This week we discuss the real-world use of containers, recap the Google Cloud Next announcements and make some Apple predications. Plus, how often do you wash jeans…? Rundown Containers in the Real World 10 trends in real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/) What Workloads Do Businesses Run on Kubernetes? (https://thenewstack.io/what-workloads-do-businesses-run-on-kubernetes/) Google Cloud Next `21 What’s New at Google Cloud Next ‘21 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/whats-new-at-next) Introducing Google Distributed Cloud—in your data center, at the edge, and in the cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-distributed-cloud-edge-and-hosted) Introducing Anthos for VMs and tools to simplify the developer experience (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/introducing-anthos-for-vms-and-other-app-modernization-tools) Build a more secure future with Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/next21-how-google-cloud-secures-the-world) Google Cloud will show users their gross carbon emissions (https://www.engadget.com/google-cloud-platform-carbon-footprint-emissions-environment-163339146.html) GKE AutoPilot not new but mentioned (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview#security) Google Cloud launches a managed Spark service (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/google-cloud-launches-a-managed-spark-service/) Weave & Chick-fil-A: Managing Fleets of Kubernetes Clusters... (https://youtu.be/ta9jJc-RVvE) Relevant to your interests Eating the Cloud from Outside In (https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go/) The Confidential Computing Consortium Year in Review, 2021 - Confidential Computing Consortium (https://confidentialcomputing.io/2021/10/06/the-confidential-computing-consortium-year-in-review-2021/) Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges (https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-trends-and-challenges/) Microsoft and Amazon reach truce allowing former AWS executive Charlie Bell to start in new role (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-amazon-reach-truce-allowing-former-aws-executive-charlie-bell-start-new-role/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Series A Funding Announcement | cloudtamer.io (https://www.cloudtamer.io/announcing-our-series-a/) Reddit hires former Google Cloud exec as its first chief product officer (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/11/reddit-hires-former-google-cloud-exec-as-its-first-chief-product-officer/) The next big thing in podcasts is talking back (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722468/spotify-amazon-facebook-audio-podcast-polls-interact) 1Password’s new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/1passwords-new-feature-lets-you-safely-share-passwords-using-just-a-link/) Coinbase is launching its own NFT platform to take on OpenSea – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/coinbase-is-launching-its-own-nft-platform-to-take-on-opensea/) The Air Force’s First Software Chief Stepped Down—But He Won’t Be Quiet (https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2021/10/air-forces-first-software-chief-stepped-down-he-wont-be-quiet/186047/) Nonsense Tesla is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas (https://www.theverge.com/22715458/tesla-move-headquarters-to-austin-texas) VC firm associate has built a crypto marketplace designed for fantasy startup investing (https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1445830869151748101The> Confidential Computing Consortium Year in Review, 2021 - Confidential Computing Consortium) Musk vs. Bezos in a Tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447426189660880898?s=20) Pon agrees to buy Dorel Sports for $810 million (https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2021/10/11/pon-agrees-buy-dorel-sports-810-million#.YWWYtC-B0dk) The first USB-C iPhone is here thanks to a mod (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722123/first-iphone-usb-c-port-robotics-engineering-student-custom) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 (https://www.gitopsdays.com/) TriggerMesh Open Source Software Webinar (https://www.triggermesh.com/oss-intro) - October 28, 2021 MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Ed wants you to be Product Manager at VMware based in Spain (https://vmware.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/VMware/job/ESP-Seville-Av-de-Republica-Argentina/Product-Manager-for-RabbitMQ_R2111712) Brian wants you to be a Senior Product Manager - Pipelines in Bangalore (https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89894/senior-product-manager---technical/job?mobile=false&width=1140&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240) or Senior Product Manager - GitOps in Remote, UK (https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89893/senior-product-manager---gitops/job) Brian recommends this jump box (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082ZZ2W14/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Universel Dual Monitor Arm with Pistons (https://www.bestar.com/product/dual-monitor-arm-ak-ma01d-17/) Coté: A Carnival of Snackery (https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Carnival-of-Snackery-Audiobook/1549108212), new David Sederis diaries, audio of course. Tasty Meats Paul’s Whole Hair Thing (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/1448351873614827521). Also (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1448556155266084866). Photo Credits Header Image (https://unsplash.com/photos/3oejsU5OQVk) Show Artwork (https://cdn.thenewstack.io/media/2021/09/dbdf6555-image4.png) Show Artwork (https://imgix.datadoghq.com/img/container-report/2021-container-orchestration-report-FACT-10_part-1v3.png?ch=Width,DPR,Save-Data&fit=max&fm=png&auto=format)

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Episode 324: Stockpile EULAs

This week we discuss AWS Step Functions, VMware Tanzu Community Edition and Zoom’s M&A Strategy. Plus, some thoughts on car batteries… Rundown AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-aws-step-functions-supports-200-aws-services-to-enable-easier-workflow-automation/) Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-community-edition-announcement) Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzucommunityedition.io/) Zoom M&A And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/30/and-thats-that-as-the-zoom-deal-to-buy-five9-is-called-off/) Zoom loses Five9 - leaves the cloud contact center business open to innovative alternatives (https://diginomica.com/zoom-loses-five9-leaves-cloud-contact-center-business-open-innovative-alternatives) Telegram added 70M new users amid six-hour WhatsApp outage (https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/05/telegram-added-70m-new-users-amid-six-hour-whatsapp-outage/e) Relevant to your interests Announcing Trusted Cloud Principles (https://trustedcloudprinciples.com/) Australian Bureau of Statistics runs 2021 Census on the AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/australian-bureau-of-statistics-runs-2021-census-on-the-aws-cloud/) "A New Strategy, R2" (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/09/30/a-new-strategy-r2/) Cloudflare’s Disruption (https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/) PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/01/pspdfkit-raises-116m-its-first-outside-money-now-nearly-1b-people-use-apps-powered-by-its-collaboration-signing-and-markup-tools/) Microsoft announces Office 2021 features and pricing (https://www.theverge.com/22704168/microsoft-office-2021-features-pricing-release-date) Paperlike, the Screen Protector for iPad: write and draw like on paper (https://paperlike.com/) Microsoft sets Oct. 5 as Windows 11 launch date (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-oct-windows-11-launch-date-7202798e-fa64-421a-835a-4c625c97e728.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) COVID Breathalyzers Could Transform Rapid Testing (https://spectrum.ieee.org/covid-breathalyzers-could-transform-rapid-testing) AWS Mistakes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493193) The Verica Open Incident Database (https://www.thevoid.community/) Developer-focused infrastructure security platform Mondoo raises $15M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/05/developer-focused-infrastructure-security-platform-mondoo-raises-15m/) 1 big thing: Enterprise software's reawakening (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-846feca0-b1b3-40c1-92b0-88c5cd3c0d46.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) FB Outage Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/) Tools to explore BGP (https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/05/tools-to-look-at-bgp-routes/) Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22708989/instagram-facebook-outage-messenger-whatsapp-error) Security The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked | VGC (https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/) DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html) Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw/) Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xpm8/company-that-routes-billions-of-text-messages-quietly-says-it-was-hacked) Nonsense There are six internet links on my office on wheels. Seven when Starlink arrives. (https://ghuntley.com/internet/) Australia accelerates its plans to allow international travel. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/australia/australia-international-travel-covid.html) As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAv7UPuVEAA87S9.jpg) April Fools' copy-paste button for lazy programmers now actually for sale (https://www.cnet.com/news/april-fools-copy-paste-button-for-lazy-programmers-now-actually-for-sale/?PostType=link&ServiceType=twitter&UniqueID=5A6C2A44-2481-11EC-97B3-AFC2BDCD475E&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&TheTime=2021-10-03T19:37:32&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 (https://www.gitopsdays.com/) MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback James wants you to wort at GoCardless in London as a IT Engineering Manager (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3190118.), IT Support Manager (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3501701) or Business Systems Engineer - HR Systems (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3334891) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: Bayco LBC-400 Recessed Light Bulb Changer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GAUSCO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Drones changing bulbs (https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1435753919817429000) Matt: Lee “Scratch” Perry A Live Injection: Anthology 1968-1979 (https://open.spotify.com/album/1W3cKgwqmprjq24abdSThm?si=ZOBFrj2FQpqxdjylhaUFEQ&dl_branch=1) Cloud Native AF: Farmers Don't Care About Kubernetes with Mike Dvorkin (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/4) (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/4) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/ovGrEUgrkyE) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/--kQ4tBklJI)

Episode 323: Boxes and Arrows

This week we discuss the launch of Cloudflare R2 Storage and the DevRel Salary Survey. Plus, some thoughts on nuts… Rundown Cloudflare Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/) How Cloudflare thinks it can become ‘the fourth major public cloud’ (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloudflare-r2-storage-aws) @Cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52. (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1443076111651401731?s=21) DevRel 2021 DevRel Salary Survey results (https://dev.to/bffjossy/2021-devrel-salary-survey-results-table-of-contents-43fe) Big tech and promotion processes that lead to unnecessary complexity and waste. (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1442162670753431559) Relevant to your interests iPhone Carrier Deal Spreadsheet (https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1441509334324707329?s=21) We asked celebrities what they think Tanzu and Kubernetes means (https://twitter.com/VMworld/status/1441095517438550018) Dev Ops Solutions | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/) Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/26/google-lowers-its-cloud-marketplace-revenue-share-to-3percent-from-20percent.html) Online Learning Company Udemy Plans October IPO (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/online-learning-company-udemy-plans-october-ipo) 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (https://www.engadget.com/fastmail-1password-masked-email-110028257.html) AWS US East region wobbles for eight hours (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/28/aws_east_brownout/) Vista bets on software robotics with $1.5 billion Blue Prism takeover (https://www.reuters.com/article/blue-prism-grup-m-a-vista-equity/vista-bets-on-software-robotics-with-1-5-billion-blue-prism-takeover-idUSKBN2GO0GO) Amazon announces Astro home robot that roams around your house (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/amazon-event-2021-live-updates-amazons-set-to-announce-new-products.html) Akamai to acquire cloud security firm Guardicore for about $600 million (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guardicore-m-a-akamai-tech/akamai-to-acquire-cloud-security-firm-guardicore-for-about-600-million-idUSKBN2GP119) Facebook Reels exits beta in the US with offers to pay creators for well-performing videos (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/facebook-reels-exits-beta-in-the-u-s-with-offers-to-pay-creators-for-well-performing-videos/) The cloud is NOT just someone else’s computer (https://cloudpundit.com/2021/09/22/the-cloud-is-not-just-someone-elses-computer/) Netflix Has Acquired Its First Video Game Studio (https://gizmodo.com/netflix-has-acquired-its-first-video-game-studio-1847767078) How IBM lost the cloud (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud) Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/09/30/apple-pay-flaw-risks-letting-hackers-drain-money-iphones/) Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-tv-as-a-service/) First cryptocurrency fund approved in Switzerland (https://cointelegraph.com/news/first-cryptocurrency-fund-approved-in-switzerland) OS/2’s Last Stand: IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Turns 25 (https://www.howtogeek.com/755650/os2s-last-stand-ibm-os2-warp-4-turns-25/) Nonsense Costco placing purchase limits on toilet paper, other products due to COVID-related demand (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/09/24/costco-limiting-purchases-toilet-paper-other-items/5841158001/) Release Notes (https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1441423424337764362?s=21) William Shatner's Going to Space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Ship (https://www.tmz.com/2021/09/24/william-shatner-going-space-jeff-bezos-blue-origin/) A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500 (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/hamster-trading-cryptocurrencies-rigged-cage-goxx-bitcoin-price-ether-doge-2021-9) Heatbit - electric heater that earns you money (https://heatbit.com/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Anova Precision® Cooker Nano was highly recommended (https://anovaculinary.com/anova-precision-cooker/nano/) OpenNebula is hiring (https://opennebula.io/all-remote-manifesto-opennebula-systems-goes-fully-distributed/) Biogen needs a Digital Health Program Manager (https://smrtr.io/6H9cZ) and Sr. Manager- Quality Engineering (https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Biogen/743999765854224-sr-manager-quality-engineering-automation-performance-) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: https://claimittexas.org Matt: Emacs M-x zone (https://twitter.com/mickeynp/status/1443513130831728647) Cloud Native AF: Jacques Chester (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/3) Coté: Sandman Act 2 (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sandman-Act-II-Audiobook/B098TWVZVD?ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true&pf_rd_p=27448286-da3b-4d18-b236-d4299a63a797&pf_rd_r=80RBYZH1WGDFKCCAZK82), in Audible. Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/fZ7-IAReeSo)

Episode 322: I didn’t make these rules

This week we discuss GitLab going public, review iOS 15 and a few more thoughts on remote work. Plus, should the EU impose a universal phone charger? Rundown GitLab Microsoft GitHub rival GitLab files to go public after annualized revenue tops $200 million (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/github-rival-gitlab-files-to-go-public-on-revenue-over-200-million.html) GitLab: Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/gitlab-benchmarking-the-s-1-data) GitLab S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/gitlab-s-1/) Apple iOS 15 Review Buy a 'free' iPhone 13 with trade-in at Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T: All you need to know (https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/buy-a-free-iphone-13-with-trade-in-at-verizon-t-mobile-and-at-t-all-you-need-to-know/) Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone13-review.html) EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple (https://punchng.com/eu-to-impose-universal-phone-charger-in-blow-to-apple/) 1Password’s iOS Safari extension looks good (https://support.1password.com/getting-started-safari-ios/) Ship / Show / Ask (https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html) Spend the money on Zoom-Box-Discord instead! Relevant to your interests Original Creators of Apache Pulsar Raise $23M Series-A for StreamNative, Round Led by Prosperity7 Ventures (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/original-creators-apache-pulsar-raise-130000869.html) Werner tweet on NDAs (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1438536990211858436?s=21) Amazon gives Kindle e-readers a rare user interface overhaul (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/a-quick-tour-of-amazons-new-ui-for-kindle-e-readers/) Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22675175/microsoft-account-passwordless-no-password-security-feature) Over the last 90-days, if you average more than 6-viewers, you are in the top 6.7% of Twitch. (https://twitter.com/zachbussey/status/1367868296473813001) Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t (https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/) WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-detect-depression-cognitive-decline-sources-say-11632216601) WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-target-crypto-ransomware-payments-with-sanctions-11631885336) WeWork shares expected to start trading in late October (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/wework-ipo-spac-deal-bowx) Salesforce rival Freshworks raises $1.03 bln in U.S. IPO, valued at $10.13 bln (https://www.reuters.com/technology/freshworks-valued-1013-bln-after-raising-103-bln-us-ipo-source-2021-09-22/) Apple rolls major Safari redesign out to Macs ahead of Monterey release (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/apple-rolls-major-safari-redesign-out-to-macs-ahead-of-monterey-release/) This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/red_hat_pandemic_certification_generosity_over/) Facebook introduces portable Portal Go for $199 (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-new-portals-go-170004952.html) Raspberry Pi attracts $45m after lockdowns fuel demand for PCs (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/09/20/raspberry-pi-attracts-45m-lockdowns-fuel-demand-personal-computers) Zoom's $14.7 billion deal for Five9 under US national security review (https://www.zdnet.com/article/zooms-14-7-billion-deal-for-five9-under-us-national-security-review/) Rundown Follow the millimetres (https://twitter.com/kosso/status/1438847578586718209?s=21) It Has Come to Subscription Tacos (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/taco-bell-subscription-netflix-for-tacos/620109/) A 10-Foot Wide House In Boston Sells For $1.25 Million (https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039324508/boston-skinny-house-spite-house-sold) Samuel Adams' latest potent beer is illegal in 15 states (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/20/Samuel-Adams-Utopias-beer-illegal-15-states/7301632163091/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.comDeveloper> Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Go Slack Discussion on Ship / Show / Ask (https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html) Brian recommends The Disconnect | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station (https://www.kut.org/the-disconnect) Jordi wants you to be a Developer Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/p/31f1bfca89fb01-developer-advocate-developer-experience-engineer) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: iPhone Battery & Power Repair (https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-power) Matt: Deep Rock Galactic (https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/) Coté: Hornbach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbach_(retailer)); box cutters; Drunker & Retireder (https://drunkerandretireder.fireside.fm/). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/OIfFRthAASc) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/ZV_64LdGoao)

Episode 321: Cambrian explosion of screw drivers

This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes… Rundown Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-10/apple-s-app-store-dealt-blow-by-judge-in-epic-antitrust-case?sref=HQB7G2wY&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business) Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store) Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/injunction-apple-must-open-up-app-store-payments-in-90-days/) FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild (https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/) Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html) The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event (https://www.theverge.com/22663657/apple-iphone-13-pro-ipad-mini-watch-event-biggest-announcements) iPadOS 15 (https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-15/features/). Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/study-microsoft-employees-shows-remote-work-puts-productivity-innovation-risk/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Relevant to your interests Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open (https://frame.work/) Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-stories-camera-smart-glasses-hands-on) EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-corporate-america-2021-09-10/) Epic is shutting down Houseparty (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22663531/epic-games-shutting-down-houseparty-october) Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances (https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instances/) Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22664284/microsoft-office-reopening-plans-us) Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-passwords-for-500-000-fortinet-vpn-accounts/) How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe (https://markn.ca/2021/how-a-new-user-can-run-just-one-container-in-the-aws-cloud-maybe/) Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-is-on-the-verge-of-another-big-step-forward/) Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/oracle-orcl-earnings-q1-2022.html) Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ) Open Scheduling Infrastructure (https://cal.com/,), Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape (https://www.ft.com/content/fa7ff4c3-4694-4409-9ca6-bfadf3a53a62) Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/thoughtworks-rises-in-trading-debut-after-ipo-exceeds-target) strongDM Raises $54M Series B (https://www.strongdm.com/press-release/strongdm-raises-54m-series-b-led-by-tiger-global-to-transform-secure-infrastructure-access-management) **** Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/chat-app-discord-is-worth-15-billion-after-new-funding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-standoff-amazon-big-hire-names-charlie-bell-lead-bold-new-security-group/) Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html) Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/) Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/canva-raises-200-million-at-a-40-billion-valuation/) Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion (https://www.axios.com/intuit-buy-mailchimp-12-billion-85feba65-e142-4756-8fa6-b8af63988902.html) Nonsense They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas (https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/business/dallas-restaurant-employs-robots-trnd/index.html) How long are you in meetings? (https://twitter.com/ericabrescia/status/1437091131867602944) Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About (https://hackaday.com/2021/09/11/dont-sleep-on-the-lawn-theres-an-ai-powered-flamethrower-wielding-robot-about/) Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/unicode-14-final-emoji-list-183855308.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Matt wants you to work at Github. Hiring, both senior (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/2830098) and non-senior (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/2797203) roles. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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)! TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185) Recommendations Brandon: Reverse Sear a Steak (https://jesspryles.com/how-to-cook-a-steak-with-reverse-sear-method/) Matt: Halo Master Chief Collection (https://store.steampowered.com/app/976730/Halo_The_Master_Chief_Collection/) Coté: AirServer (https://www.airserver.com/). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/G2lgiBBzeEM) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/tQQ4BwN_UFs)

Episode 320: Hash codes for everyone

This week we discuss the history of Docker, the rise of Kubernetes and the launch of AWS EKS Anywhere. Plus, how much lumber fits in a cubic meter…? Rundown How Docker broke in half (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632142/how-docker-broke-in-half.html) Migrating from Docker to Podman (https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2021-09-01-migrating-from-docker-to-podman/) AWS rolls out EKS Anywhere and EKS Connector (https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/08/aws-rolls-out-eks-anywhere-and-eks-connector/) Relevant to your interests This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/vmwares_new_tanzu_application_platform/) How the 5G experience compares across 50 states and 250 US cities (https://www.opensignal.com/2021/09/02/how-the-5g-experience-compares-across-50-states-and-250-us-cities) HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/hashicorp_pause/) Terraform Understaffed? (https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/6562466c32a8750d7a71a6cc6232e6b5a28fe13a) OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion (https://onezero.medium.com/openai-sold-its-soul-for-1-billion-cf35ff9e8cd4) Open source is selfish (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632360/open-source-is-selfish.html) Mainframes, ML and digital transformation — Benedict Evans (https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation) Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/docker_tier_shakeup_opinion_column/) DigitalOcean embraces serverless computing with Nimbella acquisition (https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/07/digitalocean-embraces-serverless-computing-with-nimbella-acquisition/) Tripwire CEO steps down after supporting Texas abortion law (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tripwire-ceo-steps-down-after-supporting-texas-anti-abortion-law) 1 big thing: Inside the SolarWinds response (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-53936069-fe59-430e-a95f-784c877dacc3.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business (https://www.planetmainframe.com/2021/09/the-ibm-mainframe-the-most-powerful-and-cost-effective-computing-platform-for-business/) ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours) A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image (https://github.com/wagoodman/dive) Where does AWS profit come from? (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1434520165438296065) AWS EC2 egress data transfer pricing ($0.05-$0.09/GB) is more expensive than Israeli internet access, cool, cool. (https://twitter.com/rhowe212/status/1435197534553743360) Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-reddit-seeks-hire-advisers-us-ipo-sources-2021-09-02/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top) Nonsense Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]" (https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1433837480449613839?s=21) HTTP Request Header Proposal (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jZfnrVgAQnx9T.png) El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Crypto Become Currency Tuesday (https://gizmodo.com/el-salvador-buys-400-bitcoin-as-crypto-officially-becom-1847627336) Man Gets 4 Years in $126 Million Printer Toner Fraud (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/us/california-man-printer-toner-fraud.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) Listener Feedback Nate sent in this video on What is a Lake House and why it matters (http://What> is Lake House and why it matters) Peter recommended Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Recursion (https://www.audible.com/pd/Recursion-Audiobook/1984886878?qid=1631147912&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=2BCDWA97JMC0A9227G05) Matt: Hammocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammock) Coté: Webster’s Original Dictionary (http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/w5inNVfSyNU) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/roawQ825Pr8)

Episode 319: We need two elephants

This week we discuss Docker’s new licensing, Wirecutter goes behind a paywall and Serverless COBOL. Plus, Coté explains why open source is like College Football. Rundown Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions - Docker Blog (https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/) New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-wirecutter-product-review-site-moves-behind-paywall-11630436401) Serverless COBOL in Knative (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/serverless-cobol-in-knative) Announcing VMware Tanzu Application Platform: A Better Developer Experience on any Kubernetes (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/announcing-vmware-tanzu-application-platform?utm_campaign=content-social_&utm_content=1630455965&utm_medium=social-sprout&utm_source=twitter) VMware’s new Tanzu platform aims to unify Kubernetes development (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3631384/vmware-s-new-tanzu-platform-aims-to-unify-kubernetes-development.html) Databricks raises $1.6B series H funding round (https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/) Relevant to your interests EXCLUSIVE Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/) Apple loosens rules for developers in major concession amid antitrust pressure (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-app-store-payment-settlement/) Introducing a16z's seed fund - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/08/27/introducing-a16zs-seed-fund/) 30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/30_years_of_linux_red_hat/) Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple (https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icloud-id) The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D (https://semianalysis.com/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century-arm-china-has-gone-completely-rogue-operating-as-an-independent-company-with-their-own-ip/) Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/hyper_v_server_discontinued/) NGINX Commits to Open Source and Kubernetes Ingress - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/nginx-commits-to-open-source-kubernetes-ingress-involvement/) CITC - About | Greylock (https://greylock.com/castles/) Decentralized Investing Platform Syndicate Raises $800K From 100 Investors (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/06/30/decentralized-investing-platform-syndicate-raises-800k-from-100-investors/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) What you don’t know about working with AWS (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3631376/what-you-dont-know-about-working-with-aws.html) Forrest Brazeal going to GCP (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1431324536096628738) Clubhouse embraces spatial audio for more lifelike conversations (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/30/22648050/clubhouse-spatial-audio-3d-360-sound) Nonsense A (possibly fake?) high school apparently duped its way into playing on ESPN (https://footballscoop.com/news/bishop-sycamore-online-only-prep-school-espn-img-academy) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences DevOpsDays Zurich (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-zurich/welcome/), Sep 7th and 8th. DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/) Listener Feedback Barton wants you to be a Consultant Product Manager: Cloud Native - Remote, US (https://buff.ly/3zyrKBi) at Dell SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: WATOE Wireless Charger 3 in 1 Qi Fast Charging Station (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089G6RM6Z/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Matt: Broad City (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2578560/) Coté: Short Life in a Strange World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46178718-short-life-in-a-strange-world). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/o7SvheEZoks) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/AT77Q0Njnt0)

Episode 318: The sounds of Excel

This week we discuss Gartner’s Emerging Tech Hype Cycle and analyze 10 years of “Software Eating the World.” Plus, is Willie Nelson a good singer…? Rundown 3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/3-themes-surface-in-the-2021-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=SM_GB_YOY_GTR_SOC_SF1_SM-SWG&utm_content=&sf248828168=1) Chris Dixon Blockchain Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1427452454543663129) Ten Years Software Is Eating the World - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/) Disney wins this round: Here's where the streaming giants stand at the end of earnings season (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/13/disney-gaining-fast-on-netflix-in-streaming-wars.html) Relevant to your interests Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale (https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/after-spending-28b-salesforce-announces-first-direct-integrations-with-slack/) Custom Silicon (https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/08/tesla-project-dojo-overview/) LEAKED MEMO: Google is dismantling its embattled health division as the tech giant reconsiders its strategy for healthcare (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-health-shutting-down-david-feinberg-leaves-2021-8?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10_things_tech&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20sai:%2010%20things%20in%20tech%20you%20need%20to%20know%20today&utm_term=10%20THINGS%20IN%20TECH%20YOU%20NEED%20TO%20KNOW%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED) 'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/23/aws_memorydb_reaction/) 'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/23/gnome_asahi_linux/) Turing Pi V2 is here - Turing Pi (https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-v2-is-here/) Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/google_cloud_australia_southeast2_outage/) A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging app (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673505)s (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673505) Grafana Labs Raises $220 Million Round at $3 Billion Valuation (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-24/grafana-labs-raises-220-million-round-at-3-billion-valuation) Serverless, Multicloud Popular with K8s Users, Survey Says (https://thenewstack.io/serverless-multicloud-popular-with-k8s-users-survey-says/) Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/23/elastic-acquires-build-security-for-security-policy-definition-and-enforcement/) The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition (https://www.datafold.com/blog/the-modern-data-stack-open-source-edition) ****## Nonsense ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. (https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464889307762688?s=21) Rejected Old Bay Jingle (https://youtu.be/xMJMDEDXwec) Ford doubles Lightning production target on strong pre-launch demand -sources (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-ford-doubles-lightning-production-target-on-strong-pre-launch-demand-sources-0) Streaming Churn (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1430326411487846411?s=21) New Tilting Stops $100 Million Fix of San Francisco's Millennium Towe (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-tilting-stops-100-million-fix-of-san-franciscos-millennium-tower/2639941/)r (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-tilting-stops-100-million-fix-of-san-franciscos-millennium-tower/2639941/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Clubhouse.io — is project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up to day at www.clubhouse.io/sdt (https://clubhouse.io/sdt) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks (https://www.justbarechicken.com/products/lightly-breaded-chicken-breast-chunks/) Coté: Noppes thrift store (https://www.noppeskringloopwinkel.nl/). 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Episode 317: Fahrenheit is perfect for BBQ

This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber… Rundown Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/16/users-lobby-1password-to-abandon-new-electron-version) Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/16/cisco-beefing-up-app-monitoring-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-epsagon-for-500m/) Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3915010,00.html) Relevant to your interests Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA (https://clearlake.com/clearlake-capital-completes-strategic-equity-investment-in-rsa/) Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/13/apple-svp-craig-federighi-responds-to-confusion-over-ios-15-icloud-child-safety-policies-in-new-interview/) Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets. (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html) PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty (https://cryptopotato.com/polynetworks-hacker-returns-all-funds-on-ethereum-and-refuses-a-500k-bug-bounty/) Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers (https://deadline.com/2021/08/disney-q3-beats-estimates-streaming-116-million-subscribers-1234813827/) (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html) Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects (https://github.com/triggermesh/aktion) Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-16/music-distributor-distrokid-raises-money-at-1-3-billion-valuation?srnd=markets-vp) HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud) T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-investigating-claims-of-massive-data-breach/) Funding, Buyback, and Hiring (https://ma.tt/2021/08/funding-buyback-hiring/) Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/palantir-bought-50-million-in-gold-bars-in-august-as-cash-accumulates.html) In No Code you delete code as you write it. (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1427707854090215429?s=20) Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021 (https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/16/roblox-bookings-grow-35-to-665-5m-for-q2-2021/) WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvy5/whatsapp-says-its-not-banning-the-taliban-because-it-cant-read-their-texts) OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/18/poly_network_job/) Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World (https://blog.postman.com/postman-announces-series-d/) Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/would-the-math-work-if-databricks-were-valued-at-38b/) Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/debian_11_bullseye_released/) This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/) Nonsense The Most Dangerous Writing App (https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app) Suicide Linux (https://qntm.org/suicide) Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/austin-expected-to-become-least-affordable-metro-for-homebuyers-outside-of-california/269-6bbed38e-ce06-453e-a659-aece44c6c111) These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-people-who-work-from-home-have-a-secret-they-have-two-jobs-11628866529) How QR codes are made (https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1425606620265000965) Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips (https://blog.bostondynamics.com/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backflips) Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes (https://news.yahoo.com/every-hot-dog-eaten-shortens-142355450.html) Progress Report: August 2021 (https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/) PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink (https://linuxstoney.com/pine64-presents-pinenote/) EC2 offers 400 Instance Types (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1426323051168165891?s=20) Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6i-instances-powered-by-the-latest-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Clubhouse.io — is project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up to day at www.clubhouse.io/sdt (https://clubhouse.io/sdt) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: The White Lotus (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/2) Mitani Chicken Salt (https://www.mitani.com.au/) Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave (https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/746608/sharp-r20ds.html). Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1423964819787485184). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/vKyp17kj31w) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/exf4mcFw4zg)

Episode 316: All we need is cURL

This week we discuss Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch, Reorgs and Remote Pay. Plus, some thoughts on IKEA and QBRs. Rundown This Week in Programming: The ElasticSearch Saga Continues (https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-the-elasticsearch-saga-continues/) Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/09/elasticsearch_python_client_change/) Twitter Thread on Elasticsearch (https://twitter.com/xeraa/status/1423071203753869313) Google staff could see pay cut if they opt to work from home (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/12/google-staff-could-see-pay-cut-if-they-opt-to-work-from-home) Steven Sinosky: Hardcore Software (https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/) Relevant to your interests 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built (https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/) Amazon delays employee office return until 2022 amid COVID-19 surge (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-delays-hq-office-return-until-2022-amid-covid-19-surge-055819058.html) Red Hat tells U.S. workers they must be vaccinated to come to office (https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2021/08/06/red-hat-announces-vaccine-mandate-for-u-s-workers.html) Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595060/tesla-chip-shortage-software-rewriting-ev-processor) All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/06/aws_google_dns/) The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/end_of_itanium_shipments/) Hard Drive Reliability: A Look at HDD and SDD Failure Rates (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2021/) Microsoft announces new 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge (https://therecord.media/microsoft-announces-new-super-duper-secure-mode-for-edge/) Salesforce enters the streaming wars with new video service for professionals (https://www.axios.com/salesforce-streaming-service-professionals-30a58e49-77fc-469d-9ff7-99f866678a98.html) Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell is leaving after 23 years as shakeup continues at AWS (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/amazon-cloud-exec-charlie-bell-leaving-after-23-years-amid-aws-shakeup.html) VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/vcs-are-betting-big-on-kubernetes-here-are-5-reasons-why/) Accenture gets hacked (https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1425420813281505289?s=20) Why can we not have an explicit statement about 1Password being a subscription-only service (https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917) The “Cloud MQ” for 2021 is Out! (https://blogs.gartner.com/bob-gill/2021/08/11/the-cloud-mq-for-2021-is-out/) Reddit Numbers (https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1425774330911277057) GitHub Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces) HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud?utm_source=social) Now Microsoft is protesting after Amazon won a $10 billion NSA cloud contract (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22618764/nsa-10-billion-microsoft-aws-cloud-services-protest) a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation (https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-6-the-cost-of-cloud-vs-repatriation-IU1rwMMk) TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL (https://containerjournal.com/features/triggermesh-previews-integration-language-based-on-hcl/) Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing (https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-captcha-pictures-are-so-unbearably-depressing-20679b8cf84a) Announcing AI21 Studio and Jurassic-1 Language Models (https://www.ai21.com/blog/announcing-ai21-studio-and-jurassic-1) Nonsense Cabin fever in "Fortress Australia" due to slow vaccination rate (https://www.axios.com/australia-coronavirus-border-ban-lockdowns-1e58fb57-2666-47b4-bcba-1b305a5b66ab.html) AMC theaters will start accepting Bitcoin this year (https://www.engadget.com/amc-theaters-bitcoin-tickets-143803440.html) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Clubhouse.io — Project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up at www.clubhouse.io/sdt (https://clubhouse.io/sdt) Listener Feedback Jordy wants you to work at as a Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/p/76a86071360001-senior-software-engineer) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716). THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) (Virtual Event) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: The Suicide Squad (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_suicide_squad) Matt: Uniqlo Fluffy Yarn Fleece Full-Zip Jacket (https://www.uniqlo.com/au/en/products/E419505-000?colorCode=COL09) Coté: PÅHL (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/pahl-desk-white-s49128945/) desk (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/pahl-desk-white-s49128945/). Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/z3Mg-MMM4mM) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/K5DY18hy5JQ)

Episode 315: Field of Code

This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary? Rundown Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020 (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/08/02/update-on-cncf-and-open-source-project-velocity-2020/?utm_content=174974774&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-3286770860) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021) Heroku and Digital Ocean make the Cloud Platforms list (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-platform) The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-21/) AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-named-as-a-leader-for-the-11th-consecutive-year-in-2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services-cips/) Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers (https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/08/03/gartner_verdict_on_public_cloud/) Relevant to your interests Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/aws-earnings-q2-2021.html) Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/07/use-new-google-meet-web-app-for-better.html) The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22601191/fireside-app-mark-cuban-falon-fatemi-libsyn-rode-invest) Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country (https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1421315244660559874?s=20) Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit (https://www.axios.com/zoom-settle-85-million-privacy-suit-4674b13a-b062-46fa-b72d-32fdf62d97d1.html) Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/02/microsoft-teams-rolls-out-native-notification-on-its-macos-app/) Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace (https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/02/salesforces-mulesoft-buys-rpa-specialist-servicetrace/) Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-foundry-summit-kubernetes-must-do-better-by-developers/) IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/03/ibm_sev_one_outages/) Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available (https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/red-hat-openshift-4.8-is-now-generally-available) Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall (https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/08/03/deal-of-the-century-how-michael-dell-turned-his-declining-pc-business-into-40-billion-windfall/) Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-analyze-encrypted-messages-ad-targeting-175739715.html) Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/04/nvidias-40-billion-bid-for-arm-could-be-in-jeopardy.html) Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-clients-of-opensearch-and-elasticsearch-compatible-with-open-source/) Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3627407/oracle-launches-verrazzano-container-platform-for-kubernetes.html) Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform (https://verrazzano.io/) Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/08/05/investing-in-polywork/) Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence (https://thehustle.co/08052021-Amazon-drone-project) One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/08/02/linked-in-permanent-remote-work.html) Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life) LISA Community Message (https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement) Nonsense Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit (https://www.axios.com/zoom-settle-85-million-privacy-suit-4674b13a-b062-46fa-b72d-32fdf62d97d1.html) Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/02/goldman-sachs-joins-wall-street-rivals-in-boosting-junior-banker-salaries-.html) HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the stor (https://www.statesman.com/story/lifestyle/food/2021/07/27/heb-butter-tortilla-candles-texas-grocery-store-bakery-scents/5391681001/)e (https://www.statesman.com/story/lifestyle/food/2021/07/27/heb-butter-tortilla-candles-texas-grocery-store-bakery-scents/5391681001/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Let Him Go (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/let_him_go). Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/) podcast. Coté: La Vallade (https://lavallade.nl) restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline (https://www.wijnbeurs.nl/la-pauline-classique-merlot-cabernet) wine, which you should also try. Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/NLSvKQTJOz0) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/qIu77BsFdds)

Episode 314: Prime Minster of Thinking

This week we discuss Infrastructure as Code, GCP's new API policy and The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey. Plus, some thoughts on Olympic Swimming. Rundown Evolving Infrastructure-as-Code to Integration-as-Code (https://containerjournal.com/features/evolving-infrastructure-as-code-to-integration-as-code/) Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-record-revenue-profit-youtube-ad-cloud-search) Saved by Google? New API policy promises stability and availability. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-enterprise-apis) The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/) Relevant to your interests Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu Is Now GA, Plus an Integration with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/cloud-native-runtimes-for-vmware-tanzu-advanced-ga) Big-name San Antonio tech company axing 10 percent of workforce (https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/technology/article/San-Antonio-based-Rackspace-10-percent-layoffs-16332426.php) Facebook’s cloud gaming service hits iOS devices as a web app | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-gaming-ios-pwa-163440977.html) Clubhouse Breach (https://twitter.com/mruef/status/1418693478574346242?s=20) Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 1 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/serverless-cobol-rejuvenating-legacy-code-with-open-source-software/) Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/ably_doesnt_need_kubernetes/) No, we don’t use Kubernetes | Ably Blog: Data in Motion (https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes) Replicated $50M Series C To Advance Multi-Prem Software Adoption - Replicated (https://www.replicated.com/blog/series-c-announcement/) a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation | a16z Live (https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-6-the-cost-of-cloud-vs-repatriation-IU1rwMMk) Amazon pulls the plug on 3-year effort to migrate from PeopleSoft to Workday. (https://twitter.com/TonyBaer/status/1420035381383385092) Discord is adding Slack-like threads to keep conversations better organized (https://www.xda-developers.com/discord-slack-threads/) AWS’s Egregious Egress (https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/?s=09) Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp) Report: Vista Equity Partners could sell Tibco for $7.5B+ (https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/23/report-vista-equity-partners-sell-tibco-7-5b/) Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/1password-raises-100m-at-a-2b-valuation/) The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596120/apple-q3-2021-earnings-iphone-ipad-mac) Microsoft posts big earnings beat and gives optimistic revenue forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-msft-earnings-q4-2021.html) Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-bests-earnings-estimates-as-azure-posts-51-growth-shares-fall/) Nonsense United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-sells-unique-wu-tang-clan-album-forfeited-convicted-hedge-fund-manager) Meet the typical Costco shopper (https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-costco-shopper-demographic-asian-american-woman-earning-high-income-2021-7) Kangaroo vs Human population across Australia. (https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1420111843058720770) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Listener Feedback Nate from Slack recommends Oceanhorn 2 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oceanhorn-2/id1141837408) in the Apple Arcade Conferences SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Criminal Podcast Episode 48 Hours (https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-167-48-hours-6-18-21/) Matt: King Tubby and other dub music on Spotify Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/SiflIx5IlRI) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/LqKhnDzSF-8)

Episode 313: My kids are listening to Stevie Nicks

This week we discuss Netflix getting into games and review the latest State of DevOps Report. Plus, what do you call a domicile in Amsterdam? Rundown Why Netflix is getting into games (https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/7/20/22586084/netflix-gaming-strategy-earnings-explained) State of DevOps Report 2021 (https://puppet.com/resources/report/2021-state-of-devops-report/) Relevant to your interests Twitter Is Shutting Down Fleets, Its Vanishing-Post Format, After Less Than a Year (https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-fleets-shutting-down-1235019174/) Morgan Stanley‘s CIO survey shows a significant moderation in expectations for the migration of workloads to the public cloud. (https://twitter.com/Atreidesmgmt/status/1414945521026875393) Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner (https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-microsofts-own-linux-cbl-mariner/) Austin sees pay-off from pandemic-era tech reshuffling (https://www.axios.com/austin-pandemic-reshuffling-tech-entrepreneurs-investors-11669cb1-edf5-4d00-8043-036c49215fe6.html) Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders (https://www.axios.com/pegasus-spyware-journalists-activists-report-5af14a4f-dce1-454d-b0e2-dc2b043b2b0e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs) IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? (https://blog.newagealpha.com/can-ibm-deliver) The end of open source? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/18/the-end-of-open-source/) DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/16/devrev-genius-nutanix-pair-envisage-massive-new-saas-opportunity/) Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle? (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/19/gartner_hype_cycle/) Rapid7 + IntSights: Own Your Entire Attack Surface, Internally and Externally (https://www.rapid7.com/rapid7-acquires-intsights/) Apple to delay office returns to October - Bloomberg News (https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-delay-office-returns-october-bloomberg-news-2021-07-20/) Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx5bw/amazon-aws-shuts-down-nso-group-infrastructure) Apple's AirPods did ~$16B in 2020 (https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1417500092395753472?s=21) You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/21/amazon_aws_recruitment/) Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/21/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks) Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders (https://www.axios.com/pegasus-spyware-journalists-activists-report-5af14a4f-dce1-454d-b0e2-dc2b043b2b0e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs) IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? (https://blog.newagealpha.com/can-ibm-deliver) IBM shows strongest revenue growth in three years (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/ibm-earnings-q2-2021.html) What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-ibm-watson.html) Why Zoom bought Five9 for $14.7 billion: Enterprise wallet share and a big customer engagement play (https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-zoom-bought-five9-for-14-7-billion-enterprise-wallet-share-and-a-big-customer-engagement-play/) Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/zoom-is-buying-cloud-contact-center-provider-five9-for-14point7-billion.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1626659760) Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556500/zoom-kites-acquisition-machine-translation-real-time-captions) Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/21/22585980/zoom-apps-events-launch-onzoom) (https://twitter.com/Atreidesmgmt/status/1414945521026875393)## Nonsense Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom! (https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066) Noise cancellation neither helps productivity nor perceived performance (https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1416764559159742469) World's First 3-D-Printed Steel Bridge Debuts in Amsterdam (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-first-3-d-printed-steel-bridge-debuts-amsterdam-180978228/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Craig in Fort Worth. Craig bought the Doc Martin’s recommended in episode 82. See the pictures. (https://www.instagram.com/p/CRnMmSGL6m5/) Conferences THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29 SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Dark Sky (https://darksky.net/app) Matt: BOM Weather (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.bom.metview) Coté: 8ball newsletter (https://www.8ball.report); Buienradar (https://www.buienradar.nl/) in the Netherlands. Image Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/M_eB1UjE0do) Image Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/By-tZImt0Ms)

Episode 312: Crossing The Brown Horizon

This week, Coté and Matt Ray finally nail the secrets of enterprise devrel. You won’t want to miss this one! Also: Coté gives up on streaming PowerPoint and IT survey show that it’s time to ask for a raise. Mood board: Free glowsticks for leadgenning yourself. Our tragic doppleganger. DevRel secrets. If you open a terminal you win streaming. Memes are serverless. You gotta spend money to lose money. All about the pincher. Rundown Cloud Native Integration Platform TriggerMesh Receives Strategic Funding from Cisco Investments, Existing Investors (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/cloud-native-integration-platform-triggermesh-receives-strategic-funding-from-cisco-investments-existing-investors). Cisco leads $5M round for multicloud application integration startup TriggerMesh (https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/13/cisco-leads-5m-round-multicloud-application-integration-startup-triggermesh/). Checking in on Matt’s devrel notes. Twitter is shutting down Fleets on August 3, citing low usage (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/14/twitter-is-shutting-down-fleets-on-august-3-citing-low-usage/). Labor shortages in IT, but growing IT budgets. (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/799caf53-ac05-45b3-a99c-bf54be456c99.pdf) Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/8/22568582/microsoft-employee-pandemic-bonus-1500-dollars) Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/biden-noncompete-clauses-workers.html?referringSource=articleShare) Relevant to your interests Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm (http://https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/british_airways_data_breach_rival_lawsuit/) Stamps.com Agrees to Thoma Bravo Buyout in $6.6 Billion Deal (http://https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thoma-bravo-buys-stamps-com-120837681.html) CentOS Stream: 'I was slow on the uptake, but I get what they are doing now,' says Rocky Linux founder (http://https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/09/centos_stream_greg_kurtzer/) Experts analyzed Andy Jassy's first memo to Amazon employees as CEO (http://https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/experts-analyzed-andy-jassys-first-memo-to-amazon-employees-as-ceo-heres-why-its-nearly-perfect/) Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ for >$500 million (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-11/microsoft-is-said-to-be-buying-cybersecurity-company-riskiq) Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity startup RiskIQ; reports peg deal at more than $500M (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-reportedly-acquire-cybersecurity-startup-riskiq-500m/) @vladtenev (CEO of @RobinHoodApp) is now following @profgalloway (https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1414581950677934090?s=20) The Future IBM We Will Probably Never See (http://https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/07/08/the-future-ibm-we-will-probably-never-see/) Q3 IPO cycle starts strong with Couchbase pricing and Kaltura relisting (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/12/q3-ipo-cycle-starts-strong-with-couchbase-pricing-and-kaltura-relisting/) Report: Broadcom in talks to buy SAS for as much as $20B (http://https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/07/12/report-broadcom-in-talks-to-buy-sas-for-as-much-as-20b/) Broadcom No Longer in Talks to Buy SAS Institute, Sources Say (https://www.wsj.com/articles/broadcom-no-longer-in-talks-to-buy-sas-institute-sources-say-11626212065) Probably Wrong Flowchart, this time on AWS database services! (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1414956493561077761?s=21) Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war) Person advises Principal AWS engineer not to build AWS on AWS, because a16z’s cloud repatriation piece said it’s too expensive at scale. (https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1415106401177907200?s=21) The Windows 365 Cloud PC (http://https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/14/introducing-a-new-era-of-hybrid-personal-computing-the-windows-365-cloud-pc/) SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware campaign’ targeting its EOL equipment (https://therecord.media/sonicwall-warns-of-imminent-ransomware-campaign-targeting-its-eol-equipment/) Analyzing the Legal Implications of GitHub Copilot (https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-copilot/) Kelsey Hightower changing Roles (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1415156964380880898) Nonsense Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/spike-in-chain-gang-destructive-attacks-on-atms/) Tesla finally releases Full Self-Driving Beta v9 (http://https://electrek.co/2021/07/10/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-v9-first-videos-release-notes/) Netflix to offer Video Games (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-14/netflix-nflx-to-offer-video-games-on-its-streaming-platform) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14 Carolina VMUG, July 22 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1415326605291950083?s=21) - Coté gives DevOps metrics talk. THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29 SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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 Matt: McGruff's SMART KIDS Album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4P4plYXKFE) Coté: Cumin Beef, from FuLu Mandarijn (https://fulumandarijn.com).

Episode 311: The Enterprise #devrel Path-to-Profit Pincer Movement

This week we discuss Copilot’s use of Open Source, changes at IBM and the Infinidash Meme. Plus, an update on Coté’s return to Twitter. Rundown Adam Jacob on OSS (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1413173291909484558) IBM Leadership Changes (https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Leadership-Changes) IBM (IBM) Announces President Jim Whitehurst Leaving (https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=18638012) IBM Email Woes (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/) IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/) Amazon Eyeing 'Rebel Alliance' With Dropbox, Slack To Challenge Microsoft: Insider (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-eyeing-rebel-alliance-dropbox-173352783.html) New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/) Relevant to your interests Who's Winning in the Container Software Market (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/whos-winning-container-software-market) Do the costs of the cloud outweigh the benefits? (https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-of-the-cloud-outweigh-the-benefits) After Jeff Bezos: the changing of the guard at Amazon (https://www.ft.com/content/7475ae98-7e25-4d6f-8470-e8b9effb0ee7) Russia Linked Group Hacks 200 Businesses With Ransomware (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTD2pkJHs4) A Large Ransomware Attack Has Ensnared Hundreds of Companies (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEGqxeYOWfy8AZ_smpDvRjdoqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowipWZCzCan7EDMKS42wY?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen) Independence Day: REvil uses supply chain exploit to attack hundreds of businesses (https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/07/04/independence-day-revil-uses-supply-chain-exploit-to-attack-hundreds-of-businesses/amp/) Gurman: Apple rapidly expanding outside of Silicon Valley as it struggles to recruit and retain talent (https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/04/apple-expanding-silicon-valley-talent/) Are you ready to become a TV company? The future of tech events is media. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/06/29/are-you-ready-to-become-a-tv-company-the-future-of-tech-events-is-media/) Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-26Q47L81&ct=210706&st=sb) We Replaced Splunk at 100TB Scale in 120 Days (https://medium.com/lets-xplore/how-we-replaced-splunk-at-100tb-scale-in-120-days-e5a59db63f6) Roblox partners with Sony Music to connect artists with money-making activities in the metaverse (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/roblox-partners-with-sony-music-to-connect-artists-with-money-making-activities-in-the-metaverse/) Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-06/russian-state-hackers-breached-republican-national-committee) Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/7/22549338/apple-google-apps-comscore-study-facebook) Layoffs hit a record low as companies hold onto employees for dear life (https://www.axios.com/layoffs-all-time-low-656979a1-38e0-48d4-b3bb-5ad9b5345aa3.html) TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/tiktok-resumes-job-applications/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEHDmvKOaaLh3HshMxX8UZq11CLj9pXU9brF854gAzMY59GYmPKqB6viF4iJzAuAll_J1nhSSYrbuxaDvrWBA_9HSRY2kKHeI9hwg8vntjRda0KWK7eG3cTUThM4-snNbwX01cesPdy6l_dJu_5PzpHOStKn1i2qEKOb9sGh1FhO) Box claims activist investor wanted in on deal it publicly opposed (https://www.axios.com/box-activist-investor-starboard-deal-opposed-kkr-02f529dd-6870-41b3-8f5b-de5c89033859.html) Nonsense job description: must be willing to work in a fast-paced unpredictable high-energy environment (https://twitter.com/_robertschultz/status/1412470172485521408?s=21) Puppy in a cone is 2% unhappy? (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1412594479895175170?s=21) Google Reader (https://twitter.com/ronamadeo/status/1412909940474265602?s=12) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Conferences RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14 Carolina VMUG (https://www.vmug.com/vmug2019/events2/power-sessions/network-security-power-session), July 22nd - Coté giving a talk on DevOps metrics, and BEYOND! THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29, Special Promotion (https://that.us/promo/claim?eventId=7wiuRWI7EZjcdF4e9MDz) SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. 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: Some Kind of Heaven (https://decider.com/2021/01/14/where-to-watch-some-kind-of-heaven-doc/) Coté: Newsify (https://newsify.co) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/5vPDKmMvBkk) Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/L4YGuSg0fxs)

Episode 310: Never Talk

Kubernetes, serverless, cloud, DevOps, & coding. Get the lazy WTF each week, mostly.

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Software Defined Talk

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