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February 24, 2023Episode 402: What’s going on in Chicago?
This week we take a critical look at DHH’s plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402
Runner-up Titles
Cycled the Power
The Principles are Amazing
The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog
Does this mean the public cloud is over?
Where was the Oracle rep?
We fear change
SaaS for me, not for you
The author of this text does not like Amazon
Adventure-driven development
You’ve got great a manifesto
Intolerable!
Cory Doctorow amped up
Rundown
We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
Five values guiding our cloud exit
Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million
Two racks. My friends, a thread from Adam Jacob
Relevant to your Interests
Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal
Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon's return to office plans
Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate
An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter
The SSO Wall of Shame
Twitter spent $60 M on SMS?
Predicting Resource Cost Before Deployment
Oakland Declares State of Emergency Due to Ransomware Attack
US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets
Twilio Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results
Big 1Password update for iOS and Mac brings over 100 improvements and changes
Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition
Most Londoners would quit before they give up WFH
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down
Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You – The Markup
Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership
Digital Ocean Earnings
Karan B. on LinkedIn: Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople
ByteDance's Slack-like tool generated $100M in 2022
Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after 'cyber incident'
Open-source is broken: the sad story of Denis Pushkarev (core-js)
Pixelfed - Decentralized social media
VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition
How websites can still easily track you in incognito mode
Meta Verified
YouTube As Infinite File Storage
Biden won’t save the Apple Watch from potential ban
Apple TV+ growth has 'flat-lined' as users say service lacks value: UBS
Gartner: Oracle targets users on Java compliance
Software is a hell of a drug
KKR-Backed BMC Plans IPO Valuing It at Up to $15 Billion
Nonsense
We Tested Tiny11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App!
United Airlines Eases Family Seating After Call to Cut Fees
Listener Feedback
Thanks to Christopher for sending the article on Mastodon:
We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
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Conferences
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
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Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5
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Recommendations
Brandon: Demon Copperhead
Matt: Fabulous Secret Powers
Peep Show
Coté: Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum.
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1 hr 4 min
February 17, 2023Episode 401: Swing State for Grocery Stores
This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401
Runner-up Titles
Going Hardcore
Sleeping under the desk
The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet
Rundown
Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores
Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas
Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
The Twitpocalypse may have begun today
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob
Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…
These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers
IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management
Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion
Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake
The maze is in the mouse
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS'
The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins
AI Homework
Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’
Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does.
"The New Gatekeepers"
A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology
AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime
Can this man turn Amazon around?
A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
Nonsense
De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou
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Conferences
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5
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: The Last of Us
Matt: Sennheiser Pro Audio HD 25 Special Edition
SOULWIT Cooling Gel Ear Pads
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56 min
February 10, 2023Episode 400: Prompt Engineering
This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400
Runner-up Titles
You don’t want to toy with food poisoning
Do you put all your eggs in one basket?
The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT
This is just Bing
Bullshit as a Service
It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine
Bad dog
The answer to every question is ChatGPT
Linux under the desktop
Rundown
Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t?
Earnings and Outlook
Cloud Giants Update
Red Hat OpenShift making money
Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing.
Cloud Earnings
The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway
Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December
FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft
The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS
A.I.
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete
Google has developed a music-making AI bot
Why does ChatGPT constantly lie?
Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders
OpenAI API
Infrastructure-as-Code Generator
Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing
Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight
Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool
Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (The Cloudcast Podcast)
This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year
Relevant to your Interests
Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings
Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left
$NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend
Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile
HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement
Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality
How We Learned to Be Lonely
Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce
AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region
Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments
Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling
VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps
LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups
Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog
Slack's second chance
Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world
U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology
Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls
Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns
Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299
ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy
Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K
FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals
Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots
Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now?
Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors
1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app
Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO
Artifact
GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository
Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System
Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction
Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer
Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs
Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Visa vs. AMEX
Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch
Coté ponders IBM what-if in AI
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
Broadcom’s VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers
PagerDuty Layoffs Affect 7 Percent Of Workforce
Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game
Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs
The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking
Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People
Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff
The Newer Geography of Jobs
Nonsense
Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia
Boeing delivers its final 747 jet today, ending a run of more than 50 years
King Charles will not appear on new Australia $5 note
Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification
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Conferences
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
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Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Hand Mirror
Matt: StarFive VisionFiveV2 RISC V has arrived!
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1 hr
February 03, 2023Episode 399: Two Guys Live in the Southern Hemisphere, with Craig Box
This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News newsletter and follow him on Mastodon and Twitter(?)
This interview was done on January 16th, 2023.
Runner-up Titles
You sound like an Australian
The Mystery of the Cold Open
D-list Celebrities
The Americans are asleep
All the swans belong to the Queen
A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it
Rundown
Global Entry, New Zealand-style
Is there another podcast in the future?
Learning by osmosis
Developer advocacy at Google
You’re not tall enough to ride this ride
Joining ARMO
Kubescape, the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform
OpenCost and Kubescape, CNCF Sandbox Projects
You’re already in my calendar
ARMO monetization strategy
All Blacks vs. Wallabies
Who are these weird celebrities?
The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre
TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter
Conferences
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
Matt & Coté!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
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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Special Guest: Craig Box.
55 min
January 27, 2023Episode 398: To the Moon
This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping…
Rundown
Tipping
How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped
Tipping Is Weird Now
Mastodon
The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io
Follow SDT on Mastodon
Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app
The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview
‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
Mastodon in two files
Netflix
Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix,
The Netflix Tech Blog
What we want to see at DevOpsDays
DevOpsDays Austin 2023
Nonsense
‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning
It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US
Airlines squeeze rewards programs
Salesforce, but for dating
Conferences
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5
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 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 Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Ideas That Changed My Life
Follow Brandon on Mastodon
JJ:
For All Mankind
Follow JJ on Mastodon
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Special Guest: JJ Asghar.
1 hr 1 min
January 20, 2023Episode 397: Mark as Unread
This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne….
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397
Runner-up Titles
I want to vest
Call the middle
I just didn’t have money
XLT, that’s not a thing
Yeah, I’m down for whatever
Coté’s Culture Corner.
Brandon’s Halo Hatrack.
Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.”
If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting.
YOLO workers’ rights
Rundown
DHH from 37signals shows the numbers
Our cloud spend in 2022 - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter
They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity
Work Life
Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (those that are left)
Corey’s Take
Relevant to your Interests
CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner
SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta
Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout
Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive
Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom
The Great Podcasting Market Correction
Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts
Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes
National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale
FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system
The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience
Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS
Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long
U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app with Ukraine.ua
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
The Shit Show • furbo.org
Extremely Hardcore
Nonsense
Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house
Every Cloud Architecture
Museum of Obsolete Media
Conferences
SpringOne, Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere.
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
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, LinkedIn 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: Atomic Habits with Atomic Habits Resources
Also mentioned: What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
Matt: State of the World 2023
Coté: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
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1 hr 3 min
January 13, 2023Episode 396: Aloha to your strategy
This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 396
Runner-up Titles
Work trying to get on my personal calendar
Traveling with an infant
=BLACKSWAN(A1:G453)
Socks in a Costco
Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it.
Pay transparency for you, not me
We don’t pay for things on the Internet
Semper Nimbus Privatus
Rundown
Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth,
Digital Transformation Travel Edition
Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1
The Southwest Airlines Meltdown
Southwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million
Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco
Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo
Point of Sale: Scan and Pay
Work Life
Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
Netflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary Information
U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts
Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023
Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary information
SFDC
Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut
Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space
After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivity
AI is everywhere
Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology
Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google
Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
Relevant to your Interests
2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin
Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos
On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup
Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person
10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco
Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma
Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023
A MultiCloud Rant
Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies.
AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks
Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation
Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project
VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut
Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom
China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report
Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash
Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign
Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO
Top Paying Tools
Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies
CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison
MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models
No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods
The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported
IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments
Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief
Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts
IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety
Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes
List of defunct social networking services
2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice
Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips
Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd
The infrastructure behind ATMs
Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices
Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs
CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union
World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice
omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you
Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills.
Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor
Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com
Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now
Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info
Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio
Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation
Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing
New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is
Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI
What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage
Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle.
How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
The golden age of the streaming wars has ended
YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality
## Nonsense
The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home
Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February
The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego.
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
Use code SDT for 5% off
SpringOne, Jan 24–26.
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
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, LinkedIn 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: Industrial Garage Shelves
Matt: Oxide and Friends: Breaking it down with Ian Brown
Wu Tang Saga Season 3 coming next month!
Coté: Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson.
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1 hr 21 min
January 06, 2023Episode 395: Should you start a podcast?
This week Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely cohost of the The Cloudcast and they discuss starting a podcast. They cover the Who, What, Why and How of launching a podcast and recommend podcast recording gear, editing software and hosting services.
Rundown
The Cloudcast and SDT origin stories
Who should start a podcast?
Why you should or should not start a podcast?
What should your podcast be about?
Podcast gear, software and hosting
Links
Record Podcasts with Audio Hijack
SDT Podcast Gear Recommendations
Cloudcast Podcast Suggestions
Cloudcast Sample Podcast Show Notes
Podcasting 101 via Buzzsprout
Podcasting Microphones
Voice over Marketplace
Royalty Free Music
Purchase Music Site
Subscribe to The Cloudcast
Follow @bgracely and @thecloudcast on Twitter
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, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
1 hr 10 min
December 30, 2022Episode 394: 2022 Year in Review
This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 394
Runner-up Titles
Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore
The Old Dr. Skateboard
What a World
The Pile-On Lifestyle
A little more in booth directions
Cloud Bucket
We’ve done all the stuff
Predictions and Hopes and Dreams
Working from home is over like COVID is over
It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense
Bring in the Big Monkeys
Rundown
What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories?
Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work
Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation
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December 23, 2022Episode 393: 10 Years of Project Sputnik, with Barton George
Ten years ago Dell launched the developer laptop, shipping a Linux desktop of their best gear. In this episode, Coté talks with Barton George who's lead the project about Project Sputnik, lessons learned about innovating in large companies, and compressed air can sponsorships.
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Check out Barton's overview of the most recent Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition, and the laptop itself and other Linux on Dell machine.
Also, Barton mentions the new Dell Developer site, which you can see here.
Dell Linux Workstations, Laptops, and Desktops - In addition to XPS 13 and Precision developer systems, this also features the Linux-enabled Latitude and Optiplex lines. Latitude and Optiplex are part of the broader Dell Linux portfolio which is made up of over 100 systems.
Dell's Sputnik - Git what you want, 2021.
Project Sputnik --_ Cote interviews Barton_, May 7, 2012.
Sputnik Developer Laptop Overview (Barton George), July 19, 2012.
Barton George interviewed at OSCON 2012, July 19, 2012
“Precise Pangolin” - was code name for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which the first XPS 13 developer edition launched with)
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This interview was done on December 12th, 2022.
Special Guest: Barton George.
1 hr 10 min

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