Brandon is joined by Richard Seroter, Director of Developer Relations and Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud. They discuss the key announcements from Google Cloud Next ’23, Richard's recommendations for a successful tech newsletter and VMware's impending acquisition.

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Google Cloud Next ‘23
Code with Duet AI assistance
Google Cloud Jump Start Solutions
Richard’s Website and Newsletter
Richard Seroter on App Modernization


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LinkedIn
Twitter: @rseroter


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Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware

Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Management

This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 465

Runner-up Titles


Extra Innings
Later Innings
Customer is always right, except for pricing
Leave the party crying
Put a price on it


Rundown


Hashi


Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud
HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost
IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand
IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next?
The threat to open source comes from within

You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes


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Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills
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Nonsense


Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy
A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors
Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp


Conferences


Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.


SDT news & hype


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MarkdownDown
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Coté: Adam Savage Q&A;


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Episode 465: The Big Blue Burger Buffet

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced.  Coté  interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.

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Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is. 
Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
Two way door decisions
Dogs not barking.
Weasel words.
If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.


Contact Jana Werner


LinkedIn: Jana Werner. 


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The Cards

Here's the text of the all the cards:

Mechanism


How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?


Culture


How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
How can you start your next meeting with a document read?


Organisation


How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?


Leadership


How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?


SDT News & Hype


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Special Guest: Jana Werner.

Episode 464: Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game

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


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Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
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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.
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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.


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Episode 463: Phishing License

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



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Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
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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.)


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Episode 462: Lifting Code

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?)


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Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
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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
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A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174)
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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


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Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware

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