Software Defined Talk

The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEs8SG2T8XU) Runner-up Titles The MacGyver of podcasting Scooping up The Tube tickets Buy some velcro This email could have been a PR Who the hell is Brian? Perverse incentives What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats Rundown Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call) (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1661486022239322112?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Clouded Judgement 5.26.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-52623?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=123821962&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/27/y-combinator-backed-neptyne-is-building-a-python-powered-spreadsheet-for-data-scientists/) Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates (https://twitter.com/ericabrescia/status/1661486363420798976) Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/francisco-partners-tpg-end-talks-buy-new-relic-sources-2023-05-26/) Relevant to your Interests Ivory for Mac (https://tapbots.com/ivory/mac/) The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06590.pdf) Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/24/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-bring-intelligent-search-to-its-cloud-data-management-solution/?guccounter=1) AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/stacks-eol-faqs.html) 1Password is rolling out passkey management next month (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/23725223/1password-passkey-date-password-manager) Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants (https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/) Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm (https://gigaom.com/2023/03/17/thinking-strategically-about-software-bills-of-materials-sboms/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? (https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2023/05/18/can-watsonx-rebuild-ibms-ai-relevance/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm (https://gigaom.com/2023/05/03/touchpoints-coalescence-and-multi-platform-engineering-thoughts-from-kubecon-2023/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-value-keeps-falling-under-musk-now-worth-a-third-of-what-he-paid/) Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp (https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2) The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked (https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/ai-regulation-open-source-meta.html) Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q1-2024.html) Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/cathie-wood-s-arkk-dumped-nvidia-stock-before-560-billion-surge?srnd=premium) Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally (https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/nvidia-unveils-more-ai-products-after-184-billion-rally-11685385380208.html) xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/xros-apple-headset-software-rumors/) AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/stacks-eol-faqs.html) Nonsense HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120 (https://gizmodo.com/hp-15c-scientific-calculator-collectors-edition-price-r-1850464801) Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/a-decade-after-it-mattered-windows-xps-activation-algorithm-is-cracked/) Conferences June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: YouTube will allow unlimited simultaneous streams for NFL Sunday Ticket (https://www.engadget.com/youtube-will-allow-unlimited-simultaneous-streams-for-nfl-sunday-ticket-142049241.html) Matt: Spotify Remastered/Deluxe albums The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) (https://open.spotify.com/album/0H6TddUF2M63ZSHGvhk5yy?si=liZmNJnKTtaYMkrJuiSr5Q) Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants (Super Deluxe/Remastered) (https://open.spotify.com/album/5lATS8kbZZub29Q3mGyNiB?si=RaO6u8i-Slm2eaxXw1pGAA) Coté: Bobby Fingers (https://www.youtube.com/@bobbyfingers) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/suTr28QV4wU) Artwork (https://www.craiyon.com)

This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 416 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxODnsIekJo) Runner-up Titles How big are your almonds? It’s under consideration The Olympics of Monitoring Putting Hats on Cats Stanley Nickels for Monitoring The 3 Fines It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work I was told the test was log management IDC is the thin balogna Rundown New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ WSJ News Exclusive | Software Company New Relic in Talks to Be Sold (https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-company-new-relic-in-talks-to-be-sold-8079db4e) 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability (https://www.dynatrace.com/monitoring/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-application-performance-monitoring-observability/) IDC APM marketshare from 2021 (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49596822&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY) Relevant to your Interests Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/kustomer-meta-spin-out/) Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog (https://www.meetup.com/blog/harvards-famous-study-on-happiness-might-surprise-you/) Historical software multiples at IPO (https://twitter.com/glennsolomon/status/1658873511233093632) Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios) Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/luxottica-confirms-2021-data-breach-after-info-of-70m-leaks-online/) Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source (https://youtu.be/Yp2KtNRAzxA) Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain (https://www.reuters.com/markets/australian-stock-exchange-says-software-overhaul-wont-involve-blockchain-2023-05-19/) Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-fba83bc3-5b15-4374-8a3d-8d2829b1d001.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023 (https://www.theverge.com/23734104/microsoft-build-2023-ai-bing-copilot) Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/microsoft-launches-fabric-a-new-end-to-end-data-and-analytics-platform/) Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff (https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-fourth-quarter-revenue-rises-2-2023-05-18/) Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms (https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/05/12/laid-off-big-tech-workers-are-getting-invited-to-return-on-unfavorable-terms?cid=31524316.162675&mblid=bfd7ff44f422&mid=eb84400822928b8efbb6c2dcb0460be6&utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew) Nonsense A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04GSN7U5S9/p1684426841082349) The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage (https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/1659276676889473050) Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted! (https://youtu.be/xRZM-EDsmuI) The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One (https://www.delish.com/food-news/a43578818/sriracha-shortage-again/) Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending. August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0? (https://mimestream.com/blog/whats-new-in-1.0) Matt: Have a picnic Coté: Hoodie and shorts for the spring; the “web browsing” plugin in ChatGPT does not work well. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/FhroWi5pP20) Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/yvzRVBom4tqYBbLZKpY7sp02/O3MXdgOZ37BRYs2JsOhXFy44)

This week we discuss Coinbase's $65 million DataDog bill, the factors that drive developer experience, and Google Bard. Plus, some tips on London Airports and the ideal airport arrival time. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 415 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNsrYSkYsY&t=4s) Runner-up Titles Two hours before boarding $65 million is a lot of nines You can buy a lot of Nagios with that Just write the check for $65 million Boxes Inciting chaos Steady state is stopped Developers are just like the rest of us Unsummarizable AI in the Streets Rundown Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/datadogs-65myear-customer-mystery) Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718066/google-bard-ai-features-waitlist-dark-mode-visual-search-io) DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878) Relevant to your Interests Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-launches-a-github-copilot-competitor/) IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries (https://www.horsesforsources.com/ibm-watsonx_051023/) It's not just cloud costs that are out of control (https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-not-just-cloud-costs-that-are-out-of-control-efcd098c) Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717332/microsoft-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-helion-purchase-agreement?_hsmi=257843304) Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims (https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/) Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco@mastodon.social) (https://mastodon.social/@adrianco/110327883488321584) Goldman Sachs downgrades Twilio, other software names on 'limited catalyst' path (TWLO) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3970029-goldman-sachs-downgrades-twilio-other-software-names-on-limited-catalyst-path) Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/meta-announces-generative-ai-features-for-advertisers/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (https://financialstatement.zip/) Netflix Reportedly Cutting Spending By $300 Million After Delay On Password Sharing Crackdown (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/12/netflix-reportedly-cutting-spending-by-300-million-after-delay-on-password-sharing-crackdown/?sh=4c6e2a1eaee2) Thank you, Enterprisers! (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2023/5/thank-you-enterprisers) Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3695576/somehow-opensearch-has-succeeded.html) Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/) Calendly Welcomes Former Salesforce Product Executive Stephen Hsu as CPO (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230509005168/en/Calendly-Welcomes-Former-Salesforce-Product-Executive-Stephen-Hsu-as-CPO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances | Eric Pauley (https://pauley.me/post/2023/spot-price-trends/) The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (https://financialstatement.zip/) The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD (https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5) Conferences June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Explore EU CFP is open. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: POLAR H9 Heart Rate Sensor (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08411DQ96?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) Matt: Critical Mass (https://amzn.to/42MCaMg) Sydney Half Marathon (https://runawaysydneyhalf.com.au/) Coté: Pipers Great Berwick Longhorn Beef “crisps.” (https://www.piperscrisps.com/en/great-berwick-longhorn-beef) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/so9S78y64zk) Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/oLKoWqA6Gqx4kvjQ2wKHkgK4/rfcnCgVl74kVlDhNE4OEwHRy)

This week we discuss Monolith vs. Microservices , PassKeys replacing passwords and the return of Watson(x). Plus, some thoughts on the media and BlueSky. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 414 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoL0gxUCHwk) Runner-up Titles All the takes you’ve heard, are probably true Links Only An Ombudsman of Tech Hype I’ve programmed before Rundown Monoliths are not dinosaurs (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html) Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611) US DoL considers replacing monolithic IT with modular design (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/dol_modular_code/) Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: ‘We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago’ (https://www.thedrive.com/news/ford-ceo-says-it-will-keep-apple-carplay-android-auto-we-lost-that-battle-10-years-ago) IBM enters the generative-AI fray with Watsonx (https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/watsonx-ibm-generative-ai-chatgpt) Estimated that they could reduce back-office people by 30%. But, said this would be done through attrition, not firing (https://staging.bsky.app/profile/cote.io/post/3jvezw745ao2n). RIP passwords: Google accounts now support passkeys (https://www.pcworld.com/article/1806627/rip-passwords-google-accounts-now-support-passkeys.html) Relevant to your Interests Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” (https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/) Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/go1-snaps-up-speed-reading-app-blinkist-to-expand-in-enterprise-learning/) Miracle working product manager was stuck in Lotus position (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/who_me/) Broadcom CEO Seeks to Persuade EU on USD 61 Billion VMware Deal (https://enterprisetalk.com/quick-bytes/broadcom-ceo-seeks-to-persuade-eu-on-usd-61-billion-vmware-deal/) GitHub replaces code search engine with Rust-based Blackbird (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/blackbird_github_search/) Clouded Judgement 5.5.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-5523) Nonsense Tall poppy syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome) Short Poppies (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Poppies) Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65524218) Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold, Silver Medals in 1st-Ever Jiu-Jitsu Tournament (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10075360-mark-zuckerberg-wins-gold-silver-medals-in-1st-ever-jiu-jitsu-tournament) Conferences May 11th, 2023 Devoxx UK in London (https://www.devoxx.co.uk/speaker-details/?id=2852). Get 25% tickets with the code SEEMESPEAK23 (https://tickets.devoxx.co.uk/event/devoxx-uk-2023). June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free. June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online. June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online. June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending. August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas. Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking. Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking. Listener Feedback Thanks to Mathis for giving SDT a subscription to Oh Dear (https://ohdear.app). SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Silo | Apple TV+ (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjus9y8z-j-AhVQIEwKHZ7QCJsYABAAGgJvYQ&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESauD2hxM4dr0NzTnQWomUgIFxXQLmZKLwkuP7YUfysUViqkHB-rcfsyUYsVsoa3UtuxvprjMP_dt-QlM7ou6i593OBsuDA1XmArCZsZj0PAILIiav2Q-A86nG7eMxSgGs0vUfUbzyxCq0N2k&sig=AOD64_0SAcK50BfCJvVNTsw1fcLcY8oLww&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwixr9K8z-j-AhUOk2oFHU9gAccQ0Qx6BAgGEAE&nis=8&dct=1) Coté: How to Idle (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/623922). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/LkQl6YsjERk) Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/43brTPe2uWSyfAgXeWUYPFc4/UGqMty6tXU97d9D3C2U4vLk3)

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUMH3L0iLqs) Runner-up Titles Airplane Ghost No Hashtag for That Sorry Fellow Travelers That’s what they said about Google Reader That’s the beauty of nonsense stories How do you really feel Brandon? Nobody wants monitoring data Airport Hotels I don’t remember Security Line Sick Rundown Checking in on Cloud Earnings Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1651679974548738048?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Clouded Judgement 4.28.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-42823?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=117470069&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022 (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/04/11/iaaspricing2022/) Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/04/28/of-course-aws-revenues-are-slowing-and-profits-are-pinched/) Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug (https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/29/dont-fooled-slowing-cloud-growth-cost-optimization-feature-not-bug/) Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/amazon-starts-round-of-layoffs-in-aws-cloud-services-division?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230426&utm_campaign=author_20879664&leadSource=uverify%20wall) Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-cloud-business-clamping-down-191234361.html) Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/googles-cloud-business-turns-profitable-for-the-first-time-on-record.html) Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/microsoft-msft-q3-earnings-report-2023.html) Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2023/04/27/navigating-the-high-cost-of-ai-compute/) OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io) Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit (https://review.firstround.com/kubecosts-path-to-product-market-fit-how-the-co-founders-validated-their-idea-with-100-customer-conversations) MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org (https://medium.com/@imashadowphantom/mariadb-com-is-dead-long-live-mariadb-org-b8a0ca50a637) Relevant to your Interests FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/fbi-genesis-market-seized-stolen-logins/?_hsmi=253259905) Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company (https://9to5google.com/2023/04/05/stadia-phil-harrison-departs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding (https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/06/observability-platform-honeycomb-pockets-50m-new-funding/) Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/) The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - Moor Insights & Strategy (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/webcasts/the-six-five-insider-edition-with-ram-velaga-broadcom/) Clubhouse ↓ (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1644037829180239873?s=46&t=-2GRjYw3L96Jh3hL9tDPcg) Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT (https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-samsung-employees-leak-data-1850307376) How SQLite helps you do ACID (https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-rollback-journal/) On-prem still cheaper but don't rule out the cloud yet (https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/11/cloud_dc_costs/) Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices (https://gizmodo.com/amazon-bans-flipper-zero-card-skimming-on-tiktok-1850313284?_hsmi=253770930) Today in Apple history: Apple-1 starts a revolution (https://www.cultofmac.com/475761/apple-1-launch/) How Incumbents Survive and Thrive (https://hbr.org/2022/01/how-incumbents-survive-and-thrive?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter) Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more (https://buoyant.io/blog/announcing-linkerd-2-13-circuit-breaking-dynamic-request-routing-fips) Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/pentagon-leak-traced-to-video-game-chat-group-users-arguing-over-war-in-ukraine) NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label) Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/meta-layoffs-employees-management.html) Announcing the deps.dev API: critical dependency data for secure supply chains (https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/announcing-depsdev-api-critical.html?m=1) Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home (https://www.futurepedia.io/?_hsmi=254110070) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Pay Falls to $1.3M, Touts Ad Business in Annual Letter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-2022-compensation-jeff-bezos-pay-1235373272/) Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-new-tools-for-building-with-generative-ai-on-aws/) Venture Capital Deals (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-94b71804-0a2d-45a5-b53e-dc667b154016.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) Zoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering (https://www.workvivo.com/newsroom/workvivo-zoom/) WSJ News Exclusive | IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-explores-sale-of-weather-business-c174f75c) Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet (The Verge) (https://artifact.news/s/aIEifcBqhS0=) Keith White On Why He Is Leaving HPE, Dell Apex And Why The ‘Sky Is The Limit’ For The HPE GreenLake Ecosystem (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/keith-white-on-why-he-is-leaving-hpe-dell-apex-and-why-the-sky-is-the-limit-for-the-hpe-greenlake-ecosystem) Apple's batteries will use 100 percent recycled cobalt by 2025 (https://www.engadget.com/apples-batteries-will-use-100-percent-recycled-cobalt-by-2025-132837439.html?_hsmi=254528948) Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-yield-savings-account-is-now-available-offering-a-4-point-15-percent-apy/) Introducing Gloo Fabric (https://www.solo.io/blog/introducing-solo-gloo-fabric/) MillerKnoll CEO sparks backlash after telling employees to "leave Pity City" over lack of bonuses (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millerknoll-ceo-andi-owen-backlash-pity-city/) Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business (https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-nflx-q1-earnings-report-2023-8460b7e4) Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown (https://mckinsey.dsmn8.com/s3GcM4Y-Wx) A 12% decline in global smartphone shipments is what passes for stability these days (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/a-12-decline-in-global-smartphone-shipments-is-what-passes-for-stability-these-days/) Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data (https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/) Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/22/build-your-own-bootable-emacs-environment/) Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-education-fund-report-investigation-chromebook-churn) Silver Lake to buy Germany's Software AG in $2.42 billion deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/silver-lake-buy-germanys-software-ag-242-bln-deal-2023-04-21/) "Verified" becomes a badge of dishonor (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-4fc52afb-3c90-4bea-ad37-35b90c77ed9f.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) Apple throws VR spaghetti against the wall (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-4fc52afb-3c90-4bea-ad37-35b90c77ed9f.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains (https://devops.com/gitlab-survey-reveals-devsecops-gains/) Zed - Code at the speed of thought (https://zed.dev/) U.S. appeals court upholds lower court order forcing Apple to allow third-party App Store payments (https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-upholds-lower-court-order-forcing-apple-allow-third-party-app-2023-04-24/) Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees (https://wraltechwire.com/2023/04/24/red-hat-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-ceo-says-in-letter-to-employees/) Replit ⠕ on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Replit/status/1650900629521596421) Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With (https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker) Red Hat lays off 4% of its global workforce (https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2023/04/24/red-hat-lays-off-4-of-its-workforce?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster | Semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/04/25/2023/theres-a-new-ai-unicorn-that-will-make-coders-faster) BMC to Acquire Model9 - BMC Software (https://www.bmc.com/newsroom/releases/bmc-to-acquire-model9.html) Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/04/26/broadcom-takes-on-infiniband-with-jeri

Matt, Coté and guest host Barton George record live from KubeCon EU. They discuss the Keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet… Runner-up Titles The CNCF invades Amsterdam So nice not to talk to anyone Kubecon EU 2023 recap Curve Fits Rundown Thanks to developer.dell.com (https://developer.dell.com) team for help with show production. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 (http://KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022) Self Scanning in Dirk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xraOeYb8po) Conferences DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Header (https://twitter.com/barton808/status/1648592307791314948/photo/1) Artwork (https://twitter.com/barton808/status/1649071653001785344) Special Guest: Barton George.

Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022. Show Links A Look Back at Q4 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q4-22-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=113895854&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) The Cloudcast, The Evolution of SaaS Business Models, Episode 708 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/04/the-evolution-of-saas-business-models.html) Clouded Judgement (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/) Contact Jamin LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamin-ball-49366137/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Special Guest: Jamin Ball.

This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck. Show Links Big Data is Dead (https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/) DuckDB (https://duckdb.org/) DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5FdqzGT1E) MotherDuck (https://motherduck.com/) Google Big Query (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery) Contact Jordan LinkedIn: jordantigani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/) Twitter: @jrdntgn (https://twitter.com/jrdntgn) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/iYEyc6GpvGc) Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.

This week we discuss regulators slowing Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Nutanix’s delayed earnings, GitHub's origins, Tech Stocks and staplers at Google. Plus, some thoughts on GM and Apple CarPlay. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 409 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8aU8wIrqM) Runner-up Titles Why not Linux? I remain skeptical Let’s complain about some software Think of the listeners Going to need a bigger Post-it Note We’ve baked too many muffins on a Monday 88.1 on your dial Rundown Everybody hates GM’s decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its EVs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669523/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-ev-restrict-access) GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-apple-carplay-android-auto-google) CMA to probe Broadcom and VMware merger more deeply (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/uk_watchdog_to_give_broadcomvmware/) Nutanix CIO Exits Amid Software Misuse Probe (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-cio-exits-amid-software-misuse-probe) Origins of GitHub Biz Model (https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1641138130807058432) Tom Preston-Werner interview on Kubelist (https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-35-the-open-source-journey-with-tom-preston-werner) After layoffs, tech stocks boom (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-0f896066-91fa-46f8-b6ab-59e053c6cb02.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google letting people leave (https://twitter.com/josephjacks_/status/1642719912136429569?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm) "authoriselon" (https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L225) Relevant to your Interests Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/?_hsmi=252346186) Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-says-microsofts-cloud-practices-anti-competitive-slams-deals-with-rivals-2023-03-30/) Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662476/microsoft-bing-chatbot-ads-revenue-sharing?_hsmi=252507726) Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/chatgpt-blocked-italy/) State of startup compensation, H2 2022 (https://carta.com/blog/state-of-startup-compensation-h2-2022/) Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm) The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/) Ex-Grubhub Driver Wins $65 in 8-Year-Fight to Be Called Employee (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-31/ex-grubhub-driver-wins-65-in-8-year-fight-to-be-called-employee?srnd=technology-vp&sref=3Ac2yX40&_hsmi=252778363) Saudi Arabia Is Investing $38 Billion to Become a Video-Game Hub (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/saudi-arabia-is-investing-38-billion-to-become-a-video-game-hub?sref=3Ac2yX40) Former Start-up Founder Charged by Prosecutors for Defrauding JPMorgan Chase (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/charlie-javice-jpmorgan-fraud.html) Amazon announced eliminating another 9,000 roles (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1637822962504957952?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Nonsense The last O'REILLY book (https://social.heise.de/@vowe/110118878261283573) 3 Pieces of Military Tech From "The Mandalorian" That We're Already Working on (https://sofrep.com/news/3-pieces-of-military-tech-from-the-mandalorian-that-were-already-working-on/?fbclid=IwAR078o8c0RGUb2gPJXNANeiLoAFzwNSq1Cys87_7eD2rd-GDyJCfESjxb3M) Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY) The Evolution of SaaS Business Models (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/04/the-evolution-of-saas-business-models.html) (Brandon co-hosts The Cloudcast) Matt: Bernie Worrell: Elevation (The Upper Air) (https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/elevation-the-upper-air) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/kvIAk3J_A1c) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/_1HlXH4LI7A)

This week we discuss Docker’s reversal, Amazon's return to office, Apple’s headset, the state of the Metaverse and the rise of LLMs. Plus, Matt shares his sleep study experience and an after-show about Hawaii. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 408 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLRMj8s_Fc) Runner-up Titles Tyranny of 16x9 College Sports of Mastodon Sleep Study NPS survey at the end Dependent on Goodwill This is best for the customer Worlds greatest employer Apple, we were counting on you Mechanized Mansplaining Rundown We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan (https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/) Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition (Insider) (https://artifact.news/s/-dZrO83ly0Q=) At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/apple-augmented-reality-dissent.html) Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659691/disney-metaverse-job-cuts-eliminated?_hsmi=252164574) Cheating is All You Need (https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need) Relevant to your Interests Introducing World ID and SDK (https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/introducing-world-id-and-sdk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_broke_reddit_the_piday_outage/) De-cloud and de-k8s — bringing our apps back home (https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-back-home/) Venture Firms And Startups Are Returning To Government-Backed SVB In Droves (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2023/03/19/vc-and-startups-are-returning-to-government-backed-svb-in-droves/?sh=783740c17dfc) OpenStack starts wrapping around the alphabet to name it's latest release. (https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1639265814963527680) 51 Tips For Surviving in a BIG Company (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/51-rules-how-survive-big-company-jeremy-connell-waite/) New York Times touts continued Wordle success (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c755db47-b0d4-471d-9f55-b8cf1218c75c.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) SVB Capital Owned Pieces Of Top VC Firms. With A Sale Ongoing, Their Future Is In Flux. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/03/24/what-happens-to-svb-capital-vc-firm-bets/?sh=596c2bedb7ef) First Citizens agrees to buy Silicon Valley Bank (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/first-citizens-silicon-valley-bank-sold-fdic) Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative (https://www.reuters.com/technology/databricks-pushes-open-source-chatbot-cheaper-chatgpt-alternative-2023-03-24/) Let's Get To The News #11: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (https://craigbox.substack.com/p/11-oclock-tick-tock) Rackspace cutting workforce in response to downturn. Amid string of losses, its stock has plummeted. (https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/rackspace-layoffs-downturn-17859129.php) Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows 11 audio mixer (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-testing-a-redesigned-windows-11-audio-mixer-224417187.html) Twilio's IoT business unit to be acquired by KORE to build first 'IoT Hyperscaler' (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3951425-twilios-iot-business-unit-to-be-acquired-by-kore-to-build-first-iot-hyperscaler) Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with New Emoji, Notifications for Web Apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for Cellular Calls, New Shortcuts Actions, and More (https://feed.feedburster.com/macstoriesnet/redirect?url=https://www.macstories.net/news/ios-16-4-overview-emoji-notifications-web-shortcuts/) The Bank Regulators Are Disappointed (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-28/the-bank-regulators-are-disappointed) ChatGPT plugins (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) AI changes the software-making game (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-660f9b08-f144-4c7f-9388-fcde9259d5d2.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is GA | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/google-distributed-cloud-hosted-is-ga/) Alibaba to split into 6 units and explore IPOs; shares up 14% in the U.S. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/28/alibaba-says-it-will-split-into-6-units-that-can-raise-funds-and-ipo.html?_hsmi=252164574) Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter 'For You' feed (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/tech/elon-musk-verified-only-for-you-feed?_hsmi=252164574) Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/zoom-is-adding-new-features-to-compete-with-slack-calendly-google-and-microsoft/) How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html) Nonsense Beaver fossil named after Buc-ee's (https://phys.org/news/2023-03-beaver-fossil-buc-ee.html) The Ultimate Texas Brand Bracket Crowns Its Champion — Texas Monthly (https://apple.news/Aq4TrnlI_Sfq9hziw3ML6oQ) After Show Coté’s interview with Barton (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/393) Conferences KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Duo Lingo (https://www.duolingo.com) Matt: Hardcore History Addendum: Rick Rubin/Dan Carlin Conversation (https://www.dancarlin.com/addendum/) Kubernetes Cloud Cost Monitoring with OpenCost & Optimization Strategies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiqIqcM1d6o) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/7ZD_JIwl410) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/XzVGz2HBtK4) Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss Docker’s Business Model, the Stack Overflow’s Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvIBIzlmbM) Runner-up Titles Free isn’t good enough I’m not that disconnected It’s a presentation with yourself We still hate this Open Source Continuity Founder Magic Syntactic Sugar How cool do you feel, Tim Cook? Rundown Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know (https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/) Docker’s bad week (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3691292/dockers-bad-week.html) After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment (https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/03/09/after-the-buzz-fades-what-our-data-tells-us-about-emerging-technology-sentiment/) Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine (https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine) The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition (https://9to5google.com/2023/03/15/google-glass-enterprise-edition-discontinued/) Meta's metaverse is on the back burner (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c7503b12-b371-4a85-86f0-dacb9b3426fc.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html) Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/meta-quest-pro-vr-headset-gets-price-cut.html) Mark Gurman details Apple's Reality Pro headset (https://www.gsmarena.com/mark_gurman_gives_huge_breakdown_of_apples_reality_pro_headset-news-57314.php) Relevant to your Interests 4K Blu-Rays Vs. 4K Streaming: Which Is the Best Way to Enjoy Movies? (https://www.tcl.com/global/en/blog/4k-blu-rays-vs-4k-streaming-which-is-the-best-way-to-enjoy-movies) Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff (https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff) Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/salesforce-crm-earnings-q4-2023.html) Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month | Eli Lilly and Company (https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-cuts-insulin-prices-70-and-caps-patient-insulin-out-pocket) Adrian Cockcroft on LinkedIn: Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adriancockcroft_amazon-denies-claims-hiring-freeze-is-slowing-activity-7035729287030730752-eIog?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios) NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages (https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/devops/npm-repository-15000-phishing-packages) Introducing Service Weaver (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1630995723956412420) A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a) Ford announces it hired 550 former Argo devs (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1631485994322239489) Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3946bb7%2F64022c3bd8b4d160753c68fc%2F5ed96de79bbc0f3a78a62db3%2F10%2F74%2F64022c3bd8b4d160753c68fc&wp_cu=adfcfd8deaffd0ba2a9ca872039c1c5f%7CA74A34F443CC71B2E0530100007FCBF9) National Cybersecurity Strategy (https://twitter.com/ENERGY/status/1631412407565180928?s=20) Richard Seroter’s take on Web Assembly (https://twitter.com/rseroter/status/1631723362371371008?s=20) VMware’s SaaS Sales Surge As Broadcom Deal Nears (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/vmware-s-saas-sales-surge-as-broadcom-deal-nears) Technology Chiefs Seek Help Wrangling Cloud Costs (The Wall Street Journal) (https://artifact.news/s/ZAPppeImSUI=) Top Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans Major India Expansion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-apple-supplier-plans-major-india-expansion-f2908b88) Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’ (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64835239) A cloud migration in wartime (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/a-cloud-migration-in-wartime) Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April (https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2023/apples-vp-of-cloud-engineering-michael-abbott-reportedly-leaving-company-in-april/) ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark (https://lemire.me/blog/2023/03/01/arm-vs-intel-on-amazons-cloud/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665) Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/06/microsoft-dynamics-copilot/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGcA6HN4Zti_4dKCpuMURoiAkkQ_uR0GBWFOG215KnmRsvryBDclj9SjWv-95R0yA0wFRXevcP-HUdwk-E3ZyR3d23rc5VGVCNXFGK5L3mAPvoEOJxRs6WZFKQvDUBIyw5V3NpdWGkkQ-fXDh4Rijfdp2l_ekJTxepVJjoYJSyKz) NOSSHJJ talking about 1Password (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfmKwjiVf-U) Alphabet headcount on Google Cloud (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1632842179281387522) How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday (https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/kubernetes-as-a-platform-vs-kubernetes-as-an-api-2/) Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-06/atlassian-will-eliminate-500-jobs-in-latest-software-cutbacks?leadSource=uverify%20wall&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top#xj4y7vzkg) Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now (https://www.engadget.com/even-slack-has-a-chatgpt-app-now-154334452.html) The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization (https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-papers/the-pursuit-of-shareholder-value-ciscos-transformation-from-innovation-to-financialization) Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10th in front of a 'limited' in-person audience (https://www.engadget.com/google-io-2023-takes-place-on-may-10th-in-front-of-a-limited-in-person-audience-232154501.html) Datadog’s software is down — and so is its stock (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/datadogs-software-is-down-and-so-is-its-stock-3d0dc2e6) Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push (https://www.ciodive.com/news/Southwest-airlines-AWS-cloud-modernization/644510/) Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-bing-crossed-100-million-daily-active-users-080138371.html) SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing (https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-stripe-is-raising-6-billion) After Stadia, Google's new gaming roadmap (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-231e8237-d33a-4d1a-b810-5e2e729eff66.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) GM offers buyouts to 'majority' of U.S. salaried workers (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/gm-buyouts-us-salaried-workers.html) Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) VMware turns to containerization to improve virtual apps (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/09/vmware_apps_on_demand/) Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Oracle shares sink nearly 5% after third-quarter revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/oracle-shares-sink-nearly-5percent-after-third-quarter-revenue-miss.html) How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud (https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8) U.S. government steps in and says people with funds deposited at SVB will be able to access their money (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/regulators-unveil-plan-to-stem-damage-from-svb-collapse.html) Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337) GitLab loses one-third of its value after software company issues weak revenue forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitlab-gtlb-earnings-q4-2023.html) Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/03/10/hashi-stack-to-break-1-billion-with-profits-in-two-years/) Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/10/gowalla-location-based-social-app/) Amazon's New Home Internet Service Announces New Details | Cord Cutters News (https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-new-home-internet-service-announces-new-details/) Grammarly's New AI Tool Can Do More Than Check Your Spelling (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/grammarlys-new-ai-tool-can-do-more-than-check-your-spelling/) Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/google-cloud-gives-developers-access-to-its-foundation-models/) The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client (https://aws.amaz

John Willis (https://twitter.com/botchagalupe) joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering. There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well. Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode. Links: Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge (https://amzn.to/3TnWcsU) - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here (https://amzn.to/3TnWcsU). Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (https://amzn.to/3JKxakr) - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age. SCaLE 20x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x). DevOpsDays LA (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-los-angeles/welcome/). Special Guest: John Willis.

Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere (https://amperecomputing.com). They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend. Links: Ampere Altra Developer Platform (https://amperecomputing.com/systems/altra/kraken-comhpc-WS) Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 (https://blog.alexellis.io/linux-on-microsoft-dev-kit-2023/) Ampere Developer Program (https://amperecomputing.com/developers) Contact Peter: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpouliot/) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credits Header (https://amperecomputing.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsolutions-portal-cms-prod-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com%2FAmpere_Product_Page_035d9bec1c.png&w=1920&q=75) Special Guest: Peter Pouliot.

Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargunkaur/), Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard (https://byteboard.dev/). They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO. Show Links: Byteboard (https://byteboard.dev/) Contact Sargun LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargunkaur/) Twitter: @justsargs (https://twitter.com/justsargs) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Photo Credit (https://blog.google/technology/area-120/byteboard-mobile-web-interviews/) Special Guest: Sargun Kaur.

Everything about this is wrong This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ep_x-LOg4M) Runner-up Titles Forbidden Everything needs cables Got to be Grammarly I’ve got a lot of hills to die on A hatred for their customers They wanted to hate your corpse Except for The Wu-Tang Saga You’ve abandoned the ship No, no, we need to spy on you You are gaslighting what your selling I wouldn’t touch this Full of chef kiss quotes Rundown What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 (https://stratechery.com/2023/what-the-nba-can-learn-from-formula-1/) IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/24/irs-technology-gao-report-archaic/) Screaming in the Cloud #357: Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/) US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/) Individual Master File (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File) Introducing MRSK (https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267) mrsked/mrsk (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk) Justin Garrison @rothgar’s take (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1630634683313848320) Relevant to your Interests After Fraud Charges Against Slync’s Ex-CEO, Goldman Sachs Doubles Down With $24 Million Investment (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/02/22/slync-goldman-sachs-chris-kirchner-funding/?sh=52642f354594) ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/) Why everyone’s talking about Section 230 - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/02232023-Section-230/) Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges For 2023 (https://www.revealbi.io/whitepapers/reveal-survey-report-top-software-development-challenges-for-2023) Microsoft previews cost-efficient Azure VMs (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/microsoft_cheap_azure_vms/) DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-preparing-suit-to-block-adobe-s-20-billion-deal-for-figma) Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 - Moor Insights & Strategy (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/oracle-cloud-made-all-the-right-moves-in-2022/) DoJ to block Adobe purchase of Figma on competition concerns (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/doj_to_block_adobe_purchase/) Your jailbroken ChatGPT might violate OpenAI’s safety guidelines when role-playing as ‘DAN’ (https://www.fastcompany.com/90845689/chatgpt-dan-jailbreak-violence-reddit-rules) Is WebAssembly Really the Future? (https://thenewstack.io/is-webassembly-really-the-future/) Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23616933/elon-musk-twitter-employees-stock-awards-march-after-more-layoffs) Salesforce weighing up more job cuts to hit margin goal (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/salesforce_job_losses_not_over/) Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabet-needs-to-replace-sundar-pichai) LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults (https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/lastpass-reveals-second-attack.html) Stack Overflow Stats (https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952) Nonsense Twitter had 88,188 channel (https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1630346916335865857?s=46&t=DiH5HJagHYkpKEP13Yz6Cg%20%20Zoë%20SchifferZoë%20Schiffer%20@ZoeSchiffer) but they don’t have THE THREAD. (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1590186505165200) Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com Podcast (https://www.macgeekgab.com) provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. Subscribe now! (https://www.macgeekgab.com/subscribe-to-podcast/) Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org) KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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This week we take a critical look at DHH’s plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402 (https://youtube.com/live/C1KDU0QdrMY?feature=share) Runner-up Titles Cycled the Power The Principles are Amazing The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog Does this mean the public cloud is over? Where was the Oracle rep? We fear change SaaS for me, not for you The author of this text does not like Amazon Adventure-driven development You’ve got great a manifesto Intolerable! Cory Doctorow amped up Rundown We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our-cloud-exit-53996caa) Five values guiding our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/five-values-guiding-our-cloud-exit-638add47) Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/cloud_repatration_savings_calculated_basecamp/) Two racks. My friends, a thread from Adam Jacob (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1628062851314356225?s=46&t=wXfsbi72zZrNHy0q1UbAGg) Relevant to your Interests Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal (https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-limits-bing-ai-chats-to-5-replies-to-keep-conversations-normal/) Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon's return to office plans (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office) Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-push-ceo-andy-jassy-to-drop-return-to-office-mandate.html) An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter) The SSO Wall of Shame (https://sso.tax/) Twitter spent $60 M on SMS? (https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1627154896884584454?s=46&t=BJ_-KFnX7Zwm7CPZgRSmNg) Predicting Resource Cost Before Deployment (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/resource-cost-prediction/) Oakland Declares State of Emergency Due to Ransomware Attack (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-state-of-emergency-ransomware-attack/3158122/) US Border Patrol Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data (https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-epassport-verification/) GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-copilot-update-stops-ai-model-from-revealing-secrets/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Twilio Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005742/en/Twilio-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results) Big 1Password update for iOS and Mac brings over 100 improvements and changes (https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/15/big-1password-update-for-ios-and-mac/) Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/is-the-exodus-over-heres-how-twitter-alternatives-have-fared-since-elon-musks-acquisition/) Most Londoners would quit before they give up WFH (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/15/wfh_pulled_quit_survey/?td=rt-3a) YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-says-shes-stepping-down.html) Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/02/16/forget-milk-and-eggs-supermarkets-are-having-a-fire-sale-on-data-about-you) Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-windows-11-apple-mac-m1-m2-support-parallels-virtual-machines) Digital Ocean Earnings (https://twitter.com/masonegger/status/1626231150091046912?s=12&t=4iXXneoFFARPscTY7xbH2w) Karan B. on LinkedIn: Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7030923903950618624-4lHt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios) Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/salesforce-yields-to-activist-pressure-with-harsh-new-policies-for-engineers-sales-people/) ByteDance's Slack-like tool generated $100M in 2022 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/bytedance-slack-feishu-arr-milestone/) Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after 'cyber incident' (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/burton-snowboards-cancels-online-orders-after-cyber-incident/) Open-source is broken: the sad story of Denis Pushkarev (core-js) (https://www.izoukhai.com/blog/the-sad-story-of-denis-pushkarev-zloirock-the-creator-of-core-js) Pixelfed - Decentralized social media (https://pixelfed.org/) VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/vmware_broadcom_deal_deadline_extended/) How websites can still easily track you in incognito mode (https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-incognito-is-incognito-mode-on-your-internet-browser/) Meta Verified (https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10114993498750111?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) YouTube As Infinite File Storage (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-storage/) Biden won’t save the Apple Watch from potential ban (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/biden-wont-save-the-apple-watch-from-potential-ban/) Apple TV+ growth has 'flat-lined' as users say service lacks value: UBS (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-tv-growth-has-flat-lined-as-users-say-service-lacks-value-ubs-133042717.html) Gartner: Oracle targets users on Java compliance (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/gartner_java_licensing/) Software is a hell of a drug (https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1628016701991182336?s=20) KKR-Backed BMC Plans IPO Valuing It at Up to $15 Billion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-17/kkr-backed-bmc-worth-up-to-15-billion-is-said-to-file-for-ipo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top&leadSource=uverify%20wall) Nonsense We Tested Tiny11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/we-tested-tiny11-for-arm-on-a-raspberry-pi) NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0qBbJq4qQ) United Airlines Eases Family Seating After Call to Cut Fees (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/business/united-airlines-family-seat-fees.html) Listener Feedback Thanks to Christopher for sending the article on Mastodon: We tried to run a social media site and it was awful (https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788ebcd) Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast (https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/). Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP or SPEAK (50% off) Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. 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This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpzvCcFZk0) Runner-up Titles Going Hardcore Sleeping under the desk The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet Rundown Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-plans-to-eventually-go-big-on-physical-grocery-stores-154524344.html) Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mi-tienda-ready-to-cook-flour-tortillas/2188466) Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game (https://www.engadget.com/the-division-2-botched-update-172527977.html) God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter (https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/) The Twitpocalypse may have begun today (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/twitter_glitches_raises_tweet_limit/) What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4) Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… (https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23) These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/these-new-platforms-will-be-great?utm_source=substack&publication_id=50&post_id=102609967&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true) IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/ibm-graphql/) Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-be-acquired-francisco-partners-17-billion) Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155650909/google-chatbot--error-bard-shares) The maze is in the mouse (https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a) Relevant to your Interests Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS' (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-speaks-lot-of-growth-in-front-of-aws/) The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins (https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-netflixs-password-sharing-crackdown-begins-121557582.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIYHiHrsIv_lVu8RNqY46BjFzlgU4pFDBXmk1gQxq2wlQOz02b5tuepColb1KJFoYYwQVWy2SjTUKWVY2oAEMzfkYXlXs97_PE0gpwNUA4RjnDwE_YEm7FB323M9oOBQJNHboj1t77QC9HriDL8cJP-VcplJ5UlJvvwHZRzMn9PC) AI Homework (https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/) Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593966/cloudflare-mastodon-server-wildebeest-instance-fediverse) Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does. (https://twitter.com/liron/status/1622962433752195072) "The New Gatekeepers" (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations) A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology (https://fortune.com/2023/02/13/tesla-elon-musk-fsd-tech-ceo-spent-almost-600000-on-a-super-bowl-ad-to-warn-america-about-teslas-self-driving-technology/) AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/aws_slammed_for_postgresql_dbaas/) Can this man turn Amazon around? (https://www.ft.com/content/a8cdfe3a-a445-476c-b4a7-367468ac1398) A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (https://www.twilio.com/blog/restructuring-twilio) An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/) Nonsense De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRt5XcrW/) Sponsor The New Stack — Subscribe to The New Stack Makers Podcast (https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/). Conferences Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP Coté and Matt arranging a live recording. 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This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400 (https://youtube.com/live/3lko4YjndKY?feature=share) Runner-up Titles You don’t want to toy with food poisoning Do you put all your eggs in one basket? The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT This is just Bing Bullshit as a Service It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine Bad dog The answer to every question is ChatGPT Linux under the desktop Rundown Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t? (https://www.organicvalley.coop/blog/why-does-us-refrigerate-eggs/) Earnings and Outlook Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1621260249016434691?s=46&t=E1TVgOcjzgZuJPndlhI9NA) Red Hat OpenShift making money (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1618795275665162247?s=56&t=lB7BRczZa4_zVz6n4aAjIg) Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing. (https://www.saastr.com/gartner-overall-it-spend-has-slowed-but-software-still-growing/) Cloud Earnings (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/amazon-aws-earnings-q4-2022.html) The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-big-tech-rebound-is-underway) Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/amazon-google-microsoft-show-slowing-growth-in-cloud-infrastructure.html) The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession (https://stratechery.com/2023/the-four-horsemen-of-the-tech-recession/) Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2023.html) FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q2/press-release-webcast) The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/06/the-on-premises-empire-strikes-back-at-aws/) A.I. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete (https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete) Google has developed a music-making AI bot (https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-bot-music) Why does ChatGPT constantly lie? (https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-does-chatgpt-constantly-lie) Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders (https://venturebeat.com/ai/who-will-compete-with-chatgpt-meet-the-contenders-the-ai-beat/) OpenAI API (https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier) Infrastructure-as-Code Generator (https://github.com/gofireflyio/aiac) Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/magic-dev-code-generating-startup-raises-23m/) Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/microsoft-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html) Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html) Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/datadog_opentelemetry_tool_dorman/) Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/02/everybody-gets-fired-eventually.html) (The Cloudcast Podcast) This FTX Slide has been nominated as Slide of the Year (https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iD_V.CWTliQc/v0/-1x-1.png) Relevant to your Interests Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-18/slicing-cash-flows-for-better-ratings#xj4y7vzkg) Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-daily-revenue-has-dropped-40-500-top-advertisers-have-left?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) $NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend (https://twitter.com/upholdings/status/1616103812372267008?s=46&t=WKIJg71CxhnkC9pPlPnHPg) Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-wind-down-charity-donation-program-amazonsmile-11674144274) HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/hpe_and_oracle_lawsuit_ends/) Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/cloud_growth_slowdown_as_customers/) How We Learned to Be Lonely (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/01/loneliness-solitude-pandemic-habit/672631/) Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism (https://www.warpnews.org/premium-content/kevin-kelly-the-case-for-optimism/) Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/activist-elliott-salesforce-benioff) AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/23/aws_expanding_infamous_useast1_region/) Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments (https://stripe.com/en-es/newsroom/news/amazon-and-stripe) Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling (https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2023/1/23/undo) VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps (https://vmblog.com/archive/2023/01/24/vmware-2023-predictions-platform-engineering-improves-developer-experience-tech-layoffs-solve-enterprise-talent-gaps.aspx) LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/goto-customer-backups-stolen-lastpass/) Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing-on-our-short-and-long-term-opportunity/) Slack's second chance (https://open.substack.com/pub/mostlycloudy/p/slacks-second-chance?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One (https://thenewstack.io/internal-developer-portal-what-it-is-and-why-you-need-one/) Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64397643) U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls (https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-european-union-antitrust-video-calls-software-giant/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns (https://www.patterns.app/blog/2023/01/18/crunchbot-sql-analyst-gpt/) Defying logic, Apple announces 2nd-gen HomePod for $299 (https://www.macworld.com/article/1476747/homepod-2nd-gen-audio-siri-feaures-sensors.html) ADS-B Exchange Sells Up, Contributors Unhappy (https://hackaday.com/2023/01/26/ads-b-exchange-sells-up-contributors-unhappy/) Confluent : Message to Confluent Employees from Jay Kreps - Form 8-K (https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/CONFLUENT-INC-124047168/news/Confluent-Message-to-Confluent-Employees-from-Jay-Kreps-Form-8-K-42820152/) FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/26/hive-ransomware-fbi-doj) Reduce Kubernetes spend with these 10 Kubecost alternatives | TechTarget (https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/tip/Reduce-Kubernetes-spend-with-these-10-Kubecost-alternatives) The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/) Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots (https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/why-corporate-america-still-runs-on-ancient-softwa) Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now? (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571659/tech-layoffs-facebook-google-amazon) Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors (https://investor.salesforce.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/Salesforce-Announces-Appointment-of-Three-New-Independent-Directors/default.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) 1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app (https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/30/1password-announces-multiple-improvements-coming-soon-to-its-ios-app/) Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/identity-management-platform-saviynt-secures-205m-in-debt-appoints-new-ceo/) Artifact (https://artifact.news/) GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/github-says-hackers-cloned-code-signing-certificates-in-breached-repository/) Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-hermes-an-open-source-document-management-system) Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-helios-hashicorp-s-new-design-system) Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/kubernetes-is-great-but-its-been?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=100430955&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email) Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-ubiquiti-dev-pleads-guilty-to-trying-to-extort-his-employer/) Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-040e9788-23b3-4353-912c-6c9750e3e82f.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs (https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2?r=US&IR=T) Visa vs. A

This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News (https://craigbox.substack.com/) newsletter and follow him on Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@craigbox) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/craigbox/)(?) This interview was done on January 16th, 2023. Runner-up Titles You sound like an Australian The Mystery of the Cold Open D-list Celebrities The Americans are asleep All the swans belong to the Queen A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it Rundown Global Entry, New Zealand-style (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/international-arrangements/new-zealand/us-global-entry-members) Is there another podcast in the future? Learning by osmosis Developer advocacy at Google You’re not tall enough to ride this ride Joining ARMO (https://www.armosec.io/) Kubescape (https://github.com/kubescape), the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform OpenCost (https://www.cncf.io/projects/opencost/) and Kubescape (https://www.cncf.io/projects/kubescape/), CNCF Sandbox Projects You’re already in my calendar ARMO monetization strategy All Blacks vs. Wallabies Who are these weird celebrities? The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre) TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter Conferences Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent. State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Coté (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Special Guest: Craig Box.

This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping… Rundown Tipping How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped (https://digg.com/data-viz/link/how-much-you-should-tip-across-the-world-mapped-sY3g24oCCF) Tipping Is Weird Now (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/technology-pandemic-economy-gratuity-tipping-etiquette-square/672658/?ref=galaxy-brain) Mastodon The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io (https://hachyderm.io/) Follow SDT on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk) Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/tapbots-launches-a-new-mastodon-client-ivory-after-twitter-kills-its-tweetbot-app/) The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/01/25/the-iconfactory-co-founder-gedeon-maheux-talks-accessibility-on-twitter-the-blow-of-losing-twitterrific-in-new-interview/?sh=43b0cc8a7943) ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2023/01/19/ep-367) Mastodon in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) files (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) Netflix Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/ted-sarandos-greg-peters-co-ceos-netflix) The Netflix Tech Blog (https://netflixtechblog.com) What we want to see at DevOpsDays DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/) Nonsense ‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tron-3-jared-leto-joachim-ronning-1235495033) It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/retro_metric_imperial/) Airlines squeeze rewards programs (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/21/travel-credit-cards-loyalty-program-perks-changes) Salesforce, but for dating (https://dateforce.app/) Conferences CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)! Use Discount Code: DEVOP DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842) The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Psychology-of-Money-Audiobook/B08D9TXF3H) Ideas That Changed My Life (https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/) Follow Brandon on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@bwhichard) JJ: For All Mankind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_TV_series) Follow JJ on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@jjasghar@mastodon.social) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/Kx3o6_m1Yv8) CoverArt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)) Special Guest: JJ Asghar.