Software Defined Talk

This podcast discusses Google considering buying cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion, the rise of 'meta work' leading to too many meetings, and the long-awaited spell check in Notepad after forty years. They touch on strategic vacation planning, workplace productivity, and the importance of having a strong point of view in organizations.

This week, we discuss Mary Meeker's AI & Universities report, the CD Foundation's State of CI/CD Report, and share a few thoughts on DevRel. Plus, Coté gets fiber and is forced to watch soccer. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 475 Runner-up Titles If not better, at least the same. The enterprise software buyer’s lament. Order tokens at fantastical speeds. They think I am an idiot Cherry pick it from a survey The Demo Matters Rundown Mary Meeker’s new report AI and Universities State of CI/CD Report 2024 - CD Foundation 70% of people hadn't checked their code in for 12 months Relevant to your Interests Opinion | The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues How Apple used Google's help to train its AI models Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts Clouded Judgement 7.5.24 - Declining Growth Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76 Mirantis Builds on OpenStack To Serve Up a VMware Alternative Is this the biggest password leak ever uncovered? Researchers claim nearly 10 billion credentials under threat — here's what we know so far We tested over a dozen laptops to see how Snapdragon compares to Intel, AMD, and Apple’s chips Nonsense Mark Zuckerberg's Lake Tahoe antics are getting even weirder The Fried Chicken Sandwich Wars Are More Cutthroat Than Ever Before Sponsor Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. Use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024 Conferences Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsorship opportunities available Recommendations Brandon: Tailscale. Coté: Moonbound. Photo Credits Header Artwork Sponsored By:API Layer: Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. And just for our Software Defined Talk community, use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024 Promo Code: SDT2024

This podcast explores the slowdown in DevOps adoption, compares open-source and proprietary foundation models, and discusses AI simplifying CI/CD. Also, a fun Australian history quiz and updates on ransomware attacks, cloud closures, and AI industry shifts.

This podcast delves into the 5 key trends from Bessemer’s State of the Cloud 2024 report and a stock pick for the next 10 years. They discuss Amazon hitting $2 trillion market value, the real reason music is deteriorating, 1Password simplifying setup, and Nvidia insiders cashing in on the rally.

This week, we discuss Forrester’s LLM Wave, Nvidia's Market Cap Dilemma, and why everything is code. Plus, Matt Ray explains more about Australian slang. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 472 Runner-up Titles Is pig latin American? The final boss for Duolingo The Corrections Episode You can always get it from the leader Frito Lay of Chips Everything is code Rundown Forrester has no idea what its talking about Get it from Google. Nvidia Nvidia Earnings: Stock Rallies As AI Giant Reports 600% Profit Explosion, 10-For-1 Stock Split Nvidia: Short bets against stock top $34B Nvidia to Become $10T Company: I/O Fund's Kindig Intel CEO Fires Back at Nvidia in Battle for AI Chip Leadership Peak Nvidia Solomon Hykes & Dagger Relevant to your Interests Ghost jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash Broadcom soars as demand for AI chips power forecast raise Clouded Judgement 6.14.24 - Is Seat Based Pricing Dead? Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog) Shares Every Lesson From Scaling to $40B US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions Senior Engineer Fatigue AWS’ AI And GenAI Leader Leaves For DigitalOcean As New CTO The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings Nonsense You can renew U.S. passports online again The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas Conferences DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY 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: Houston Public Library and Libby Matt: Dissect podcast Coté: Ikea RIKLIG - small, glass teapot. Photo Credits Header Artwork Wave

This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 471 Runner-up Titles Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall I need two offers You Kids We are the rock eaters to Slack I mean, what else am I doing with my life? Rundown Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows Relevant to your Interests Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer Linux as the new developer default at 37signals Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident The Worst Website In The Entire World How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG) Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006 Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple. Openwashing IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch Adam Selipsky, the exit interview Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated? Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow AI Patterns Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS GitLab quarter eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Silicon Valley's False Prophet Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last Nonsense Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch The five stages of computer science Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends Conferences NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY 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: MoviePass, MovieCrash From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592) Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.” Photo Credits Header Artwork

Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow. Show Links Serverless Days Sydney dapr.io Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager Contact Paul LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz Twitter: @paulyuki99 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 Credits HeaderSpecial Guest: Paul Yuknewicz.

Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks. Show Links visualstudio.com Contact Amanda LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver Twitter: @amandaksilver 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: Amanda K. Silver.

This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 468 Runner-up Titles Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept. Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it Thanks Clayton Williams Multi-size Monkey Phase There’s people I know “Yes, and” is now fully ironic Pop sockets are the future All out of tokens, going home You said Squawkbox Cote’ Rundown New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Services A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes App Engine overlay Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite Greenplum Microsoft Build Introducing Copilot+ PCs Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 Relevant to your Interests Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer VMware Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use More thoughts on OSS business models After selling his startup for a life-changing $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal launched a VC firm and two high-value startups. Why? Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS? Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation Tech Influencing Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT Privacy Principles: Search, Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Legal As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? Apple execs on iMessage for Android ‘You’re Fighting AI With AI’: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens Scott Galloways Predictions for 2024 at OMR24 Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 The pandemic darlings: where are they now? Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Surpass $675 Billion in 2024 ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT OpenAI loses its voice Nonsense Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star Listener Feedback Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations Black Hole® Pack 25L – Matt Goruck Travel Rucksacks – Matt Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 – Michael Everyday Backpack from Peak Design – Andy Conferences NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY 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: Water Meter Valve Key Matt: Bobby Fingers: “Fabio and the Goose” Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 467 Runner-up Titles Do what works Blame the children I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993 I like carrots Rundown A.I. Announcements Introducing GPT-4o ‎Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements Google I/O 2024 Palace Intrigue Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later. Relevant to your Interests Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics? Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp? How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake? Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! Nonsense YETI 34 oz French Press - in NL, €125! Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024. SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY. 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: Dark Matter Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson. Photo Credits Header