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Episode 411: Jamin Ball on Cloud Earnings Apr 21, 2023

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Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Episode 410: Jordan Tigani on the death of Big Data Apr 14, 2023

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This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck.

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Episode 409: It’s never too early to start a revolution Apr 07, 2023

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This week we discuss regulators slowing Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Nutanix’s delayed earnings, GitHub's origins, Tech Stocks and staplers at Google. Plus, some thoughts on GM and Apple CarPlay.

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Why not Linux?
I remain skeptical
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Think of the listeners
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- Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out
- The Evolution of SaaS Business Models (Brandon co-hosts The Cloudcast)
Matt: Bernie Worrell: Elevation (The Upper Air)

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Episode 408: Undivided Attention Mar 31, 2023

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This week we discuss Docker’s reversal, Amazon's return to office, Apple’s headset, the state of the Metaverse and the rise of LLMs. Plus, Matt shares his sleep study experience and an after-show about Hawaii.

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Worlds greatest employer
Apple, we were counting on you
Mechanized Mansplaining

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Coté’s interview with Barton

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Episode 407: It’s fine, pretty fine, and just fine Mar 24, 2023

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This week we discuss Docker’s Business Model, the Stack Overflow’s Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 Runner-up Titles Free isn’t good enough I’m not that disconnected It’s a presentation with yourself We still hate this Open Source Continuity Founder Magic Syntactic Sugar How cool do you feel, Tim Cook? Rundown Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know Docker’s bad week After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition Meta's metaverse is on the back burner Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets Mark Gurman details Apple's Reality Pro headset Relevant to your Interests 4K Blu-Rays Vs. 4K Streaming: Which Is the Best Way to Enjoy Movies? Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month | Eli Lilly and Company Adrian Cockcroft on LinkedIn: Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages Introducing Service Weaver A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life Ford announces it hired 550 former Argo devs Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington National Cybersecurity Strategy Richard Seroter’s take on Web Assembly VMware’s SaaS Sales Surge As Broadcom Deal Nears Technology Chiefs Seek Help Wrangling Cloud Costs (The Wall Street Journal) Top Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans Major India Expansion Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’ A cloud migration in wartime Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite NO_SSH_JJ talking about 1Password Alphabet headcount on Google Cloud How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API | Amazon Web Services Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10th in front of a 'limited' in-person audience Datadog’s software is down — and so is its stock Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users | Engadget SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing After Stadia, Google's new gaming roadmap GM offers buyouts to 'majority' of U.S. salaried workers Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network VMware turns to containerization to improve virtual apps Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon Oracle shares sink nearly 5% after third-quarter revenue miss How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud U.S. government steps in and says people with funds deposited at SVB will be able to access their money Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC GitLab loses one-third of its value after software company issues weak revenue forecast Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment Amazon's New Home Internet Service Announces New Details | Cord Cutters News Grammarly's New AI Tool Can Do More Than Check Your Spelling Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is stepping down The Four Domains of Wasm Navigating SVB's new era Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management Proximus and Google Cloud to Deliver Sovereign Cloud Services in Belgium and Luxembourg Netflix plans 40 more game releases in 2023 Dragonfly - Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21m) HPE picks up OpsRamp for Greenlake multi-cloud AIOps Nutanix To Miss SEC Deadline Amid Internal Software Probe Nutanix's latest bumper financials overshadowed by 3rd party evaluation software probe – Blocks and Files AWS Cost Leaderboard GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service Cloud Repatriation Trends: Where Are We Now? The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises Nonsense Goldman Sachs arm among bidders with appetite for $10bn Subway This smart toaster lets you cook two slices of bread at different temperatures at the same time (Yanko Design) A Matt Levine Effect? Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings Over ‘Boneless’ Wings Metallica Acquires Furnace, One of America’s Largest Vinyl-Manufacturing Companies Got a question for Twitter's press team? The answer will be a poop emoji Sponsors The MacGeekGab.com Podcast provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple. Subscribe now! Conferences PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 - Matt & Cote will be there DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! 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Episode 406: John Willis on Deming, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps Mar 17, 2023

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John Willis joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering.

There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well.

Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode.

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Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here.
Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age.
SCaLE 20x.
DevOpsDays LA.

Special Guest: John Willis.

Episode 405: Peter Pouliot on DevRel at a hardware company Mar 10, 2023

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Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere. They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend.

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Episode 404: Sargun Kaur on Technical Interviews Mar 07, 2023

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Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur , Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard. They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO.

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Episode 403: Everything about this is wrong Mar 03, 2023

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Everything about this is wrong

This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous…

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403

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You are gaslighting what your selling
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Does this mean the public cloud is over?
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The author of this text does not like Amazon
Adventure-driven development
You’ve got great a manifesto
Intolerable!
Cory Doctorow amped up

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- Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023
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DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5

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