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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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The Big Blue Burger Buffet
This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 465
Runner-up Titles
Extra Innings
Later Innings
Customer is always right, except for pricing
Leave the party crying
Put a price on it
Rundown
Hashi
Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud
HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost
IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand
IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next?
The threat to open source comes from within
You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Relevant to your Interests
AlmaLinux 9.4 beta: RHEL compatible, but a little different
Building for our AI future
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
Amazon recently bought a $650 million nuclear-powered data center
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
Netflix Dealt With the Freeloaders. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher.
Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck
Do software companies actually have good margins?
Women Who Code: Influential tech network shuts down unexpectedly
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
Tesla’s Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish: ‘Will you please at least appear to make Tesla your top priority?’
The SignalFire State of Talent Report: 2023 tech employee trends
Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data | Amazon Web Services
Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta
US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology
Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' | TechCrunch
Broadcom Tells Partner Negotiating For Charity ‘VMware Is Not For Everybody’
Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry
Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories
Atlassian Co-CEO Scott Farquhar Resigns, Leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as Sole Chief
Thoma Bravo to buy UK-listed Darktrace for £4.3bn
All we have to fear is FUD itself — Oxide and Friends
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value
Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage
The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys
Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy?
State of DevSecOps | Datadog
Letter from Edward Norton, Founder of Zeck, Why Zeck
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Alphabet earnings are out — here are the numbers
Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement
Amazon earnings are out — here are the numbers
Microsoft earnings are out – here are the numbers
Nonsense
Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy
A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors
Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp
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Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game
Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.
Show Links
Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is.
Appoint and empower a single threaded leader
Two way door decisions
Dogs not barking.
Weasel words.
If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank.
Contact Jana Werner
LinkedIn: Jana Werner.
SDT News & Hype
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The Cards
Here's the text of the all the cards:
Mechanism
How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?
Culture
How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
How can you start your next meeting with a document read?
Organisation
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Phishing License
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
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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
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:
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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Lifting Code
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
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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
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:
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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Not illegal, works as designed
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?)
Relevant to your Interests
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 -
Tom Wilkie on Observability
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
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.
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Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.
Customer Reviews
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A New Favorite! 🎧
Such a tremendous wealth of knowledge paired with awesome interviews AND the amazing dynamic between Brandon, Matt, and Coté - what more could you want!? I’ve enjoyed every episode that I’ve listened to so far and come away every time having learned something new. Highly recommend checking this show out - you won’t be disappointed!
Witty, insightful, and relevant
Always an insightful, witty, and fun. Great at delivering hot takes on industry trends and happenings. Having done my own podcast for some time, it’s hard to deliver weekly content that is consistently strong, but this show seems to be consistently good. Also BBQ.