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This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Yvt-NtjVc) 463 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Yvt-NtjVc) Runner-up Titles The fun run was fun. You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts. The Phish are biting Everything’s cool zone Words that rhyme with “acquisation” Maybe AI can find it The market for products that start with “K” I like hotdogs Don’t do the values, just the fun facts Rundown An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy (https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-about-googles-enterprise-ai-strategy/) OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/) Matt Asay response Tweet (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1778454498664690108) Adam Jacob take (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1778470920094691625) Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica (https://www.wsj.com/tech/salesforce-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-informatica-ba9ec09c?mod=tech_lead_story&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) 451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/203924/Toc?ref=PCN%20email) Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/akamai-acquisition-talks-noname-security/) Relevant to your Interests Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta (https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-next-generation-infrastructure-for-ai/?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124) ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances (https://www.engadget.com/isps-roll-out-mandatory-broadband-nutrition-labels-that-show-speeds-fees-and-data-allowances-103832369.html) How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue (https://twitter.com/treiner5/status/1778403310871179678) Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag (https://platformonomics.com/2024/04/follow-the-capex-the-clown-car-race-checkered-flag/) Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License (https://cybersecuritynews.com/splunk-vs-cribl-lawsuit/) It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome (https://www.businessinsider.com/waymo-self-driving-robotaxi-cars-without-drivers-amazing-tech-review-2024-4) Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation (https://www.thestack.technology/citi-data-transformation-2024/) Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/technology/microsoft-g42-uae-ai.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack (https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/widely-used-putty-ssh-client-found.html) Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/metas-oversight-board-probes-explicit-ai-generated-images-posted-on-instagram-and-facebook/?_hsmi=302971940) New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/uk-seeks-to-criminalize-creation-of-sexually-explicit-ai-deepfake-images-without-consent/?_hsmi=302971940) Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe (https://www.theverge.com/24100464/altstore-pal-dma-eu-launch-delta-nintendo-emulator-clip-clipboard-manager) Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/linux_foundation_opinion/) Enterprise Nonsense How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis (https://youtu.be/FBvQRpZYSXw?si=BAtYDg4ImZDgYxea) Listener Feedback Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SJ8SQ6Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DVCCWXH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger? (http://All> American Burger - Tucson, AZ) Conferences Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/). 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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Recommendations Brandon: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393) Civil War (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/civil_war_2024) Matt: Ostrich travel pillow (https://amzn.to/3Jm4ixF) H (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)- (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)E (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)- (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)B Pro-Sleep Mask (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002) Coté: Continuity Camera (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102546), kibbeling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbeling). 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This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBJU8UdLOA) 462 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBJU8UdLOA) Runner-up Titles Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs. Well, I still have meetings. The Cote’ Experience ClosedTofu Our Cloud is Huge(tm) Rundown Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html) OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated (https://twitter.com/opentofuorg/status/1776398008558493991?s=46&t=kiCCT8LlOOqj0WYcmUddTg) Matt Asay (https://x.com/mjasay/status/1776635226124632423?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Follow up Tweet Bryan Cantrill (https://x.com/bcantrill/status/1775962870762844212) calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different. (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1775663819693703674) Google Cloud Next ’24 Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu/) Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125074/google-axion-arm-cpu-ai-chips-cloud-server-data-center) Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/welcome-to-google-cloud-next24) Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-for-google-cloud-is-here) Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DJYGn2SFk) Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMH5OcW5UYw) Relevant to your Interests WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/whatsapp-goes-down-in-metas-second-big-outage-this-year/) Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-google-parent-alphabet-weighs-134439629.html) OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/openstack_caracal_released/) No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/no-amazon-isnt-killing-just-walk-out-but-rather-pushing-hard-in-it/) Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion (https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2024/04/02/substack-is-setting-writers-up-for-a-twitter-style-implosion/comment-page-1/#comments) Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready (https://thenewstack.io/why-wasi-preview-2-makes-webassembly-production-ready/) Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/the_world_is_watching_broadcom/) Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/) New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws (https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-chatbot-that-advised-entrepreneurs-break-laws-2024-04-04/) Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122341/apple-app-store-game-emulators-super-apps) The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant (https://stratechery.com/2024/the-status-of-just-walk-out-tsmc-gets-chips-act-grant/) Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-larians-publishing-director-calls-games-industry-an-avoidable-fck-up) Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization (https://discord.com/blog/access-a-new-portal-for-managing-internal-authorization) Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24124174/android-find-my-device-network-offline-tracker-tag-chipolo-pebblebee) Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find (https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1bkcjs4/gemini_15_makes_a_scholarly_connection_that_took/) Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24124174/android-find-my-device-network-offline-tracker-tag-chipolo-pebblebee) KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/kkr-is-said-to-weigh-sale-or-ipo-for-15-billion-bmc-software?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=tech&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&utm_medium=social&embedded-checkout=true) Nonsense Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital (https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/dude-perfect-investment-highmount-capital) Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates (https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/business/costco-selling-as-much-as-200m-in-gold-bars-per-month-wells-fargo/) Listener Feedback The first person to send their United States postal address to sdt@newinstancecoffee.com (mailto:sdt@newinstancecoffee.com) will receive a bag of Dawn Python (https://www.newinstancecoffee.com/dawn-python-v2-available/) Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee (https://www.newinstancecoffee.com/). Conferences Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking. NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/). 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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Recommendations Brandon: Node.js: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0) How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDqJVdNa44) Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour (https://www.qatarairways.com/en/offers/qatar-stopover.html) Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (https://www.youtube.com/@NoahKalina) (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kalina), so same cultural cohort as theorized.) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/Coffee-Beans?orientation=landscape) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-computer-screen-with-a-bunch-of-text-on-it-1LLh8k2_YFk)

This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlXxJWlOE) 461 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlXxJWlOE) Runner-up Titles The Fork is a feature not a bug Relicensing: The path to Private Equity Is this Progress? Hot Antitrust Action Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars Won’t someone think of the children? Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances The deepest of pockets Fine-adjacent. Not complicated enough What’s it called when they plateau going down? Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of Mostly contrast Rundown Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means (https://gizmodo.com/zuck-entered-fediverse-threads-heres-what-that-means-1851356849) Redis RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history (https://www.gomomento.com/blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-pulled-off-the-biggest-heist-in-open-source-history) Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/redis_changes_license/) Battle of the Redis forks? (https://www.thestack.technology/battle-of-the-redis-forks-begins/) Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714688/the-bizarre-defense-of-trillion-dollar-cabals.html) Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/31/why-aws-google-and-oracle-are-backing-the-valkey-redis-fork/) Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted (https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted) Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community) Is this Progress? Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4083996-progress-software-considering-offer-for-mariadb-plc). Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB (https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/progress-software-revenue-beats-estimates-outlook-short-of-forecasts-769e9c7e). Database popularity index (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking) Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-separate-teams-office-globally-amid-antitrust-scrutiny-2024-04-01/) Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/google-defends-auto-deletion-of-chats-after-us-alleged-it-destroyed-evidence/) 20 years of Gmail (https://www.theverge.com/24113616/gmail-email-20-years-old-internet) Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content. Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach. Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions. Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!). Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance. Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms. Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown). Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage. Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies. Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?) Relevant to your Interests Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/) Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry (https://www.wired.com/story/reddits-sale-user-data-ai-training-draws-ftc-investigation/) Apache Kvrocks (https://kvrocks.apache.org/) Ex-technology companies (https://lethain.com/ex-technology-companies/) FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-to-sell-two-thirds-of-anthropic-stake-for-884-million-2cb3ccd2) “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/windows-current-disk-formatting-ui-is-a-30-year-old-placeholder-from-windows-nt/) Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-adam-neumann-submits-over-221446962.html) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm) Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/marissa-mayers-startup-just-rolled-out-apps-for-group-photo-sharing-and-event-planning-and-the-internet-isnt-sure-what-to-think/) Key takeaways from the Entrust incident (https://www.digicert.com/blog/key-takeaways-from-the-entrust-incident) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/amazon-spends-2point7b-on-startup-anthropic-in-largest-venture-investment.html) Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc. (https://www.observeinc.com/blog/stepping-on-the-gas/) Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/bankman-fried-is-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison?srnd=homepage-americas) Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/databricks-ceo-says-competition-spurred-165030607.html) Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4680854-snowflake-meltdown-not-drastic-enough-still-expensive-here) Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/23/flox_1_nix/) Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/28/new-ipad-models-may-launch/) A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174) (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-business-tax-law-change-partially-caused-layoffs-174-levitt-mba-mrbbf/?trackingId=BLvRFIlxS%2F66kmfrkzeptQ%3D%3D) Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors (https://opensource.org/blog/results-of-2024-elections-of-osi-board-of-directors) To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space (https://thehustle.co/news/to-the-pharmacy-and-beyond-drug-development-goes-to-space) AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/tech/att-data-leak/index.html) Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/1/24117929/google-incognito-browsing-data-delete-class-action-settlement) KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways (https://danielbryantuk.medium.com/kubecon-eu-2024-paris-key-takeaways-ad4c1bb7fbfe) Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/amazon-layoffs-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-in-cloud-computing-unit.html) Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-slides-foundry-business-loss-120623062.html) Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-cybersecurity-hack-raimondo-breach-b0901a93cca2ffaf05edacbfb9ecf3da) California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours (https://gizmodo.com/california-right-to-disconnect-stop-employer-messages-1851380159) Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition) The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk (https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy) why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project (https://macwright.com/2024/03/25/about-placemark-io) Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan (https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast/ensuring-a-projects-long-term-survival-with-william-morgan) Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tennr-puts-fax-machines-back-130000653.html) Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116) A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo (https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/03/22/a-few-thoughts-on-the-apple-doj-antitrust-case-from-someone-who-isnt-riding-his-first-rodeo/) Nonsense Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/business/college-tuition-new-england-ninety-thousand/index.html) As markets soar, should investors look beyond America? (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/03/24/as-markets-soar-should-investors-look-beyond-america) Conferences Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7175971321300865024/about/) - but check the replay in LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7175971321300865024/about/) or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvWDyd98hA). Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seatt

Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project. Show Links The Brewintosh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9oz4Ylzm4) Prusa Mini v6 Hotend Adapter (https://www.printables.com/model/31006-prusa-mini-v6-hotend-adapter) Cortex (https://cortexmetrics.io) Prometheus (https://prometheus.io) Grafana Labs (https://grafana.com) OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io/blog/carbon-costs) GrafanaCON 2024 April 9-10 (https://grafana.com/about/events/grafanacon/2024/) Contact Tom Wilkie LinkedIn: tomwilkie (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwilkie/?originalSubdomain=uk) Twitter: @tom_wilkie (https://twitter.com/tom_wilkie?lang=en) GitHub: tomwilkie (https://github.com/tomwilkie) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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)! Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-SnxTaHhL4) 459 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-SnxTaHhL4) Runner-up Titles "Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.” You don’t want to scare you coworkers Eating bugs off your coworkers “Hi” has become a trigger word Rehabilitate the “Hi” 55 Direct Reports Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone. The YAML hand off market Rundown Is Hello a proper Slack message? (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1770411476022354075) Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (https://www.nohello.com/2013/01/please-dont-say-just-hello-in-chat.html) Kubecon “Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rqe5Yc13-A) "Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_KCOcoliLI) “Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhloarnpxVo) OpenCost Introduces Carbon Costs (https://www.opencost.io/blog/carbon-costs) What if the CNCF was private equity? (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/03/what-if-cncf-was-private-equity.html) Nvidia Nvidia shares pop on Q4 earnings, generative AI "hits tipping point" (https://www.axios.com/2024/02/21/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q4-stock-price?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang - has 55 direct reports (https://www.threads.net/@1393985902/post/C4dsKakP97W) Video that tracks the trajectories of Intel and NVIDIA (https://www.threads.net/@briansolis/post/C4lZBcKsdtC/?xmt=AQGzp25jpaWtHUqgBJaBCIJrv22Ag5Q0bPRX3Q6xRh_S4Q) Nvidia's latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/nvidias-blackwell-ai-chip-will-cost-more-than-30000-ceo-says.html) Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2023–2027 (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49244823&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY) Relevant to your Interests Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug (https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/leadership-is-a-hell-of-a-drug/) Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) Who Still Works From Home? (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/08/business/economy/remote-work-home.html) A new TikTok ban gains steam (https://www.platformer.news/tik-tok-ban-bill-2024-bytedance-biden/?ref=platformer-newsletter) Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation clears him of wrongdoing (https://venturebeat.com/security/sam-altman-reinstated-to-openai-board-after-investigation-clears-him-of-wrongdoing/) More companies getting rid of free tiers: (https://x.com/planetscale/status/1765438197981708684?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A) 49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year (https://sifted.eu/articles/founder-mental-health-2024) The WiFi at Google's new Bay View office hasn't been working properly for months: report (https://www.businessinsider.com/googles-swanky-new-bay-view-office-suffers-bad-wifi-2024-3) Moon Mission Could Redefine Computing in Deep Space (https://www.eetimes.com/data-centers-could-soon-break-lunar-ground/) Doctors Are Using the Apple Vision Pro During Surgery (https://gizmodo.com/doctors-are-using-the-apple-vision-pro-during-surgery-1851329884) Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/apple-aapl-buys-canadian-ai-startup-darwinai-as-part-of-race-to-add-features?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240314&utm_campaign=author_19842959&sref=9hGJlFio) Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. (https://github.com/mathialo/bython) Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" of users (https://www.thestack.technology/bias-biometrics-and-black-boxes-europes-ai-act-what-you-need-to-know/) How The Cloud Is A Trap (https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP1144808) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky says more than 10,000 organizations are using Bedrock (https://www.axios.com/2024/03/12/aws-ceo-ai-bedrock-amazon-anthropic) Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans (https://martinfowler.com/articles/measuring-developer-productivity-humans.html) Snowflake Stock: Melting Faster Than An Ice Cube (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4678674-snowflake-melting-faster-than-an-ice-cube-snow-stock) Games Are Coming to LinkedIn (https://www.pcmag.com/news/games-are-coming-to-linkedin) Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report (https://gizmodo.com/dell-remote-employees-eligible-promotions-1851347699) European Cloud Group Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny Over Broadcom’s VMware Overhaul (https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-cloud-group-calls-for-regulatory-scrutiny-over-broadcoms-vmware-overhaul-28b7c6ed?st=6n4vd93zeqr9d0o&reflink=article_email_share) Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery (https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP1145788) Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2Me-TpMQFvCphDu_xm71ed_) Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing (https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/) Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools) The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24089999/apple-macbook-air-m3-announced-13-15-inch) Walmart sells a Mac (https://www.threads.net/@parkerortolani/post/C4iaGaFuKS8/?xmt=AQGzjqrbQ8qCsg4UUGYIc8LbOh2c9MoMdzn7sXSwOehXkA) Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-25/apple-airpods-plans-4th-generation-low-end-3rd-generation-pro-and-usb-c-max) AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-follows-google-in-announcing-free-data-transfers-out-of-aws/) Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/) Buyout Firm Vista Equity Explores Options Including Sale for LogicMonitor (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/buyout-firm-vista-equity-explores-options-including-sale-for-logicmonitor) Nonsense Airlines Are Coming for Your Carry-Ons (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/flights-carry-on-bags-personal-items-3bcd3c2c?st=nx8npa3s7g8tm7f&reflink=article_copyURL_share) Clocks Change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo) Costco CFO ‘voice’ looks back on 40 years, $1.50 hot dogs and leadership (https://www.cfodive.com/news/costco-cfo-voice-40-years-150-hot-dogs-Richard-Galanti/709622/) Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68594916) Delta’s CEO says controversial Sky Lounge changes reflect the airline’s status as premium brand (https://www.fastcompany.com/91060105/deltas-ceo-controversial-sky-lounge-changes-airlines-status-premium-brand) 3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh - The Brewintosh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9oz4Ylzm4) Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/formula-1-chief-appalled-to-find-team-using-excel-to-manage-20000-car-parts/) Listener Feedback Chris tell us the Owala Water Bottle is on sale. (https://a.co/d/30B4wA1) Conferences Tanzu (Re)defined online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvWDyd98hA), April 3rd, Coté Speaking. Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Coté speaking, Palo Alto. TEQNation (https://conference.teqnation.com), May 22nd, 2024, Utrecht, Coté speaking. NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19 to 21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/). Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: The E-Gates Modality Will Now Be Implemented at Cancun Airport - Cancun Airport (https://www.cancuniairport.

This week, we discuss Coté's O'Reilly video series where he offers up some tips on how to survive and thrive in the workplace. Plus, some ideas on how to reinvent the virtual town hall. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiWr-jUM0FQ) 458 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiWr-jUM0FQ) Runner-up Titles Surviving Corporate America Hopes and Dreams Second half of your career Soul Crushing I stole this from TikTok Living too much Just be happy Review life imbalance Rundown 10 part course at O’Reilly about working in a large organization, a BigCo (https://learning.oreilly.com/course/how-to-survive/0790145433268/) Conferences KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Palo Alto. NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th. 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: How Will You Measure Your Life? (https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life) The Psychology of Money (https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-Timeless-lessons-happiness/dp/0857197681) Vitamix (https://www.vitamix.com/us/en_us/shop?cid=ppc-google-Brand&coupon=07-0063&gad_source=1) Coté: pecans in smoothies. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/people-on-conference-table-looking-at-talking-woman-Q80LYxv_Tbs) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-holding-light-bulb-fIq0tET6llw)

This week, we discuss whether or not Kubernetes is boring, Winglang’s attempt to simply cloud deployments and Linkerd status as a graduated CNCF project. Plus, a few thoughts on frogs… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXssLonmkEw) 457 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXssLonmkEw) Runner-up Titles Blame the seagulls Speaking of lizards in our houses Burying people under B-trees Compiler for the Cloud I’m tired of speaking French We need a big pie If we stop shooting each other we can sit down and eat some pie. The Jacob Principle Has there every been a config file format love affair? Rundown Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong (https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-predictions-were-wrong/) Wing Programming Language for the Cloud (https://www.winglang.io/) #1262 Health of Linkerd project (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262) Craig Box X Thread (https://twitter.com/craigbox/status/1760370351828320539) Adam Jacob’s X Thread (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1761051900215275760) Five Cloud News Trends for February (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/03/five-cloud-news-trends-for-february.html) Relevant to your Interests X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/23/x-adds-support-for-passkeys-on-ios-after-removing-sms-2fa-support-last-year/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABw_QgA37nl432nhb6Gn3krzLFMb5OvmaZr6thvov5iGJ8UrvQec-jpGjenN-KUP-cSFa4MRW9DXVXJ3_u87Z0-zfC2mR708qqm34sAhBT-mAcL5pP8L04T54Mqn-xnUCDNXYBJFr2Y4oHXFjkIWgTU_iwJ4vqK52MC4hYtaAC9W) CACM Is Now Open Access (https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/) Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087666/apple-disable-iphone-web-apps-eu-reversal) A Few Jelly Beans and a World of Disappointment at Willy Wonka Event (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/europe/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow.html) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of nonprofit AI mission | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-court/) Meta says it’s deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087855/meta-delete-oculus-accounts) Snowflake CEO Steps Down From Post Richer Than Tim Cook or Satya Nadella (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-04/snowflake-ceo-frank-slootman-steps-aside-richer-than-tim-cook-or-satya-nadella) RISC-V launch (https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-launches-its-risc-v-servers-in-the-cloud-a-world-first-and-a-firm-commitment-to-technological-independence/) Amazon goes nuclear, acquires atomic datacenter for $650M (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/04/amazon_acquires_cumulus_nuclear_datacenter/) Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html) It’s Time to Give Up on Email (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/email-nightmare-just-give-up/677615/) Nonsense When a funeral is clickbait (https://www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-obituary-spam-generative-clickbait) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Palo Alto. 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: Dune Part 2 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dune_part_two) Matt: Our Band Could Be Your Life (https://amzn.to/49G2Ulg) Conan O’Brien in Australia (https://conanclassic.com/australia/conan-becomes-a-bondi-beach-lifeguard) Coté: Bruce Sterlings new-ish blog (https://toshareproject.it/artmakerblog/), especially the color scheme. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photography-of-brown-frog-hHDMQqP4jPU) Gemini

This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPcTxTejYM) 456 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPcTxTejYM) Runner-up Titles Is it Russian hackers? Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS They’re all bad product launches Vikings are 98% more Nordic Can I pay for features? They’ve defeated vaporware Interoperability is for underdogs Rundown Google Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/google-pauses-gemini-ai-image-generator-after-inaccuracies.html) Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet (https://mashable.com/article/google-pay-shutting-down-replaced-by-google-wallet?ref=cardsftw.com) AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources (https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/att-outage-impacting-us-customers-company/story?id=107440297) AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/business/att-network-outage-reimbursement/index.html) Apple Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services (https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/19/apple-music-spotify-playlists-music-transfer/) Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai) Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079081/apple-imessage-pq3-post-quantum-cryptography) Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079064/apple-sports-app-launch-iphone-live-scores-odds-stats) Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68357165) The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-22/apple-airpods-sales-bode-well-for-vr-headset?sref=9hGJlFio) Relevant to your Interests Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-21/reddit-s-ipo-is-for-redditors?srnd=undefined) Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds (https://codeengineered.com/blog/2024/open-source-not-builds/) Cloud-Native Is In Shambles (https://dev.to/thenjdevopsguy/cloud-native-is-in-shambles-1klf) S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/21/stock-market-today-live-updates.html) Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners (https://www.finops.org/insights/key-priorities-shift-in-2024/) SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers (https://sadservers.com/) The Open Source Sustainability Crisis (https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-open-source-sustainability-crisis/) Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/octopus-deploy-acquires-codefresh-to-bring-cd-ci-and-gitops-into-one-trusted-platform-302071690.html) What to Do about VMware (https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-cloud/d2c234-what-to-do-about-vmware/) Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24085075/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-lawsuit) Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability (https://thenewstack.io/improving-developer-experience-drives-profitability/) ServerlessHorrors | Home (https://serverlesshorrors.com/) Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/27/sony-is-laying-off-900-employees-from-its-playstation-unit) Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House (https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ai-models-on-hugging-face-backdoor-users-machines/) Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20% (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/snowflake-says-frank-slootman-is-retiring-as-ceo-stock-plunges-20percent.html) HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD (https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected) Nonsense Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem (https://youtu.be/3jUQ09Jf4GU?si=umY8M2w8y9ALsE6f) Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E. (https://youtu.be/KHqzTBPQYl8?si=gSpufvgHGlTHWyv4) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: Delta Wi-Fi (https://www.delta.com/us/en/onboard/inflight-entertainment/onboard-wifi) Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3 Aliens Dark Descent (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150440/Aliens_Dark_Descent/) Coté: GM’s Apprentice (http://jamesturneronline.net/game-masters-apprentice/). Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships (https://learning.oreilly.com/course/how-to-survive/0790145433268/) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/social-media-icons?orientation=landscape) Google Gemini

This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwXvnb53iY) 455 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwXvnb53iY) Runner-up Titles I live my life one iCal screen at a time We always have sparklers Meta-parenting Everyone is always tired Cheaper version of Red Hat This week in “Do we need to be angry?” All we get is wingdings. I’m in a Socialist mood this week Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff Those dingalings bought my boat Dingalings of the mind Rundown CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace (https://ciq.com/press-release/ciq-offers-long-term-support-for-rocky-linux-8-6-8-8-and-9-2-images-through-aws-marketplace/) Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community (https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/will-ciqs-new-support-program-alienate-the-community-it-built-on-an-objection-to-subscriber-only-fb58ea6a810e) NGINX fork (https://narrativ.es/@janl/111935559549855751)? freenginx.org (http://freenginx.org/en/) Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/struggling-database-company-mariadb-could-be-taken-private-in-a-37m-deal/) Tofu (https://opentofu.org) So Where’s That New OpenAI Board? (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/so-wheres-that-new-openai-board?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz) The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/04/direct-file-irs-taxes/) Relevant to your Interests Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/) Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#apple-has-effectively-banned-all-third-party-browsers) Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data (https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-column-explorer/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=294232392&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vobC3nom9chsGc_Y8KM9pO75KKvrGTtL7uS-sfcNQ1sNd8ThaMnP5KsfbSUWCWW2KOjlPpa3AwC4ToYbaCmYOAMva0rvKIZ2jkB461YKJX2TLQtg&utm_content=294233055&utm_source=hs_email) Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix (https://spyglass.org/its-not-tv-its-apple-tv-plus/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Sora: Creating video from text (https://openai.com/sora) Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech (https://climateaction.tech/blog/sustainability-kpi-greenops-survey-results/) Slack AI has arrived (https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/slack-ai-has-arrived) What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob (https://youtu.be/gAYMg6LNEMs?si=9PRiK1BBHaBGSypy) Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24074455/apple-generative-ai-xcode-spotlight-testing) Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-15/apple-s-ai-plans-github-copilot-rival-for-developers-tool-for-testing-apps) VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon (https://kccnceu2024.sched.com/event/1YhIE/sponsored-keynote-a-cloud-native-overture-to-enterprise-end-user-adoption-fabian-deutsch-senior-engineering-manager-red-hat-michael-hanulec-vice-president-and-technology-fellow-goldman-sachs) Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/?comments=1&comments-page=1) Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/microsoft_retires_azure_iot_central/) The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future (https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future) Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster (https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1759071289401368635?s=20) 1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/1password-expands-its-endpoint-security-offerings-with-kolide-acquisition/) Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-21/microsoft-will-use-intel-to-manufacture-home-grown-processor) In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint (https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/apple-captures-top-7-spots-in-global-top-10-best-selling-smartphones/) Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/technology/google-open-source-ai.html) Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-20/apple-shuffles-leadership-of-team-responsible-for-audio-products?srnd=premium) Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/signal-now-lets-you-keep-your-phone-number-private-with-the-launch-of-usernames/) How Google is killing independent sites like ours (https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/) VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/vmware_kvm_converter/) (https://narrativ.es/@janl/111935559549855751)## Nonsense An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds (https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/an-ordinary-squirt-of-canned-air-achieves-supersonic-speeds-engineer-spots-telltale-shock-diamonds) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). 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This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_rXxn1YQ) 454 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_rXxn1YQ) Runner-up Titles Are we streaming. I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness. If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life. The sound track to walking the dog. At least it’s open source. The Magic Quadrant of Fashion. I guess everyone’s cool? What pair of pants do I need? The AirPods Pro pocket. Go down the metaphor hole. I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu. Not good, but good enough. The Metaphor Hole Rundown CNCF Landscape (https://landscape.cncf.io) Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/02/bundling-unbundling-and-enshtification.html) (Cloudcast Pod) Earnings Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/meta-beats-sales-forecast-estimates-announces-first-dividend) Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/amazon-projectsprofit-topping-estimates-on-further-cost-cutting) Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-2224-cloud-giants?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=141292535&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email) Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds (https://www.appeconomyinsights.com/p/alphabet-cloud-rebounds?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective (https://platformonomics.com/2024/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2023-retrospective/) Relevant to your Interests Shift Happens: A book about keyboards (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens) Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmware_customer_impact/) Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development (https://venturebeat.com/ai/truly-open-source-llm-from-ai2-to-drive-critical-shift-in-ai-development/) OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2 (https://allenai.org/olmo) Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives. 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(https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/is-the-139-amazon-prime-subscription-still-worth-it-83a597c7?reflink=integratedwebview_share) Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/everbridge-agrees-to-1-5b-buyout-offer-from-thoma-bravo-179db224?mod=newsviewer_click) Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork (https://www.wsj.com/articles/adam-neumann-looks-to-buy-back-wework-86ee5f2b) NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/ninjaone-notches-1-9-billion-valuation-in-deal-led-by-iconiq) YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers (https://www.axios.com/2024/02/06/youtube-tv-subscribers-cable-satellite) Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. 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You May Have to Take It Back to Store (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/forgot-your-apple-vision-pro-s-passcode-you-may-have-to-take-it-back-to-store) Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68215614) Nonsense Cynical book summaries (https://www.plg.news/p/aoapm-002-cynical-book-summaries) H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate (https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/h-e-b-stores-north-texas-impact-starting-to-become-clear-across-groceries-real-estate/287-86836f22-e000-4d67-83d7-42e66ac01542?fbclid=IwAR1feOapOO7kMdv-xH3oBATelXpoKvf2ioNJEGt5MUzvA_X8C4nYMYPNquI_aem_AUUb7ZEwow8o6qAELGm8Xwb8eYCBdezDAdIpe-9nCSanh6MKQWpd8RIZRqMgBJekf6U#ls972nf7ju9xufblh6q) The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023 (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-selling-vehicles-in-america-in-2023/) One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking (https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html) Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/stanley-made-reusable-cups-huge-now-it-has-to-make-them-sustainable) Most accurate video I’ve ever seen (https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1756181201847509392?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A) Listener Feedback Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis (https://www.audible.com/pd/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Audiobook/0593454103?ref_pageloadid=Dsqv0n17FOwUqOpK&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_0593454103_0&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=7C4TQFGZXK856S6W40BH&pageLoadId=Fo0QcV8X3KEf9ys4&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225) Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SJ8SQ6Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’

This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital. Show Links Kubernetes: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU) Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge (https://www.amazon.com/Demings-Journey-Profound-Knowledge-Industry/dp/B0CCW999G8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ABYP2L2X31GG&keywords=Willis+Deming&qid=1707157953&s=books&sprefix=willis+deming%2Cstripbooks%2C110&sr=1-1) The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo) Profound Deming (https://www.profound-deming.com) Profound Podcast (https://profound.buzzsprout.com) Contact John Willis LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwillisatlanta/) botchagalupe@gmail.com (mailto:botchagalupe@gmail.com) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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)! Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/grayscale-photo-of-man-89rul39ox2I) Special Guest: John Willis.

This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlRgILBnn0) 452 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlRgILBnn0) Runner-up Titles Know the rules Until you reach infinity When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door. All-in on Minecraft Eminent domain for digital transformation. There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet. Rundown Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/alphabet-search-revenue-misses-estimates-shares-fall) Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-beats-q2-earnings-on-ai-cloud-strength-shares-flat-185023451.html) The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse (https://kevinkruse.com/the-ceo-and-the-three-envelopes/) Direct File | Internal Revenue Service (https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/strategic-plan/direct-file) DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform (https://getdx.com/) Relevant to your Interests Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/google-to-team-up-with-startup-hugging-face-to-host-ai-software) Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/chrome-updates-incognito-warning-to-admit-google-tracks-users-in-private-mode/) IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-shares-soar-over-10-year-high-rosy-ai-outlook-2024-01-25/) Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu) Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mcleonard_rvmware-activity-7156387151335583744-y6sT) A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show (https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-loses-tech-companies-18541636.php) Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-pricing-cloud-partners-announcement) Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account (https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/01/info-stealers-can-steal-cookies-for-permanent-access-to-your-google-account) A brief history of Dell UNIX (https://technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/) OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS (https://opennebula.io/blog/announcements/opennebula-systems-welcomes-the-eu-decision-to-approve-the-e1-2b-ipcei-cis/) Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/apple-home-devices-car-veteran-exits-for-top-rivian-product-role?srnd=undefined&sref=9hGJlFio) Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking (https://www.ft.com/content/2643ed31-8b8c-4d3d-a7a8-c4383d06e8a6?shareType=nongift) #446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me (https://overcast.fm/+F4RDQLYqc) Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail (https://www.threads.net/@mkarolian/post/C2psXiBLCAU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/amazons-1-4b-irobot-deal-is-dead-now-what/) Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/28/24053882/arc-search-browser-web-app-ios) Startup Funding Simulator (https://www.fundingsimulator.com/) Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/streaming-media-company-plex-raises-new-funds-as-it-nears-profitability/?guccounter=1) Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit (https://www.carscoops.com/2024/01/porsche-owners-can-now-control-more-of-their-car-from-their-phone-and-their-watch/) Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/25/kids-spent-60-more-time-on-tiktok-than-youtube-last-year-20-tried-openais-chatgpt/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tYWlsLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHUFVfBqHjfrzvj78nV4pd013t4qGTZkbjj8VrFNi7p2wfe-VHyVFiYib--w35RbY9v9xf8QAvVUDICR-85tA8cVzmVp9ivn652tXrsoKk333WtxmwlP2f8sryDOS-eL0XsJ2xcuhUuvc8Ypz-KJ--p59pvO9ZRXl3j-hk0Zru9s) ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says (https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/) Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/elon-musk-s-55-billion-tesla-pay-package-voided-by-judge) Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024 (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/01/30/inside-the-numbers-the-kubecon-cloudnativecon-selection-process-for-europe-2024/) Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/delaware-tells-musk-no-alphabet-and-microsofts-ai-driven-earnings?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz) But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand. (https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1751831764207612357) Nonsense Fifty Years Ago Today (https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/01/fifty-years-ago-today.html?m=1) (D&D) I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU) More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8tvAr5K/) Make it Taylors Version (https://github.com/ipc103/make-it-taylors-version) Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 (https://stateofopencon.com) SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming) If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). 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This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CnW_RciZ4) Runner-up Titles Enshittification The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization Wait for Wifi Taxes by beef rib It’s actually not fine Smoking crack in Disneyland AI is accelerating the crappiness. Why don’t you just sell more cloud? Generated Garbage I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile. Accidentally upgraded Jury duty…”pretty cool.” Rundown Airalo (https://www.airalo.com/spain-esim) for mobile cell phones plans when traveling. How Google perfected the web (https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization) AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To (https://adnauseam.io/) Subprime Attention Crisis (https://www.audible.com/pd/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Audiobook/0593454103?ref_pageloadid=Dsqv0n17FOwUqOpK&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_0593454103_0&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=7C4TQFGZXK856S6W40BH&pageLoadId=Fo0QcV8X3KEf9ys4&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225) 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification” (https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/#:~:text=Sheraton%20New%20York%20Times%20Square,of%20the%20Year%20for%202023) Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036539/artifact-shutting-down-kevin-systrom) Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/) Relevant to your Interests Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/15/cloud_providers_gpu_analysis/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_reshare_feed-article-content) Creating a Sales Commission Plan (https://open.substack.com/pub/onlycfo/p/creating-a-sales-commission-plan?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org (https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/) Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/broadcom_vmware_channel_disruption/) VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift (https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/?ref=the-stack-newsletter) Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition (https://kitsonjonathon.substack.com/p/taming-the-dragon-chinese-and-us) ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/jan/20/strange-sweaty-sociable-early-days-of-gaming-in-pictures) Lofree Flow (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/20/Lofree-Flow) — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home (https://www.nj.com/essex/2024/01/remembering-bell-labs-as-legendary-idea-factory-prepares-to-leave-nj-home.html) IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/ibm_consulting_office/) Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/apple-car-ev-set-to-debut-in-2028-with-limited-autonomous-driving) Introducing Docker Build Cloud (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxPwXfmwHU) It's time to build (https://open.substack.com/pub/benn/p/its-time-to-build?selection=0c874398-fde8-45be-b547-f51d3c6a7c93&r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios) "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it." (https://x.com/JoannaStern/status/1748354349116301487?s=20) For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/remembering_lotus_notes/) Campfire is ONCE #1 (https://world.hey.com/dhh/campfire-is-once-1-d2cebd12) Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/distributed-work-report) Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/10/bosses-want-to-work-remote-more-than-employees-but-still-push-return-to-office.html) Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work (https://fortune-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/fortune.com/2023/10/14/nvidia-skips-return-to-office-sticks-to-remote-work-among-hottest-tech-companies/amp/) Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech (https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-new-normal-constant-layoffs-job-cuts-google-amazon-meta-2024-1) Culture Change at Google (https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/) Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction (https://www.threads.net/@marcslove/post/C2Y7qCPu6Gz/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story? (https://om.co/2024/01/22/bell-labs-google-same-sad-story/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Mourning Google (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024) Nonsense We lost some real stars this past year (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8p6Tsv6/) Startups Are Shutting Down! (https://youtu.be/-V9yPGdubHQ) It’s Just a Water Bottle (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/stanley-cups-valentines-day-target-starbucks/677190/) Listener Feedback Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug (https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/smsre) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 (https://stateofopencon.com) SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: Travis County Jury Duty (https://www.traviscountytx.gov/district-clerk/jury-duty) Matt: Perplexity.AI (https://www.perplexity.ai) Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger (https://maps.app.goo.gl/GC11U6FpGsoQ9A1b8?g_st=ic) or Kartika (https://maps.app.goo.gl/VqSxkb5m2zVdugLz7?g_st=ic) — which is also good and less fancy in a good way. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/flat-screen-monitor-z1aLTzG2VGU) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/flat-screen-monitor-z1aLTzG2VGU)

This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzqV99Hc4U) 450 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzqV99Hc4U) Runner-up Titles Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers Sales is crazy Donut over-eating avoidance Fundamentals don’t change Do you have good recipes for golden geese? We need better Dungeons and Dragons The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence. Peter Pan as DevRel Hard stop goes soft HR in volume feels dehumanizing Mad Libs for layoffs Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness. We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision… Status quo wins again The Strangler Pattern for password management Schwag cannot be stolen. Rundown 2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/01/2024-look-ahead-surviving-q1-kickoff.html) (Podcast) DevRel The trouble with DevRel (https://jicowan.medium.com/the-trouble-with-devrel-80ebcd0f5b36) Amazon’s silent sacking (https://overcast.fm/+HZUfHNb-M) (Podcast) Work, RTO and Layoffs WebMD’s RTO Video (https://x.com/maxwellstrachan/status/1745446449343795506?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brittany-pietsch-237893173_tiktok-britt-activity-7151621500440104960-cTtw?utm_source=combined_share_message&utm_medium=member_ios) Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanypeachhh/video/7323004085043612959) Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video (https://www.threads.net/@jonathangarelick/post/C2BgfIpLUup/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Signs that it’s time to leave a company… (https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e) A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation (https://www.fairoffer.ai) Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/remote-workers-are-losing-out-on-promotions-8219ec63) Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees?ueid=3d6a2c800561880c901963d51e644d95) Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech (https://www.thestack.technology/citi-layoffs-tech-spend/) Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/15/narayana_murthy_long_work_comments/) Passwords and Keyboards Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024 (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-copilot-keyboard-keys-are-coming-to-windows-11-pcs-at-ces-2024-080126519.html) Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/5/24026323/microsoft-incase-partnership-keyboards-accessories-partnership) Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/migrating-from-1password-to-apple-keychain/) Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey (https://blog.1password.com/unlock-1password-individual-passkey-beta/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=beyond-passwords-newsletter-december&utm_campaign=passwordless&utm_ref=email-beyond-passwords-newsletter-december) Relevant to your Interests Authy is shutting down its desktop app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030477/authy-desktop-app-shutting-down) OpenTofu is going GA (https://opentofu.org/blog/opentofu-is-going-ga/) Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open (https://frame.work/) Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-cloud-removes-data-transfer-fees-when-clients-switch-rivals-2024-01-11/) Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M (https://apnews.com/article/ebay-spiders-cockroaches-steiner-newsletter-9ac2c35bcd4c87af181382c71d992343) Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch. (https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/nearly-a-thousand-people-were-convicted-of-stealing-over-decades-it-was-a-computer-glitch-c3290fcf?st=u4lotebs168d5xg&reflink=article_copyURL_share) How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit (https://www.wsj.com/tech/cyberpunk-2077-videogame-flop-to-hit-58ed2741?st=b0umpe50ngp0o87&reflink=article_copyURL_share) Slack Executives are all gone (https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison/post/C2Ai8cDJc7C/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why. (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/whatsapp-is-finally-starting-to-dominate) World's R&D spending (https://x.com/emollick/status/1746254000914092480?s=20) Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/14/apple-moving-san-diego-siri-team-to-austin/) The Worst Devices of CES 2024! (https://youtu.be/NXhmnQzZ7n8?si=RJptIRZQNBlgjgYy) App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-in-two/) Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-developer-hub-now-generally-available) Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/google-googl-ends-switching-fees-for-cloud-data-pressuring-amazon-microsoft) Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-10-30-gartner-says-50-percent-of-critical-enterprise-applications-will-reside-outside-of-centralized-public-cloud-locations-through-2027) Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% (https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashing-data-transfer-costs/) Nonsense Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China (https://x.com/StockMKTNewz/status/1745837524587561443?s=20) These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/world-s-most-powerful-passports-henley-index-sees-europe-catch-japan-singapore) The Official Passport Index Ranking (https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking) why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8qU7AXT/) These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24032871/ai-binoculars-swarovski-optic-ax-visio-ces-price-release-date) Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Dan in Indiana Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip (https://www.amazon.com/Owala-Nautical-Twilight-Stainless-Bottle/dp/B09SJY6K4C/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=fUV9t&content-id=amzn1.sym.35cab78c-35e3-4fc1-aab0-27eaa6c86063%3Aamzn1.symc.e5c80209-769f-4ade-a325-2eaec14b8e0e&pf_rd_p=35cab78c-35e3-4fc1-aab0-27eaa6c86063&pf_rd_r=RS0Y267S82H94Q7MKY4W&pd_rd_wg=vVjQj&pd_rd_r=d7373f5b-9016-45be-a120-abd43ab1572a&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m&th=1). Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889691) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) - Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7 (https://stateofopencon.com) SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) - Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), and there’s still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: Carrot Weather App (https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/) (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar (https://www.buienradar.nl)). Matt: Murderbot Diaries Book 7: System Collapse (https://amzn.to/4aYe85E) Aliens Fireteam Elite (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1549970/Aliens_Fireteam_Elite/) on sale for <$10 Coté: The Lost Kingdom (https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Kingdom-Matthew-J-Kirby/dp/0545274265), book. (https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Kingdom-Matthew-J-Kirby/dp/0545274265) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/close-up-of-mechanical-led-keyboard-Q_adc1_Ukc0) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-group-of-people-holding-hands-on-top-of-a-tree-DNkoNXQti3c)

This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9W_WdnDWMg) 449 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9W_WdnDWMg) Runner-up Titles That is part of the podcast I am going to have a change of pants for that They’re very good notes “Buildies” Of course they are The Internet is a series of tubes… filled with money The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money Gobsmacked Rundown Mobile Passport Control (MPC) (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-control) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#ai-sentiment-and-usage) Amazon's Silent Sacking (https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/) AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,’ Customer Complaints (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-overhauls-60-000-person-sales-team-to-fix-fiefdoms-customer-complaints) Coding at Google (https://textslashplain.com/2024/01/02/coding-at-google/) Relevant to your Interests Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/) Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe (https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-cruise-robotaxi-unit-dismisses-nine-people-after-safety-investigation-2023-12-13/) Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-iphone-ios-update-stolen-device-protection-698d760e) Apple’s new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998665/apple-stolen-device-protection-face-touch-id-icloud-account-vulnerability-ios-17-3-beta) The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/ibm-greatest-capitalist-tom-watson/676147/) Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot (https://apnews.com/article/tesla-autopilot-recall-driver-monitoring-system-8060508627a34e6af889feca46eb3002) Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000 (https://www.wired.com/story/store-a-message-in-dna/) Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/duet-ai-for-developers-googles-github-copilot-competitor-is-now-generally-available-and-will-soon-use-the-gemini-model/) Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available (https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-is-generally-available) The Besties’ Revenge: How the ‘All-In’ Podcast Captured Silicon Valley (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-besties-revenge-how-the-all-in-podcast-captured-silicon-valley) Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (https://retool.com/pipes) InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711524/infoworlds-2023-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html) DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b18221_this-is-our-cloud-spend-over-the-last-12-activity-7142603347013844992-MseI/) Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-18/apple-plans-rescue-for-17-billion-watch-business-in-face-of-ban) Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement (https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-to-pay-700-million-in-play-store-settlement-28bed6b6?st=gof21ww45isoe8a&reflink=article_copyURL_share) The Rule of X (https://x.com/BessemerVP/status/1736814812292952557?s=20) Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams (https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/practical-magic--improving-productivity-and-happiness-for-softwa) The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010) Pro Take: The Cloud Isn’t The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pro-take-the-cloud-isnt-the-answer-to-all-it-problemsat-least-for-now-2af43219?st=nwqof55uzxml475&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink) Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/) Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products? (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/vmware_euc_sale_speculation/) Deploy web apps anywhere (https://kamal-deploy.org/) A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q3-23-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=139963148&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email) End of Life (https://endoflife.date/) VMware’s Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/12/21/why-your-costs-may-go-up-with-vmwares-cheaper-new-bundles/?sh=3098f0d61b14) Intel CEO says Nvidia’s AI dominance is pure luck (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-ceo-says-nvidias-ai-dominance-is-pure-luck-nvidia-vp-fires-back-says-intel-lacked-vision-and-execution) Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=7ut2w92w2px1b9c&reflink=article_copyURL_share) Reddit’s CEO takes a victory lap (https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C1N-ilELo9Y/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/26/the-eternal-struggle-between-open-source-and-proprietary-software/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content) New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-york-times-sues-microsoft-and-openai-alleging-copyright-infringement-fd85e1c4?st=z5d54e5urzlthil&reflink=article_copyURL_share) Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice’ (https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/broadcom-hands-vmware-partners-termination-notice) Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023 (https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/top-unicorn-investors-eoy-2023/) What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/) Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review (https://open.substack.com/pub/cloudedjudgement/p/clouded-judgement-122923-year-end?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings (https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/) OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-revenue-tops-1-6-billion-as-customers-shrug-off-ceo-drama?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz) 2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights (https://seroter.com/2024/01/01/2023-in-review-reading-and-writing-highlights/) The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html) Remembering the startups we lost in 2023 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/30/remembering-the-startups-we-lost-in-2023/) Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again' (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/windows_11_start_great_again/) Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks. (https://www.businessinsider.com/senior-amazon-employee-aws-quiet-firing-remote-work-severance-package-2023-12) Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 (https://www.intelligent.com/nearly-half-of-companies-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements-in-2024/) Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion (https://thenewstack.io/observability-in-2024-more-opentelemetry-less-confusion/) LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password (https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/03/lastpass-stronger-master-password/) Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store (https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-rejects-the-hey-calendar-from-their-app-store-4316dc03) This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karrisaarinen_this-might-be-the-end-of-carta-as-the-trusted-activity-7149219878837583873-M2ea) Command line csv viewer (https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens) Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/1/24021915/alamo-drafthouse-outage-sony-projector) Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX (https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1?reflink=share_mobilewebshare) Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/03/spacex-elon-musk-phone-starlink-satellites) Elon Musk is not understood (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/elon-musk-is-not-understood/) Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity (https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valuation-cut) 2024 Predictions (https://medium.com/@profgalloway/2024-predictions-a16e3cae1596) US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/18/us_fines_southwest_airlines_140m/) Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scooter-company-bird-global-files-070507154.html) 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/everything-blocks-devs-from-removing-their-own-npm-packages/) Office vacancy rate hits record high (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/economy/office-spa

Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”. Show Links Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/) Project (https://projectbluefin.io/) Bluefin (https://projectbluefin.io/) Bazzite (https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite) Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.discourse.group) Prompt terminal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUH1_fFSUs) Windows To Go with Rufus (https://www.intowindows.com/rufus-to-create-windows-to-go-usb-drive/) Contact Jorge Castro LinkedIn: jorge-castro2112 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-castro2112/) GitHub: @castrojo (https://github.com/castrojo) Mastodon: @jorge@hachyderm.io (https://hachyderm.io/@jorge) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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)! Special Guest: Jorge Castro.

This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SHFMhMyK4) 447 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SHFMhMyK4) Runner-up Titles Flat budgets are better then no budget Applauding as the Titanic goes down They weren’t going to be patriated But this is you! Now we know The hippies have lost Keep your head on an open-source swivel Once it works, it’ll be great At least we got USB C Great year for cables Rundown 2022 Year in Review (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/394) (Last Year’s Recap Episode) Travel App Recommendations FlightRadar24 (https://www.flightradar24.com/30.26,-97.75/6) Flighty (https://www.flightyapp.com) Final Numbers (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-dbe3d2df-7e47-4bd3-82b9-2e4961b9d190.html?chunk=9&utm_term=emshare#story9) The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo) Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’. (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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 of the Year Brandon: Pastebot (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/394) Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly) (RIP) Coté: Google Looker (https://lookerstudio.google.com) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-beach-with-a-heart-drawn-in-the-sand-3fGYGza-43g) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/the-numbers-are-written-with-sparkles-in-the-dark-DwavFNdXa1I)

This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTmTNRVcBs) 446 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTmTNRVcBs) Runner-up Titles When your early is really on time Showing up on time is is early for me We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok Rundown BS Dictionary What does "bureaucracy" mean? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZvnBPjnv4&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=13) Politics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxfmZc6f-w&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=12) Deck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6h-XyGlXg&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=2) Let's socialize this deck (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired/video/7310133775076314400) Let's have the meeting in the meeting (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired/video/7310133417381858593) Parking Lot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCxZlNwY3k&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=6) Outcomes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6Hr7_oTuo&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=7) Follow Coté on TikTok for more BS Dictionary Takes (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired) Coté’s Business BS Dictionary Playlist on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: Slow Horses Season 3 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/slow_horses/s03) Coté: ChatDM with Forgotten Realms. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/man-standing-in-front-of-people-sitting-beside-table-with-laptop-computers-gMsnXqILjp4) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/an-open-book-sitting-on-top-of-a-table-pT4Cot62pE4)

This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX5FY4MJpR0) 445 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX5FY4MJpR0) Runner-up Titles I feel very safe on an airplane We’re one mishap away from Lost Difference between the right decision and the safe decision First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo “Rice” They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck Figure out where all the yaml goes Rundown Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle (https://www.itjungle.com/2023/12/11/many-different-kinds-of-cloud-very-big-piles-of-money/) Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a16z-backed-startup-that-once-rejected-150m-sale-to-microsoft-shuts-down) Apache Mesos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Mesos) Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/docker-acquires-atomicjar-a-testing-startup-that-raised-25m-in-january/) Relevant to your Interests Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/) OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft (https://www.threads.net/@kalihays1/post/C0hUizEJfPV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/business/dealbook/silicon-valley-artificial-intelligence.html) The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023 (https://pro.morningconsult.com/analyst-reports/fastest-growing-brands-2023) Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/vast-data-lands-118m-to-grow-its-data-storage-platform-for-ai-workloads/) 'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’ (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-one-saw-coming-kevin-133000274.html) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/helen-toner-openai-board-2e4031ef) Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23990678/apple-foundation-models-generative-ai-mlx) Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions? (https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/will-vmware-customers-balk-broadcom-transitions-them-subscriptions) Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/broadcom_q4_2023/) Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/10/apple-confirms-it-shut-down-beeper-mini/) Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/vmware-austin-layoffs/269-c65851d4-54cb-4cf3-a3db-34fb907de932) The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo) WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake" (https://x.com/I_Am_NickBloom/status/1729557222424731894?s=20) Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/12/vmware_broadcom_licensing_changes/) VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model (https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation) Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloud-engineer-gets-2-years-for-wiping-ex-employers-code-repos/) The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview (https://open.substack.com/pub/craigbox/p/the-kubernetes-129-release-interview?r=1s6gmq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hashicorp-shares-drop-22-after-forecasting-slowing-sales-growth-d3dd4d7d) Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/11/oracle-orcl-q2-earnings-report-2024.html) Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less (https://www.chkk.io/blog/platform-teams-different-approach) Nonsense Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade? (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/nyregion/yale-grade-inflation.html?searchResultPosition=1) It’s time for the Excel World Championships! (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/9/23995236/its-time-for-the-excel-world-championships) Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2023/dec/11/only-in-australia-huge-snake-drops-from-roof-during-podcast-recording-video) Committing to Costco (https://twitter.com/Wes_nship/status/1734207909137989969) 220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/12/08/canada-Halifax-Nova-Scotia-Elmwood-building-moved-soap/2971702059148/) Conferences Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/) SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) April 17-18, 2024 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: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@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: The Fund (https://www.amazon.com/Fund-Bridgewater-Associates-Unraveling-Street/dp/1250276934) Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped (https://amzn.to/3NoGV9i) Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit (https://www.keychron.com/collections/keychron-add-on/products/keychron-q10-acoustic-upgrade-kit) Coté: Sex Education (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Education_(TV_series)), season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-and-white-airplane-seats-DSOohFTAfno) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/gray-and-black-airplane-seats-1KcGnn5HAPU)

This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxu1D6pfG0) 444 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxu1D6pfG0) Runner-up Titles A.I. Arms Race Table 4 needs pork chops Run with that Thanks for not saving us from the AI The King of Cameos Rebels going to rebel Ivory Tower Scruples The sign of something Rundown OpenAI Sam Altman Out At OpenAI (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/11/17/sam-altman-out-at-openai/) A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/17/a-statement-from-microsoft-chairman-and-ceo-satya-nadella/) OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23966277/openai-co-founder-greg-brockman-leaving) Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork (https://overcast.fm/+m_rrMb92o) Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/greg-brockman-quits-openai-after-abrupt-firing-of-sam-altman) Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo) OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-investors-scramble-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo/?sh=18e676bd60da) Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968829/microsoft-hires-sam-altman-greg-brockman-employees-openai) OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman (https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/sam-altman-openai-board-emmet-shear) Who Controls OpenAI? (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-controls-openai?srnd=undefined) Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson (https://overcast.fm/+1LedZQwsE) The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2023/how-effective-altruism-led-to-a-crisis-at-openai) Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai) Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972572/microsoft-internal-memo-kevin-scott-openai) Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thrive-led-openai-tender-to-continue-after-altman-returns) Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn (https://open.substack.com/pub/platformer/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) A.I. Arms Race Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-meta.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model (https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/) Google unveils Gemini (https://www.platformer.news/p/google-unveils-gemini?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=139438103&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email) Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/thomas-kurian-on-google-cloud-s-ai-differentiators-vs-rivals-aws-microsoft?itc=refresh) Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn (https://www.platformer.news/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations) Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67633980) OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/) Relevant to Your Interests Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself' (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers-bob-iger-new-york-times-dealbook-summit-1234905549/) Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector (https://defector.com/looking-good-elon-feeling-good-trashcan-man) New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-myapplications-in-the-aws-management-console-simplifies-managing-your-application-resources/) Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-application-signals-for-automatic-instrumentation-of-your-applications-preview/) Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/okta-admits-hackers-accessed-data-on-all-customers-during-recent-breach/) "We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more (https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/phil-spencer-jez-corden-xbox-interview-2023) 534 startups have failed so far in 2023 (https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/startup-funding-bankruptcies-lower-valuations-2023/) Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs (https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/) Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies (https://fortune.com/2023/12/02/broadcom-ceo-orders-employees-get-butt-back-office-vmware-remote-work/) Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23987335/spotify-layoffs-17-percent-profitability-cost-cutting) 'Return to Office' declared dead (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/03/return_to_office/) Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services (https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-paramount-streaming-bundle-might-be-coming-1851065662) US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day (https://wccftech.com/us-secretary-ai-chips-designed-to-circumvent-china-restrictions-banned-very-next-day/) Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-cut-5-total-workforce-144822744.html) Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog (https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/honey-i-shrunk-the-telemetry) GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/04/gitlab-gtlb-q3-earnings-report-2024.html) It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan (https://thebaffler.com/latest/its-all-bullshit-tan) IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance (https://x.com/katiednorton1/status/1668611154338349057?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A) Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/01/meta-sees-little-risk-in-risc-v-with-custom-accelerators/?td=rt-3a) AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/04/david_nalley_interview/) Nonsense Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. 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