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This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 463 Runner-up Titles The fun run was fun. You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts. The Phish are biting Everything’s cool zone Words that rhyme with “acquisation” Maybe AI can find it The market for products that start with “K” I like hotdogs Don’t do the values, just the fun facts Rundown An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu Matt Asay response Tweet Adam Jacob take Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica 451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028) Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai Relevant to your Interests Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source Enterprise Nonsense How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis Listener Feedback Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger? Conferences Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 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: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide Civil War Matt: Ostrich travel pillow H-E-B Pro-Sleep Mask Coté: Continuity Camera, kibbeling. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 462 Runner-up Titles Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs. Well, I still have meetings. The Cote’ Experience ClosedTofu Our Cloud is Huge(tm) Rundown Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated Matt Asay Follow up Tweet Bryan Cantrill calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different. Google Cloud Next ’24 Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote Relevant to your Interests WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software Nonsense Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates Listener Feedback The first person to send their United States postal address to sdt@newinstancecoffee.com will receive a bag of Dawn Python Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee. Conferences Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 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: Node.js: The Documentary How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté, so same cultural cohort as theorized.) Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 461 Runner-up Titles The Fork is a feature not a bug Relicensing: The path to Private Equity Is this Progress? Hot Antitrust Action Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars Won’t someone think of the children? Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances The deepest of pockets Fine-adjacent. Not complicated enough What’s it called when they plateau going down? Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of Mostly contrast Rundown Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means Redis RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one Battle of the Redis forks? Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community Is this Progress? Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS). Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB. Database popularity index Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence 20 years of Gmail Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content. Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach. Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions. Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!). Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance. Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms. Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown). Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage. Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies. Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?) Relevant to your Interests Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry Apache Kvrocks Ex-technology companies FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch Key takeaways from the Entrust incident Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc. Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174) Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo Nonsense Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year As markets soar, should investors look beyond America? Conferences Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 - but check the replay in LinkedIn or YouTube. Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 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: 3 Body Problem Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney. Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI Photo Credits Header Artwork

Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project. Show Links The Brewintosh Prusa Mini v6 Hotend Adapter Cortex Prometheus Grafana Labs OpenCost GrafanaCON 2024 April 9-10 Contact Tom Wilkie LinkedIn: tomwilkie Twitter: @tom_wilkie GitHub: tomwilkie 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! Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 459 Runner-up Titles "Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.” You don’t want to scare you coworkers Eating bugs off your coworkers “Hi” has become a trigger word Rehabilitate the “Hi” 55 Direct Reports Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone. The YAML hand off market Rundown Is Hello a proper Slack message? Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat Kubecon “Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” "Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking," “Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs!” OpenCost Introduces Carbon Costs What if the CNCF was private equity? Nvidia Nvidia shares pop on Q4 earnings, generative AI "hits tipping point" NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang - has 55 direct reports Video that tracks the trajectories of Intel and NVIDIA Nvidia's latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2023–2027 Relevant to your Interests Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster Who Still Works From Home? A new TikTok ban gains steam Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation clears him of wrongdoing More companies getting rid of free tiers: 49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year The WiFi at Google's new Bay View office hasn't been working properly for months: report Moon Mission Could Redefine Computing in Deep Space Doctors Are Using the Apple Vision Pro During Surgery Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" of users How The Cloud Is A Trap Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky says more than 10,000 organizations are using Bedrock Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans Snowflake Stock: Melting Faster Than An Ice Cube Games Are Coming to LinkedIn Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report European Cloud Group Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny Over Broadcom’s VMware Overhaul Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024 Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade Walmart sells a Mac Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services Buyout Firm Vista Equity Explores Options Including Sale for LogicMonitor Nonsense Airlines Are Coming for Your Carry-Ons Clocks Change Costco CFO ‘voice’ looks back on 40 years, $1.50 hot dogs and leadership Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint Delta’s CEO says controversial Sky Lounge changes reflect the airline’s status as premium brand 3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh - The Brewintosh Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts Listener Feedback Chris tell us the Owala Water Bottle is on sale. Conferences Tanzu (Re)defined online, April 3rd, Coté Speaking. Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Coté speaking, Palo Alto. TEQNation, May 22nd, 2024, Utrecht, Coté speaking. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 to 21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024. Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking 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 E-Gates Modality Will Now Be Implemented at Cancun Airport - Cancun Airport Global Entry better then ever Mobile Passport Control (MPC) available in Austin Airport Matt: Duck Duck Go Coté: MacBook Pro Photo Credits Header Artwork

This week, we discuss Coté's O'Reilly video series where he offers up some tips on how to survive and thrive in the workplace. Plus, some ideas on how to reinvent the virtual town hall. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 458 Runner-up Titles Surviving Corporate America Hopes and Dreams Second half of your career Soul Crushing I stole this from TikTok Living too much Just be happy Review life imbalance Rundown 10 part course at O’Reilly about working in a large organization, a BigCo Conferences KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto. NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. 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: How Will You Measure Your Life? The Psychology of Money Vitamix Coté: pecans in smoothies. Photo Credits Header Artwork

This podcast discusses the evolution of Kubernetes, the Wing programming language for the cloud, and the health of Linkerd project. They also cover cloud news trends, interesting tech updates, and ponder on whether a funeral could be clickbait.

This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 456 Runner-up Titles Is it Russian hackers? Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS They’re all bad product launches Vikings are 98% more Nordic Can I pay for features? They’ve defeated vaporware Interoperability is for underdogs Rundown Google Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage | CNN Business Apple Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire Relevant to your Interests Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds Cloud-Native Is In Shambles S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers The Open Source Sustainability Crisis Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform What to Do about VMware Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability ServerlessHorrors | Home Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit | TechCrunch Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20% HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD Nonsense Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E. Conferences 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. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 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: Delta Wi-Fi Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3 Aliens Dark Descent Coté: GM’s Apprentice. Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships Photo Credits Header Google Gemini

This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 455 Runner-up Titles I live my life one iCal screen at a time We always have sparklers Meta-parenting Everyone is always tired Cheaper version of Red Hat This week in “Do we need to be angry?” All we get is wingdings. I’m in a Socialist mood this week Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff Those dingalings bought my boat Dingalings of the mind Rundown CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community NGINX fork? freenginx.org Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal Tofu So Where’s That New OpenAI Board? The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? Relevant to your Interests Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix Sora: Creating video from text Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech Slack AI has arrived What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster 1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames How Google is killing independent sites like ours VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter ## Nonsense An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds Conferences 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. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 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: Fair Play on Netflix Matt: Julia Evans: Popular Git Config Options Coté: Anker USB C Charger (Nano II 65W) Pod 3-Port PPS Fast Charger. Photo Credits Header Google Gemini

This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 454 Runner-up Titles Are we streaming. I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness. If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life. The sound track to walking the dog. At least it’s open source. The Magic Quadrant of Fashion. I guess everyone’s cool? What pair of pants do I need? The AirPods Pro pocket. Go down the metaphor hole. I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu. Not good, but good enough. The Metaphor Hole Rundown CNCF Landscape Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (Cloudcast Pod) Earnings Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective Relevant to your Interests Shift Happens: A book about keyboards Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2 Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives. Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024 From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate Weaveworks shuts down A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella’s Decade as Microsoft CEO Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It? Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe” Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering Google and Yahoo Are Cracking Down on Inbox Spam. Don’t Expect Less Email Marketing. Cloudflare's crowd-sources another patent troll case victory (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup 2024 State of Internal Developer Portals | Port Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing Yandex: The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm How Mastodon made friends with Meta The Vision Pro Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro Working in the Vision Pro Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving Nonsense Cynical book summaries H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023 One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable Most accurate video I’ve ever seen Listener Feedback Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser Conferences 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. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 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: Chamberlain Smart Garage Control Matt: FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much? Coté: chocolate covered dates at Tree of Dates. Photo Credits Header Artwork by Google Gemini