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This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience?


Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 463


Runner-up Titles


The fun run was fun.
You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts.
The Phish are biting
Everything’s cool zone
Words that rhyme with “acquisation”
Maybe AI can find it
The market for products that start with “K”
I like hotdogs
Don’t do the values, just the fun facts


Rundown


An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy
OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp


Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu
Matt Asay response Tweet
Adam Jacob take

Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica
451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028)
Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai


Relevant to your Interests


Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta
ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances
How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue
Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag
Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License
It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome
Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation
Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack
Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch
New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source


Enterprise Nonsense


How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis


Listener Feedback


Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser
Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite
Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger?


Conferences


Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.


SDT news & hype


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Recommendations


Brandon:


Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide
Civil War

Matt:


Ostrich travel pillow
H-E-B Pro-Sleep Mask

Coté: Continuity Camera, kibbeling.


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This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans.


Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 462


Runner-up Titles


Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs.
Well, I still have meetings.
The Cote’ Experience
ClosedTofu
Our Cloud is Huge(tm)


Rundown


Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu


OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated
Matt Asay Follow up Tweet
Bryan Cantrill calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation
Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different.

Google Cloud Next ’24


Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU
Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race
Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog
Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote
Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote



Relevant to your Interests


WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year
Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say
OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release
No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It
Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready
Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing
Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams
New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN
Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here
KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software


Nonsense


Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital
Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates


Listener Feedback


The first person to send their United States postal address to sdt@newinstancecoffee.com will receive a bag of Dawn Python Coffee Beans from New Instance Coffee.


Conferences


Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.


SDT news & hype


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Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Recommendations


Brandon:


Node.js: The Documentary
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary

Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour
Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté, so same cultural cohort as theorized.)


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This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators.


Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 461


Runner-up Titles


The Fork is a feature not a bug
Relicensing: The path to Private Equity
Is this Progress?
Hot Antitrust Action
Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars
Won’t someone think of the children?
Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances
The deepest of pockets
Fine-adjacent.
Not complicated enough
What’s it called when they plateau going down?
Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models
a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of
Mostly contrast


Rundown


Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means
Redis


RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one
Battle of the Redis forks?
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community

Is this Progress?


Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS).
Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB.
Database popularity index

Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence
20 years of Gmail


Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators


Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?)


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Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry
Apache Kvrocks
Ex-technology companies
FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11
Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch
Key takeaways from the Entrust incident
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc.
Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse
Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake
Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here
Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix
Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May
A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174)
Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors
To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space
AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web
Google agrees to de

Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project.


Show Links


The Brewintosh
Prusa Mini v6 Hotend Adapter
Cortex
Prometheus
Grafana Labs
OpenCost
GrafanaCON 2024 April 9-10


Contact Tom Wilkie


LinkedIn: tomwilkie
Twitter: @tom_wilkie
GitHub: tomwilkie


SDT News & Hype


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Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message?


Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 459


Runner-up Titles


"Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.”
You don’t want to scare you coworkers
Eating bugs off your coworkers
“Hi” has become a trigger word
Rehabilitate the “Hi”
55 Direct Reports
Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone.
The YAML hand off market


Rundown


Is Hello a proper Slack message?
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat
Kubecon


“Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” "Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking," “Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs!”
OpenCost Introduces Carbon Costs
What if the CNCF was private equity?

Nvidia


Nvidia shares pop on Q4 earnings, generative AI "hits tipping point"
NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang - has 55 direct reports
Video that tracks the trajectories of Intel and NVIDIA
Nvidia's latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says

Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2023–2027


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Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster
Who Still Works From Home?
A new TikTok ban gains steam
Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation clears him of wrongdoing
More companies getting rid of free tiers:
49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year
The WiFi at Google's new Bay View office hasn't been working properly for months: report
Moon Mission Could Redefine Computing in Deep Space
Doctors Are Using the Apple Vision Pro During Surgery
Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features
Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful.
Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" of users
How The Cloud Is A Trap
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky says more than 10,000 organizations are using Bedrock
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans
Snowflake Stock: Melting Faster Than An Ice Cube
Games Are Coming to LinkedIn
Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report
European Cloud Group Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny Over Broadcom’s VMware Overhaul
Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery
Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features
The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade
Walmart sells a Mac
Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones
AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services
Buyout Firm Vista Equity Explores Options Including Sale for LogicMonitor


Nonsense


Airlines Are Coming for Your Carry-Ons
Clocks Change
Costco CFO ‘voice’ looks back on 40 years, $1.50 hot dogs and leadership
Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint
Delta’s CEO says controversial Sky Lounge changes reflect the airline’s status as premium brand
3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh - The Brewintosh
Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts


Listener Feedback


Chris tell us the Owala Water Bottle is on sale.


Conferences


Tanzu (Re)defined online, April 3rd, Coté Speaking.
Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Coté speaking, Palo Alto.
TEQNation, May 22nd, 2024, Utrecht, Coté speaking.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19 to 21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
Open Source Summit North America, Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking


SDT news & hype


Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free

This week, we discuss Coté's O'Reilly video series where he offers up some tips on how to survive and thrive in the workplace. Plus, some ideas on how to reinvent the virtual town hall.


Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 458


Runner-up Titles


Surviving Corporate America
Hopes and Dreams
Second half of your career
Soul Crushing
I stole this from TikTok
Living too much
Just be happy
Review life imbalance


Rundown


10 part course at O’Reilly about working in a large organization, a BigCo


Conferences


KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto.
NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.


SDT news & hype


Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!


Recommendations


Brandon:


How Will You Measure Your Life?
The Psychology of Money
Vitamix

Coté: pecans in smoothies.


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