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June 06, 2025Episode 522: A 5-star cannot stand
This week, we discuss Apple reversioning macOS, the steady state of private cloud, and Snowflake’s acquisition of CrunchyData. Plus, the eternal quest for a 5-star Uber rating.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 522
Runner-up Titles
Saudi crypto money
You know what humans like? Buses
I think we need 10 stars
Snow lion
Maslow’s hierarchy of enterprise needs
The Alexandria datacenter for French Telecom
Always be cobbling
20-plus years of Internetting
Rundown
Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems
Private Cloud
Still a lot - private cloud check-in, Spring 2025
Private cloud still matters—but it doesn’t matter most
Re: Still a lot of private cloud, numbers of cloud repatriation (higher than I thought)
Cloud Repatriation is Getting Complicated
Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250 Million
The AI browser wars are about to begin
An Interview with Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell About Coding With AI
After Klarna, Zoom's CEO also uses an AI avatar on quarterly call
The OpenAI board drama is reportedly turning into a movie
Lonny Ross from 30 Rock
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Exclusive: Meta splits AI team to move faster
The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere
DOGE Days
Thanks to AI, Gen Z is replacing pitch decks with pitchforks
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has 1 billion monthly active users
The Future of Comments is Lies, I Guess
Walmart Enters the Cloud Wars and Challenges Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and SAP
It’s Waymo’s World. We’re All Just Riding in It.
Exclusive | Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI
Space Forge raises $30M Series A to make chip materials in space
AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers
Clouded Judgement 5.30.25 - Moats in the Age of AI
Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site’s Data
Ciroos.AI Emerges From Stealth, Raises $21M To Scale Agentic AI Tool For Operations Teams
IBM Said to Have Pursued Informatica Ahead of Salesforce Deal
Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out
Nonsense
WeatherStar 4000+
Conferences
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Recommendations
Brandon: Snapware Pyrex 18-piece Glass Food Storage Set
Matt: Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software (A16Z podcast)
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May 30, 2025Episode 521: The MacGuffin
This week, we discuss OpenAI acquiring io, Salesforce buying Informatica, and the future of AI agents. Plus, Coté shares details about a sensitive procedure and ceiling puzzles.
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Runner-up Titles
Don’t ride a bike for a week
You’ve got to focus on the important things
What’s your NPS score?
It all comes back to CSV
THIS IS MY AI. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE'S MINE.
You need an MCP.Factory
Crimp and Hope
Rundown
Sam & Jony introduce io
Salesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion deal
Agentic
New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users
SWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny Teams
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift
MCP Registry
Anil Dash thoughts on MCP Servers
If AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERP
MCP is the RSS of AI
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Mistral's new Devstral AI model was designed for coding | TechCrunch
“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall
From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
Microsoft Build 2025 Keynote: Everything Revealed, in 14 Minutes
Once worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of money
Meta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI models
Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla
AWS Breaking Changes
Cloud computing is too important to be left to the Big Three
How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News
Matt Hicks: CentOS move not popular, but better for open source
How tech workers really feel about work right now
Exposed: How ransom gang Lockbit negotiates payments
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
U.S. public wants business to move slower on AI: Axios Harris 100 poll
Musk’s xAI signs Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ blooms
In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPad
Nonsense
Good Fortune Burger renamed its menu items to sound like office supplies
Conferences
POST/CON 25, June 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Brandon representing SDT.
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Contract-Driven Development: Unite Your Teams and Accelerate Delivery by Chris Chandler
SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Cable Matters 100-Pack Cat 6 Pass Through RJ45 Connectors
Matt: Electric Foot Massager
Coté: Big Mac, inspired by Kenji’s home brew.
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May 23, 2025Episode 520: Excited is overused
Excited is overused
This week, we recap Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Java turning 30. Plus, more Vegemite talk and a discussion on whether tech presenters really need to tell us they’re “excited.”
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 520
Runner-up Titles
We all need choices
Vegans are against everything
The problem is you shouldn’t be watching keynotes
You’re giving the black box too much responsibility
What are you going to do?
Some more stuff they announced that I don’t want
They’re excited about that
Hopefully people are excited about that
I’m happy for you
I want to like it
Nerd famous
Can you just fix calendaring?
It’s too much
I’m not going back to Java
Rundown
Will Matt try marmalade with his Vegemite for the full PBJ analogue.
MSFT Build
Microsoft Build 2025: news and announcements from the developer conference
Microsoft announces over 50 AI tools to build the ‘agentic web’ at Build 2025
Findings from Microsoft’s 3-week study on Copilot use
Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Google I/O
Everything announced at the Google I/O 2025 keynote
Android XR is getting stylish partners in Warby Parker and Gentle Monster
Jules - An Asynchronous Coding Agent
Google Embraces MCP
iOS 19 Will Let Developers Use Apple's AI Models in Their Apps
NEW Claude MCP AI Super Agents
AWS Launches Its Take on an Open Source AI Agents SDK
Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech
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If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
Y Combinator says Google is a ‘monopolist’ that has ‘stunted’ the startup ecosystem
Coinbase says customers' personal information stolen in data breach
DataBricks interview about Neon
OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
When Open Source Isn’t: How OpenRewrite Lost Its Way
Wiz 2.0? Cyera’s meteoric $6B valuation is turning heads across the cyber world | CTech
Steve Langasek, One of Ubuntu Linux's Leading Lights, Has Died
Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER]
Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings
Detecting malicious Unicode
Former Apple Design Guru Jony Ive to Take Expansive Role at OpenAI
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off June 9
Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in the Dust - Momento
Nonsense
Max (@StreamOnMax) on X
Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters
Conferences
POST/CON 25, June 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Brandon representing SDT.
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Contract-Driven Development: Unite Your Teams and Accelerate Delivery by Chris Chandler
SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off.
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Brandon: MurderBot
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May 16, 2025Episode 519: This is a “hit by pitch”
This week, we discuss Zenoss finally getting acquired, Databricks buying Neon, and the debut of WizOS. Plus, updates on OpenAI, Google, Apple—and hot takes on Marmite, Vegemite, and Emacs.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 519
Runner-up Titles
Vegemite is still bad
You’re probably eating it
It’s a bold statement
This episode’s all about us
Pendantic is my jam
They tell you they’re making “calculated bets”
Rupert
SlackGPT
No one knows anything, do everything
Rundown
Marmite Rice Cakes
M&A
Virtana Acquires Zenoss to Deliver the Industry’s Deepest and Broadest Observability Platform
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Neon to Deliver Serverless Postgres for Developers + AI Agents - Databricks
Introducing WizOS: Securing Wiz from the ground up with hardened, near-zero-CVE container base images.
Checking on OpenAI
Evolving OpenAI’s structure
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
OpenAI Hires Instacart C.E.O. to Run Business and Operations
OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Startup Windsurf for $3 Billion
Anysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuation
Checking in on Google
Google Search traffic decline is inevitable, execs say
Google tests replacing 'I'm Feeling Lucky' with 'AI Mode'
Checking on Apple
Apple To Appeal Judge’s Scathing New Ruling In Epic Games Antitrust Case, Says CEO Tim Cook
Eddy Cue is fighting to save Apple’s $20 billion paycheck from Google
PayPal Brings Contactless Payments to German iPhones Under New EU Rule
emacs — Matt Gemmell
Relevant to your Interests
New Netflix UI
VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
The EC2 Pricing Form is 284 MB JSON File?
Has DOGE missed its opportunity?
Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says
AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
You can now submit your claims for Apple’s $95 million Siri spying settlement
Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
The Case for Open AI Tooling: Why Developers Need Sovereignty in the AI Era
DeepSeek’s ‘Tech Madman’ Founder Is Threatening US Dominance in AI Race
Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
GM unveils new 'groundbreaking' EV battery tech, aims to be first to market
Exclusive: Slate Auto has already racked up more than 100,000 refundable reservations
Nonsense
Meet Vulcan, the first Amazon robot with a sense of touch
Fyre Festival's embattled founder is selling the brand: 'It's time to pass the torch'
Conferences
NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
POST/CON 25, June 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Brandon representing SDT.
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Contract-Driven Development: Unite Your Teams and Accelerate Delivery by Chris Chandler
SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Sinners
Matt: Devs — first recommended by Brandon on episode 223
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May 09, 2025Episode 518: It Is What It Is
This week, we unpack what Uber’s CEO said, why the CNCF exists, and how companies chase the money. Plus, Coté stands alone in his love for rice cakes.
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Runner-up Titles
Go feral
You’ve ruined eating for me
Cultural tombstone
The next step is “I told you so”
Culture is what happens when you’re not talking about culture.
You know, it’s terrible to run over someone
The robots are just fine
Center of Attention
Rundown
Uber CEO says changing employee benefits 'is a risk we decided to take'
Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer for those most at risk
CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the NATS.io Project
Oxide and Friends | Shootout at the CNCF Corral
New D&D core rules are now CC-BY.
‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store
Relevant to your Interests
I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office - Anil Dash
Find and Buy with AI: Visa Unveils New Era of Commerce
Google dusts off Google Voice and adds three-way calling
Anthropic to Buy Back Employee Shares at $61.5 Billion Valuation
IBM unveils capabilities meant to accelerate AI agent adoption
Getting things "done" in large tech companies
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
This NAS brand just called out the competition and says you should own your hardware
Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft’s Core Capability, Amazon Earnings
Amazon beats on top and bottom line but issues light second quarter guidance
Amazon Takes Aim at Cursor With New AI Coding Service
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
OpenAI Reaches Agreement to Buy Startup Windsurf for $3 Billion
Anysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuation
Clouded Judgement 5.2.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q1 '25
Nine Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era | Andreessen Horowitz
Nonsense
AI Brings Play-by-Play Commentary To Pong
Conferences
Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day.
Melbourne Wiz Meet-Up, May 13. Matt will be there.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee speaking
NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
POST/CON 25, June 3-4, Los Angeles, CA, Brandon representing SDT. Use Code: BRANDON, first 20 people get a free pass
SREDay Cologne, June 12th, 2025 - Coté speaking, discount: CLG10, 10% off.
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Recommendations
Brandon: UniFi Express , FlexHD, U6+ and US 8 60W
Matt: Andor Season 2
Coté: Batman and Batman Returns.
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May 02, 2025Episode 517: Trademark’s in the Mail
This week, we discuss the new Slate Pickup, Synadia’s attempt to reclaim NATS from the CNCF, and the latest DORA AI report. Plus, Google leaves old Nest thermostats out in the cold.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 517
Runner-up Titles
We have a dumb house
Ultimately I blame myself
You can educate people, but they’re not going to listen
It’s hard to have the same level of empathy with a talking logo
I don’t want a subscription car
No Take Backs
Rugpulls are part of the landscape now
Vacuum Hypothesis
Major releases forever
Making bad developers 10x faster
Spaces or Braces
Don’t bring tabs into this
Rundown
Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car
Open Source Regret Syndrome
How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired
Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
DORA Impact of Generative AI in Software Development
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons
Viral Shopify CEO Manifesto Says AI Now Mandatory For All Employees
Introducing the Meta AI App: A New Way to Access Your AI Assistant
Relevant to your Interests
2D Chip Breakthrough: 6,000 Transistors, 3 Atoms Thick
AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency
Apple Partner TSMC Unveils Advanced 1.4nm Process for 2028 Chips
Elon Musk forced back to the boardroom as Doge ‘blowback’ pummels Tesla
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders—Annotated
How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer
Yahoo wants to buy Chrome
Microsoft launches Recall and AI-powered Windows search for Copilot Plus PCs
Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work
Backblaze: A Loss-Making Data Storage Business Mired in Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, and Brazen Insider Dumping
IBM pledges $150 billion to boost U.S. tech growth, computer manufacturing
Economic Termites Are Everywhere
40 years ago, Acorn fired up the first Arm processor
Nonsense
Between 2 Servers - S1E2 - Not THAT Hasselhoff feat. Dr. Kate Holterhoff
Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions
Conferences
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking
Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day
Melbourne Wiz Meet-Up, May 13. Matt will be there
NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Airpod Cleaner Kit
Matt: Soul Coughing Live 2024
Cooking with Beagles
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1 hr 4 min
April 25, 2025Episode 516: Vibe Strategy
This week, we discuss Google being found to be a monopoly, OpenAI’s “offer” to buy Chrome, and some hot takes on JSON. Plus, is it better to wait on hold or ask for a callback?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 516
Runner-up Titles
Just Fine
The SDT “Fine” Scale
Callback
Asynchronous Friendship
I would love to get to know you better…over text
Send you Jams to the dry cleaners.
JSON
Take it xslt-easy!
Rundown
OpenAI
OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf
The Cursor Mirage
AI is for Tinkerers
Vibe Coding is for PMs
OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
Clouded Judgement 4.18.25 - The Hidden Value in the AI Application Layer
OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
Judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers
Relevant to your Interests
Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI costs will come down
Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!
Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
Everything Announced at Google Cloud Next in 12 Minutes
GitLab vs GitHub : Key Differences in 2025
Old Fashioned Function Keys
Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions,
NetRise raises $10M to expand software supply chain security platform
Mark Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas from Meta’s history
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?
Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty
iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
CVE Foundation
The Cursor Mirage
There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There
Gee Wiz
Nonsense
Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices
A Visit to Costco in France
No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon
Metre, a consistent measurement of the world
Conferences
DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29th-30th.
KCD Texas Austin 2025, May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking.
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking.
Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day.
NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking.
SDT News & Community
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dope Thief on Apple TV
Coté: Check out the recording of the Tanzu Annual update, all about Tanzu’s private AI platform. Next, watch Coté’s new MCP for D&D video (#4) figures out something cool to do with MCP Prompts, they make sense now. And, a regret-a-mmendation: Fields Notes annual subscription.
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1 hr 8 min
April 18, 2025Episode 515: Rick Houlihan, MongoDB Field CTO on Document Databases
Brandon talks with Rick Houlihan, Field CTO at MongoDB, about why document databases are more important than ever, how MongoDB fits into modern app architectures, and where AI comes into play. Plus, Rick shares the story of how he helped deprecate 3,000 Oracle databases at Amazon.
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SDT News & Hype
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44 min
April 11, 2025Episode 514: It’s All Affiliate Links
This week, we discuss the rise of MCP, Google’s Agent2Agent protocol, and 20 years of Git. Plus, lazy ways to get rid of your junk.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 514
Runner-up Titles
They like to keep it tight, but I’ll distract them
Bring some SDT energy
Salesforce is where AI goes to struggle
I like words
Rundown
MCP
The Strategy Behind MCP
Google’s Agent2Agent Protocol Helps AI Agents Talk to Each Other
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)- Google Developers Blog
MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
A love letter to the CSV format
Relevant to your Interests
JFrog Survey Surfaces Limited DevSecOps Gains - DevOps.com
Raspberry Pi’s sliced profits are easier to swallow than its valuation
'I begin spying for Deel':
Bill Gates Publishes Original Microsoft Source Code in a Blog Post
WordPress.com owner Automattic is laying off 16 percent of workers
Intel, TSMC recently discussed chipmaking joint venture
TikTok deal scuttled because of Trump's tariffs on China
NVIDIA Finally Adds Native Python Support to CUDA
Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase
UK loses bid to keep Apple appeal against demand for iPhone 'backdoor' a secret
Cloud Asteroids | Wiz
Unpacking Google Cloud Platform’s Acquisition Of Wiz
Trade, Tariffs, and Tech
Google Workspace gets automation flows, podcast-style summaries
Zelle is shutting down its app. Here’s how you can still use the service
One year ago Redis changed its license – and lost most of its external contributors
Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet
Nonsense
NFL announces use of virtual measurement technology for first downs
Listener Feedback
GitJobs
Freecycle
Conferences
Tanzu Annual Update AI PARTY!, April 16th, Coté speaking
DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29th-30th
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking
Free AI workshop, May 13th. day before Cloud Foundry Day
NDC Oslo, May 21st-23th, Coté speaking
SDT News & Community
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Recommendations
Brandon: KONNWEI KW208 12V Car Battery Tester
Matt: Search Engine: The Memecoin Casino
Coté: :Knipex Cobra High-Tech Water Pump Pliers
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April 04, 2025Episode 513: Put On A Musical
This week, we discuss the shifting world of observability, the nightmare of “Configuration Hell,” and OpenAI’s latest valuation. Plus, a surprise Broadway musical review!
Runner-up Titles
We say we’re friends, but I don’t really know them
Observability 2025
I don’t have any sympathy for anyone
If you want to win observability, put on a musical
Just is THE trigger word
It’s a well-known Hell
The blog posts are making me angry
Rundown
CISO MUSICAL | Official Broadway Trailer
Monitoring is back
Observability 3.0 - bitdrift Blog
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon
ControlTheory Secures $5M Seed Funding to Bring Controllability to Observability
What is
Cloud veterans launch ConfigHub to fix 'configuration hell'
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
OpenAI
Exclusive | The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI
OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record
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How vibe coding will affect Engineering Managers
Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode
Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Makes a Few More Long-Shot Bets
Pat Gelsinger has joined VC firm Playground Global
Amazon Is Canceling a Major Alexa Privacy Feature on March 28: Should You Worry?
oneAPI: A New Era of Heterogeneous Computing
Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
Ransomware Found in VSCode Extensions Raises Concerns Over Microsoft’s Security Review
Lip-Bu Tan says Intel will spin off non-core units
Announcing Chainguard VMs: Minimal, Zero-CVE Container Host Images
Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok’s Chinese owners
Nonsense
This couple is obsessed with Costco. Why do they love it so much?
CISO MUSICAL | Official Broadway Trailer
Conferences
DevOps Days Atlanta, April 29-30
Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
NDC Oslo, May 21-23, Coté speaking.
SDT News & Community
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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you…