Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about the major trends in the 1st half of 2023, plus some predictions for the rest of 2023.

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Topic 1 - What are your Top 3 biggest stories/trends so far in 2023?

Topic 2 - What is your take on each of the Big 3 cloud providers in 2023?

Topic 3 - How long do you think this Platform Engineering era will last? Is it the new DevOps, or something else?

Topic 4 - Will this Cloud Cost Management trend just become a normal part of deploying to the public cloud, or become too burdensome and companies will keep apps in their Private Cloud?

Topic 5 - How do you see the current AI hype playing out in the Enterprise? Is it more impactful for developers, or operations, or back-office groups? Anything that you are really interested in yet?

Topic 6 - What has been your biggest surprise of the year, so far in 2023

Topic 7 - Any early predictions about the 2nd half of 2023? 

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