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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

  1. 1 day ago

    Talking About Modernization

    This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582 Runner-up Titles Turn off my dog Dad Wisdom Amazon subscription and let it fly Dad box Talking about modernization Skin in the game The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World” Business fortnight No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America Rundown Rewriting Bun in Rust OpenAI OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride? OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring Relevant to your Interests SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"? Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments 1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords 1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook 'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance? AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process: China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold? IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026 Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine Sponsors Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works. Nonsense Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent Listener Feedback Biogen hiring Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture in Triangle, NC Tim releases a font for developers whose close-up vision isn't what it used to be The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th Conferences DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere. 28 Years Later, The Bone Temple Matt: Vacation, not micro-retirement Coté: Wolf Hall books.

    Talking About Modernization
  2. 10 Jul

    Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables

    Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580 Show Links: varlock.dev varlock on GitHub @env-spec Overview DMNO (corporate site) Varlock MCP Server (docs) howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp bumpy Contact Phil Miller: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman Email: phil@varlock.dev Music: unsafeharbour.com Contact Theo Ephraim: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim Website: theoephraim.com Twitter/X: @theozero Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social Email: theo@varlock.dev General Contact: hello@varlock.dev hello@dmno.dev Varlock Community Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates Varlock on X Varlock on Bluesky SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.

    Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables
  3. 3 Jul

    The Headless Lifestyle

    This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579 Runner-up Titles Everything is Files It’s just about meetings Did you do the pre-meet? Meetings Judgement Let it ride If it’s hot, turn on the AC I don’t have time for a towel. Headless HEB Rundown I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI Fable is Back White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review AI News of the Month - June 2026 AI is NOT killing jobs Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O. SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us The PDF of the Slides Relevant to your Interests The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out. News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results The AI Compass T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware Listener Feedback Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents Conferences WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Walmart+ for Grocery Delivery Coté: Supermarkt Meerwijk Watergraafsmeer, also in Instagram

    The Headless Lifestyle
  4. 26 Jun

    War for Talent

    This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578 Runner-up Titles Ready to podcast from a sailboat It’s just people fighting Calculator budget Ask Siri to do your homework Software Defined Consulting: SDC The Magic Platform AI Curious I watched ALLLLL the keynotes. I don’t know that, but I know that You gotta stay to vest Brandon, remember Cursor? Educated Hater Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms  What is an "AI Governance Platform? AI Consolidates Talent Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent Relevant to your Interests Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS 'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban … Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time Sponsors Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers Nonsense Wiz Ice Cream for CISOs IN THE WEIGHTS Conferences WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Disclosure Day Matt: Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet Coté: The Millennial Aesthetic Coté’s CFP acceptance rate chart Coté’s newsletter

    War for Talent
  5. 19 Jun

    Let’s go to Buc-ee’s

    This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577 Runner-up Titles Waited out the storm Maybe we should build some castles or something Years of lawsuits ahead of us The ultimate dream AI SEO I hope you’re paid by the hour Always be monitoring to me Rundown Anthropic How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential Cursor Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO Vibe Coding Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation curl summer of bliss Relevant to your Interests Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows apple/container The Virtual OS Museum YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw) OpenAI to acquire Ona Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? VCs behaving badly Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther Sponsors Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers Nonsense The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers Conferences WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Germany. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Digital ID Matt: Murderbot Diaries: Platform Decay Coté: WordPress.com. Tetilla cheese from the Camino de Santiago.

    Let’s go to Buc-ee’s
  6. 5 Jun

    UI blizzard

    This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575 Runner-up Titles Who Wins AI? Models vs. Middleware Jensen After Dark Once again, robots Why is this something you talk about in a keynote? Could this have been an app? Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone Your tokens are my margin Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram? Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way Rundown Nvidia NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia's new N1X laptop processors Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars Microsoft Build Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work Microsoft Build Live Blog Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake OpenAI and Anthropic Go Public Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O. OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast Anthropic and SpaceX compute OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph Relevant to your Interests Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out + AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn Introducing UniFi 5G Backup AI Generated Summaries WSJ: How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace with AI Microsoft open-sources the earliest DOS source code discovered to date Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking. How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation. Snowflake to Acquire Natoma to Bring Governed Agentic Access to the Enterprise U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution Meta to start testing AI subscription services, cheapest plan at $7.99/month Sponsors Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers Nonsense What Is a Dickover? Listener Feedback Henning corrects Coté’s pronunciation of León. Conferences VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026 WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006 DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd Matt: Boards of Canada: Inferno Aphex Twin - Live in Houston Coté: ElevenLabs, for example Coté’s learning Dutch podcast.

    UI blizzard

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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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