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- Episode 436: Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements
This week, we discuss measuring developer productivity, Unity licensing backlash, and some follow-up on Wireless Emergency Alerts. Plus, thoughts on coconuts.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 436
Runner-up Titles- One day an ice machine will run on RISC-V
- Mo Developers Mo Problems
- W3C my ass.
- That’s almost an aggressive blue.
- Wait. Do I live in an office complex?
- You pay the same
- Quarantine Quarters
- Maybe I have too much mindlessness
- Out of my way Costco, I’m going direct.
- Candy Corn
- Have you tried a bubble-sort?
- Omerta for developers
- Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements.
- KCNA23VMWEO20
- Just make the bed
Rundown- Developer Productivity
- McKinsey Developer Productivity Review
- Even longer rebuttal.
- The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand
- Reports
- Kubernetes at Scale: Challenges, Priorities, Adoption Patterns, and Solutions
- Announcing the 2023 State of DevOps Report
- John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately
- Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)
Relevant to your Interests- Why companies still want in-house data centres
- Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What Everyone involved in Open Source Development Should Know
- PayPal faces new antitrust lawsuit claiming it unfairly stifles competition with Stripe, Shopify and more
- DuckDB Labs puts limit on free support, rules out VC funding
- Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack
- Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database
- Datadog stumbles as Bank of America downgrades, citing recent checks
- IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments
- Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors
- Be an Open Source Absolutist!
- Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps
Nonsense- Ice Is Not Necessary. So Why Do Hotels Provide It for Free?
Listener Feedback- Biogen hiring Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Global Commercial and Medical IT (hybrid work)
- RedHat hiring Principal Product Marketing Manager, OpenShift in Remote
Conferences- Oct 17th SpringOne Tour Online (free!) - Coté talking about platform engineering.
- Oct 17th and 24th **talk series (yes, a “webinar”): Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering. Coté’s doing this.
- Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. Use this VMware discount code for 20% off: KCNA23VMWEO20.
- Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
- Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: macOS Sonoma
- Matt: HomeSeek - post apocalyptic SimCity
- Coté: Menewood, finally out! Over 700 subscribers for my newsletter - are you subscribed?!
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1 hr 5 min - Episode 435: SSH in a for loop but faster
This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 435
Runner-up Titles- All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine
- We’re doing this for science
- No, just no, Dad
- No exceeding expectations in that role
- I will do horrible things with YAML
- My business is my business
- They don’t have room for purity
Rundown- Emergency broadcast not used by Trump
- CBP announces new
- MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices
- Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch"
- Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform
- Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira
- Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION
- The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here
Relevant to your Interests- OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares
- Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case
- FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality
- Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT
- Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs
- How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton
- Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on
- The potential gap
- Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming
- What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine
- Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle
- Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment
- Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier
- Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices
- Look what ChatGPT vision can do.
- Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware
- AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality
- The Senate’s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos.
Nonsense- Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours
- Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits
Conferences- Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam
- Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Dental Monitoring and Anker Magsafe Battery
- Matt: Search Engine podcast: Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee?
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1 hr 8 min - Episode 434: Slides Benedict
This week, we discuss Cisco's acquisition of Splunk, AWS's investment in Anthropic, and VC Market Overview Presentations. Plus, we share some thoughts on Dungeons and Dragons, as well as standardized testing.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 434
Runner-up Titles- So much about sheep
- Maybe Ten
- Middle mega-cap
- The data stays the same, only the story changes
- Ribbon Wall
Rundown- Splunk
- Cisco acquires cybersecurity company Splunk in cash deal worth $28 billion
- Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But Cisco Needs To Convince Splunk Customers That Cisco Is Good For Them
- AWS to invest up to $4B in Anthropic
- Google invested $300 million in AI firm founded by former OpenAI researchers
- Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic
- I’s $240B Question
- Anti Portfolio
Relevant to your Interests- Upbound Contributes Control Plane Provider Technology to Crossplane
- Your iPhone can now restore your Apple TV if the streaming box has problems
- Elon Musk's Neuralink is recruiting patients for its first human trial
- Roblox acquires voice moderation startup Speechly | TechCrunch
- Harness launches Gitness, an open source GitHub competitor | TechCrunch
- Broadcom-VMware Deal Inches Closer In China: Report | CRN
- 1Password rolls out public passkey support to its mobile apps and web extensions
- Intel Unveils Industry-Leading Glass Substrates
- Amazon's Prime Video will show ads unless you pay $3 more per month
- Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents | TechCrunch
- Spreadsheets are the long tail of datasets that don’t have their own SaaS tool yet
- Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
- Demand for Software Developers will STILL outweigh the supply.
- No sacred masterpieces
- Vista Equity Partners has quietly topped $100 billion in assets under management
- ll iPhone 15 Models Can Be Connected To An Ethernet Cable Through The USB-C Port Via Dongle To Enable Incredibly Fast Wired Speeds
- U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail
- Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music
- Tech layoffs are all but a thing of the past
- Terraform fork OpenTF gets renamed to OpenTofu
- What’s Up With Open Terraform? — Arrested DevOps
- Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O'Grady from RedMonk (Changelog Interviews #558)
- Ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video, unless you pay more
- Airlines Are Just Banks Now
## Nonsense- F-35 crash: Pilot called 911 after parachuting into backyard
- You can find love on Tinder for $500 a month, if you qualify for its elite tier
- Apple Podcasts adds original programming from Apple Music, Apple News+ and other apps | TechCrunch
Listener Feedback- Slack's revamped UI feels like a step in the wrong direction
- Brett’s Slack Tip: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S when the new Slack design lands on you. It’ll give you your Slack community sidebar back.
Conferences- Oct 3rd Enterprise DevOps Techcon, Utrecht.
- October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
- October 5 - 6, 2023, Devopsdays Indianapolis 2023
- Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam
- Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: iPhone Messages Stickers
- Coté: Notes.app: iOS 17 Notes and Reminders Features.
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1 hr 4 min - Episode 433: Are you telling me GitHub is a good name
This week, we discuss why everyone is envious of Google’s Internal Dev Tools, examine the state of Git, speculate about how 37 Signals plans to reinvent software licensing with ONCE, and share a few thoughts on the Salesforce CEO’s recent comments about work from home.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 433
Runner-up Titles- Lost in an acquisition hole.
- Headless Robot Dog.
- It’s not better enough.
- GoogHub
- Why are you on the sad path
- Once version 2 is a paid upgrade
- You win interesting bingo
Rundown- The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge
- Git is awful. GitHub isn't good enough. It's killing us! (Steve Yegge)
- Introducing ONCE
- Salesforce CEO takes a bold stand on remote work
- Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year
Relevant to your Interests- David Sacks has a new SaaS startup for other SaaS startups
- Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition
- Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE
- HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business - The Next Platform
- Clouded Judgement 9.8.23
- Inside Hollywood's SBF Mad Scramble
- Tubi The Free Streaming Service, Hits 74 Million Monthly Active Users & Almost 250 Free Live Channels As Cord Cutting Grows | Cord Cutters News
- IBM Software mandates return to office for those within 80km
- Cloud is here to stay, but at what cost, ask customers
- Disney and Charter reach deal to end cable blackout in time for 'Monday Night Football'
- Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
- Oracle revenue misses estimates as tough economy hurts cloud spending
- No privacy in cars
- Former CEO of China's Alibaba quits cloud business in surprise move during its leadership reshuffle
- A Look Back at Q2 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings
- 1 big thing: A long-term plan to secure open-source software
- MGM takes systems offline after cyberattack
- Disney-Charter deal represents new era for TV bundles
- Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI | TechCrunch
- Arm prices IPO at $51 per share, valuing company at over $54 billion
- Tim Gurner’s spray about ‘arrogant’ workers lays bare the economic sadism of our time
- Cisco discontinues Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure
- CloudBees Announces New Cloud Native DevSecOps Platform
- Jet: Prepare For Liftoff
- Artifact’s new Links feature makes it much more than a news app
- TriggerMesh, RIP
- Clorox says last month's cyberattack is still disrupting production
- Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft mistake
- Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform
- Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive
- Elon Musk says X may go behind a paywall for everyone so he can 'combat vast armies of bots'
- Restricted Source Licensing Is Here
- OpenTofu
- RoboFab is ready to build 10,000 humanoid robots per year | TechCrunch
- Unified Acceleration Foundation Forms to Drive Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance
- Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
- What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
- Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?
- A new way of thinking about open source sustainability
- Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his 'maniacal sense of urgency' at X, formerly Twitter
- Cable TV Is on Life Support, but a New Bundle Is Coming Alive
Nonsense- McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve soda machines | CNN Business
- Delta SkyMiles changes: Delta overhauls how you earn Medallion status in biggest change yet
- Australian baby named Methamphetamine Rules
- ‘Take the Money and Run’ Artist Must Repay Danish Museum
Listener Feedback- Jan recommends this Rich Roll interview: Mindset SECRETS From The World's Best Ultrarunner: Courtney Dauwalter
Conferences- October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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:
- YouTube TV and NFL Sunday Ticket
- An Endgame for YouTube TV, Big Disney Decisions (And Whether Bob Iger Should Make Them), The Era Beyond Peak TV
- Matt: Airline wifi chat with Support
- Coté: Do Interesting book by Russel Davis.
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51 min - Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware
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.
Show Links- Google Cloud Next ‘23
- Code with Duet AI assistance
- Google Cloud Jump Start Solutions
- Richard’s Website and Newsletter
- Richard Seroter on App Modernization
Contact Richard- LinkedIn
- Twitter: @rseroter
SDT News & Hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Richard Seroter.
47 min - Episode 431: CEO Therapy Session
This week, we discuss Netflix's DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts on why Europe needs more ice.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 431
Runner-up Titles- Try Harder
- It’s a necessary luxury
- Someone’s drinking too much water here
- A culture of ice
- Where are the high performers, at home or at work
- Quit using your Gmail address
- Thou shalt export to CSV
Rundown- Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too)
- Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals
- Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die
- Can you trust 'open source' companies?
- OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!
- OpenTF pulls the trigger on its open-source Terraform fork
Relevant to your Interests- VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI
- VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close | TechTarget
- Nvidia's blowout offers a giddy whiff of 1995
- Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones
- Top Ten social media platforms we spend the most time on
- Max will launch a 24/7 CNN stream for all subscribers next month
- Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama
- As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle For Control Of Its Algorithm
- Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture - Slack Engineering
- The Cloud 100 2023
- Data isn’t everything. Judgement counts too.
- Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years
- Instacart is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees it's 'past' time to commit to the company's RTO mandate and their jobs are at stake
- Duet AI, Google's AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud
- Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate
- What’s new with GKE at Google Cloud Next | Google Cloud Blog
- Duet AI in Google Cloud Preview | Google Cloud Blog
- What’s new in Oracle to PostgreSQL database migrations with DMS | Google Cloud Blog
- US AI startup Poolside raises $126m seed round and relocates to France
- Ping, ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo, the power of open source, and the madness of IAM
- Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock; Combines ForgeRock into Ping Identity
- Interoperability between Google Chat and other messaging platforms — powered by Mio
- Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy
- Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures
- Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format
- Google unveils AI tools for enterprise customers at $30 a month
- Chip design firm Arm seeks up to $52 billion valuation in blockbuster U.S. IPO
- Birmingham City Council goes under after Oracle disaster
- IBM Introduces 'Watsonx Your Business'
- Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads
- Announcing Kubecost Cloud in General Availability: The Easiest Way to Optimize Your Kubernetes Costs
- Platform Engineering - What You Need To Know Now
- The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US
- Introducing ONCE
Nonsense- The fight for the right to repair McFlurry machines
- Delta Airlines Offers Woman $1,800 After Losing Her Dog
Conferences- Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
- October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: JUST ONE MILE | Official Trailer
- Matt: Deadloch
- Coté: Rick Rubin interviews Rory Sutherland. I doubt much of the airport business book stuff in here is “true,” but that’s sort of the whole point, and it’s fantastic listening. His book Alchemy has a great one word review right there in the title. But, again: it’s fun! When you’ve listened to too much If Books Could Kill you can check in on Rory if you need to take the cure.
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48 min - Episode 430: Exploring Governance and Compliance with Mike Long
Brandon interviews Mike Long, the CEO and Co-founder of Kosli. They discuss Mike's background, his experience as a DevOps Consultant, and the reasons behind starting Kosli. Plus, Mike offers a few tips about visiting Oslo.
Show Links- Kosli
Contact Mike Long- LinkedIn: mikelongoslo
- Twitter: meekrosoft
SDT News & Hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Mike Long.
54 min - Episode 429: This is peak VMware
This week, we discuss VMware’s Announcements, SUSE goes private and some thoughts on streaming services. Plus, Matt provides an update on the repercussions of spilled Orange Juice.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 429
Runner-up Titles- Matt Ray Vibe
- Ethically flexible
- And one more thing me
- Is it new?
- You’re gold plating your gold.
- Hello World and my Mom’s Blog
- SAP known for being nimble
- I guess I am excited
- There’s no way you sold 50,000 Chinese knock off water piks in Australia.
Rundown- Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable
- VMware
- Broadcom's $61B planned VMware purchase clears U.S., UK
- Introducing vSAN Max | VMware
- VMware Expands Tanzu to Accelerate App Delivery at Enterprise Scale
- VMware Explore 2023 Media Kit - VMware News and Stories
- VMware edges towards multi-cloud, adds AI side quest
- SUSE
- EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE
- SUSE Manager Ansible Integration Becomes Fully Supported
- Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy
- Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
- What Happened to Wirecutter?
Relevant to your Interests- YouTube is adding chat, highlights, and Shorts to NFL Sunday Ticket
- Hopin Events and Session Products Sold for $15 Million
- 80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office
- How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x
- Will Broadcom’s pending purchase overhang VMware Explore?
- VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI under Broadcom’s wing
- System Initiative Code Now Open Source
- How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips
- Report: Threads app to launch website version this week - 9to5Mac
- Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage
- If I were you: Here are the the Google Cloud Next ’23 talks for six different audiences
- Amazon Worker Has A Witty Take On Return-To-Office Policy
- Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘in-person time policy’ will crack down on Meta’s remote work rebels
Nonsense- All signs point to a late summer COVID wave
- American States As Real People Generated by AI
- LG now sells this bizarre TV in a suitcase, and I must have it
Listener Feedback- What is AWS after the Chasm?
Conferences- Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.
- Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
- October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop, sign up!
- October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Costco | Acquired Podcast
- Matt: Lenovo Go Wireless Split Keyboard, decent clone of Microsoft Sculpt keyboard
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49 min - Episode 428: Three steps into a 10k race
This week, Brandon and Coté are joined by a special guest host, Brian Gracely. We discuss HashiCorp's transition to BSL and break down the recent interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Plus, some thoughts on the use of the word "orthogonal."
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 428
Runner-up Titles- I like T-Bone
- Re:invent the T-Bone
- Byzantine Bramble Path
- This show isn’t three hours, but it could be
- Those who are satisfied do not speak.
Rundown- BSL
- As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending
- HashiCorp changes its source licence to BSL
- HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License
- Craig Box on LinkedIn: Hashicorp did a thing, and many people are responding with a variant of…
- There’s no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky — Decoder with Nilay Patel
Relevant to your Interests- Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber
- Why our vacation days have been vanishing
- BlueJeans, Verizon's Google Meet competitor you've never heard of, is shutting down
- Clouded Judgement 8.11.23 - Datadog Consumption Trends
- Check Point buys Perimeter 81 for $490M to enhance its security tools for hybrid and remote workers
- Open Source Canvas
- Amazon warns workers to come back into the office
- Millions of Americans' health data stolen after MOVEit hackers targeted IBM
- Dynatrace to Acquire Rookout to Deliver Code Debugging in Production Environments
- FOSSY panelists talk rights; what about responsibilities?
- Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy | TechCrunch
Nonsense- Why Taco Bell's free taco giveaway is happening everywhere but New Jersey | CNN Business
- Mike Young, co-founder of Chuy’s, has died
- Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
- Hitler Reacts to HashiCorp Transitioning to BSL
- Man eats nothing but Whataburger for a week to unlock the secrets of Texan identity | Boing Boing
Conferences- Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
- August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
- Explore EU CFP is open.
- Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.
- Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
- October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop
- October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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: Oppenheimer
- Brian: The Rundown (newsletter), Prompts Daily (newsletter), The Cloudcast (podcast)
- Coté: Marriott Elements Hotels
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Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
1 hr 16 min - Episode 427: You must be this tall to be a customer
This week, we discuss Open Source licensing, Cloud Earnings and presentations without slides. Plus, Coté shares his minimal-tech vacation strategy and Matt Ray spills Orange Juice on his keyboard.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 427
Runner-up Titles- Girl do you need some Squirrel
- Kinky Friedman would be proud
- Stallman would be spinning in his grave
- What does this guy like?
- I’ve got plenty of beer
- That’s not a feature, it’s a bug
- Never a Marketplace
Rundown- The open source licensing war is over
- Clouded Judgement 8.4.23 - Cloud Giants Q2 Update
- Amazon reports blowout profit, beats on sales and issues optimistic guidance
Relevant to your Interests- Amazon to invest $7.2b in Israel as it rolls out local cloud data region
- Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
- As Cruise Expands To Los Angeles, Self-Driving's Breakout Moment Has Arrived
- Billionaire Larry Ellison plotted with Trump aides on call about overturning election
- Dell Confirms Sales Layoffs As Part Of New Partner-Led Storage Strategy | CRN
- For Meta, the big AI play is shoring up its ad business
- Corey Quinn on Gartner MQ
- Slack's latest redesign has a dedicated DM tab and a Discord-style Activity view
- Downfall
- Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office
- Even Zoom is making staff return to the office now
- Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates
- Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out
- Zoom CEO admits mistake as terms-of-service changes raise AI fears
- WeWork warns of bankruptcy risk after years of losses
- Python moves to remove the GIL and boost concurrency
- Exclusive: Amazon in talks to become anchor investor in Arm ahead of IPO
Nonsense- Analysis | LK-99 and the Desperation for Scientific Discovery
- Disney discontinues DVD and Blu-ray production in Australia effective immediately
- Google Web Environment Integrity draft draws developer rage
- Google Meet plays Oscars music and credits roll as meeting ends
Conferences- Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
- August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
- Explore EU CFP is open.
- Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.
- Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
- October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop
- October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
- November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
- If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
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Recommendations- Brandon:
- What to Know About Scleral Contact Lenses
- Keratoconus Eye Doctors Map
- The Keratoconus Specialist List
- Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
- Why is Lala's Little Nugget in Austin always decorated for Christmas?
- Matt: Rechargeable cordless Waterpik
- Coté: “How to Draw Fantasy Map Trees and Forests - 5 easy styles to make your maps look awesome,” and playlist of related how to videos.
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