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    • 4.8 • 64 Ratings

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).

    The Big Blue Burger Buffet

    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


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    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


    C

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game

    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.


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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



    How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need

    • 50 min
    Phishing License

    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


    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


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    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.


    Photo Credits



    Header
    Artwork

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Lifting Code

    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.)


    Photo Credits



    Header
    Artwork

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Not illegal, works as designed

    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?)


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    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
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    Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors
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    AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web
    Google agrees to de

    • 1 hr
    Tom Wilkie on Observability

    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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    Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
    Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.

    • 30 min

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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!

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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.

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