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    Software Defined Talk

    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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    Episode 471: The Gen X mascot is Fine Dog Jun 14, 2024
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 471 Runner-up Titles Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall I need two offers You Kids We are the rock eaters to Slack I mean, what else am I doing with my life? Rundown Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows Relevant to your Interests Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer Linux as the new developer default at 37signals Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident The Worst Website In The Entire World How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG) Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006 Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple. Openwashing IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard 'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch Adam Selipsky, the exit interview Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches 10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated? Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow AI Patterns Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS GitLab quarter eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Silicon Valley's False Prophet Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last Nonsense Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch The five stages of computer science Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends Conferences NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024 SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY 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: MoviePass, MovieCrash From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592) Matt: Bazzite - Linux Gaming OS Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff, you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix. Also, self-promotion: “How to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.” Photo Credits Header Artwork

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    Episode 470: Paul Yuknewicz on Serverless Jun 07, 2024
    Show notes

    Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow.

    Show Links

    • Serverless Days Sydney
    • dapr.io
    • Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps
    • Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager

    Contact Paul

    • LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz
    • Twitter: @paulyuki99

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    Photo Credits

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    Episode 469: Amanda K. Silver on Developer Tools May 31, 2024
    Show notes

    Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks.

    Show Links

    • visualstudio.com

    Contact Amanda

    • LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver
    • Twitter: @amandaksilver

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    Photo Credit

    Special Guest: Amanda K. Silver.


    Episode 468: Learning to love Enterprise Software May 24, 2024
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 468

    Runner-up Titles

    • Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept.
    • Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it
    • Thanks Clayton Williams
    • Multi-size Monkey Phase
    • There’s people I know
    • “Yes, and” is now fully ironic
    • Pop sockets are the future
    • All out of tokens, going home
    • You said Squawkbox Cote’

    Rundown

    • New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Services
      • A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes
      • App Engine overlay
      • Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite
      • Greenplum
    • Microsoft Build
      • Introducing Copilot+ PCs
      • Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA
      • Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes
      • Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare'
    • Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024

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    • Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base
    • ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet
    • With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?
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    • Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast
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    • OpenAI loses its voice

    Nonsense

    • Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star

    Listener Feedback

    • Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations
      • Black Hole® Pack 25L – Matt
      • Goruck Travel Rucksacks – Matt
      • Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 – Michael
      • Everyday Backpack from Peak Design – Andy

    Conferences

    • NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
    • DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
    • SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
    • SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

    SDT news & hype

    • Join us in Slack.
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    • Brandon: Water Meter Valve Key
    • Matt: Bobby Fingers: “Fabio and the Goose”
    • Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod

    Photo Credits

    • Header
    • Artwork

    Episode 467: Multimodal May 17, 2024
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 467

    Runner-up Titles

    • Do what works
    • Blame the children
    • I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993
    • I like carrots

    Rundown

    • A.I. Announcements
      • Introducing GPT-4o
      • ‎Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements
      • Google I/O 2024
    • Palace Intrigue
      • Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement
      • Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.
      • Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later.

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    Conferences

    • Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
    • MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
    • NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
    • DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
    • SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
    • SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

    SDT news & hype

    • Join us in Slack.
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    • 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: Dark Matter
    • Coté: The Business of Open Source podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson.

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    Episode 466: Great Grammarly May 10, 2024
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 466

    Runner-up Titles

    • Coté is in a Dungeon
    • Everything’s going to be different
    • What would Stringer Bell say?
    • Displacing Google
    • Great Grammarly
    • A room full of barking dogs
    • A little bit of hustle porn.
    • Over value activity
    • A whole room with barking dogs

    Rundown

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    • OpenAI To Launch Search Engine
    • Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation
    • That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
    • The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
    • HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM

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    Conferences

    • Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony.
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    • NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
    • DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
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    • SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
    • SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

    SDT news & hype

    • Join us in Slack.
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    • 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!

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    Episode 465: The Big Blue Burger Buffet May 03, 2024
    Show notes

    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
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    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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    Conferences

    • Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
    • 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!

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    Episode 464: Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game Apr 26, 2024
    Show notes

    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

    1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
    2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
    3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
    4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
    5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
    6. How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
    7. How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
    8. How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
    9. How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
    10. How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
    11. How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
    12. How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
    13. How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
    14. How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
    15. How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?

    Culture

    1. How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
    2. How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
    3. How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
    4. How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
    5. How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
    6. How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
    7. How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
    8. How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
    9. How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
    10. How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
    11. How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
    12. How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
    13. How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
    14. How can you start your next meeting with a document read?

    Organisation

    1. How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
    2. How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
    3. How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
    4. How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
    5. How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
    6. [REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
    7. How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
    8. How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
    9. How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?

    Leadership

    1. How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
    2. How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
    3. How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
    4. How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
    5. How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
    6. How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
    7. How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
    8. How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
    9. How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
    10. How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
    11. How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?

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    Special Guest: Jana Werner.


    Episode 463: Phishing License Apr 19, 2024
    Show notes

    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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    • 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.
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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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    Episode 462: Lifting Code Apr 12, 2024
    Show notes

    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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    • Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    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.
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    • 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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