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- Episode 495: The most honorable of mentions
This week, we discuss the relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering, Gartner’s take on Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, and Nvidia’s search for new use cases. Plus, a listener chimes in to clear up some Podman misconceptions.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 495
Runner-up Titles- Prove me wrong AWS, prove me wrong
- Please turn off the lights
- Who’s googling for “shift left”?
- I realized what they were talking about, it’s computers
- They’re talking but you’re not listening
- Piling on the dead horse
- We gave this guy $5 billion dollars, check him out
- Podman is Pepsi
- Nobody’s paying for that
- Niche Player
Rundown- Platform Engineering Is The New DevOps
- SRE Books
- Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
- AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
- Nvidia
- AI Easts the World — Benedict Evans
- Nvidia revenue almost doubles on the year even as growth slows from previous quarter
- Nvidia’s Huang Spreads the Gospel of AI in Search of More Customers
- Amazon Updates Homegrown Chips, Even as It Grows Nvidia Ties
- Nvidia Earnings, Strawberry and Video, The Networking Question
- Podman:
- Podman in Action | Red Hat Developer
- Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 164 - Podman, with Daniel Walsh and Brent Baude
- DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling | Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more
Relevant to your Interests- Microsoft Ignite 2024: Everything Revealed in 15 Minutes
- Microsoft Ignite 2024: all the news from Microsoft’s IT pro event
- AWS Lambda turns ten – looking back and looking ahead | Amazon Web Services
- Kyndryl insiders claim new business is scarce
- Snowflake snaps up data management company Datavolo
- Northflank raises $22M to make Kubernetes work for your developers
- Overcast adds new listening stats and 48-hour undo features
- Reddit was down — latest updates on major outage
- Wiz acquires Dazz for $450M to expand its cybersecurity platform
- Comcast is spinning off its cable TV business
- Snowflake’s shares surge higher on blowout earnings,
- Clouded Judgement 11.22.24 - Is Software Back?
- WordPress.com owner Automattic snaps up grammar checker Harper
- DHH Wants To Make Web Dev Easy Again, With Ruby on Rails
- Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
- Kamal 2.0 Released
- 'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
- Pentagon audit highlights woeful ERP systems
- Delivering 4K Video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18
- First Google Axion Processor Now Available: Claims Best Performance in Cloud Market
- Glassdoor Worklife Trends 2025 - Glassdoor US
Nonsense- It looks like Backstage is working out.
- European Showers
- KFC’s latest partnership is with Build-A-Bear Workshop
- Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady
Listener Feedback- Andrew created the Multiple Tab to PDF Printer
Conferences- CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
- 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: Cursor
- Matt: iPhone Mirroring in macOS 15
- Coté: Insta360 Flow Pro gimbal
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1 hr 11 min - Episode 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]
- 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: Silo Season 2
- Matt: Followup - Spotify Premium limits audiobooks to 10 hours a month 😞
- Coté: YouTube — IMG_0001.
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1 hr 5 min - Episode 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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1 hr 12 min - Episode 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.
51 min - Episode 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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1 hr 7 min - Episode 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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1 hr 12 min - 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.
1 hr 27 min - Episode 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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58 min - Episode 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.
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1 hr 9 min - Episode 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
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- A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management
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- 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
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