Episode 361: This is Bonkers
This week Brandon is joined by special guest host JJ Ashgiar and they record a live episode at the THAT Conference. Brandon and JJ interview Clark Sell and Brett Slaski about the origins and purpose of the THAT Conference and then the group discusses Broadcom acquiring VMware. Relevant to your Interests THAT Conference (https://that.us/that-conference/) Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61 Billion in Cash and Stock (https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/financial-releases/60271) Guests Clark Sell (https://that.us/members/clark/) Brett Slaski (https://that.us/members/brettski/) Recommendations Brandon — The Bond King (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Bond-King-Audiobook/1250818656?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1260658&ds_rl=1263561&gclid=CjwKCAjwyryUBhBSEiwAGN5OCPtAy0WtVF9Sw3HS0KsY-puo-qa_4t4xDOyS0HQjFpAOq26oFO8tOhoCQ70QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) JJ — Between (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5sKv4E2ko) Photo Credit (https://twitter.com/coridrew/status/1529094510126501889/photo/1) Special Guests: Brett Slaski, Clark Sell, and JJ Asghar.
3 Juni 202250min
Episode 360: Radical Transparency
This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad. Runner-up Titles I’m here for the sandwich talk I want to get back to the garbage chairs Paying for Petrol Paying at the Pump Anonymize your trash I don’t want to improve Making life hard for HR Radical transparency for you, not me Where’d this public cloud come from? Don’t ever fall into the trap of sucking That’s a Circle Rundown Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-tests-app-for-employees-to-grade-each-other-during-meetings) Bridgewater Principles & Culture (https://www.bridgewater.com/principles-and-culture?utm_campaign=BPI-Bridgewater-Capitalism-RR&utm_content=bridgewater%20culture&utm_source=paid-gs) You need meeting knobs like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsHq-mZI8U) Seth Green's Stolen NFT Puts His New Animated Bored Ape Series in Jeopardy (https://www.themarysue.com/seth-green-stolen-nfts/) Adam Neumann’s Web3 Startup Raises $70 Million From VCs, ‘Goddess Nature Token’ (https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gwax/adam-neumanns-web3-startup-raises-dollar70-million-from-vcs-goddess-nature-token) How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud? (https://www.itjungle.com/2022/05/23/how-committed-is-big-blue-to-the-ibm-cloud/) Zoom’s QTR (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1528831823065026560?s=21&t=3K1nAM4G-1fmOzinHP6TbA) Relevant to your Interests Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists (https://layoffs.fyi/) Cloud Foundry Launches Korifi to Ease Kubernetes Development (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-foundry-launches-korifi-to-ease-kubernetes-development/) Get The Report: State of Observability 2022 (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/form/state-of-observability/) Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/21/lonestar_moon_datacenter/) Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS | Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMIF4olLWI) Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware (http://reut.rs/3PwnpHv> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there! DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together. Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there! THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) 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: After Steve (https://www.audible.com/pd/After-Steve-Audiobook/B09CF3K1XT?qid=1653426845&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=FEFPFCQR2E9H1MTGRS5D) Matt: REI Anniversary Sales (https://www.rei.com/promotions/anniversary-sale) Screaming in the Cloud: AWS Commerce Platform (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/) Reply All: Flying the Coop (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hk5ag/187-flying-the-coop) Coté: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60900832-the-baby-on-the-fire-escape). Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/-p1zI3l7MuA) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/KgiXRaqYVpM)
27 Maj 20221h 3min
Episode 359: Sell the Slide
This week we discuss the "sum of the parts" of Rackspace, Rocky Linux recreates CentOS and thoughts on the economy. Plus, a debate: rental car vs. Uber. Rundown Rackspace Technology Reports First Quarter 2022 Results; Company Evaluating Strategic Alternatives (https://ir.rackspace.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rackspace-technology-reports-first-quarter-2022-results-company) Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/with-new-serverless-database-cloudflare-gets-serious-about-infrastructure-services/) Rocky Linux developer CIQ raises $26M to recreate CentOS for enterprises (https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/11/rocky-linux-developer-ciq-raises-26m-to-recreate-centos-for-enterprises/) Snowflake Stock: Finally, This Software Titan Is Worth A Nibble (NYSE:SNOW) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4511737-snowflake-worth-nibble) Job vacancies outpace unemployment for first time (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61475720) Relevant to your Interests Observability Engineering - O'Reilly Book 2022 Download (https://info.honeycomb.io/observability-engineering-oreilly-book-2022) Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/11/observe-raises-70m-grow-data-fueled-observability-platform/) Apple discontinues its last iPod (https://www.engadget.com/apple-discontinues-ipod-touch-161433001.html) Ploopy. Open-source hardware. (https://ploopy.co/) DigitalBridge to Buy Switch for $11 Billion as Data Center M&A Binge Continues (http://) Aiven Raises $210M to Invest in Sustainable Open Source Cloud (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220511005232/en/Aiven-Raises-210M-to-Invest-in-Sustainable-Open-Source-Cloud) Workforce management startup Rippling raises $250M at $11.25B valuation (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/11/workforce-management-startup-rippling-raises-250m-11-25b-valuation/) Google finally announces the Pixel Watch (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23064072/google-pixel-watch-fitbit-io-2022) IBM's massive 'Kookaburra' quantum processor might land in 2025 (https://www.popsci.com/technology/ibm-quantum-computing-roadmap/) Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/google-cloud-launches-alloydb-a-new-fully-managed-postgresql-database-service/) Komodor provides a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/12/komodor-is-building-kubernetes-troubleshooting-platform-for-the-masses/) Nvidia Does the Unexpected: Open Sources GPU Drivers for Linux (https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-does-the-unexpected-open-sources-gpu-drivers-for-linux/) Hands-Free Voice Control | Sonos (https://www.sonos.com/en-us/sonos-voice-control) Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-content-moderation law (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/appeals_court_lets_texas_law/) Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Redbox (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/chicken-soup-for-the-soul-entertainment-acquires-redbox-for-375m-to-accelerate-its-streaming-business/?tpcc=tcpluslinkedin) Hasura raises $100M to create GraphQL APIs for databases (https://twitter.com/mamund/status/1525142084138713092) Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for PowerShell (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/jeffrey_snover_said_microsoft_demoted/) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's $214 million pay package is 'excessive' and should be vetoed by shareholders, say advisory firms (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-salary-excessive-report-vote-down-2022-5) Netflix tells employees they can quit if they don't want to work on content they disagree with, according to new company culture guidelines (https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-company-culture-guidelines-employees-can-quit-if-they-disagree-2022-5) Not all open-source leaders are jerks (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/not_all_opensource_leaders_are/) Intel Poaches Open Source Execs from Netflix, Apple to Boost Linux Efforts (https://thenewstack.io/intel-poaches-open-source-execs-from-netflix-apple-to-boost-linux-efforts/) Jeff Bezos turns up heat on Joe Biden over US inflation (https://www.ft.com/content/8ef4934e-2072-4534-bce6-824fb0da8628) Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/satya-nadella-details-microsoft-plan-for-significant-additional-investment-in-employee-compensation/) Musk: Twitter deal at lower price "not out of the question" (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/16/elon-musk-twitter-deal-lower-price?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Google Lets Personal Users Stay On 'No-Cost Legacy G Suite' With Custom Gmail Domain (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/16/2121201/google-lets-personal-users-stay-on-no-cost-legacy-g-suite-with-custom-gmail-domain) Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/17/23100696/apple-delay-hybrid-office-return-work-from-home-covid-19-masks?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter) For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over (https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-tech-startups-the-party-is-over-11652710330?mod=djemalertNEWS) The State of Kubernetes Security in 2022 (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/state-kubernetes-security-2022-1) Facebook’s hiring crisis: Engineers are turning down offers (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recruiting-crisis) Twitter bleeds more top talent in the midst of Musk acquisition (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-executives-departure-musk) Sisters doing it for themselves: this nun built her own power plant (https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/16/sisters-doing-it-for-themselves-drc-nun-fed-up-with-power-outages-builds-own-hydroelectric) Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust security services (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/google-cloud-launches-new-software-supply-chain-and-zero-trust-security-services/) Orbit + Hoopy: Writing the Future of DevRel - Orbit (https://orbit.love/blog/orbit-hoopy-writing-the-future-of-devrel) A beef over NFTs is shaking the sneaker industry - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/05172022-Nike-StockX) Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report (https://a16zcrypto.com/state-of-crypto-report-a16z-2022/) Apple has shown its mixed reality headset to its board of directors: report (NASDAQ:AAPL) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3841044-apple-has-shown-its-mixed-reality-headset-to-its-board-of-directors-report?utm_campaign=twitter_automated&utm_content=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_automated) Why Did Heroku Fail? (https://matt-rickard.com/why-did-heroku-fail/) Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/docker-desktop-extensions-linux/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) Nonsense Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast (https://usps-mailin-it.simplecast.com/) Dad's take on Peloton from 2019 (https://twitter.com/peter/status/1524265098465792000?s=21&t=5jYSjrdL3mIVGMb-31qQtg) A solar power plant in space? The UK wants to build one by 2035. (https://www.space.com/space-based-solar-power-plant-2035) Elon discovers Lawyers (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525615849167589380?s=21&t=VVDN3Oxzsmu57Srayk2X1w) More Cables (https://twitter.com/rayredacted/status/1490088765112700928?s=21&t=TNzXDAprfUDBcUIehlJ5yw) Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/) Southwest introduces transferable credits (https://twitter.com/southwestair/status/1527001072132399104?s=21&t=jrhjV0241gVclZpxEP0vnQ) Listener Feedback Relyance AI is looking for a VP of Product (https://boards.greenhouse.io/relyance/jobs/4148931004) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/) Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there! DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté helps put the agenda together. Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there! THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) 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: tvOS 15.4 lets you finally log in to captive Wi-Fi portals on Apple TV (https://www.macworld.com/article/622912/tvos-15-4-features-release-install.html) Matt: The Poppy War (https://amzn.to/3LufOWD) Coté: Skilcraft U.S. Government Retractable Ball Point Pen, Fine Point, Blue Ink, Box of 12 (https://www.amazon.com/Skilcraft-Government-Retractable-Point-7520-01-332-3967/dp/B008UARY3I/). 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20 Maj 20221h 5min
Episode 358: Philip Griffiths on Zero Trust Networking and OpenZiti
Brandon interviews Philip Griffiths, the VP of Global Business Development at NetFoundry. They discuss how OpenZiti enables zero trust networking and how to build certificate-based security into your applications. Plus, some thoughts on creating an open source mascot. Episode Links NetFoundry (https://netfoundry.io/) replace with live netfoundry.io/sdt OpenZiti (https://openziti.github.io/) Zitification (https://ziti.dev/blog/zitification/) Bootstrapping Trust (https://ziti.dev/blog/bootstrapping-trust-part-1-encryption-everywhere/) Contact Philip LinkedIn: philipleonardgriffiths (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipleonardgriffiths/) Twitter: @OpenZiggy (https://twitter.com/OpenZiggy) Twitter: @ThePGriffiths (https://twitter.com/ThePGriffiths) Special Guest: Philip Griffiths.
17 Maj 202246min
Episode 357: Is platform engineer the new thing?
This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving… Rundown DevOpsDays Austin (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/) Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063499/uber-ceo-slash-costs-hiring-slowdown-ride-hailing-profit) A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/next-tech-downturn-cheat-sheet-recession) Relevant to your Interests Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud (https://www.ign.com/articles/square-enix-says-embracer-acquisitions-allow-it-to-invest-more-in-the-blockchain-ai-and-the-cloud) Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html) What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/07/may-not-know-dell-snowflake-deal/) The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world (https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-twitter-doesn-t-rule-the-social-world) I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs (https://interconnected.org/home/2022/05/05/larping) Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/) Podcast Details (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/https://podcastdetails.com/) 3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets? (https://overcast.fm/+QN1pbp6qs) Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-general-motors-collaborate-trailblaze-future-software-defined-vehicles?sc_cid=7013a000002pyDRAAY) Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-advances-container-isolation-and-workloads-with-acquisition-of-nestybox/) Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appian-awarded-2-036-billion-in-damages-against-pegasystems-inc-301543673.html) 4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022 (https://www.securemac.com/news/4-new-icloud-keychain-features-for-2022) A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (https://www.wired.com/story/fido-alliance-ios-android-password-replacement/) Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1522592192472121345) Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/googles-cloud-group-forms-web3-product-and-engineering-team.html) Nonsense Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/) Sponsors IT Brew — Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST. Register Here! (https://www.itbrew.com/events/it-brew-virtual-launch-event?utm_campaign=itb_sdtvirtualevent_051322&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=crosspromo&utm_term=2022-04-26) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/) Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022 Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) 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: Outer Range (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjD6eSS6tX3AhXXam8EHa55B98YABAAGgJqZg&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESbeD2gX-q2K65uLuKzoQSEiKkGaXTpp9RAoJvlxlVPxR4LhROL0ylc9MUb1dLMuoOjK6vgpj6-pR2_8Lrntvbf8wa_QDIU5pSrGKNVSpV7DC9ZUOpval8pLWvDwXMkxZaCToCTryt5P87wp9Zyjc&sig=AOD64_3eTUtq0o5DQELmJ4xY31WYRxL5Cw&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwjonNmS6tX3AhUrg2oFHaZID8EQ0Qx6BAgDEAE&dct=1) Matt: IKEA Hektar lamp (https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/hektar-work-lamp-with-wireless-charging-dark-grey-80323435/) Treasury Series I Bonds (https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds.htm) via Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096314685/a-secret-weapon-to-fight-inflation) Coté: EPICKA Universal Travel Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/EPICKA-Universal-Travel-Adapter-Power/dp/B078S3M2NX?asc_campaign=&asc_source=&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fauthor%2Fdorri-olds&tag=w050b-20&ascsubtag=%20%20%20%20%20%205:21) Photo Credits Banner (https://blog.atmtxphoto.com/2019/08/12/el-mercado-color/)
13 Maj 202257min
Episode 356: They should have consulted us
This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro… Rundown How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/technology/jony-ive-apple-design.html) Passwords Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/05/apple-google-microsoft-passwordless-logins/) Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/2309618/) Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/346) How FIDO Works (https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/) 1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/03/1password-8-for-mac-released/) Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable? (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4505528-twilio-a-future-essential-or-overhyped-and-just-unprofitable) Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-announces-first-quarter-2022-200500471.html) Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1520946695823323137?s=21&t=eJoens13aik6Sd6EobYW4Q) Relevant to your Interests Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-cloud-contract-152924596.html) A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings: (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1519909093187764224?s=21&t=ZwsCN2E_FzOziodSkZIqWQ) Big Tech revenue growth rates. (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1520074033383026689?s=21&t=ZwsCN2E_FzOziodSkZIqWQ) Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1520078644521099264?s=20&t=cv9yGuNtWBn5EV_TtsP6YA) Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046170/twitter-miscounted-daily-users-three-years-q1-2022-earnings) Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time (https://www.techradar.com/news/cloudflare-has-blocked-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attacks-of-all-time) Actual is going open-source (https://actualbudget.com/open-source) Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better) (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/28/reality-check-twitter-actually-was-already-doing-most-of-the-things-musk-claims-he-wants-the-company-to-do-but-better/) Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23047026/amazon-alexa-voice-data-targeted-ads-research-report) Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/01/amazon-takes-on-spacex-in-the-satellite-internet-with-project-kuiper.html) Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRxW0B5XoAAuE4k.jpg) Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/2/23053104/telegram-premium-paid-subscription) Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/apple_store_old_app_policy) Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade (https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-america-contractors-full-time-complaints-report) Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/how-graphite-turned-a-side-project-into-a-20m-series-a/) Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1521870438338596867) Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/cameo-layoffs-cto-cpo) Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business (https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-05-02/google-makes-100-000-worth-of-tech-training-free-to-every-u-s-business) Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com (https://chiefmartec.com/2022/05/marketing-technology-landscape-2022-search-9932-solutions-on-martechmap-com/) Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures (https://diagrams.mingrammer.com) Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/04/google-cloud-and-sap-launch-a-native-integration-between-workspace-and-s-4hana-cloud/) Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloud-spending-cost-management-finops) Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland (https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/1521449221261602817?s=20&t=Hiqhz_-gGUj5e3-NQQ0PZA) Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com (https://chiefmartec.com/2022/05/marketing-technology-landscape-2022-search-9932-solutions-on-martechmap-com/) Nonsense AOC and Elon (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRjqr-ZWUAEB5U2.jpg) Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID (https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-dress-codes-fashion-22c012502cef421ddfe5400a82dc8e2c) Sponsors IT Brew — The IT Brew newsletter delivers the latest news and analysis of trends shaping the IT industry, like only The Brew can. Subscribe today! (https://www.itbrew.com/?utm_campaign=b2bitb_050622_sdtgeneral&utm_medium=partnership&utm_source=sdt&utm_term=2022-04-26) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/) Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) 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: Ozark Series Finale (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/ozark/s04) Matt: Debian preseed (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1520946695823323137) Photo Credits Banner Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/aLOFAyGPUe4) Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/q7h8LVeUgFU)
6 Maj 202257min
Episode 355: That’s why he runs my Marketing department
This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft… Rundown Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com) Istio Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project (https://twitter.com/IstioMesh/status/1518616150258733058) Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo (https://www.solo.io/blog/istio-past-present-future/) Earnings AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/21/aws_not_for_sale/) Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html) Microsoft earnings beat across the board (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/microsoft-msft-earnings-q3-2022.html) Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/alphabet-to-report-q1-earnings-after-the-bell-tuesday.html) Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft (https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/status/1519363715480514560) The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993-2006) Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/25/akamai-launches-managed-database-offering-mysql-postgresql-redis-mongodb/) Twitter Back to the Future of Twitter (https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/) Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html) Bezos on Twitter being acquired (https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/1518734031566778368?s=21&t=hU6sj6ankANQAZPIf6Pnog) Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-reassures-staff-cries-during-meeting-about-musk-takeover-00027931) Relevant to your Interests 7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers (https://bloggingwizard.com/free-rss-feed-readers/) Is Firefox OK? (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-firefox-ok/) After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/with-20m-series-a-glide-expands-no-code-application-building-capabilities/) Good SDT Slack Thread on this (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1650634994278229) The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company (https://pnw.ai/article/the-founder-who-turned-an-automation-startup-into-portland-s-biggest-tech-company/121260557) Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-predicts-end-of-chip-shortage) Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return (https://www.ft.com/content/312acbb3-eb72-4d2f-b81f-649dcb3583ca) Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html) Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/devs-upset-apple-remove-app-store-havent-been-updated) AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/appdynamics-founders-midas-touch-strikes-again-as-harness-valuation-hits-3-7b/) SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/sonarsource-raises-412m-to-scan-codebases-for-bugs-and-vulnerabilities/) Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2022) Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/dropbox_unplugged_datacenter) YouTube’s growth struggles to load (https://thehustle.co/04282022-YouTube-growth) Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/apple-now-lets-you-buy-iphone-parts-so-you-can-fix-it-yourself.html) Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/robinhood-layoffs) Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you (https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/Top-10-PaaS-providers-and-what-they-offer-you) Nonsense Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head' (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-dorsey-changes-his-official-title-from-ceo-to-block-head-11650663753) Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) 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: F1 TV (https://f1tv.formula1.com) Matt: Factorio Story Missions (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Story-Missions) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/_mEuPiaz8pU) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/7ezFz2Hxd40)
29 Apr 202258min
Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile
This week we discuss the disruption happening to Netflix, Corporate Metrics and a few thoughts on Heroku. Plus, some summer travel tips. Rundown Netflix Netflix shares crater 25% after company reports it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-nflx-earnings-q1-2022.html) Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords (https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-sharing-password-100-million-1235236051/) Netflix slowdown leaves streaming biz reeling (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-487b37f1-d49f-4ccc-b267-794c850a834c.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Reporting is hard Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/metricflow/) Heroku Heroku is practically down for 4 days (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1516756294983733255?s=21&t=005wWLAylkwjFOf1qWQmjw) Heroku is like a fallen civilization of elves. Beautiful, immortal, beloved by all who encountered it - but still a dead end. (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1369704730218299392?s=20&t=z2QiNcun21R761sSCy269g) - Adam Jacob Relevant to your Interests How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog (https://httpie.io/blog/stardust) Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. (https://twitter.com/rabble/status/1514793459147677696) "Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost" (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/measuring-argo-workflows-with-kubecost/) The Chips That Rebooted the Mac (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chips-that-rebooted-the-mac-11650081649?mod=djemalertNEWS) The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r) Apollo Global weighs going in on bid to buy Twitter: report (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/142421/apollo-global-weighs-going-in-on-bid-to-buy-twitter-report) Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-inclusive-warnings-feature-is-very-broken) Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8b2b7a28-bf0d-11ec-8413-422ef6319ad0?shareToken=241a4f9d880e0a092706864989c8b1a5) Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules (https://news.yahoo.com/apple-must-pay-man-more-051314585.html) Discovery is shutting down CNN+ and is expected to provide details to staffers Thursday... (https://twitter.com/bristei/status/1517165214864744449) Nonsense Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund (https://www.axios.com/chipotle-launches-a-50-million-venture-capital-fund-ffd4954e-f459-4a3a-8a9e-3c11bd88728d.html) Listener Feedback Brian wants you to work at Solo.io: Gloo Edge Product Manager (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/gloo-edge-product-manager/) Software Engineer (Front-End Systems) (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/software-engineer-front-end-systems/) Software Engineer (Back-End Systems) (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/software-engineer-back-end-systems/) New Business Developer (BDR/SDR) (https://www.solo.io/company/careers/new-business-developer-bdr-sdr/) Conferences Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1515004968796934152). THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC) SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) 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: Rectangle App on macOS (https://rectangleapp.com) Photo Credits CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/UVfvFrp4x4E) Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/lI7dlA5VBp8)
22 Apr 20221h 3min
