This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital. Show Links Kubernetes: The Documentary Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software Profound Deming Profound Podcast Contact John Willis LinkedIn botchagalupe@gmail.com SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Photo CreditSpecial Guest: John Willis.

This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 452 Runner-up Titles Know the rules Until you reach infinity When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door. All-in on Minecraft Eminent domain for digital transformation. There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet. Rundown Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse Direct File | Internal Revenue Service DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform Relevant to your Interests Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account A brief history of Dell UNIX OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking #446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different Startup Funding Simulator Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024 Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand. Nonsense Fifty Years Ago Today (D&D) I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia Make it Taylors Version Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024 If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. 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: Stanley Cups Are Just Water Bottles. How Did They Get So Popular? Coté: Mythic Game Master Emulator, version 2 (I don’t think the version matters, really). Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451 Runner-up Titles Enshittification The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization Wait for Wifi Taxes by beef rib It’s actually not fine Smoking crack in Disneyland AI is accelerating the crappiness. Why don’t you just sell more cloud? Generated Garbage I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile. Accidentally upgraded Jury duty…”pretty cool.” Rundown Airalo for mobile cell phones plans when traveling. How Google perfected the web AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To Subprime Attention Crisis 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification” Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find Relevant to your Interests Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud Creating a Sales Commission Plan The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures Lofree Flow — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 Introducing Docker Build Cloud It's time to build "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it." For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything Campfire is ONCE #1 Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech Culture Change at Google Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story? Mourning Google Nonsense We lost some real stars this past year Startups Are Shutting Down! It’s Just a Water Bottle Listener Feedback Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. 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: Travis County Jury Duty Matt: Perplexity.AI Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger or Kartika — which is also good and less fancy in a good way. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 450 Runner-up Titles Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers Sales is crazy Donut over-eating avoidance Fundamentals don’t change Do you have good recipes for golden geese? We need better Dungeons and Dragons The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence. Peter Pan as DevRel Hard stop goes soft HR in volume feels dehumanizing Mad Libs for layoffs Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness. We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision… Status quo wins again The Strangler Pattern for password management Schwag cannot be stolen. Rundown 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (Podcast) DevRel The trouble with DevRel Amazon’s silent sacking (Podcast) Work, RTO and Layoffs WebMD’s RTO Video Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video Signs that it’s time to leave a company… A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks Passwords and Keyboards Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024 Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey Relevant to your Interests Authy is shutting down its desktop app OpenTofu is going GA Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch. How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit Slack Executives are all gone WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why. World's R&D spending Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin The Worst Devices of CES 2024! App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027 Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% Nonsense Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024 The Official Passport Index Ranking why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip. Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3 Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th - Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7 SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 - Coté speaking, and there’s still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. 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: Carrot Weather App (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar). Matt: Murderbot Diaries Book 7: System Collapse Aliens Fireteam Elite on sale for <$10 Coté: The Lost Kingdom, book. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, the hosts explore the results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey and compare the cloud giants AWS and Azure. They dive into intriguing insights from their travel experiences, specifically the benefits of the Mobile Passport Control app. Discussion also centers on balancing tech careers with personal life, alongside amusing tales from tech conferences. With gadget reviews, they touch on the latest tech trends, including the buzz around new devices like the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the allure of popular beverage containers.

Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, the history of CoreOS and its relation to the base OS, challenges and solutions for Linux desktop, Leena's kernel, and designing a dynamic message of the day system.

This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 447 Runner-up Titles Flat budgets are better then no budget Applauding as the Titanic goes down They weren’t going to be patriated But this is you! Now we know The hippies have lost Keep your head on an open-source swivel Once it works, it’ll be great At least we got USB C Great year for cables Rundown 2022 Year in Review (Last Year’s Recap Episode) Travel App Recommendations FlightRadar24 Flighty Final Numbers The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’. Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations of the Year Brandon: Pastebot Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (RIP) Coté: Google Looker Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 446 Runner-up Titles When your early is really on time Showing up on time is is early for me We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok Rundown BS Dictionary What does "bureaucracy" mean? Politics Deck Let's socialize this deck Let's have the meeting in the meeting Parking Lot Outcomes Follow Coté on TikTok for more BS Dictionary Takes Coté’s Business BS Dictionary Playlist on YouTube Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. 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: Slow Horses Season 3 Coté: ChatDM with Forgotten Realms. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 445 Runner-up Titles I feel very safe on an airplane We’re one mishap away from Lost Difference between the right decision and the safe decision First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo “Rice” They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck Figure out where all the yaml goes Rundown Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix Apache Mesos Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January Relevant to your Interests Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023 Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads 'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’ The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions? Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake" Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less Nonsense Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade? It’s time for the Excel World Championships! Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video Committing to Costco 220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 April 17-18, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: The Fund Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit Coté: Sex Education, season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 444 Runner-up Titles A.I. Arms Race Table 4 needs pork chops Run with that Thanks for not saving us from the AI The King of Cameos Rebels going to rebel Ivory Tower Scruples The sign of something Rundown OpenAI Sam Altman Out At OpenAI A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman Who Controls OpenAI? Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn A.I. Arms Race Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model Google unveils Gemini Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman Relevant to Your Interests Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself' Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview) Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach "We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more 534 startups have failed so far in 2023 Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts 'Return to Office' declared dead Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing Nonsense Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us. The Clock of the Long Now Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. 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: Bookings with me in Outlook Matt: ortho-k Coté: Descript (for finding social clips), GMail, D&D in ChatGPT Photo Credits Header Artwork