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November 22, 2024Episode 494: We are going to move the couch
This week, we cover Netflix’s streaming hiccups, cloud earnings updates, Red Hat’s CNCF donations, and the potential sale of Chrome. Plus, a few thoughts on parenting.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 494
Runner-up Titles
The dog peed on it.
Jamin’s favorite Excel macros.
Change up the noodles.
0.7 good tips there
The tiniest of rebellions
Win one for the stockholders
Candor
A datacenter with a gift shop.
VP of Cables has cucumber water with VP of Monitors.
You can’t open source a monitor.
Rundown
Netflix
Netflix’s Boxing Event, Customer Acquisition vs. Churn Mitigation, Accounting for Events
Disney sets India Cricket Viewership Record for TV, streaming during World Cup
Netflix Culture
Earnings
Amazon Reports Record $15.3 Billion Profit
Clouded Judgement 11.1.24 - Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Meta on AI and CapEx
Amazon Earnings, Robotics and Amazon’s Expanding 1P Business
Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity
Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud
Going Open Source
Red Hat to Donate Podman Along With Other Container Tools to CNCF
Salesforce’s Heroku platform open-sources Twelve Factor project
Twelve-Factor App Methodology is now Open Source
DOJ Will Push Google to Sell off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly
Relevant to your Interests
These are the passwords you definitely shouldn’t be using
Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems
New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
AI companies hit a scaling wall
Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
Clouded Judgement 11.14.24 - Market Tipping to Growth
For the first time in 25 years, the number of software engineers dropped
The CNCF's plan to crowdfight patent trolls
Maybe Bluesky has “won”
Having 30,000 followers makes you a celebrity, UK advertising watchdog rules
The Influence of Bell Labs
Leaked Amazon memos identify critical flaws in the upcoming AI version of Alexa
RIP to RPA: The Rise of Intelligent Automation | Andreessen Horowitz
Twenty is building an open source alternative to Salesforce
Chips
RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have
Arm to Cancel Qualcomm Chip Design License
The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
Intel losses hit $16.6B as restructuring efforts take a toll
Intel Was Just Dropped From the Dow
How much Apple Silicon improves with each release
Nonsense
Bojangles to install ordering kiosks across its system
'Simpsons'-themed broadcast means Bengals-Cowboys won't be flexed
Listener Feedback
Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG
LibreLinkUp Status Bar a VS Code extension to display good glucose level in the status bar
Conferences
CfgMgmtCamp, February 2rd to 5th.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
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Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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Recommendations
Brandon: Silo Season 2
Matt: Followup - Spotify Premium limits audiobooks to 10 hours a month 😞
Coté: YouTube — IMG_0001.
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1h 5min
November 15, 2024Episode 493: Stay in the sandbox
This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 493
Runner-up Titles
Yes, No, Maybe
Infinite Password Loop
Bring your kids to work day: passwords.
Password Talk
Escaping characters
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Don’t hire people with pets
Eats AWS stuff natively.
I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox
Enron for cloud purchasing
Rundown
OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation
Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance
VMware
Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
M&A
Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps
Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
VMware
Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly.
RTO
Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals
Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half
Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'
Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week
Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great!
Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs”
Relevant to your Interests
Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI
Threads has 275 M Monthly Users
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its global workforce
From IaC to Cloud Management: Pulumi's Evolution Story
For Jeff Bezos and his businesses, Washington has become more important
Russian court fines Google $2 decillion
GitHub Next | GitHub Spark
The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM
Meta says open sourcing Llama models will be a money-saver
Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again
Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types
Nintendo Just Launched a Music Streaming App, and It's Surprisingly Good
Why The US Military Chose Silicon-Graphene Batteries
Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It
Curbside charging is coming to Michigan.
Nintendo says the Switch successor will be compatible with Switch games
Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference?
Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)
Thunderbolt 5: Only Necessary for the Most Demanding Uses
Guide to Selling Your Company
The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter
IronCalc
Neptyne is shutting down
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama
Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance
Automattic's new site tracks how many websites left WP Engine following feud
Cloudflare Blocks Automattic's WP Engine Tracker For Phishing
We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog
Nonsense
'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians
Listener Feedback
Anova Precision™ Oven 2.0
Conferences
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
CfgMgmtCamp, February 2rd to 5th.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon:
Overcast features: Queue and Uploads
Pixelmater Pro
Matt: Hardcore History: Wrath of the Khans podcast
Wiz Ugly Sweaters Giveaway
Coté: Political Wire
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1h 12min
November 08, 2024Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance
Brandon interviews Aran Khanna, CEO of Archera, on user privacy, his work on DeepLens at AWS, and Archera’s "cloud insurance" model. Plus, Aran shares how he lost his Facebook internship before it started.
Show Links
Why it's not your fault that you're sharing too much online
Get started with Archera
Archera.ai
Contact Aran
LinkedIn: Aran Khanna
Twitter: arankhanna
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: Aran Khanna.
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51min
November 01, 2024Episode 491: The OSS Money Trap
This week, we discuss the latest DORA report and what happens when open-source projects make money. Plus, some thoughts on Halloween abroad in the Netherlands and Australia.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 491
Runner-up Titles
This is a lifestyle business.
The Benioff Line.
Mahalo
The innings in the marathon
We’re left picking up the trash
20 pounds of crap in a 10 pound sack
Focus on all parts of the chain
If any open source project creates value, it’s going to create resentment.
The Open Source Success Paradox
Mad King for Cash. (In the world of Brandon’s mind.)
Rundown
DORA
2024 State of DevOps Report
Listener Chris did some live PDF reading in the SDT Slack
Key findings and takeaways from this year’s State of DevOps report
DORA Community of Practice
AI is terrible at shift-left (DORA Models and Practices)
Trademarks and OSS
The Wordpress Drama Interview (this got cited in a lawsuit
Elasticsearch is open source, again with Shay Banon
Linkerd Forever
Relevant to your Interests
Excel enters its 40th year
San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Ghosts in the Machine - JSTOR Daily
Apple opens Private Cloud Compute to public scrutiny
#1467 OpenCost Incubation Proposal #1046 (vote closed)
Big Blue
Balatro creator admits his attempt to 100% his own roguelike game before the mobile port was doomed, and now he has "some words for John Balatro"
We finally have an 'official' definition for open source AI
Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad have USB-C
Nonsense
Severance season two teaser trailer shows the world's worst return-to-office policy in action
Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team
Listener Feedback
T-Mobile back up Home Internet
Conferences
VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: ESPN, Disney+ to Stream Live NFL Game Set in the World of ‘The Simpsons’
Matt: Audio books on Spotify
200,000+ Audiobooks Are Now Available to Spotify Premium Listeners in the U.S
Coté: Impro book. paper and pen. Best The Economist cover ever.
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1h 7min
October 25, 2024Episode 490: AI's use UI's
This week, we talk about Anthropic's new AI agent, cloud exits, and why BMC is splitting up. Plus, a quick update on the WordPress drama and some thoughts on Amsterdam’s autumn weather.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 490
Runner-up Titles
The Abyss Looks Into You
ROI Stuff
RTO Agent
Rundown
AI Agents
The AI agents have arrived
Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
Wordpress
Open source royalty and mad kings
Casey Newton on Mullenweg
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
Cloud Exits
Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years
There's a lot of private cloud out there
BMC
BMC Announces the Creation of Two Independent Companies
Doubling down on AI and splitting at BMC Connect 2024
Relevant to your Interests
#1046 OpenCost Incubation Proposal
US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case
ChatGPT Crossed a Revenue Milestone and (Re)Started a Gold Rush
Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers
AT&T claims VMware offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
CEO Kurian: 'When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn't Have a Chance'
AMD looks to new chips to grab share from Intel, Nvidia
The list of major companies requiring employees to return to the office
Avoiding a Geopolitical Open Source Apocalypse
Overview of current needs and possibilities in enterprise-y FinOps
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
Eric Schmidt on electronic warfare
700 Ubisoft workers go on three-day strike to protest company’s new return-to-office policy
Amazon's cloud boss on Thursday told employees who are unhappy with the company's new five-day in-office mandate they can leave for other companies.
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.
Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its "Autonomous" Robots Look More Capable
How Google is changing to compete with ChatGPT
Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation
Sophos to Acquire Secureworks to Accelerate Cybersecurity Services and Technology for Organizations Worldwide
Chick-fil-A is releasing its own entertainment app, with family-friendly shows and podcasts
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm
Citi reaps rewards from modernization investments
Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
How Wiz Became the Fastest Software Company to Hit $500M & Its Path to $1B
In a global first, quantum computers crack RSA and AES data encryption
Google Executive Overseeing Search and Advertising Leaves Role
Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"
The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
Twitter users flock to Bluesky as 500,000 join in a day amid controversial blocking changes
Nvidia's Blackwell AI Processors Are Sold Out For Next 12 Months
Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey - AWS
Nonsense
What the Waffle House Index says about Hurricane Milton
Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) on X
The Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Gaming Citi Bikes
The VW ID. Buzz was worth the seven-year wait
Listener Feedback
World’s Largest Buffalo Monument
20+ of Canada's Largest Roadside Attractions
Our big things vs their big things
Conferences
VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon:
Tailscale
Ozlo Sleepbuds hands-on: resurrected and I’ve slept so good
Coté:
Hire Caleb Marques as an Cybersecurity Intern (Coté’s Nephew)
What Artists Wear, Charlie Porter (much better cover on Penguin edition)
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1h 12min
October 18, 2024 Episode 489: Whitney Lee: From Wedding Photographer to Cloud-Native DevRel
This episode is from the reboot of Software Defined Interviews. Whitney Lee joins Coté to discuss her varied career path, from artist and wedding photographer to her career in DevRel within the cloud-native world. They kick off this revamped series with an engaging conversation. Expect new episodes of Software Defined Interviews every two weeks!
Subscribe at softwaredefinedinterviews.com.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 489.
Full show notes for Software Defined Interivews Episode 83.
Special Guest: Whitney Lee.
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1h 27min
October 11, 2024Episode 488: Am I Here for the Mission or the Paycheck?
This week, we discuss WordPress paying employees to quit, the perils of management by fear, and Matt shutting down his datacenter. Plus, the definitive top 5 ranking of Australia’s iconic Big Things.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 488
Runner-up Titles
The Spirit of Open Source
Debating ‘Benevolent’
The Hero 1-Day Guy
The Mullenweg Way
He has Been Great for Podcasting
Spider Vacuuming
Rundown
A Guide To 30 Of Australia's Iconic Big Things
More WordPress
WordPress cofounder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him
The WordPress Saga: Does Matt Mullenwegg Want a Fork or Not?
Automattic demanded web host pay $32M annually for using WordPress trademark
WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power
Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’
Automattic Alignment
RTO or GFTO / Oxide
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI's product focus raises safety concerns as key execs depart
Wayback Machine integrated into Google search
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with better dashboard, security
Gmail adding redesigned summary cards to your inbox with ‘Happening soon’
How I exited the cloud
As data center usage heats up, Submer raises $55.5M to cool things down
Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan
A Look Back at Q2 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings
Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads
OpenWrt One WiFi 6 router samples are now available for $89 - Liliputing
Elastic CTO Shay Banon on suing AWS and returning to OSS
AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and closing services
Bitcoin’s inventor is a mystery. An HBO filmmaker thinks he found him.
HBO doc names Bitcoin creator suspect - who says ‘not me’
Apple Tweaks Screen Recording App Permissions to Decrease Popup Frequency
Nonsense
Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Austin, Texas - Waymo
NYC Costco shoppers empty shelves in panic over port strike
Conferences
VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon:
REI Bike Maintenance
AppleCare+ for iPhone
JohnnyTankless
Matt: This Is How You Lose the Time War
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58min
October 04, 2024Episode 487: WordPress Drama and Chicken Sandwiches
This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 487
Runner-up Titles
Time change is a-comin’.
Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.
Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.
Waffle Chips
Free Refills and Ice
The tyranny of no free refills
Take the Five Guy approach
You can’t change the rules in the race
Fill the square
Rundown
Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
Wordpress
Big chronological list of WordPress/WP Engine drama
The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
How much would it cost to fork WordPress?
Charitable Contributions
OpenAI
New funding to scale the benefits of AI
OpenAI Is A Bad Business
Relevant to your Interests
Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans
OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Transition
Intel's Transformation 2.0
Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide
Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit
Hurricane Helene May Have Given Intel
Pure Storage announces VM assessment service
Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I
Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models
The streaming wars are over.
Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon
Trump Says He'll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power
Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too
Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster
Observe Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Observability, Closes Series B Funding Of $145M
How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry
How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards
Nonsense
A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things
Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
Listener Feedback
Observability Architect (Remote, USA)
Conferences
Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
GoTech World, Coté speaking, Bucharest, Nov 12th and 13th.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon:
Balatro on the App Store
Cloud News of the Month - September 2024
Matt: Some Like it Hot
Coté:
Creaks
Software Defined Interviews relaunch, with Whitney Lee.
Photo Credits
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Artwork
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1h 9min
September 27, 2024Episode 486: Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 486
Runner-up Titles
I’m out of nuts, time to podcast
System Settings
Security, it never ends
Fancy Sysadmins
Providing needles for your balloons
Batman’s not real
What’s the opposite of a taboo
DevOps is not the tooling
Software gets old
Release the turbo button
Rundown
‎Windows App
PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
Has DevOps been "worth it" to you?
Renaming a few DevOpsDays to PlatformDays.
Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs
Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers
FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
Apple
Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence
Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia
Intel
Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
Wordpress Drama
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking
WP Engine responds
Relevant to your Interests
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims
Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project
Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’
Yaak Is Now Open Source
OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding
Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager
A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management
Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea.
Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems
Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership
John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this
The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors
Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok
Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses
Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout,
Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage
Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion
Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business
Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app
Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report
Nonsense
Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you.
Conferences
Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
SDT News & Community
Join our Slack community
Email the show: [email protected]
Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
Sponsor the show: [email protected]
Recommendations
Brandon: Use Magnifier on your iPhone or iPad
Matt: Ghosts
Coté: The Modern Myths.
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56min
September 20, 2024Episode 485: It's an Ending, That's Enough
This week, we discuss IBM acquiring Kubecost, AWS moving OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, and Amazon employees heading back to the office. Plus, some thoughts on what it means to be in "employee mode."
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 485
Runner-up Titles
That’s a good looking setup there
Feels like sweatpants
London’s busy, Amsterdam's laid back
AIFinOps
Mission Bankruptcy
The settings page is more than 1 page
Don’t get turned into hamburger, that’s the goal
Feature checkbox acquisition.
Employee Mode
Using people as a whiteboard.
Work on smarter things, not dumber things.
Rundown
Announcing Kubecost’s Acquisition by IBM!
AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation
Update from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on return-to-office plans and manager team ratio
JPMorgan creates new role overseeing junior bankers as Wall Street wrestles with workload concerns
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Value to $150 Billion
Lyft CEO keeps it real on his stock price compared to Uber
We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI
How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector
Wall Street Curbs Young Bankers’ Hours After Overwork Outcry
Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee
Intel Awarded up to $3B by the Biden-Harris Administration
Free 'JavaScript' from Legal Clutches of Oracle, Devs Petition
Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
Cisco's second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees
Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events
Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals
Nonsense
Polishing Cloth
United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes
Founder mode, baby #tech #founder #foundermode
Chipotle’s New Guac Robots Can Peel Your Avocados in 26 Seconds
LinkedIn Roaster - Brutal honesty for your profile
SpaceX Starlink has 2,500 airplanes under contract after United megadeal, director says
Passport renewals go digital to ease wait times for American travelers
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Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
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