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April 12, 2024Episode 462: Lifting Code
This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 462
Runner-up Titles
Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs.
Well, I still have meetings.
The Cote’ Experience
ClosedTofu
Our Cloud is Huge(tm)
Rundown
Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu
OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated
Matt Asay Follow up Tweet
Bryan Cantrill calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation
Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different.
Google Cloud Next ’24
Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU
Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race
Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog
Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote
Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote
Relevant to your Interests
WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year
Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say
OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release
No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It
Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready
Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing
Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams
New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN
Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software
Nonsense
Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital
Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates
Listener Feedback
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Conferences
Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Node.js: The Documentary
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary
Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour
Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté, so same cultural cohort as theorized.)
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1 hr 3 min
April 05, 2024Episode 461: Not illegal, works as designed
This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 461
Runner-up Titles
The Fork is a feature not a bug
Relicensing: The path to Private Equity
Is this Progress?
Hot Antitrust Action
Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars
Won’t someone think of the children?
Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances
The deepest of pockets
Fine-adjacent.
Not complicated enough
What’s it called when they plateau going down?
Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models
a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of
Mostly contrast
Rundown
Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means
Redis
RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one
Battle of the Redis forks?
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community
Is this Progress?
Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS).
Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB.
Database popularity index
Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence
20 years of Gmail
Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators
Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?)
Relevant to your Interests
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry
Apache Kvrocks
Ex-technology companies
FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11
Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch
Key takeaways from the Entrust incident
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc.
Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse
Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake
Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here
Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix
Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May
A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174)
Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors
To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space
AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode
KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways
Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit
Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack
California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan
Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo
Nonsense
Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year
As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?
Conferences
Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 - but check the replay in LinkedIn or YouTube.
Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: 3 Body Problem
Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm
Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney. Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI
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March 29, 2024Episode 460: Tom Wilkie on Observability
Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project.
Show Links
The Brewintosh
Prusa Mini v6 Hotend Adapter
Cortex
Prometheus
Grafana Labs
OpenCost
GrafanaCON 2024 April 9-10
Contact Tom Wilkie
LinkedIn: tomwilkie
Twitter: @tom_wilkie
GitHub: tomwilkie
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Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.
31 min
March 22, 2024Episode 459: Is Hello A Proper Slack Message?
This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 459
Runner-up Titles
"Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.”
You don’t want to scare you coworkers
Eating bugs off your coworkers
“Hi” has become a trigger word
Rehabilitate the “Hi”
55 Direct Reports
Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone.
The YAML hand off market
Rundown
Is Hello a proper Slack message?
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat
Kubecon
“Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” "Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking," “Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs!”
OpenCost Introduces Carbon Costs
What if the CNCF was private equity?
Nvidia
Nvidia shares pop on Q4 earnings, generative AI "hits tipping point"
NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang - has 55 direct reports
Video that tracks the trajectories of Intel and NVIDIA
Nvidia's latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says
Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2023–2027
Relevant to your Interests
Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster
Who Still Works From Home?
A new TikTok ban gains steam
Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation clears him of wrongdoing
More companies getting rid of free tiers:
49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year
The WiFi at Google's new Bay View office hasn't been working properly for months: report
Moon Mission Could Redefine Computing in Deep Space
Doctors Are Using the Apple Vision Pro During Surgery
Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features
Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful.
Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" of users
How The Cloud Is A Trap
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky says more than 10,000 organizations are using Bedrock
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
Snowflake Stock: Melting Faster Than An Ice Cube
Games Are Coming to LinkedIn
Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report
European Cloud Group Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny Over Broadcom’s VMware Overhaul
Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery
Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features
The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade
Walmart sells a Mac
Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones
AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services
Buyout Firm Vista Equity Explores Options Including Sale for LogicMonitor
Nonsense
Airlines Are Coming for Your Carry-Ons
Clocks Change
Costco CFO ‘voice’ looks back on 40 years, $1.50 hot dogs and leadership
Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint
Delta’s CEO says controversial Sky Lounge changes reflect the airline’s status as premium brand
3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh - The Brewintosh
Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts
Listener Feedback
Chris tell us the Owala Water Bottle is on sale.
Conferences
Tanzu (Re)defined online, April 3rd, Coté Speaking.
Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Coté speaking, Palo Alto.
TEQNation, May 22nd, 2024, Utrecht, Coté speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 to 21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
The E-Gates Modality Will Now Be Implemented at Cancun Airport - Cancun Airport
Global Entry better then ever
Mobile Passport Control (MPC) available in Austin Airport
Matt: Duck Duck Go
Coté: MacBook Pro
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March 15, 2024Episode 458: How to survive and thrive at work
This week, we discuss Coté's O'Reilly video series where he offers up some tips on how to survive and thrive in the workplace. Plus, some ideas on how to reinvent the virtual town hall.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 458
Runner-up Titles
Surviving Corporate America
Hopes and Dreams
Second half of your career
Soul Crushing
I stole this from TikTok
Living too much
Just be happy
Review life imbalance
Rundown
10 part course at O’Reilly about working in a large organization, a BigCo
Conferences
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
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:
How Will You Measure Your Life?
The Psychology of Money
Vitamix
Coté: pecans in smoothies.
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March 08, 2024Episode 457: Nobody owns YAML
This week, we discuss whether or not Kubernetes is boring, Winglang’s attempt to simply cloud deployments and Linkerd status as a graduated CNCF project. Plus, a few thoughts on frogs…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 457
Runner-up Titles
Blame the seagulls
Speaking of lizards in our houses
Burying people under B-trees
Compiler for the Cloud
I’m tired of speaking French
We need a big pie
If we stop shooting each other we can sit down and eat some pie.
The Jacob Principle
Has there every been a config file format love affair?
Rundown
Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong
Wing Programming Language for the Cloud
#1262 Health of Linkerd project
Craig Box X Thread
Adam Jacob’s X Thread
Five Cloud News Trends for February
Relevant to your Interests
X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year
CACM Is Now Open Access
Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU
A Few Jelly Beans and a World of Disappointment at Willy Wonka Event
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of nonprofit AI mission | TechCrunch
Meta says it’s deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month
Snowflake CEO Steps Down From Post Richer Than Tim Cook or Satya Nadella
RISC-V launch
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires atomic datacenter for $650M
Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic
It’s Time to Give Up on Email
Nonsense
When a funeral is clickbait
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.
Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto.
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: Dune Part 2
Matt: Our Band Could Be Your Life
Conan O’Brien in Australia
Coté: Bruce Sterlings new-ish blog, especially the color scheme.
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Gemini
53 min
March 01, 2024Episode 456: Second Guessing
This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 456
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Is it Russian hackers?
Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS
They’re all bad product launches
Vikings are 98% more Nordic
Can I pay for features?
They’ve defeated vaporware
Interoperability is for underdogs
Rundown
Google
Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures
Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet
AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources
AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage | CNN Business
Apple
Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services
Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI
Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks
Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds
Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple
The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire
Relevant to your Interests
Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors
Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds
Cloud-Native Is In Shambles
S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates
Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners
SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers
The Open Source Sustainability Crisis
Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform
What to Do about VMware
Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’
Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability
ServerlessHorrors | Home
Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit | TechCrunch
Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House
Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines
Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20%
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
Nonsense
Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem
Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E.
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.
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: Delta Wi-Fi
Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3
Aliens Dark Descent
Coté: GM’s Apprentice. Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships
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February 23, 2024Episode 455: LTS: Let Thou Support it
This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 455
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I live my life one iCal screen at a time
We always have sparklers
Meta-parenting
Everyone is always tired
Cheaper version of Red Hat
This week in “Do we need to be angry?”
All we get is wingdings.
I’m in a Socialist mood this week
Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff
Those dingalings bought my boat
Dingalings of the mind
Rundown
CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace
Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community
NGINX fork? freenginx.org
Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
Tofu
So Where’s That New OpenAI Board?
The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it?
Relevant to your Interests
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy
Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy
Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data
Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix
Sora: Creating video from text
Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech
Slack AI has arrived
What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob
Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode
Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot
VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink
The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future
Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster
1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition
Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor
In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint
Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots
Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products
Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter
## Nonsense
An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.
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: Fair Play on Netflix
Matt: Julia Evans: Popular Git Config Options
Coté: Anker USB C Charger (Nano II 65W) Pod 3-Port PPS Fast Charger.
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53 min
February 16, 2024Episode 454: The Galactic Tent
This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 454
Runner-up Titles
Are we streaming.
I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness.
If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life.
The sound track to walking the dog.
At least it’s open source.
The Magic Quadrant of Fashion.
I guess everyone’s cool?
What pair of pants do I need?
The AirPods Pro pocket.
Go down the metaphor hole.
I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu.
Not good, but good enough.
The Metaphor Hole
Rundown
CNCF Landscape
Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (Cloudcast Pod)
Earnings
Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend
Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting
Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23
Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds
Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective
Relevant to your Interests
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers
Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development
OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2
Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives.
Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024
From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding
Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate
Weaveworks shuts down
A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella’s Decade as Microsoft CEO
Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It?
Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo
Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork
NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq
YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers
Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup.
ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service
Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe”
Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering
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1 hr 7 min
February 09, 2024Episode 453: John Willis on how Kubernetes won, digital transformation and Deming
This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital.
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