Software Defined Talk

Episode 518: It Is What It Is

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This week, we unpack what Uber’s CEO said, why the CNCF exists, and how companies chase the money. Plus, Coté stands alone in his love for rice cakes.

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Runner-up Titles
  • Go feral
  • You’ve ruined eating for me
  • Cultural tombstone
  • The next step is “I told you so”
  • Culture is what happens when you’re not talking about culture.
  • You know, it’s terrible to run over someone
  • The robots are just fine
  • Center of Attention
    • Rundown
    • Uber CEO says changing employee benefits 'is a risk we decided to take'
    • Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer for those most at risk
    • CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the NATS.io Project
    • Oxide and Friends | Shootout at the CNCF Corral
    • New D&D core rules are now CC-BY.
    • ‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store
      • Relevant to your Interests
      • I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
      • "AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
      • Find and Buy with AI: Visa Unveils New Era of Commerce
      • Google dusts off Google Voice and adds three-way calling
      • Anthropic to Buy Back Employee Shares at $61.5 Billion Valuation
      • IBM unveils capabilities meant to accelerate AI agent adoption
      • Getting things "done" in large tech companies
      • A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
      • This NAS brand just called out the competition and says you should own your hardware
      • Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft’s Core Capability, Amazon Earnings
      • Amazon beats on top and bottom line but issues light second quarter guidance
      • Amazon Takes Aim at Cursor With New AI Coding Service
      • OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
      • OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Startup Windsurf for $3 Billion
      • Anysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuation
      • Clouded Judgement 5.2.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q1 '25
      • Nine Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era | Andreessen Horowitz
        • Nonsense
        • AI Brings Play-by-Play Commentary To Pong
          • Conferences
          • Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day.
          • Melbourne Wiz Meet-Up, May 13. Matt will be there.
          • Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
          • KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee speaking
          • NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
          • POST/CON 25, June 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Brandon representing SDT. Use Code: BRANDON, first 20 people get a free pass
          • SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off.
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              • Recommendations
              • Brandon: UniFi Express , FlexHD, U6+ and US 8 60W
              • Matt: Andor Season 2
              • Coté: Batman and Batman Returns.

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