This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 487

Runner-up Titles

• Time change is a-comin’.
• Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.
• Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.
• Waffle Chips
• Free Refills and Ice
• The tyranny of no free refills
• Take the Five Guy approach
• You can’t change the rules in the race
• Fill the square

Rundown

• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
• Wordpress
  • Big chronological list of WordPress/WP Engine drama
  • The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
  • How much would it cost to fork WordPress?
  • Charitable Contributions
• OpenAI
  • New funding to scale the benefits of AI
  • OpenAI Is A Bad Business

Relevant to your Interests

• Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans
• OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Transition
• Intel's Transformation 2.0
• Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide
• Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit
• Hurricane Helene May Have Given Intel
• Pure Storage announces VM assessment service
• Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I
• Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models
• The streaming wars are over.
• Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon
• Trump Says He'll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power
• Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too
• Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster
• Observe Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Observability, Closes Series B Funding Of $145M
• How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry
• How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards

Nonsense

• A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things
• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK

Listener Feedback

• Observability Architect (Remote, USA)

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Coté speaking, Bucharest, Nov 12th and 13th.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Balatro on the App Store
  • Cloud News of the Month - September 2024
• Matt: Some Like it Hot
• Coté:
  • Creaks
  • Software Defined Interviews relaunch, with Whitney Lee.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 486

Runner-up Titles

• I’m out of nuts, time to podcast
• System Settings
• Security, it never ends
• Fancy Sysadmins
• Providing needles for your balloons
• Batman’s not real
• What’s the opposite of a taboo
• DevOps is not the tooling
• Software gets old
• Release the turbo button

Rundown

• ‎Windows App
• PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
  • Has DevOps been "worth it" to you?
  • Renaming a few DevOpsDays to PlatformDays.
  • Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs
• Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
  • How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers
  • FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
• Apple
  • Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence
  • Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia
• Intel
  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
  • Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
• Wordpress Drama
  • Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
  • Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
  • WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking
  • WP Engine responds

Relevant to your Interests

• IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims
• Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project
• Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’
• Yaak Is Now Open Source
• OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding
• Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager
• A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management
• Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea.
• Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems
• Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion
• Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
• Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership
• John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this
• The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors
• Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
• IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
• More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok
• Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses
• Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout,
• Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage
• Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion
• Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business
• Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app
• Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
• Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report

Nonsense

• Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you.

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: Use Magnifier on your iPhone or iPad
• Matt: Ghosts
• Coté: The Modern Myths.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss IBM acquiring Kubecost, AWS moving OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, and Amazon employees heading back to the office. Plus, some thoughts on what it means to be in "employee mode."

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 485

Runner-up Titles

• That’s a good looking setup there
• Feels like sweatpants
• London’s busy, Amsterdam's laid back
• AIFinOps
• Mission Bankruptcy
• The settings page is more than 1 page
• Don’t get turned into hamburger, that’s the goal
• Feature checkbox acquisition.
• Employee Mode
• Using people as a whiteboard.
• Work on smarter things, not dumber things.

Rundown

• Announcing Kubecost’s Acquisition by IBM!
• AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation
• Update from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on return-to-office plans and manager team ratio
• JPMorgan creates new role overseeing junior bankers as Wall Street wrestles with workload concerns

Relevant to your Interests

• OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Value to $150 Billion
• Lyft CEO keeps it real on his stock price compared to Uber
• We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI
• How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector
• Wall Street Curbs Young Bankers’ Hours After Overwork Outcry
• Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee
• Intel Awarded up to $3B by the Biden-Harris Administration
• Free 'JavaScript' from Legal Clutches of Oracle, Devs Petition
• Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
• Cisco's second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees
• Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events
• Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals

Nonsense

• Polishing Cloth
• United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes
• Founder mode, baby #tech #founder #foundermode
• Chipotle’s New Guac Robots Can Peel Your Avocados in 26 Seconds
• LinkedIn Roaster - Brutal honesty for your profile
• SpaceX Starlink has 2,500 airplanes under contract after United megadeal, director says
• Passport renewals go digital to ease wait times for American travelers

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac
• Matt: NSW Electoral Commission
• Coté: Code to Production: From Cloud to DevOps to Platform Engineering, with Purnima Padmanabhan

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss Dell's growth in AI servers, GEICO’s transition from VMware to OpenStack, and the concept of Kingmaking. Plus, plenty of thoughts on USB hubs.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 484

Runner-up Titles

• You just put it in a different USB port
• I am just going to repeat thing you say
• A Decade of Aftershow
• Happy Anniversary
• Whatever :43 it is for you
• Cascading hubs not supported anywhere.
• Mac Dongle Pro
• Getting DevOps to work on Intel
• Enterprise Gaming PCs.
• Brian Cantrell as Elon Musk
• Computers are awesome
• Matt and JJ can always go to GIECO.
• I’ll take the more.
• Really good surfers

Rundown

• Dell
  • Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be
  • There's a lot of private cloud out there
• OpenStack
  • US insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack
  • VMware Migration to OpenStack
• King Making

Relevant to your Interests

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Surprised by Skeptics
• Nvidia Has Held Discussions About Joining OpenAI’s Funding Round
• Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise plan to compete with OpenAI
• What's Behind Elastic's Unexpected Return to Open Source?
• The startup teaching your computer how to smell
• Automatically summarize Word documents with Copilot
• Intel's Lunar Lake Looks Like a Home Run
• AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
• The Self-Destruction of Open Source Software
• Confluent acquires streaming data startup WarpStream
• There are almost no IPOs.
• Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works
• Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu)

Sponsor

• Nasuni: Head to nasuni.com/software and see how it can revolutionize your data infrastructure today!

Nonsense

• Delta, Other Airline Loyalty Programs Are Being Probed by US
• The 35-Year-Old CEO Plotting Red Lobster’s Comeback
• New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol outlines priorities to end coffee chain's slump
• Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists

Conferences

• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Rebel Ridge
  • Cloud News of the Month - August 2024
• Matt: Interstellar
• Coté: Reino Slippers.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• Nasuni: Head to nasuni.com/software and see how it can revolutionize your data infrastructure today!

This week, we discuss Intel's challenges, Elastic's adopting the AGPL, and getting AI to introduce itself. Plus, some thoughts on a gesticulating flâneur using a speakerphone in public.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 483

Runner-up Titles

• Why are you in an attic
• Flâneur
• Gesticulating
• That’s not
  
• I’m over the big pile of nachos
• What’s your corporate strategy here?
• They carry the flame
• Keeper of the Flame
• Cote’ likes weather
• Brakenthetical

Rundown

• Intel
  • Intel Said to Explore Options to Cope With Historic Slump
  • Intel debuts second-gen Core Ultra mobile chips in bid to fend off Qualcomm, AMD
  • 'Time is running out' for Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger: Analyst
  • Report: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to reveal new plan to cut costs and sell off business units
  • “Broadcom and Intel?”
  • Qualcomm’s new eight-core Snapdragon X Plus makes these Windows laptops cheaper
  • Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors at AheadComputing
• OSS Licensing
  • Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
  • Why Elastic (ESTC) Shares Are Trading Lower Today
  • The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
  • Post-Open Source (circa 2020)

Relevant to your Interests

• Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation
• Cribl Closes $319M Series E Round at a $3.5B Valuation to Revolutionize Enterprise Data Management
• Broadcom Launches Rally Anywhere
• Courts close the loophole letting the feds search your phone at the border
• GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
• Amazon's Remarkable Alexa will reportedly run on Claude AI and cost $5-10 per month
• Artifacts are now generally available
• Founder Mode
• Research Papers into Podcasts via Google Illuminate
• Andreessen Horowitz Ditches Miami Two Years After Opening Office
• Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces
• China leads in up to 89% of tech research, study shows
• This 451 Research highlights Kloudfuse

Nonsense

• Beaches are for people who enjoy the bureaucracy of going to the beach.
• Costco membership fee increase starts Sept. 1 for new members and renewals.
• The penny.

Sponsor

• Nasuni: Head to nasuni.com/software and see how it can revolutionize your data infrastructure today!

Listener Feedback

• Amazon.com: Fulext Sleep Headphones Bluetooth Headband
• Shokz Bone Conduction Headphone

Conferences

• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: Slow Horses Season 4
• Matt: open source Synergy
• Coté:
  • denim pearl snap shirt at C&A
  • Little Shop of Hoarders in Antwerp.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• Nasuni: Head to nasuni.com/software and see how it can revolutionize your data infrastructure today!

This week, we discuss our AI usage, recap key announcements from VMware Explore, and examine RedMonk's analysis of how open-source licensing impacts revenue and market cap. Plus, some thoughts on power bricks.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 482

Runner-up Titles

• Information wants to be free, yo
• Stay In The Bushes
• Tip Jar Culture
• Tell Me About Meatloaf
• I want you in here with me
• Platforms For Building Platforms
• Private SaaS
• Mom and Dad having a fun conversation on a road trip
• I have my special chargers
• I want it back

Rundown

• Sign up for Coté’s Newsletter
• IDC's Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending
• Private Cloud at VMware Explore - Notebook
• Cursor.com
• OSS
  • Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes
  • Coté’s proposal for how to fix it.
  • Another Thread from Adam Jacob on OSS
• Zoom Docs Is Here. Is It Any Good?

Relevant to your Interests

• Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny
• Snowflake Outlook Fails to Ease Investor Fears of Competition
• Microsoft revamps reporting structure to give better visibility into cloud consumption revenue
• More than 28% of Americans are searching for new jobs — the highest rate in a decade
• Microsoft is reportedly making more branding changes for Copilot business services
• SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in helpdesk product
• Intel has hired Morgan Stanley, other advisers for activist defense
• The Future of the Trade Show Industry – Are We In Danger of Losing Our Soul?
• The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing
• Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
• Grafana Labs raises $270M
• Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software,
• Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack
• Sonos App Debacle Leaves Company Racing to Save Its Reputation

Nonsense

• Chick-fil-A Opens First Elevated Drive-Thru Concept
• How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche
• NASA Picks SpaceX to Rescue Astronauts Marooned in Space
• The startup teaching your computer how to smell

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Coté Speaking, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary.
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21st, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: Ozlo Sleepbuds.
• Coté: Original Cloud Foundry launch videos, April, 2011.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss CockroachDB's relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 481

Runner-up Titles

• Put in your AirPods
• People’s lives are boring
• More than zero
• Know your risks
• Violating the social contract
• Keeping my “Rug Pull” card
• Love of the code
• I call it a waiting room

Rundown

• Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
  • Justin Warren’s newsletter this week.
  • Oxide: Whither CockroachDB? (RFD) and Whither CockroachDB? (Podcast)
• Remote Work
  • Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
  • New Starbuck’s CEO gets remote office
• Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?

Relevant to your Interests

• Exclusive: Sonos considers relaunching its old app
• Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues
• Palo Alto Networks apologizes as sexist marketing misfires
• NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
• Threads is testing a slew of new features like scheduling and analytics
• Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals
• FTC finalizes rule to prohibit sale or purchase of fake reviews
• Goodfire raises $7M for its ‘brain surgery’-like AI observability platform
• Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
• The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other
• Jeff Bezos’ famed leadership rules are being tested inside Amazon
• Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"
• Swiss Startup Connects 16 Human Mini-Brains to Create Low Energy 'Biocomputer'
• AMD to acquire server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion in cash and stock
• The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things
• Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity 'technocapitalist' school
• Inside the Snowflake-Databricks Rivalry, and Why Both Fear Microsoft
• Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On
• Morpheus Data Origin Story
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire Morpheus Data

Nonsense

• Waymos honking
• Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV

Conferences

• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
• Coté: Long walks with VLC.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we revisit our 2021 Intel CEO predictions, discuss Hyperscaler AI investment concerns and debate LinkedIn content. Plus, which products could thrive if Google were broken up?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 480

Runner-up Titles

• New camera, dog is still here
• Teenagers can put away some meat
• We operated at a loss last year because of BBQ
• Dog ate your Internet
• Getting out of a Zoom
• Under the couch data center
• Excuse me can I plug in my Satellite Dish
• A lot of 86-stuff
• You shouldn’t be AI-ing that much
• Out of tokens, again
• Never bet against inertia
• Home of Markdown
• One cord, all power.

Rundown

• Looking back at Intel Predicatons
  • SDT Episode 281
  • Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio
  • How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times
• Is AI too expensive for HyperScalers?
  • Microsoft’s AI Dreams Make for an Expensive Reality
  • Amazon's cloud unit reports 19% revenue growth, topping estimates
  • Big Tech Fails to Convince Wall Street That AI Is Paying Off
  • Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans
• Are all LinkedIn posts just a form of virtue signaling?
  • There’s One Thing You Really Don’t Need to Do After Getting Laid Off
• Lighting round
  • US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
  • H-E-B is finally testing Apple Pay,

Relevant to your Interests

• Why CSV is still king
• Missing Semester IAP 2020
• iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap
• Sonos reportedly delaying two upcoming product releases to fix its misbehaving app
• Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
• Background check company breached, nearly 3 billion exposed in data theft
• Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
• The Wizard of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success
• Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers
• Datadog, MongoDB, Snowflake in spotlight as cloud consumption rose in July: BofA
• The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
• Google takes another startup out of the AI race
• How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
• Delta CEO offers employees free flights after CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos
• Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help
• External Technical Root Cause Analysis

Nonsense

• not sure why barking at it didn't help tbh. 12/10 for both #weratedogs
• Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol

Listener Feedback

• How South of the Border Keeps Going After All These Years
• Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
• XBox Game Pass Ultimate

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW20
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: Google Colab
• Matt: macOS Universal Control
• Coté: Present & Correct.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss what people buy for Kubernetes, the latest cloud earnings, enterprise product management, and health records coming to apps. Plus, why I-95 is the most important U.S. interstate.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 479

Runner-up Titles

• Eat some sausages
• I can’t eat good cheese
• Certified Thought Leader

Rundown

• What people buy for Kubernetes
• Exploring the State of Cloud Native App Platforms and VMware Tanzu
• Clouded Judgement 8.2.24 - Uncertainty Everywhere
• Your health records are coming to new apps. Here's why
• Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)
• Coté’s recent talk about AI in healthcare with JT Perry
• Now is the time for innovation in healthcare, with JT Perry

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon countersues Nokia for a dozen patent infringements
• SentinelOne CEO On CrowdStrike Outage: ‘Not Just An Honest Mistake’
• Apple snubs Nvidia for AI training kit, chooses Google
• Kyndryl records first quarterly profit as consulting strengthens
• Intel to Cut Jobs, Suspend Dividend in Cost-Saving Push
• Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
• Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
• Apple’s pause of its RTP campus may reflect bigger changes at work
• Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
• AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
• AWS breaking changes and price increases
• Killed by AWS tracker

Nonsense

• Please Like Me

Sponsor

• SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management: Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.

Listener Feedback

• Interstate 95

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Cloud News of the Month - July 2024
  • Microsoft Volume II | Acquired Podcast – Azure History starts at 3:35 mark
• Coté: cheese slicers and photos from Finland: 001 and 002.

Sponsored By:

• SysAid: SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management. Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.

This week, we discuss Meta making Llama "open source," Microsoft (over)investing in AI, and AWS doing some spring cleaning. Plus, a lightning round and lamenting the end of Southwest Airlines' open seating.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 478

Runner-up Titles

• Meat in pastry
• Llama in sheep’s clothing
• Cookies again
• Joining the ranks of the rank
• I don’t like it, but I like the things he said
• Rug pull source
• Where is the source for legless VR?
• Be quiet and do your job
• They’re all ruthless

Rundown

• Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating
• Meta
  • Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
  • Try Llama
  • Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump
• MSFT
  • Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment
  • Azure outage
  • Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI
• AWS Spring Cleaning
  • The end of the Everything Cloud
  • Codecommit - cannot create a repository
  • AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
• CrowdStrike Follow Up
  • Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage
  • Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage
  • 4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers
  • How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
  • Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
• Lighting Round
  • Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
  • 100 million using WhatsApp across the United States
  • Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything
  • OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine

Relevant to your Interests

• The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
• Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior
• CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
• Report: Apple beginning serious work on a foldable iPhone
• Who will control the future of AI?
• Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers
• Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
• Announcing Chainguard's Series C
• ChatGPT highly anticipated Voice Mode to launch next week — here’s how to get it
• CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This
• Why open source is not a good strategy for startups.
• CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too
• Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations
• Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence
• The re:Invent session catalog was released
• Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow
• Lawrence Hecht on LinkedIn: Developer Unemployment at Highest Level Since 2019
• Video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs

Nonsense

• The Scale of Life

Sponsor

• SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management: Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.

Listener Feedback

• Jobs – Senior Technical Marketing Manager - OpenShift Virtualization

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024 Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show: [email protected]

Recommendations

• Brandon: Peacock's Gold Zone brings NFL Red Zone style coverage to the Olympics

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• SysAid: SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management. Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.

This week, we discuss the CrowdStrike outage, FinOps data exports, and the state of open-source forks. Plus, Matt shares some exciting exclusive news about his future!

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 477

Runner-up Titles

• Matt Ray Explains
• Channel File 291
• Documenting CYA
• An intern did it
• Default lifestyle strikes again
• All the Nelson GIFs

Rundown

• CrowdStrike
  • Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
  • 12-hour timelapse of airline traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history
  • Flights grounded and offices hit as internet users face disruptions
  • TODAY (@TODAYshow) on X
  • George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) on X
  • CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare
  • Heard on the Street: CrowdStrike May Get More Than a Slap
  • What Happened to Digital Resilience?
  • SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC’s Fraud Case Over Hack
  • Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
  • Microsoft tried to get AV vendors to use APIs
  • House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
  • Crashes and Competition
  • The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning
  • Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs
  • CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
  • CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer
  • CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
• Announcing Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview) in AWS Billing and Cost Management
• Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
• Import and export Markdown in Google Docs
• Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
• The Post-Valkey World
• A tale of two forks - comparing Valkey/Redis and OpenTofu/Terraform!
• Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up
• Google-Backed Software Developer GitLab Eyes Sale, Reuters Says

Relevant to your Interests

• Google Open Sources 27B Parameter Gemma 2 Language Model
• What It Really Takes to Build an AI Datacenter
• State of Developer Experience 2024
• The Return-to-Office Productivity Argument Is Over
• A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web
• The search for the random numbers that run our lives
• OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model
• Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets
• Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
• IBM shares jump on earnings and revenue beat
• US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law

Nonsense

• Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) agreed to buy Tex-Mex chain Chuy's
• Leadership within a costco warehouse
• If The Office took place at a car dealership
• Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Sponsor

SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management: Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.

Listener Feedback (#asksdt)

• Foundation Models - IBM watsonx.ai

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024 Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community, post questions in #asksdt
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsor the show

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Austin FC
  • Presumed Innocent
  • The Contrarian
• Matt: Crying Out Cloud podcast

Photo Credits

• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• SysAid: SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management. Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.

This week, we discuss Google possibly buying Wiz, why "meta work" leads to too many meetings, and why it took forty years to get spell check in Notepad. Plus, we share some thoughts on enjoying your vacation.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 476

Runner-up Titles

• Enjoy the time
• Everyone can get a beef rib at this year’s club.
• We also need to go over your summariztion prompt, because mine is dog shit right now.
• Make your own happiness
• Grand unified theory of food - every culture has a tortilla and an empanada.
• “Platform” is the new “Suite.”
• A robust NO Answer
• Writing a book report
• Failure by lack of airport ads.
• What is you five dollar chicken
• I write to figure out what I am thinking

Rundown

• There's a lot of private cloud out there
• Google near deal to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion
• Meta Work
  • White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now
  • Bullshit Jobs
  • Far Left Take
  • Vanguard’s Die-Hard Customers Have a Message for New CEO: ‘The Service Is Abysmal’
  • Measuring the impact of Developer Relations on Revenue
  • DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
  • Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch
  • Agile Manifesto co-author on making process 'beacon of hope'

Relevant to your Interests

• The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away
• Google’s dark web monitoring service will soon be free for all users
• Software Development Job Postings on Indeed
• Samsung unveils its new Galaxy Ring, an AI-backed competitor to the Oura Ring
• Does Social Media Cause Anything?
• Redbox Owner to Shut Down Kiosk Business in Bankruptcy
• Intuit to cut about 1,800 jobs as it looks to increase AI investments
• Microsoft Exec Althoff: VMware Pricing Gave ‘The World The Greatest Gift Of All’
• Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack
• OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
• I've Switched to Apple's Password Manager, and I'm Never Going Back
• Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation

Nonsense

• Costco hikes membership fee for the first time since 2017
• Costco plans to build 800-unit apartment complex in bid to ease housing crisis
• Here's why the original Buc-ee's went up in flames in Luling
• If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds
• The Morning After: Dune-inspired spacesuit recycles astronauts’ urine into drinkable water
• OldMapsOnline

Sponsor

• Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. Use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024

Conferences

• Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th–5th, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th–20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Buy Coté’s Book: Digital WTF
• Sponsorship opportunities available

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • COTA Bike Night
  • The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag
  • Sharp Tech answers Brandon’s question about F1
• Coté: Soulver.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• API Layer: Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. And just for our Software Defined Talk community, use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024 Promo Code: SDT2024

This week, we discuss Mary Meeker's AI & Universities report, the CD Foundation's State of CI/CD Report, and share a few thoughts on DevRel. Plus, Coté gets fiber and is forced to watch soccer.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 475

Runner-up Titles

• If not better, at least the same. The enterprise software buyer’s lament.
• Order tokens at fantastical speeds.
• They think I am an idiot
• Cherry pick it from a survey
• The Demo Matters

Rundown

• Mary Meeker’s new report AI and Universities
• State of CI/CD Report 2024 - CD Foundation
• 70% of people hadn't checked their code in for 12 months

Relevant to your Interests

• Opinion | The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues
• How Apple used Google's help to train its AI models
• Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts
• Clouded Judgement 7.5.24 - Declining Growth
• Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
• Mirantis Builds on OpenStack To Serve Up a VMware Alternative
• Is this the biggest password leak ever uncovered? Researchers claim nearly 10 billion credentials under threat — here's what we know so far
• We tested over a dozen laptops to see how Snapdragon compares to Intel, AMD, and Apple’s chips

Nonsense

• Mark Zuckerberg's Lake Tahoe antics are getting even weirder
• The Fried Chicken Sandwich Wars Are More Cutthroat Than Ever Before

Sponsor

• Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. Use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024

Conferences

• Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

• Join our Slack community
• Email the show: [email protected]
• Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
• Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
• Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
• Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
• Sponsorship opportunities available

Recommendations

• Brandon: Tailscale.
• Coté: Moonbound.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• API Layer: Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. And just for our Software Defined Talk community, use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024 Promo Code: SDT2024

This week, we explore the reasons behind the slowdown in DevOps adoption, compare open-source and proprietary foundation models, and discuss how AI might simplify CI/CD implementation. Additionally, Matt takes on an Australian history quiz.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 474

Runner-up Titles

• No silver bullets
• If you aspire for nothing, you’re done.
• We can hang out with the boulder at the bottom
• Who owns the black box
• You have to want to put in the effort
• Anyone on the bleeding edge is going to bleed

Rundown

• A Eulogy for DevOps
• DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either
• The InfraRed Report from Redpoint
• Dan Davies Explains Why Accountability Sinks Are Everywhere Now

Relevant to your Interests

• Indonesia won't pay an $8 million ransom after a cyberattack compromised its national data center
• Odaseva raises $54M to secure Salesforce users
• More YouTube Premium plans are coming
• Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters
• Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact
• How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
• Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact
• Infrastructure as Code Landscape Overview 2024
• Infrastructure as Code reminds me of “make run-all”
• Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? / Oxide
• “Everything’s frozen”: Ransomware locks credit union users out of bank accounts
• Exclusive-Vista Equity in talks to hand over Pluralsight to creditors, sources s

Nonsense

• Faces made of living skin make robots smile
• Mandatory Texas vehicle safety inspections end in six months
• Costco's bold new plan for the California housing crisis

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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:
  • House of Dragons Season 2
  • Cloud News of the Month - June 2024

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss the 5 key trends from Bessemer’s State of the Cloud 2024 report. Plus, Matt makes a stock pick for the next 10 years!

Runner-up Titles

• Is it named after Hootie and the Blowfish?
• Prepaying for your bad behavior
• You have a thought piece, we’re gonna think about it
• The Footloose Soundtrack

Rundown

• Amazon Hits $2 Trillion Market Value as AI Frenzy Fuels Rally
• State of the Cloud 2024
• The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

Relevant to your Interests

• The short, happy reign of CD-ROM
• 1Password is simplifying setup on new devices and adding 'Recovery codes'
• Apple is winning in financial services
• Anthropic’s latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, just released on Amazon Bedrock
• What it Takes to Be Valued at >10x Rev
• Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
• Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
• Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month
• Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored?
• AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
• Nvidia Is No Cisco, but It Is Getting Expensive
• Microsoft shelves its underwater data center
• With Pen and Paper in Hand, Car Dealers Improvise as Cyber Outage Persists
• Nvidia Insiders Cash In on Rally as Share Sales Top $700 Million
• We’ve got to talk about the environment when we talk about AI
• Gmail’s Gemini AI sidebar and email summaries are rolling out now
• Google is bringing Gemini access to teens using their school accounts
• Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives
• Report: Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others
• How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v
• Figma’s new Slides app focuses on design, fun, and (oh, yeah!) AI
• Powering the AI Revolution: The PyTorch Documentary
• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
• Some CIOs say getting full value out of AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 requires heavy lifting, as enterprise data isn't always accurate and up-to-date ****## Nonsense
• Cybertruck: The Embarrassing beginning of Teslas Demise
• The Buc-ee’s Statue Got A New Look, And Fans Have Thoughts
• Delta's most exclusive airport lounge opens. Here's what's inside
• Explaining Software Development Methods By Flying to Mars [Comic]

Sponsors

• Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. Use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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: Pause your YouTube TV Subscription
• Matt: Anti-pick: NBN Broadband

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Sponsored By:

• API Layer: Check out www.apilayer.com! From scraping, finance to weather data, apilayer offers reliable and easy-to-integrate APIs for all your needs. Trusted by developers at companies worldwide. And just for our Software Defined Talk community, use the code SDT2024 for an exclusive discount - 50% for 3 months on 100 API plans. Code is valid until Sep 30, 2024 Promo Code: SDT2024

This week, we discuss Forrester’s LLM Wave, Nvidia's Market Cap Dilemma, and why everything is code. Plus, Matt Ray explains more about Australian slang.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 472

Runner-up Titles

• Is pig latin American?
• The final boss for Duolingo
• The Corrections Episode
• You can always get it from the leader
• Frito Lay of Chips
• Everything is code

Rundown

• Forrester has no idea what its talking about
  • Get it from Google.
• Nvidia
  • Nvidia Earnings: Stock Rallies As AI Giant Reports 600% Profit Explosion, 10-For-1 Stock Split
  • Nvidia: Short bets against stock top $34B
  • Nvidia to Become $10T Company: I/O Fund's Kindig
  • Intel CEO Fires Back at Nvidia in Battle for AI Chip Leadership
  • Peak Nvidia
• Solomon Hykes & Dagger

Relevant to your Interests

• Ghost jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money
• Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash
• Broadcom soars as demand for AI chips power forecast raise
• Clouded Judgement 6.14.24 - Is Seat Based Pricing Dead?
• Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog) Shares Every Lesson From Scaling to $40B
• US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
• Senior Engineer Fatigue
• AWS’ AI And GenAI Leader Leaves For DigitalOcean As New CTO
• The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
• A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Nonsense

• You can renew U.S. passports online again
• The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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: Houston Public Library and Libby
• Matt: Dissect podcast
• Coté: Ikea RIKLIG - small, glass teapot.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork
• Wave

This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 471

Runner-up Titles

• Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall
• I need two offers
• You Kids
• We are the rock eaters to Slack
• I mean, what else am I doing with my life?

Rundown

• Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI
• Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements
• iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview
• Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
• Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event
• Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass
• macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows

Relevant to your Interests

• Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding
• Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine
• It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
• Linux as the new developer default at 37signals
• Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident
• The Worst Website In The Entire World
• How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size
• Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories
• Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG)
• Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team
• What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
• Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
• Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack
• Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack
• Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006
• Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
• Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor
• Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway
• OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple.
• Openwashing
• IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season
• How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries
• OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
• A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
• RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard
• 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch
• Adam Selipsky, the exit interview
• Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches
• 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman
• Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated?
• Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant
• Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97)
• OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
• Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow
• AI Patterns
• Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding
• Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS
• GitLab quarter
• eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images
• Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart
• The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
• The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning
• GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares
• VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”
• Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS
• Silicon Valley's False Prophet
• Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last

Nonsense

• Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads
• Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch
• The five stages of computer science
• Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok
• The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
• Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing
• Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say
• The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends

Conferences

• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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:
  • MoviePass, MovieCrash
  • From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592)
• Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS
• Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.”

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow.

Show Links

• Serverless Days Sydney
• dapr.io
• Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps
• Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager

Contact Paul

• LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz
• Twitter: @paulyuki99

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!

Photo Credits

Header

Special Guest: Paul Yuknewicz.

Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks.

Show Links

• visualstudio.com

Contact Amanda

• LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver
• Twitter: @amandaksilver

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!

Photo Credit

Special Guest: Amanda K. Silver.

This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 468

Runner-up Titles

• Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept.
• Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it
• Thanks Clayton Williams
• Multi-size Monkey Phase
• There’s people I know
• “Yes, and” is now fully ironic
• Pop sockets are the future
• All out of tokens, going home
• You said Squawkbox Cote’

Rundown

• New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Services
  • A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
  • App Engine overlay
  • Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite
  • Greenplum
• Microsoft Build
  • Introducing Copilot+ PCs
  • Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA
  • Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes
  • Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'
• Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024

Relevant to your Interests

• Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer
• VMware Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use
• More thoughts on OSS business models
• After selling his startup for a life-changing $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal launched a VC firm and two high-value startups. Why?
• Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base
• ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet
• With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?
• Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation
• Tech Influencing
• Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
• Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast
• Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT
• Privacy Principles: Search, Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Legal
• As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline?
• Apple execs on iMessage for Android
• ‘You’re Fighting AI With AI’: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process
• The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens
• Scott Galloways Predictions for 2024 at OMR24
• Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
• C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89
• The pandemic darlings: where are they now?
• Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Surpass $675 Billion in 2024
• ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t
• Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT
• OpenAI loses its voice

Nonsense

• Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star

Listener Feedback

• Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations
  • Black Hole® Pack 25L – Matt
  • Goruck Travel Rucksacks – Matt
  • Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 – Michael
  • Everyday Backpack from Peak Design – Andy

Conferences

• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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: Water Meter Valve Key
• Matt: Bobby Fingers: “Fabio and the Goose”
• Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 467

Runner-up Titles

• Do what works
• Blame the children
• I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993
• I like carrots

Rundown

• A.I. Announcements
  • Introducing GPT-4o
  • ‎Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements
  • Google I/O 2024
• Palace Intrigue
  • Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement
  • Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.
  • Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later.

Relevant to your Interests

• Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI
• Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics?
• Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein
• Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year
• Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business
• Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp?
• How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount
• Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake?
• Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
• DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!
• Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal
• Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson
• Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year
• Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
• DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take!

Nonsense

• YETI 34 oz French Press - in NL, €125!
• Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
• World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time

Conferences

• Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
• MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

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: Dark Matter
• Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson.

Photo Credits

• Header

This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 466

Runner-up Titles

• Coté is in a Dungeon
• Everything’s going to be different
• What would Stringer Bell say?
• Displacing Google
• Great Grammarly
• A room full of barking dogs
• A little bit of hustle porn.
• Over value activity
• A whole room with barking dogs

Rundown

• Clouded Judgement 5.3.24
• OpenAI To Launch Search Engine
• Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation
• That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
• The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
• HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM

Relevant to your Interests

• Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine.
• Data Privacy: All the Ways Your Cellphone Carrier Tracks You and How to Stop It
• Supercharged Developer Portals
• VMware eases changes and deadlines for CSPs
• Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive
• Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech
• Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch
• Open sourcing Octo STS
• Apple is an edge computing company.
• EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch
• Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch
• VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom
• Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment
• How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
• UniSuper and GCP
• AWS ‘Disappointed’ It’s No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt
• Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age
• Why companies list fake jobs

Nonsense

• Justice for cord boxes!!!
• Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary
• North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs
• Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco

Conferences

• Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony.
• MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

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: Fallout
• Matt: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV
• Coté:
  • My book is on sale at Leanpub.
  • Get XP for donating miles with KLM/Flying Blue.
  • Trade show interview

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 465

Runner-up Titles

• Extra Innings
• Later Innings
• Customer is always right, except for pricing
• Leave the party crying
• Put a price on it

Rundown

• Hashi
  • Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud
  • HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management
  • IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
  • IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost
  • IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand
  • IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next?
  • The threat to open source comes from within
• You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”
• FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes

Relevant to your Interests

• AlmaLinux 9.4 beta: RHEL compatible, but a little different
• Building for our AI future
• Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
• Amazon recently bought a $650 million nuclear-powered data center
• Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
• Netflix Dealt With the Freeloaders. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher.
• Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck
• Do software companies actually have good margins?
• Women Who Code: Influential tech network shuts down unexpectedly
• The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
• Tesla’s Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish: ‘Will you please at least appear to make Tesla your top priority?’
• The SignalFire State of Talent Report: 2023 tech employee trends
• Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
• Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data | Amazon Web Services
• Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta
• US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology
• Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins
• UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' | TechCrunch
• Broadcom Tells Partner Negotiating For Charity ‘VMware Is Not For Everybody’
• Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry
• Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
• The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories
• Atlassian Co-CEO Scott Farquhar Resigns, Leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as Sole Chief
• Thoma Bravo to buy UK-listed Darktrace for £4.3bn
• All we have to fear is FUD itself — Oxide and Friends
• The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
• We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
• Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value
• Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills
• FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
• Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage
• The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys
• Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy?
• State of DevSecOps | Datadog
• Letter from Edward Norton, Founder of Zeck, Why Zeck
• The Man Who Killed Google Search
• Alphabet earnings are out — here are the numbers
• Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement
• Amazon earnings are out — here are the numbers
• Microsoft earnings are out – here are the numbers

Nonsense

• Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy
• A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors
• Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp

Conferences

• Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.

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:
  • MarkdownDown
  • BBEdit's Extract and new feature blindness
• Coté: Adam Savage Q&A

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.

Show Links

• Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is.
• Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
• Two way door decisions
• Dogs not barking.
• Weasel words.
• If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.

Contact Jana Werner

• LinkedIn: Jana Werner.

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!

The Cards

Here's the text of the all the cards:

Mechanism

1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
6. How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
7. How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
8. How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
9. How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
10. How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
11. How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
12. How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
13. How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
14. How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
15. How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?

Culture

1. How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
2. How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
3. How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
4. How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
5. How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
6. How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
7. How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
8. How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
9. How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
10. How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
11. How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
12. How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
13. How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
14. How can you start your next meeting with a document read?

Organisation

1. How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
2. How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
3. How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
4. How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
5. How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
6. [REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
7. How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
8. How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
9. How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?

Leadership

1. How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
2. How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
3. How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
4. How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
5. How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
6. How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
7. How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
8. How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
9. How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
10. How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
11. How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?

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!

Special Guest: Jana Werner.

This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 463

Runner-up Titles

• The fun run was fun.
• You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts.
• The Phish are biting
• Everything’s cool zone
• Words that rhyme with “acquisation”
• Maybe AI can find it
• The market for products that start with “K”
• I like hotdogs
• Don’t do the values, just the fun facts

Rundown

• An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy
• OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp
  • Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu
  • Matt Asay response Tweet
  • Adam Jacob take
• Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica
• 451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028)
• Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai

Relevant to your Interests

• Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta
• ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances
• How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue
• Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag
• Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License
• It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome
• Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation
• Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
• Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack
• Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch
• New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes
• Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
• Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source

Enterprise Nonsense

• How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis

Listener Feedback

• Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser
• Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite
• Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger?

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.

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:
  • Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide
  • Civil War
• Matt:
  • Ostrich travel pillow
  • H-E-B Pro-Sleep Mask
• Coté: Continuity Camera, kibbeling.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

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

• The first person to send their United States postal address to [email protected] will receive a bag of Dawn Python Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee.

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.

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:
  • 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.)

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

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

1. Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
2. Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
3. Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
4. Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
5. Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
6. Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
7. Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
8. Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
9. Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
10. 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

• 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: 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

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

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

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!

Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

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

• 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:
  • 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

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

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!
• 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:
  • How Will You Measure Your Life?
  • The Psychology of Money
  • Vitamix
• Coté: pecans in smoothies.

Photo Credits

• Header
• Artwork

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