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Episode 251: Don’t you use my words against me Aug 14, 2020

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We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store. Plus, we offer advice on air conditioning and cars.

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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
TikTok
- Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveoutRelevant to your interests
- We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud.
Datadog
Google
- Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud?
- Google Cloud's expanding enterprise footprint and the rise of the 10 year deal ****- Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh based on Envoy – TechCrunch
Matt’s corner
- Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December
- Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm

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The Ten Commandments of Container Security - InfraCloud Technologies
The Second Edition of “The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem”
Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns
Apple Buys Startup to Challenge Square in Mobile Payments
IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn't Even Using GNU/Linux
Rackspace IPO prices at bottom of target range to raise about $703 million
Mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer's apps - 9to5Mac
Resigning from AWS on Ethical Grounds with Tim Bray — Screaming in the Cloud
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Toshiba Will No Longer Make Laptops
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products | ZDNet
Google rolls out virtual visiting card in India – TechCrunch
Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes – TechCrunch
Working in Public and the Economics of Free
- “Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."

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Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th.
SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd.

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Matt Ray: Google Docs → Tools → Voice typing: Matt’s SDT 251 Transcript
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Episode 250: Jana Werner, a Head of Transformation Aug 07, 2020

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Slide decks, paper proposals and steering group sessions all take a significant investment to prepare, avoiding “difficult” conversations by socializing and re-socializing in advance of exec meetings, deferring decisions, requesting a raft of meeting minutes to document, correcting, amending and signing them off—the majority of which few people read.... The speed of these cycles determines the heartbeat of the organization.

This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software.

Check out the paper and Jana in LinkedIn. Also, check out the talk she has coming up at SpringOne Platform.

Special Guest: Jana Werner.

Episode 249: Was Tom Landry cool? Jul 31, 2020

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The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap.

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New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation
Analysts Estimate New Relic (NEWR) to Report a Decline in Earnings:

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SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th.

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Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

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Matt Ray: Anti-picks Cisco WebEx, Sabrent (no links, no recommendations)
Brandon: Audio Hijack.
Coté: AU apostrophe’s.

Episode 248: They want cloud grade Jul 24, 2020

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We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.

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SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th.

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Listen to Richard Seroter interview
Join us in Slack.
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

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Matt Ray: Palm Springs.
Brandon: Reckoning.
Coté:
- Vivino wine app (you can order wine, next day!)
- Apple Magic Touch pad thing.
- Setapp.

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Episode 247: Richard Seroter on App Modernization Jul 16, 2020

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On this episode Brandon interviews Richard Seroter from Google. They discuss Richard's career, Product Management & Marketing, Google Anthos and what App Modernization really means. Plus, Richard tells us how a doctor removes a wedding ring when you have a fractured finger.

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Richard joins Google

Richard on the web

Blog: Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings
Twitter: @rseroter
LinkedIn: seroter

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Special Guest: Richard Seroter.

Episode 246: Istio-washing, 20 domain names, .docx Jul 11, 2020

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We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files.

Mood board:

I read a lot of Wikipedia when I should be working
After all this, time people probably think that whatever you’re doing is “working.”
Did you respond with an emoji thumbs-up?
I read the email. Thought about it for a few hours. Then thought “I’m just going to archive that email.”
He’s big in the Angular community - works all the angels.
Little components that talk with each other over the network. Gotta do a whole bunch of shit for that.
You don’t sue people who are using it if you want them to use it.
Service mesh is Greek for “service mesh.”
Lady Cathemhouse’s Rules.
Chekhov’s Trademark.
Couple thousand stores.
…and maybe integrate with their Active Directory.
“Federated Slacks.”
I think I like the Word file.
No one can poop all over your stuff in a way that you forgot what it looked like when it was clean.
De-headwind yourself from the COVID.
I’m mad about The Edit by Default.
I can’t find my tongs, they’ve gone somewhere.
I wouldn’t say that I’d recommend it, I’m just saying I enjoy it.

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Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th

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Listen to the Adam Jacob Interview on Open Source
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

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Brandon: The Missing
Matt Ray: Watchmen
Coté: Oatly Milk.

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Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th

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Listen to interview with Kylie Grenier about Digital Transformation
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

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Brandon: Land of the Giants podcast.
Matt Ray: Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway.
Coté: Euro breakfast on the go.

Episode 244: Kylie Grenier on Digital Transformation Jun 30, 2020

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Brandon interviews Kylie Grenier from DXC Technology. They discuss Kylie's experience in leading digital transformation in the public sector, her time as a Cloud Futurist at Cisco and how she helps clients build digital transformation strategies today. Plus, Kylie offers some tips on how to get a new job.

Kylie on the web

Twitter: @CurrentKylie
LinkedIn: kyliegrenier

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Special Guest: Kylie Grenier.

Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers Jun 26, 2020

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Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.

Mood board:

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How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet?
I got the Call Recorder!
Brand Police.
You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing.
Dunning Keurig
Yeet your email.
I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it.
People just throwing tickets into the wind.
Awk yeah
You should sanitize your inputs every day, Matt Ray.
I’ve been treating Apple news like Star Wars news.
The Builders.
We got piles of clip art.
Elfin robot children on a sea of green binary.
MacOS 11.1, “Green Goddess”
There’s only one MC who talks about space and cross-country truck driving.
Watch the get to school on time tapes.
John Irving Parenting.
Until then, I’ll just ground him from his iPad.

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Kool Keith interview: “I’m dis-attached from reality on my own terms.”
Luxury Email
- Cote reviews HEY
- Outlook update: ^e works in the Mac desktop app.
- Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
- Basecamp is good at PR — How Basecamp bent Apple
- Wait — Slack is killing email with Slack Connect
M&A
- ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle
  - Not sure about people who use the word “infra.”
  - I think it’s a configuration store that plugs into CI pipelines - sort of like a ConfigMap for Jenkins.
  - “SWEAGLE provides a quality gate for your configuration data. Includes versioning, management, and validation of all types of config data.” https://github.com/jenkinsci/sweagle-plugin
  - It will run validates to make sure the hostname is valid, there are no empty values, etc. Has a JavaScript SDK for writing validation code.
  - ServiceNow integration that extracts confit from CMDB. https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow
- Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business
- Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely
Apple Talk
Are you actually changing?

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Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

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Brandon: **The Data Coach - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis; Trust Fall : Invisibilia. ****- Matt Ray: The Coup: Party Music
Coté: Razer Kiyo.

Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.

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Podcast: The Cloudcast
Twitter: @bgracely
LinkedIn: briangracely

Special Guest: Brian Gracely.

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