Software Defined Talk

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

John Willis, an influential author and consultant in DevOps, discusses why Kubernetes became the dominant force in container orchestration. He explores the struggles large companies face in digital transformation and the importance of systems thinking, drawing on insights from Dr. Deming. Willis emphasizes the necessity of embracing failure as a pathway to innovation, the delicate dance of investment decisions in tech, and the rich interplay between culture and technology, illustrated through his punk rock background.

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