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- Episode 445: It’s my sacred time
This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 445
Runner-up Titles- I feel very safe on an airplane
- We’re one mishap away from Lost
- Difference between the right decision and the safe decision
- First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo
- “Rice”
- They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck
- Figure out where all the yaml goes
Rundown- Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle
- Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix
- Apache Mesos
- Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
Relevant to your Interests- Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
- OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft
- Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric
- The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023
- Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads
- 'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’
- The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
- Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework
- Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions?
- Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units
- Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini
- Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin
- The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023
- WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake"
- Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud
- VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model
- Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos
- The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview
- HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth
- Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates
- Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less
Nonsense- Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade?
- It’s time for the Excel World Championships!
- Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video
- Committing to Costco
- 220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap
Conferences- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024
- DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 April 17-18, 2024
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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!
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Recommendations- Brandon: The Fund
- Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped
- Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit
- Coté: Sex Education, season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff)
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47 min - Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete
This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again!
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 444
Runner-up Titles- A.I. Arms Race
- Table 4 needs pork chops
- Run with that
- Thanks for not saving us from the AI
- The King of Cameos
- Rebels going to rebel
- Ivory Tower Scruples
- The sign of something
Rundown- OpenAI
- Sam Altman Out At OpenAI
- A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella
- OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too
- Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork
- Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch
- Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
- OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO
- Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
- OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman
- Who Controls OpenAI?
- Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson
- The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor
- Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI
- Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI
- Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns
- Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
- A.I. Arms Race
- Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever
- Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
- Google unveils Gemini
- Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft
- Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
- Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
- OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
Relevant to Your Interests- Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself'
- Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector
- New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview)
- Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach
- "We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more
- 534 startups have failed so far in 2023
- Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs
- Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
- Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts
- 'Return to Office' declared dead
- Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services
- US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day
- Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce
- Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog
- GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit
- It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan
- IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance
- Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators
- AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing
Nonsense- Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us.
- The Clock of the Long Now
Conferences- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024
- 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!
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- 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: Bookings with me in Outlook
- Matt: ortho-k
- Coté: Descript (for finding social clips), GMail, D&D in ChatGPT
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1 hr 5 min - Episode 443: Everything is maintenance
This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 443
Runner-up Titles- No Slack
- The Corporate Podcast.
- Quality of life stop
- Our roads diverge
- Eats a bag of llama
- Nobody wants to do a bake-off
- AI all the time
Rundown- AWS re:Invent
- Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services
- Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace
- AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
- Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g)
- Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class
- AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership
- AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS
- DGX Platform
- Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS
- Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock
- Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning
- Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock
- Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training
- Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers
- Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst
- Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation
- Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant
- New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
- Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics
- Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters
- Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available
- Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing
- AWS takes the cheap shots
- Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent
Relevant to your Interests- Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022
- Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach
- Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023
- Thoma Bravo to sell about $500 million in Dynatrace stock
- FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data
- AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent | TechCrunch
- Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
- Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media | TechCrunch
- Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024
- Amazon to launch car sales next year with Hyundai
- Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering
- Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding
- The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023
- DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers
- Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023
- Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware | Hock Tan
- Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval
- VMware is now part of Broadcom | VMware by Broadcom
- Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law
- Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
- Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
- Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity
- IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS
- Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated
- New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy
- VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake
- Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028
- IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete
- WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership
- Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn
- Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK)
- Apple announces RCS support for iMessage
- Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
- Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS.
Nonsense- Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors
- Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023
Listener Feedback- Matt’s Trackball: Amazon.com: Kensington Expert Trackball Mouse (K64325), Black Silver, 5"W x 5-3/4"D x 2-1/2"H : Electronics
Conferences- 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: The Complete History & Strategy of Visa
- Matt: Markdown in Google Docs
- Google Docs to Markdown
- Coté: pork chops, preferably thin sliced.
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1 hr 2 min - Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software
Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit.
Show Links- theCUBE
- SiliconANGLE
- Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery
- Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software
- Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source
- Our Open Source focus: Securing OSS is not optional
- Octopus wolfi
- Camino de Santiago
- My Walk on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, 2023
Contact Dustin- @DustinKirkland
- LinkedIn
SDT News & Hype- Join us in Slack.
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- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.
53 min - Episode 441: The whole point of AI is laziness
This week, we recap the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite, ponder the broader implications of A.I., provide an update on OpenCost, and share some thoughts on migrating child accounts to teen accounts.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 441
Runner-up Titles- I just want to do less
- Kill all the humans
- Madlibbing his keynotes
- They perked up and turned it off
- Legs are the difficult thing
- Everyone gets turned into a barnyard animal
Rundown- MSFT Ignite
- With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand - Source
- Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event
- Microsoft and Photonic join forces on the path to quantum at scale - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
- Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides - Microsoft Industry Blogs
- Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT
- OpenCost and Azure
- Announcing OpenCost Integration with Microsoft AKS Cost Analysis
- Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
Relevant to your Interests- Microsoft restricts employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT
- Scoop: Amazon is ditching Android for Fire TVs, smart displays
- Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
- Clouded Judgement 11.10.23
- Keycaps » Special Edition Drop » dbrand
- In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack
- Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)
- 2023: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Menlo Ventures
- Threat Spotlight: Reported ransomware attacks double as AI tactics take hold
- YouTube, Ad Blockers & the Advertising "Tax"
- Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff
- Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says
- RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 released
- Amazon will officially merge Comixology with Kindle in December
Nonsense- AWS staffer shows off former-prison offices on social media
- Buc-ee’s and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to add high-speed chargers
- In the Office Auto-Reply Emails for a Hybrid Work Schedule
Listener Feedback- Facets | Helping you adopt Platform Engineering
- 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests
Conferences- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
- Code BF24 gives $300 off any professional ticket until Nov. 27.
- 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: The Killer
- Matt: Keychron Q10 (Alice Layout) with Gateron G Brown Pro switches and a wooden palm rest
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1 hr 4 min - Episode 440: KubeCon Chicago Recap
This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 440
Runner-up Titles- Keep on keeping on
- They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects
- It was USB thing
- If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report
- The platter days
- Wait a second, I’m a pro
- Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition
- Vanity Metrics are for Vanity
- Rub some A.I. on it
- Rubbing A.I. on all of it
- Of course this is the way you’re going to do it
Rundown- Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
- CNCF
- October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project
- Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments
- OpenAI
- OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
- All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference
- ChatCSV
- How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
- OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 | TechCrunch
- CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest
- Andrew says gets switch tester
Relevant to your Interests- Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community
- IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer alternative benefit
- AWS to Azure services comparison - Azure Architecture Center
- PagerDuty To Acquire Jeli, Bolstering its End-to-End, Automated Incident Management Solution for the Enterprise
- Verdict reached in Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial
- Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud
- The GPU Math", AI's impact on Cloud Rev and Capex
- Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix
- Europe is in Decline: A Concerning Future Ahead
- Data observability platform Kloudfuse launches out of stealth with $23M
- Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
- Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
- Datadog stock surges 30% after cloud company beats estimates, revises guidance up
- Elevating Cloud-Native Innovation: Craig Box joins the Solo.io Team!
- Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft's GitHub • DEVCLASS
- Understanding Open Source Adoption: Insights from the 9th State of the Software Supply Chain Report.
- New Report Shows Disconnect Between Developers and Security Teams on Software Supply Chain Security Priorities and Responsibilities
- Nvidia announces January event after rumors of an RTX 4080 Super launch
- Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement
- Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries - The Next Platform
Nonsense- Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
- Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami
Listener Feedback- Software Defined Talk now available on YouTube Music
Conferences- Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
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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!
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Recommendations- Brandon:
- Same as Ever
- Morgan Housel | Acquired Podcast
- The Morgan Housel Podcast: My New Book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
- Matt:
- DisplayLink for multiple external monitors on M1 Macs (Asahi Linux discussion)
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1 hr 2 min - Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad
This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 439
Runner-up Titles- Costservability
- Just a second
- 439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
- We’ve never made a mistake
- A million Amazon users of Copilot
- Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
- Two Turntables and a Microphone
- Default Search Engines
Rundown- Cloud Earnings Review
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis
- Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business
- Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23
- OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring
- Free Software Product
- Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution
- Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide
- Business Models
- Default Search Engine
- Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine
- Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
- “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge
- Paid Social
- Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix
- Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription
- YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs
- SolarWinds
- SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack
- Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale
- Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud
- Apple
- Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips
- Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone
Relevant to your Interests- The Cloud Computer
- Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
- 12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker
- X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner
- Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users
- Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
- Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street
- VMware closes its home for experimental software
- Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor
- Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
- What's new in Red Hat OpenShift
- Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model
- Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team
- Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon'
- Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software
Nonsense- Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs
- Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130?
- The restaurant nearest Google
- Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
- Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity
- WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ
Listener Feedback- Sudesh from Akami is hosting a happy hour at KubeCon
Conferences- Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there.
- 20% off with VMware discount code: 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: Bodies
- Matt: Anti-recommendation: Lenovo Go wireless ergonomic keyboard
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1 hr 17 min - Episode 438: This is a 20-year bug
This week, we discuss Microsoft and Google Cloud earnings, the future of passwords, the validity of DORA Metrics, and share some thoughts on esoteric Excel bug fixes.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 438
Runner-up Titles- Spicy takes and f-bombs
- Not pants
- Real scientists don’t use Excel
- We fixed it
- Private equity is coming for you
- Jerks on the phone… go!
- They’re going to steal our eyes and thumbs
Rundown- Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data
- Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac
- Cloud News and Earnings
- Clouded Judgement 10.20.23
- Microsoft blows past earnings estimates as cloud growth comes in hot
- Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users: CEO Nadella
- Jamin Ball on LinkedIn: On the Microsoft earnings call
- Google-parent Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft’s cloud booms
- How AI-driven software creation tools speed up your development
- Amazon launches European 'sovereign' cloud as EU data debate rages
- Passwords
- Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit
- 1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise
- Passkeys (Passkey Authentication)
- Apple may be planning a surprise October iMac announcement
- Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics
- Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal
Relevant to your Interests- Broadcom and VMware Announce Election Deadline for VMware Stockholders to Elect Merger Consideration
- Beijing weighs delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal
- Announcing Neptyne for Google Sheets
- Discord expands online marketplace as it tries to justify $15 billion valuation
- Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'
- Amazon managers can now sack employees who won’t work from the office 3 days a week
- Amazon’s Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party
- US v Google Antitrust Trial Transcripts I The Capitol Forum
- Crane Venture Partners Flight 2023
- How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')
- What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable?
- Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?
- Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal
- Stay in EU, comply with EU law: EU’s digital chief warns X’s Musk
- Meta sued by 42 attorneys general for addictive features targeting kids
- Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome
- Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging
- The founder of startup Bonobos hid a bipolar diagnosis for decades. Now he’s on a mission to destigmatize mental health at work
- Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial
- Fed wants to lower 'swipe fees,' a potential blow to banks and credit card giants
Nonsense- Costco CEO Craig Jelinek to step down Jan. 1. COO Ron Vachris will take over
- McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Listener Feedback- Omnivore
Conferences- Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there.
- 20% off with VMware discount code: 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!
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1 hr 6 min - Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle
This week, we discuss Amazon embracing Microsoft Office 365, offer some SBF hot takes, and review the lessons Docker learned when building an open-source business. Plus, we share thoughts on the new Apple Pencil, USB-C, and some Tim Cook fan fiction.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 437
Runner-up Titles- My enemy’s Word Processor is my friend.
- You know what we should do, we should just meet about it.
- A downgrade would be an upgrade.
- Megadeal’s a great word.
- It worked for Shingy
- Use my template.
Rundown- Amazon moves to the cloud
- Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document
- Report: Amazon will use Microsoft 365 cloud productivity tools in $1B ‘megadeal’
- SBF
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short
- Number Goes Up
- Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
- OSS
- Business Success with Open Source
- HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless...
- Docker at 10 — 3 Things We Got Right, 3 Things We Got Wrong
- How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects
- VMware: What China Might Ask Of Broadcom Is Concerning Markets (NYSE:VMW)
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- IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29 billion in back taxes
- Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports
- Data transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment | TechCrunch
- Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB
- Apple reaches settlement with Caltech in $1 billion patent lawsuit - 9to5Mac
- We tried that, didn’t work
- Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com
- Apple wants to update iPhones in-store without opening the packaging
- Atlassian content cloud migration will work. Users, less so
- Opinion | The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead
- Minecraft becomes first video game to hit 300m sales
- Marc Andreessen -- e/acc on X
- Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here
- Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup
- SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML
- Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup
- Amazon quietly rolls out support for passkeys, with a catch | TechCrunch
- The price of managed cloud services
- Microsoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era
- UK Atlassian users complain of migration dead end
- Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners
- Convicted Fugees rapper Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft bungled closing argument
- IRS to offer a new option to file your tax return
- Welcoming Loom to the Atlassian team
Nonsense- Costco sold $9B of clothing in 2022
- United's new boarding system prioritizes window seats
Listener Feedback- Software Engineering at Google
- Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Platform Engineering
Conferences- 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!
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- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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49 min - 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)
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- 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!
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