Episode 506: Put It On Ice

Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards. Show Links Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VejBzjF2R7JV1TEvvbTtIN2cTynwxY9q/view). Appoint and empower a single threaded leader (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_in-phil-le-brun-my-post-last-week-we-shared-activity-7019653493850284033-6Iqv) Two way door decisions (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phillebrun_aws-activity-7017155613646336001-gyUf/) Dogs not barking (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_culture-leadership-change-activity-7024735757156155392-iNkm). Weasel words (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_talked-about-dogs-not-barking-last-week-activity-7029732454575828993-14iE). If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/250). Contact Jana Werner LinkedIn: Jana Werner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/). 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)! The Cards Here's the text of the all the cards: Mechanism 1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days? 2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice? 3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings? 4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism? 5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising? 6. How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used? 7. How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product? 8. How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with? 9. How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues? 10. How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release? 11. How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps? 12. How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision? 13. How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it? 14. How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter? 15. How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings? Culture How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs? How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions? How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting? How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle? How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen? How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable? How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture? How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published? How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision? How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster? How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports? How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team? How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations? How can you start your next meeting with a document read? Organisation How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it? How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team? How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams? How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)? How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team? [REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read? How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations? How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation? How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement? Leadership How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions. How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these? How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers? How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn. How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually? How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years? How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last? How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these? How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar? How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions? How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives? SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Special Guest: Jana Werner.

26 Apr 202450min

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). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/six-black-and-yellow-fishing-rod-in-boat-UivGzIDhVyw) Artwork (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/)

19 Apr 20241h 8min

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)

12 Apr 20241h 2min

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/), 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 -to21, 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! 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: 3 Body Problem (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821&ved=2ahUKEwj7y8yl0Y-FAxUkkO4BHSPsAokQFnoECDwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw34C7IJEMHi6y9j30HRthhu) Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm (https://amzn.to/4apzuYT) Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icewind_Dale:_Rime_of_the_Frostmaiden) - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney (https://cote.io/2024/04/03/creating-huge-dd.html). Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-wooden-fence-with-a-painted-sign-on-it-4XbEgggW93o) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-in-gold-dress-holding-sword-figurine-L4YGuSg0fxs)

5 Apr 20241h

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.

29 Mars 202430min

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.com/the-e-gates-modality-will-now-be-implemented-at-cancun-airport/) Global Entry better then ever (https://globalfinder-usonline.com/glofinderus/?utm_term=global%20entry&utm_campaign=5C1B-2023-04-07&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv_xZTL8mD-XjuwoT_Kqr6-YHaCUiyCITM5HugRhsRNLqm_50l3sSIJZxoC-jsQAvD_BwE) Mobile Passport Control (MPC) (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-control) available in Austin Airport Matt: Duck Duck Go (https://duckduckgo.com) Coté: MacBook Pro (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/14-inch-m3-max) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/Hello) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/Matrix-math)

22 Mars 20241h 7min

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)

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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

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