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August 30, 2024Episode 482: Tip Jar Economy
This week, we discuss our AI usage, recap key announcements from VMware Explore, and examine RedMonk's analysis of how open-source licensing impacts revenue and market cap. Plus, some thoughts on power bricks.
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Runner-up Titles
Information wants to be free, yo
Stay In The Bushes
Tip Jar Culture
Tell Me About Meatloaf
I want you in here with me
Platforms For Building Platforms
Private SaaS
Mom and Dad having a fun conversation on a road trip
I have my special chargers
I want it back
Rundown
Sign up for Coté’s Newsletter
IDC's Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending
Private Cloud at VMware Explore - Notebook
Cursor.com
OSS
Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes
Coté’s proposal for how to fix it.
Another Thread from Adam Jacob on OSS
Zoom Docs Is Here. Is It Any Good?
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Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny
Snowflake Outlook Fails to Ease Investor Fears of Competition
Microsoft revamps reporting structure to give better visibility into cloud consumption revenue
More than 28% of Americans are searching for new jobs — the highest rate in a decade
Microsoft is reportedly making more branding changes for Copilot business services
SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in helpdesk product
Intel has hired Morgan Stanley, other advisers for activist defense
The Future of the Trade Show Industry – Are We In Danger of Losing Our Soul?
The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
Grafana Labs raises $270M
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software,
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack
Sonos App Debacle Leaves Company Racing to Save Its Reputation
Nonsense
Chick-fil-A Opens First Elevated Drive-Thru Concept
How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche
NASA Picks SpaceX to Rescue Astronauts Marooned in Space
The startup teaching your computer how to smell
Conferences
DevOpsDays Antwerp, Coté Speaking, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary.
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024.
SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21st, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ozlo Sleepbuds.
Coté: Original Cloud Foundry launch videos, April, 2011.
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1 hr 16 min
August 23, 2024Episode 481: There Never Was a Rug
This week, we discuss CockroachDB's relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.
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Runner-up Titles
Put in your AirPods
People’s lives are boring
More than zero
Know your risks
Violating the social contract
Keeping my “Rug Pull” card
Love of the code
I call it a waiting room
Rundown
Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
Justin Warren’s newsletter this week.
Oxide: Whither CockroachDB? (RFD) and Whither CockroachDB? (Podcast)
Remote Work
Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
New Starbuck’s CEO gets remote office
Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?
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Exclusive: Sonos considers relaunching its old app
Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues
Palo Alto Networks apologizes as sexist marketing misfires
NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
Threads is testing a slew of new features like scheduling and analytics
Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals
FTC finalizes rule to prohibit sale or purchase of fake reviews
Goodfire raises $7M for its ‘brain surgery’-like AI observability platform
Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other
Jeff Bezos’ famed leadership rules are being tested inside Amazon
Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"
Swiss Startup Connects 16 Human Mini-Brains to Create Low Energy 'Biocomputer'
AMD to acquire server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion in cash and stock
The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things
Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity 'technocapitalist' school
Inside the Snowflake-Databricks Rivalry, and Why Both Fear Microsoft
Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On
Morpheus Data Origin Story
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire Morpheus Data
Nonsense
Waymos honking
Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV
Conferences
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW
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Brandon: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Coté: Long walks with VLC.
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1 hr 10 min
August 16, 2024Episode 480: No offsite content
This week, we revisit our 2021 Intel CEO predictions, discuss Hyperscaler AI investment concerns and debate LinkedIn content. Plus, which products could thrive if Google were broken up?
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Runner-up Titles
New camera, dog is still here
Teenagers can put away some meat
We operated at a loss last year because of BBQ
Dog ate your Internet
Getting out of a Zoom
Under the couch data center
Excuse me can I plug in my Satellite Dish
A lot of 86-stuff
You shouldn’t be AI-ing that much
Out of tokens, again
Never bet against inertia
Home of Markdown
One cord, all power.
Rundown
Looking back at Intel Predicatons
SDT Episode 281
Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio
How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times
Is AI too expensive for HyperScalers?
Microsoft’s AI Dreams Make for an Expensive Reality
Amazon's cloud unit reports 19% revenue growth, topping estimates
Big Tech Fails to Convince Wall Street That AI Is Paying Off
Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans
Are all LinkedIn posts just a form of virtue signaling?
There’s One Thing You Really Don’t Need to Do After Getting Laid Off
Lighting round
US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
H-E-B is finally testing Apple Pay,
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Why CSV is still king
Missing Semester IAP 2020
iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap
Sonos reportedly delaying two upcoming product releases to fix its misbehaving app
Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
Background check company breached, nearly 3 billion exposed in data theft
Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
The Wizard of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success
Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers
Datadog, MongoDB, Snowflake in spotlight as cloud consumption rose in July: BofA
The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
Google takes another startup out of the AI race
How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
Delta CEO offers employees free flights after CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos
Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help
External Technical Root Cause Analysis
Nonsense
not sure why barking at it didn't help tbh. 12/10 for both #weratedogs
Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol
Listener Feedback
How South of the Border Keeps Going After All These Years
Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
XBox Game Pass Ultimate
Conferences
DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW20
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Recommendations
Brandon: Google Colab
Matt: macOS Universal Control
Coté: Present & Correct.
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1 hr 17 min
August 09, 2024Episode 479: Packing Cube Victory
This week, we discuss what people buy for Kubernetes, the latest cloud earnings, enterprise product management, and health records coming to apps. Plus, why I-95 is the most important U.S. interstate.
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Runner-up Titles
Eat some sausages
I can’t eat good cheese
Certified Thought Leader
Rundown
What people buy for Kubernetes
Exploring the State of Cloud Native App Platforms and VMware Tanzu
Clouded Judgement 8.2.24 - Uncertainty Everywhere
Your health records are coming to new apps. Here's why
Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)
Coté’s recent talk about AI in healthcare with JT Perry
Now is the time for innovation in healthcare, with JT Perry
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Amazon countersues Nokia for a dozen patent infringements
SentinelOne CEO On CrowdStrike Outage: ‘Not Just An Honest Mistake’
Apple snubs Nvidia for AI training kit, chooses Google
Kyndryl records first quarterly profit as consulting strengthens
Intel to Cut Jobs, Suspend Dividend in Cost-Saving Push
Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
Apple’s pause of its RTP campus may reflect bigger changes at work
Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
AWS breaking changes and price increases
Killed by AWS tracker
Nonsense
Please Like Me
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Interstate 95
Conferences
DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Brandon:
Cloud News of the Month - July 2024
Microsoft Volume II | Acquired Podcast – Azure History starts at 3:35 mark
Coté: cheese slicers and photos from Finland: 001 and 002.
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1 hr 17 min
August 02, 2024Episode 478: Beware of the Llama
This week, we discuss Meta making Llama "open source," Microsoft (over)investing in AI, and AWS doing some spring cleaning. Plus, a lightning round and lamenting the end of Southwest Airlines' open seating.
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Runner-up Titles
Meat in pastry
Llama in sheep’s clothing
Cookies again
Joining the ranks of the rank
I don’t like it, but I like the things he said
Rug pull source
Where is the source for legless VR?
Be quiet and do your job
They’re all ruthless
Rundown
Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating
Meta
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
Try Llama
Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump
MSFT
Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment
Azure outage
Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI
AWS Spring Cleaning
The end of the Everything Cloud
Codecommit - cannot create a repository
AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
CrowdStrike Follow Up
Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage
Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage
4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
Lighting Round
Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
100 million using WhatsApp across the United States
Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
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The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
Report: Apple beginning serious work on a foldable iPhone
Who will control the future of AI?
Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers
Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
Announcing Chainguard's Series C
ChatGPT highly anticipated Voice Mode to launch next week — here’s how to get it
CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This
Why open source is not a good strategy for startups.
CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too
Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations
Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence
The re:Invent session catalog was released
Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow
Lawrence Hecht on LinkedIn: Developer Unemployment at Highest Level Since 2019
Video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs
Nonsense
The Scale of Life
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Jobs – Senior Technical Marketing Manager - OpenShift Virtualization
Conferences
DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024 Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Brandon: Peacock's Gold Zone brings NFL Red Zone style coverage to the Olympics
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1 hr 7 min
July 26, 2024Episode 477: We’re an N-1 Organization
This week, we discuss the CrowdStrike outage, FinOps data exports, and the state of open-source forks. Plus, Matt shares some exciting exclusive news about his future!
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Runner-up Titles
Matt Ray Explains
Channel File 291
Documenting CYA
An intern did it
Default lifestyle strikes again
All the Nelson GIFs
Rundown
CrowdStrike
Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
12-hour timelapse of airline traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history
Flights grounded and offices hit as internet users face disruptions
TODAY (@TODAYshow) on X
George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) on X
CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare
Heard on the Street: CrowdStrike May Get More Than a Slap
What Happened to Digital Resilience?
SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC’s Fraud Case Over Hack
Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
Microsoft tried to get AV vendors to use APIs
House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
Crashes and Competition
The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning
Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
Announcing Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview) in AWS Billing and Cost Management
Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
Import and export Markdown in Google Docs
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
The Post-Valkey World
A tale of two forks - comparing Valkey/Redis and OpenTofu/Terraform!
Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up
Google-Backed Software Developer GitLab Eyes Sale, Reuters Says
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Google Open Sources 27B Parameter Gemma 2 Language Model
What It Really Takes to Build an AI Datacenter
State of Developer Experience 2024
The Return-to-Office Productivity Argument Is Over
A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web
The search for the random numbers that run our lives
OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model
Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets
Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
IBM shares jump on earnings and revenue beat
US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law
Nonsense
Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) agreed to buy Tex-Mex chain Chuy's
Leadership within a costco warehouse
If The Office took place at a car dealership
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
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Foundation Models - IBM watsonx.ai
Conferences
DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
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Brandon:
Austin FC
Presumed Innocent
The Contrarian
Matt: Crying Out Cloud podcast
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1 hr 11 min
July 19, 2024Episode 476: Bring a point of view
This week, we discuss Google possibly buying Wiz, why "meta work" leads to too many meetings, and why it took forty years to get spell check in Notepad. Plus, we share some thoughts on enjoying your vacation.
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Runner-up Titles
Enjoy the time
Everyone can get a beef rib at this year’s club.
We also need to go over your summariztion prompt, because mine is dog shit right now.
Make your own happiness
Grand unified theory of food - every culture has a tortilla and an empanada.
“Platform” is the new “Suite.”
A robust NO Answer
Writing a book report
Failure by lack of airport ads.
What is you five dollar chicken
I write to figure out what I am thinking
Rundown
There's a lot of private cloud out there
Google near deal to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion
Meta Work
White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now
Bullshit Jobs
Far Left Take
Vanguard’s Die-Hard Customers Have a Message for New CEO: ‘The Service Is Abysmal’
Measuring the impact of Developer Relations on Revenue
DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch
Agile Manifesto co-author on making process 'beacon of hope'
Relevant to your Interests
The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away
Google’s dark web monitoring service will soon be free for all users
Software Development Job Postings on Indeed
Samsung unveils its new Galaxy Ring, an AI-backed competitor to the Oura Ring
Does Social Media Cause Anything?
Redbox Owner to Shut Down Kiosk Business in Bankruptcy
Intuit to cut about 1,800 jobs as it looks to increase AI investments
Microsoft Exec Althoff: VMware Pricing Gave ‘The World The Greatest Gift Of All’
Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack
OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
I've Switched to Apple's Password Manager, and I'm Never Going Back
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation
Nonsense
Costco hikes membership fee for the first time since 2017
Costco plans to build 800-unit apartment complex in bid to ease housing crisis
Here's why the original Buc-ee's went up in flames in Luling
If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds
The Morning After: Dune-inspired spacesuit recycles astronauts’ urine into drinkable water
OldMapsOnline
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Conferences
Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th–5th, 2024
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024, September 19th–20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Brandon:
COTA Bike Night
The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag
Sharp Tech answers Brandon’s question about F1
Coté: Soulver.
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1 hr 41 min
July 12, 2024Episode 475: Calendar Math
This week, we discuss Mary Meeker's AI & Universities report, the CD Foundation's State of CI/CD Report, and share a few thoughts on DevRel. Plus, Coté gets fiber and is forced to watch soccer.
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Runner-up Titles
If not better, at least the same. The enterprise software buyer’s lament.
Order tokens at fantastical speeds.
They think I am an idiot
Cherry pick it from a survey
The Demo Matters
Rundown
Mary Meeker’s new report AI and Universities
State of CI/CD Report 2024 - CD Foundation
70% of people hadn't checked their code in for 12 months
Relevant to your Interests
Opinion | The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues
How Apple used Google's help to train its AI models
Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts
Clouded Judgement 7.5.24 - Declining Growth
Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
Mirantis Builds on OpenStack To Serve Up a VMware Alternative
Is this the biggest password leak ever uncovered? Researchers claim nearly 10 billion credentials under threat — here's what we know so far
We tested over a dozen laptops to see how Snapdragon compares to Intel, AMD, and Apple’s chips
Nonsense
Mark Zuckerberg's Lake Tahoe antics are getting even weirder
The Fried Chicken Sandwich Wars Are More Cutthroat Than Ever Before
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Conferences
Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY
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Brandon: Tailscale.
Coté: Moonbound.
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1 hr 11 min
July 05, 2024Episode 474: There’s at least a road to Nirvana
This week, we explore the reasons behind the slowdown in DevOps adoption, compare open-source and proprietary foundation models, and discuss how AI might simplify CI/CD implementation. Additionally, Matt takes on an Australian history quiz.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 474
Runner-up Titles
No silver bullets
If you aspire for nothing, you’re done.
We can hang out with the boulder at the bottom
Who owns the black box
You have to want to put in the effort
Anyone on the bleeding edge is going to bleed
Rundown
A Eulogy for DevOps
DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either
The InfraRed Report from Redpoint
Dan Davies Explains Why Accountability Sinks Are Everywhere Now
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Indonesia won't pay an $8 million ransom after a cyberattack compromised its national data center
Odaseva raises $54M to secure Salesforce users
More YouTube Premium plans are coming
Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters
Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact
How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact
Infrastructure as Code Landscape Overview 2024
Infrastructure as Code reminds me of “make run-all”
Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? / Oxide
“Everything’s frozen”: Ransomware locks credit union users out of bank accounts
Exclusive-Vista Equity in talks to hand over Pluralsight to creditors, sources s
Nonsense
Faces made of living skin make robots smile
Mandatory Texas vehicle safety inspections end in six months
Costco's bold new plan for the California housing crisis
Conferences
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June 28, 2024Episode 473: RESOLVED: Unscheduled Outage
This week, we discuss the 5 key trends from Bessemer’s State of the Cloud 2024 report. Plus, Matt makes a stock pick for the next 10 years!
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You have a thought piece, we’re gonna think about it
The Footloose Soundtrack
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Amazon Hits $2 Trillion Market Value as AI Frenzy Fuels Rally
State of the Cloud 2024
The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
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1Password is simplifying setup on new devices and adding 'Recovery codes'
Apple is winning in financial services
Anthropic’s latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, just released on Amazon Bedrock
What it Takes to Be Valued at >10x Rev
Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month
Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored?
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
Nvidia Is No Cisco, but It Is Getting Expensive
Microsoft shelves its underwater data center
With Pen and Paper in Hand, Car Dealers Improvise as Cyber Outage Persists
Nvidia Insiders Cash In on Rally as Share Sales Top $700 Million
We’ve got to talk about the environment when we talk about AI
Gmail’s Gemini AI sidebar and email summaries are rolling out now
Google is bringing Gemini access to teens using their school accounts
Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives
Report: Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others
How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v
Figma’s new Slides app focuses on design, fun, and (oh, yeah!) AI
Powering the AI Revolution: The PyTorch Documentary
Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
Some CIOs say getting full value out of AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 requires heavy lifting, as enterprise data isn't always accurate and up-to-date
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