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Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify May 01, 2020

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Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.

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What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel?
Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter
All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say
Microservices Video — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile
Old french safe

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Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott? Apr 24, 2020

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On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite.

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Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz

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Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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Brandon: HBO’s Westworld
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Episode 229: Does it work with JSON? That’s what I do Apr 17, 2020

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On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review.

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Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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Brandon: Facebook The Inside Story
Matt Ray: Iriun Webcam
- QEMU Raspberry Pi postmortem
- A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat

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Episode 228: Professor Jeremy Hajek on IT Education Apr 14, 2020

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Brandon interviews Professor Jeremy Hajek from Illinois Tech about what it's like to teach Information Technology in today's rapidy changing IT landscape. Plus, we offer advice to new grads on how to get a job and what cloud certifications are most valuable.

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Special Guest: Jeremy Hajek.

Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode Apr 11, 2020

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This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.

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Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
Mykel Alvis is speaking at All Day DevOps Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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Brandon: Ozark and Tiger King
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- Disunited Nations

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Episode 226: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure Apr 03, 2020

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This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure. They discuss all things "Cloud Native" and what it's like to be a software engineer who helps make movies.

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Special Guest: Justin Garrison .

Episode 225: All my kids have opinions on Scratch Mar 27, 2020

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We discuss micoVMs vs. Containers and Intel vs. ARM. Plus, Matt offers advice on when to teach your children about Github. Big congrats to Coté and his wife on their new baby!!!

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Request Metrics from TrackJS Request Metrics is a web performance tool that records how fast your production Page and API endpoints are from your users' perspective.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital.
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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Join us in Slack.
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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 Rewatchables
Matt Ray: Generation Kill
- Reggae: Toots & The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff

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Episode 224: Miles Matthias on getting started with Containers and Kubernetes Mar 24, 2020

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Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker. Plus, Miles tells us a story about Warren Buffet.

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Special Guest: Miles Matthias.

Episode 223: What’s a Terraform? Mar 19, 2020

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Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.

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Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
No Yodas
Lot of rubber gloves in your youth?
I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.
Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.
I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.
As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.
Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!

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DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed.
ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital.
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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Join us in Slack.
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: Devs on FX/Hulu .
- A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money.
- Tim Hartford’s Cautionary Tales podcast.
Coté: Look Up.

Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” Dune.

Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked bread Mar 13, 2020

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Self quarantining with half-baked bread

Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey! Spring Live next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend!

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Fresh Bread Talk
I’ve mentioned this before
You’re suppose to listen
Hamthrax?
A tall glass of ice-tea.
The most Dutch thing ever.
Half-baked bread.
American’s tea innovation lead.
Strong opinions loosely held is canceled.

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- VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection
- VMWare KeyBanc Capital Markets Write Up
- VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, built on VMware NSX is Now Available!
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- Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit
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NVIDIA to Acquire SwiftStack
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math | Quanta Magazine
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets to keep his job — for now
Robinhood goes down again,
Assessing ERP upgrades in the 21st century
Vista Equity mulls options for IT automation and security provider Infoblox
Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data
Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
This startup now has millions in no-strings-attached money because one of Silicon Valley's most famous VC firms had to walk away from the deal
Australia sues Facebook for $529 billion. That's more than the government makes in a year.
This little server startup wants to take on a horde of tech giants
Who’s staying home because of COVID-19?

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DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th.
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4.
Dev O ps D ays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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Join us in Slack.
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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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