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July 07, 2023Episode 422: Corporation vs. Community
This week we discuss RHEL licensing changes, check the vibe of DevOps and some thoughts on programing language. Plus, has ChatGPT already become boring?
Runner-up Titles
I don’t like listening to fellow thought leaders. I listen to myself enough.
Dammit, alarm was set for PM
A massive failure of one
The end of free
It’s not all smiles and thumbs
Goose-cow
“I used to, but I don’t anymore.”
The Podcast Review podcast.
Rundown
RHEL
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat
The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion]
Rant about Red Hat's Licensing Change for REHL
Reddit
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
Reddit doubles down
Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit
DevOps
Second Wave DevOps
Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve
Kelsey Hightower Retires
Even the best rides come to an end featuring Kelsey Hightower (Podcast)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
Relevant to your Interests
AWS teases mysterious mil-spec ‘Snowblade’ server
To fill offices, Google issues ultimatum while Salesforce tries charity
Amazon is pursuing 'too many ideas' and needs to focus on best opportunities
There are better places for Amazon to put their capital to work, says Bernstein's Mark Shmulik
The best password managers for 2023 | Engadget
After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees
Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work
Twilio to sell ValueFirst business to Tanla (NYSE:TWLO)
Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share
Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share
CNET's Free Shopping Extension Saves You Time and Money. Give It a Try Today
Modular: Our launch & what's next
Exclusive-Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 billion VMware deal, sources say
Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service | Engadget
Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment
Twitter stiffs Google
Open Sourcing AWS Cedar Is a Game Changer for IAM
Oracle beats on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue jumps
America to halt $68.7bn Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard
Meta's Open-Source 'MusicGen' AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes
Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees:
Forrester Wave Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
1 big thing: Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first
For the first time in almost 30 years, a company other than IBM received the most US patents
AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness
Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users
Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy | Amazon Web Services
40 photos from inside Metropolitan Park—the first phase of Amazon's HQ2
The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023
AWS US-EAST-1 wobbled after Lambda management issues spread
The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots
A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings
Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle
Apple Watch alerts 29-year-old Cincinnati woman to blood clot in lungs while sleeping
Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase
Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover
What happened to Oracle? Why do they keep acquiring companies?
How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all
WFH 4 ever
Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B
Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter language model
AI's next conflict is between open and closed
Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations,
A new law protecting pregnant workers is about to take effect
Amazon launches AWS AppFabric to help customers connect their SaaS apps
State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization Report
FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business
OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS
Surprise! You Work for Amazon.
btop - the htop alternative
We Raised A Bunch Of Money
Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills
Report: 2022 Microsoft Azure Revenue Less Than Estimated, Half That Of AWS | CRN
Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace
Is Waze next?
The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google
Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses
Who killed Google Reader?
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match
IBM to Acquire Apptio Inc.,
IBM Re-ups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition
Nonsense
Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Mom and Dad's Ok
Summer intern's commute goes viral: She flies from South Carolina to New Jersey
Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills
Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament
'World's Largest' Buc-ee's store opens now on Bus-ee’s Map
Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.
'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know.
At least a year younger on paper: South Korea makes changes to age-counting law
Sony just spilled confidential PlayStation information because of a Sharpie
Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health
Listener Feedback
Let's Get To The News | Craig Box | Substack
When You Don't Have a Seat At the (Managed Database) Table by Doug Sillars
Conferences
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Cloudcast: MidYear 2023 Update
Governments Building Software
This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software - Odd Lots
The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read
Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth (via Coté’s newsletter)
Coté: Hand Mirror app, also in Setapp if you have that.
If Books could Kill
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1 hr 21 min
June 30, 2023Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson
Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.
Nonsense
ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers
If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
Glastonbury 2023
Guns N’ Roses
UK: the full set on iPlayer
Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl)
Appetite for Destruction
Rick Astley
UK: the full set on iPlayer
Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)
Interview links
Basecamp
HEY!
Daily Rush
Quake III Arena
PHP and Ruby
37signals and Jason Fried
Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Ruby on Rails
“Groovy on Grails”
1000 true fans
DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts”
Backpack and Campfire
Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals
Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire
A podcast explaining it
“The Building of Basecamp” (and review)
David’s books:
Getting Real
Rework
Remote
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
The programming books that meant the most to David
Fast inverse square root
David’s best tweet
AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway
The Celeron 4
David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
“Why we’re leaving the cloud”
"The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives"
“Five values guiding our cloud exit”
“We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit”
"Cloud exit pays off in performance too”
“We have left the cloud”
HEY vs the App Store
Deft and Dell
MRSK
Capistrano
GitHub contributor community
Maersk
Harmony remotes discontinued
The continuing demise of Reddit
Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars?
24 Hours of Le Mans
2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“
Result table
David Heinemeier Hansson
https://dhh.dk/
@dhh on Twitter
LinkedIn
David’s blog on HEY
Guest hosts
Craig Box
Subscribe to “Let’s Get To The News”
Adam Glick
SDT news & hype
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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).
1 hr 28 min
June 23, 2023Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps
Matt Ray interviews Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. Adam explains what led him to create System Initiative and why he believes it’s time for a fresh look at DevOps. Plus, plenty of discussion about monetization and open source.
Show Links
System Initiative
Cue language
Dagger
Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
Contact Adam
Twitter: adamhjk
Linkedin: adamjacob
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Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
46 min
June 16, 2023Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry
Matt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations.
Show Links
KubeDay Israel
OpenObservability Talks
Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron?
OpenTelemetry
CNCF Ambassadors
Logz.io
FinOps X
KubeCon NA
Contact Dotan
LinkedIn
Twitter: @horovits
SDT news & hype
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Special Guest: Dotan Horovits.
40 min
June 09, 2023Episode 418: I don’t like Anime
This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for DevOps platforms, Apple’s announcements and Cisco’s attempt to simplify. Plus, some thoughts on Meatloaf and Anime.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 418
Runner-up Titles
The best engineers in Canada.
Runny Eggs
My tabs closed
I got a whole bowl here.
Pokémon back in the playlist
Some people don’t want any sauce
Are you still talking about meatloaf?
The meatloaf zone
The intestines of the Magic Quadrant
He was probably a regular-sized human
Everyone knows you’re a dork, a dork with disposal income
What else are you going to do?
Rundown
2023 Magic Quadrant for DevOps platforms (RedHat lead-gen).
Link to picture in Slack
Nvidia's 'iPhone moment' in AI signals tons of future growth. Here's our new price target
Cisco simplifies its product portfolio with new Cisco Networking Cloud platform
Apple’s 10 biggest announcements from WWDC 2023
'Ducking hell' to disappear from Apple autocorrect
iPad OS 17's Live Collaboration on PDFs could challenge Google Docs
Apple Announces New 'NameDrop' Feature for Sharing Between iPhones
TVOS 17 Will Let You Download a VPN to Apple TV
Apple Vision
Relevant to your Interests
Operation Bletchley
Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar
Salesforce is luring workers back to office with $10 per day to local charities
Google created FREE comprehensive training on Generative AI
Nonsense
Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino
Related, Coté learned a new Austalianism from Tasty Meats Paul this week: “In Australia the term ‘Chicken Maryland’ simply refers to a butcher's cut for a whole leg consisting of the thigh and drumstick” (Wikipedia).
How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party
Listener Feedback
SDT Sticker in the wild by Eric De Witte
Conferences
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 21st Cloud Foundry Day, Germany, Coté speaking.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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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: Blackberry
Matt: Because Internet.
Coté: KESSER® Ice Cube Maker | Ice Cube Machine Stainless Steel | 150 W Ice Maker | 12 kg 24 h | 3 Cube Sizes | Preparation in 6 min | 2.2 Litre Water Tank | Timer | LCD Display | Self-Cleaning Function.
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1 hr 4 min
June 02, 2023Episode 417: Every Salesforce is a Snowflake
The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417
Runner-up Titles
The MacGyver of podcasting
Scooping up The Tube tickets
Buy some velcro
This email could have been a PR
Who the hell is Brian?
Perverse incentives
What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats
Rundown
Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call)
Clouded Judgement 5.26.23
Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists
Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates
Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic
Relevant to your Interests
Ivory for Mac
The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution
AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks
1Password is rolling out passkey management next month
Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants
Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm
Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance?
Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm
Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid
Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp
The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked
Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand
Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge
Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally
xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset
AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks
Nonsense
HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120
Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years
Conferences
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: YouTube will allow unlimited simultaneous streams for NFL Sunday Ticket
Matt: Spotify Remastered/Deluxe albums
The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)
Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants (Super Deluxe/Remastered)
Coté: Bobby Fingers
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May 26, 2023Episode 416: Exchange your “Buddy Bucks” for Nagios
This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 416
Runner-up Titles
How big are your almonds?
It’s under consideration
The Olympics of Monitoring
Putting Hats on Cats
Stanley Nickels for Monitoring
The 3 Fines
It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work
I was told the test was log management
IDC is the thin balogna
Rundown
New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ
WSJ News Exclusive | Software Company New Relic in Talks to Be Sold
2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability
IDC APM marketshare from 2021
Relevant to your Interests
Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation
Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog
Historical software multiples at IPO
Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS
Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online
Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source
Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy
The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023
Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform
Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff
Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms
Nonsense
A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works
The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage
Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted!
The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One
Conferences
June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
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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Recommendations
Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0?
Matt: Have a picnic
Coté: Hoodie and shorts for the spring; the “web browsing” plugin in ChatGPT does not work well.
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May 19, 2023Episode 415: You can buy a lot of Nagios with that
This week we discuss Coinbase's $65 million DataDog bill, the factors that drive developer experience, and Google Bard. Plus, some tips on London Airports and the ideal airport arrival time.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 415
Runner-up Titles
Two hours before boarding
$65 million is a lot of nines
You can buy a lot of Nagios with that
Just write the check for $65 million
Boxes
Inciting chaos
Steady state is stopped
Developers are just like the rest of us
Unsummarizable
AI in the Streets
Rundown
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features
DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
Relevant to your Interests
Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor
IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries
It's not just cloud costs that are out of control
Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion
Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
Adrian Cockcroft (@[email protected])
Goldman Sachs downgrades Twilio, other software names on 'limited catalyst' path (TWLO)
Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers
The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked.
Netflix Reportedly Cutting Spending By $300 Million After Delay On Password Sharing Crackdown
Thank you, Enterprisers!
Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded
Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring
Calendly Welcomes Former Salesforce Product Executive Stephen Hsu as CPO
Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances | Eric Pauley
The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked.
The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD
Conferences
June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok 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: POLAR H9 Heart Rate Sensor
Matt: Critical Mass
Sydney Half Marathon
Coté: Pipers Great Berwick Longhorn Beef “crisps.”
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May 12, 2023Episode 414: Monolith vs. Microservices
This week we discuss Monolith vs. Microservices , PassKeys replacing passwords and the return of Watson(x). Plus, some thoughts on the media and BlueSky.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 414
Runner-up Titles
All the takes you’ve heard, are probably true
Links Only
An Ombudsman of Tech Hype
I’ve programmed before
Rundown
Monoliths are not dinosaurs
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
US DoL considers replacing monolithic IT with modular design
Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: ‘We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago’
IBM enters the generative-AI fray with Watsonx
Estimated that they could reduce back-office people by 30%. But, said this would be done through attrition, not firing.
RIP passwords: Google accounts now support passkeys
Relevant to your Interests
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning
Miracle working product manager was stuck in Lotus position
Broadcom CEO Seeks to Persuade EU on USD 61 Billion VMware Deal
GitHub replaces code search engine with Rust-based Blackbird
Clouded Judgement 5.5.23
Nonsense
Tall poppy syndrome
Short Poppies
Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush
Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold, Silver Medals in 1st-Ever Jiu-Jitsu Tournament
Conferences
May 11th, 2023 Devoxx UK in London. Get 25% tickets with the code SEEMESPEAK23.
June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
Listener Feedback
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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!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, TikTok 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: Silo | Apple TV+
Coté: How to Idle.
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1 hr 15 min
May 05, 2023Episode 413: Swim between the flags
This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413
Runner-up Titles
Airplane Ghost
No Hashtag for That
Sorry Fellow Travelers
That’s what they said about Google Reader
That’s the beauty of nonsense stories
How do you really feel Brandon?
Nobody wants monitoring data
Airport Hotels
I don’t remember
Security Line Sick
Rundown
Checking in on Cloud Earnings
Cloud Giants Update
Clouded Judgement 4.28.23
IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched
Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug
Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division
Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo
Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record
Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth
Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz
OpenCost
Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit
MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
Relevant to your Interests
FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins
Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company
Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding
Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”
The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - Moor Insights & Strategy
Clubhouse ↓
Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT
How SQLite helps you do ACID
On-prem still cheaper but don't rule out the cloud yet
Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices
Today in Apple history: Apple-1 starts a revolution
How Incumbents Survive and Thrive
Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more
Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta
Announcing the deps.dev API: critical dependency data for secure supply chains
Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Pay Falls to $1.3M, Touts Ad Business in Annual Letter
Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services
Venture Capital Deals
Zoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering
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