linode.com/sdt. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Promo Code: SDT

Matt and Brandon discuss Hashicorp’s recent product announcements and Twilio buying Segment. Plus, Matt gives his thoughts on the new iPhone 12 mini. The Rundown New iPhones… iPhone SE vs. iPhone 12 mini Boundary by HashiCorp Waypoint by HashiCorp Twilio buys Segment and employees share in success Companies with Extended Exercise Windows Relevant to your Interests Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, even though it had been free for years IBM shrinks with plans to spin-off managed infrastructure services arm How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama Waymo’s driverless cars are open to the public. And Elon’s not impressed. Carahsoft is trying to trademark DevSecOps (already withdrawn) Gitpod - Dev environments built for the cloud Podcast Data Azure Arc Is a Control Plane to Orchestrate Hybrid Cloud Systems Forget 5G: MagSafe could be the biggest reason to buy an iPhone 12 A few words on Git Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform Google will give up direct control of the Knative open-source project Twilio Set To Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment For $3.2 Billion Nonsense Gartner Hype Cycle Visualization Netflix plans to have even more originals in 2021 The Netherlands goes into partial lockdown; face masks will be compulsory - DutchNews.nl Listener Feedback Dan wants you to work at IBM Conferences KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 DevOps World Sessions 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: Radiolab: No Special Duty This Particular Album is Very, Very Important to Me: Devo’s Freedom Of Choice with Al Yankovic Brandon: Three Body Problem Translator Ken Liu Photo Credit Photo Credit

Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the recent changes at Chef and what it means for the Chef Community going forward. Show Links Progress Announcement Chef Blog Post Register Article Adam Jacob Interview CINC Paul’s How to make a Hamburger Video JJ on the Web Drunk & Retired Podcast IBMDeveloper on Twitch @jjasghar Photo Credit Photo CreditSpecial Guest: JJ Asghar.

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.