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Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson Jun 30, 2023

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Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.

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ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers
- If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
Glastonbury 2023
- Guns N’ Roses
  - UK: the full set on iPlayer
  - Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl)
  - Appetite for Destruction
- Rick Astley
  - UK: the full set on iPlayer
  - Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)

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Basecamp
HEY!
Daily Rush
- Quake III Arena
PHP and Ruby
37signals and Jason Fried
Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Ruby on Rails
- “Groovy on Grails”
1000 true fans
DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts”
Backpack and Campfire
Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals
Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire
- A podcast explaining it
“The Building of Basecamp” (and review)
David’s books:
- Getting Real
- Rework
- Remote
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
The programming books that meant the most to David
Fast inverse square root
- David’s best tweet
- AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway
The Celeron 4
David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
- “Why we’re leaving the cloud”
- "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives"
- “Five values guiding our cloud exit”
- “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit”
- "Cloud exit pays off in performance too”
- “We have left the cloud”
HEY vs the App Store
Deft and Dell
MRSK
- Capistrano
- GitHub contributor community
- Maersk
Harmony remotes discontinued
The continuing demise of Reddit
- Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars?
24 Hours of Le Mans
- 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“
- Result table

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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).

Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps Jun 23, 2023

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Matt Ray interviews Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. Adam explains what led him to create System Initiative and why he believes it’s time for a fresh look at DevOps. Plus, plenty of discussion about monetization and open source.

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Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry Jun 16, 2023

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Matt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations.

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Episode 418: I don’t like Anime Jun 09, 2023

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This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for DevOps platforms, Apple’s announcements and Cisco’s attempt to simplify. Plus, some thoughts on Meatloaf and Anime.

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The best engineers in Canada.
Runny Eggs
My tabs closed
I got a whole bowl here.
Pokémon back in the playlist
Some people don’t want any sauce
Are you still talking about meatloaf?
The meatloaf zone
The intestines of the Magic Quadrant
He was probably a regular-sized human
Everyone knows you’re a dork, a dork with disposal income
What else are you going to do?

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August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
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Episode 417: Every Salesforce is a Snowflake Jun 02, 2023

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The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417

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The MacGyver of podcasting
Scooping up The Tube tickets
Buy some velcro
This email could have been a PR
Who the hell is Brian?
Perverse incentives
What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats

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June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
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Episode 416: Exchange your “Buddy Bucks” for Nagios May 26, 2023

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This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds…

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How big are your almonds?
It’s under consideration
The Olympics of Monitoring
Putting Hats on Cats
Stanley Nickels for Monitoring
The 3 Fines
It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work
I was told the test was log management
IDC is the thin balogna

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New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ

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June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
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Episode 415: You can buy a lot of Nagios with that May 19, 2023

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This week we discuss Coinbase's $65 million DataDog bill, the factors that drive developer experience, and Google Bard. Plus, some tips on London Airports and the ideal airport arrival time.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 415

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$65 million is a lot of nines
You can buy a lot of Nagios with that
Just write the check for $65 million
Boxes
Inciting chaos
Steady state is stopped
Developers are just like the rest of us
Unsummarizable
AI in the Streets

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June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
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Episode 414: Monolith vs. Microservices May 12, 2023

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This week we discuss Monolith vs. Microservices , PassKeys replacing passwords and the return of Watson(x). Plus, some thoughts on the media and BlueSky.

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June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
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Episode 413: Swim between the flags May 05, 2023

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This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413 Runner-up Titles Airplane Ghost No Hashtag for That Sorry Fellow Travelers That’s what they said about Google Reader That’s the beauty of nonsense stories How do you really feel Brandon? 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Episode 412: We’re at a Kubernetes Conference Apr 28, 2023

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Matt, Coté and guest host Barton George record live from KubeCon EU. They discuss the Keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet…

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
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DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5

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