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Episode 381: Aspiration Fatigue Oct 14, 2022

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This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse.

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It’s on brand
I wish I could see Brandon’s legs
Running VM’s in the meta verse
They were so busy seeing if they could get VR to work that they didn’t ask if they should.
Basically, VR is for seeing through walls, including walls of flesh.
Lifehacks disrupting VC
They’ve got legs
Draw a Triangle

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KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

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Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts Oct 07, 2022

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This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses…

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Leave it all in Brighttalk
Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later
Killed by Google Wins Again
Tell that to the WeWork founder
Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon
Anyone from software thinks they can do anything
Lots of learnings.
I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy.
A good Brandon issue

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Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

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Brandon:
- Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk ****(Podcast)
- The Chatter Toolbox (PDF)
Matt: Keyboard.io Model 100
Coté: classic microplane.

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Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap Sep 30, 2022

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This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.

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You’re not proud of the product
You can have both
Landing Pages
It’s just like Serial
Don’t bring me these unqualified deals
It’s a Floppy Disk Problem
The better the metrics, the less useful they are
The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful
Highly Edited
Focus on Earnings

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Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it.

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Brandon: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode

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Episode 378: Email is not broken Sep 23, 2022

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This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.

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Freed from Intel
It works!
Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
It will be fun
The Apple Chip
A Demi Kettle
Pay for your own Flu
Free to interrupt me
Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
None of us can master the intranet.
The network is the calendar.

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Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack

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Brandon:
- Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast
- Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World
Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.

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Episode 377: Coffee is for closers Sep 16, 2022

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This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee…

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It’s about me
Workshop it
I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs
This is their Popeye moment
Pulitzers and free coffee
Financial shenanigans
Hide the gift shop in the data center

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Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Jordi recommend Dirty Tricks

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Brandon: Rotowire
Matt: Control
- The Other Two

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Episode 376: Businesses that use computers Sep 09, 2022

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This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers?

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They were already in the system.
Headless Optimization Gone Amuck.
While sitting on the toilet
Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs.
All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution.
Bring Paul Ford out of retirement.
Great ideas, getting close
Prevent the typo
73 SaaS Companies
“Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.”
That may be his family crest

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Checking on Digital Transformation
- Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use
- Instant Payments in the U.S.?
You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button
SaaS spend ratios on R&D/S&M/G&A

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DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Patrick tweeted about Birdnet and his 5-year-son likes the pictures

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Brandon: ****
- FRAKTA IKEA Duffle Bag
- L.L.Bean Stowaway Pack
Coté: Cavender’s All Purpose Greek Seasoning.

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Episode 375: For the Birds Sep 02, 2022

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This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?

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Where’s my admin?
All my children qualify as adults
Start by eating their food
Put two letters in front of it
Where’s the grocery store
I got that everything bagel spice
Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?
In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.
The runbook’s already written.
Spagetti Bowl
Tanzu the Shih Tzu
A FinOps Type of Motion
The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff
Growth is best done in the shadows.
Wrapping bullshit with bullshit
Nopehouse, home of the fast follower
The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans
Thought-leadership suicide mission

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DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
Kube C o n North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Enlightning from Whitney

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Brandon: Black Bird
Matt: BirdNetPi
- Festival of Feet Half-Marathon
Coté: Spigen ArcDock 120W [GaN III] 4-Port USB C Charging Stantion USB-C PD/USB-A Hub with Spigen USB 4 Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Cable 100W Charging 40Gbps Data Transfer for MacBook Pro Air iPad USB-C Laptop.
- C7/C8 coupler cables

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Episode 374: Is there no Dev in DevOps? Aug 26, 2022

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This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King.

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Don’t have the USB cable
Barton, can you get me a drink?
Just like a beer
This is my own podcast, I can do whatever the fuck I want!
One day, I’m going to stop being the the butt of all the jokes
Throwing a lot of Harvard shade.
If you are in France, eat at the Burger King
They came for the DevOps glory
The jury’s still out for the Dev in DevOps
The same sane things
Security, always a problem
What if there was just one company?

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Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
- Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Brandon: The Sandman Audio Book
Coté: Amazing Oriental

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Episode 373: Everything is a nail, find your hammers Aug 19, 2022

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This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means.

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All I am doing is sharing anecdotes
That’s the problem with spellcheck
Maccas?
College here is High School
Every cloud has its own sausage
Here’s a unicode cow
All Rust looks the same
Too Good for GitHub
The Shameful GitHub

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Simplifying Kubernetes,
- Introducing Acorn
- Waypoint
- CNAB
- Habitat
- Dagger
25 Most Popular Programming Languages Used By DevOps Pros
Making sense of CSV
Passwords still a problem

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Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
- Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Brandon: Pirane si
Matt: Tailscale
- Beach2Beach 13k
- Festival of the Feet Half-Marathon

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Episode 372: Don’t do any editing Aug 12, 2022

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This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th.

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Strategy for eating mixed nuts.
Finish in a flurry
Eat Dessert First
It’s about where you is, not where you was.
We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator
Lost his fastball
Just a paycheck
It’s cool to be the “turns out” person
Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment
McKinsey Titles, the movie

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French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo

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Conferences

Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
- Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Brandon: Sea of Tranquility
Coté: The Sympathizer

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