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    Software Defined Talk

    Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference – we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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    Episode 551: An Australian Documentary Dec 19, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Oracle’s AI vibes, Chainguard’s EmeritOSS, and GitHub’s pricing U-turn. Plus, a robust robot vacuum debate.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 551

    Runner-up Titles

    • It has CarPlay
    • iPad Range Anxiety
    • an Australian documentary
    • Oracle got popped
    • Intentions
    • I don’t feel bad for them
    • Open Source old folks home
    • Spreadsheets love it
    • Robots are going to take care of us
    • The Median User
    • Nobody feels bad for the whales
    • I have a dog
    • I have a Korean microwave
    • We’re the Neal Stephenson of podcasts

    Rundown

    • Ford pulls the plug on the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck
    • AI Investment
      • Oracle plummets 11% on weak revenue, pushing down AI stocks like Nvidia and CoreWeave
      • Oracle Shares Drop the Most Since 2001 on Mounting AI Spending
      • OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
      • S&P 500 falls after nearing record as Oracle disappointment drags down AI stocks
      • Inside The $1T AI Economy
    • Introducing Chainguard EmeritOSS: Sustainable stewardship for mature open source
    • Runners
      • Announcing powerful upgrades & a new pricing model for self-hosted runners
      • GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026
      • GitHub postpones changes to self-hosted runners pricing plans
      • Why GitHub Why?
    • Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
    • Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

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    • A great platform as a product paper, and a fun platform philosophy thereof
    • Google Launches Managed Remote MCP Servers for Its Cloud Services
    • Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain
    • Useful patterns for building HTML tools
    • Waymo Seeking Over $15 Billion Near $100 Billion Valuation
    • Write your CV or resume as YAML, then run RenderCV, and get a PDF with perfect typography. No template wrestling. No broken layouts. Consistent spacing, every time
    • Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

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    • The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman

    Listener Feedback

    • Sent stickers to Jelle in Belgium

    Conferences

    • cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
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      • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
    • Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
    • Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
      • Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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    Episode 550: Typeface Philosophy Dec 12, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss how Netflix is disrupting media, IBM’s Confluent acquisition, and Anthropic buying Bun. Plus, an important discussion on fonts and typography.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 550

    Runner-up Titles

    • Blame the children
    • I never liked that font
    • No emojis, this is business time
    • Mahalo
    • You need a Chief Economist
    • On the cutlery tray

    Rundown

    • Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
      • Cartridge
      • Source Code Pro
    • It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
    • Confluent stock soars 29% as IBM announces $11 billion acquisition deal
    • Bun is joining Anthropic
    • Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds
    • OpenAI enterprise usage study.

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    • Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
    • ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
    • AWS AI IDE, AgentCore throw down gauntlets for Microsoft
    • Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
    • Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business
    • 52 things I learned in 2025
    • State of AI | OpenRouter
    • Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants its poor AI products
    • DHH & Open Source
    • Gruber: Apple employees 'giddy' about Alan Dye’s departure - 9to5Mac
    • Apple announces the departure of general counsel and policy chief

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    • All of the Men’s Clothing We Loved (and Didn’t) From Costco’s Kirkland Signature

    Conferences

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      • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
      • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off.
    • Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.
    • Whole bunch of VMUGs, mostly in the US. The CFPs are open, go speak at them! Coté speaking in Amsterdam.
      • Amsterdam (March 17-19, 2026), Minneapolis (April 7-9, 2026), Toronto (May 12-14, 2026), Dallas (June 9-11, 2026), Orlando (October 20-22, 2026)

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    Episode 549: The Fermi Paradox of Agentic Development Dec 05, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss AWS re:Invent announcements, Agentic Development, and OpenAI's Code Red. Plus, a Digital ID field test and more on silverware sorting.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 549

    Runner-up Titles

    • Did you order the Code Red?
    • In the year 2000
    • Jane go swiftly
    • Another day in the coal mine
    • Goal Driven Development
    • I want to believe
    • Prove me wrong
    • AI’s going to dig this hole faster
    • Tornado of Innovation
    • Revenue times Story

    Rundown

    • SiteAngel - bonus press quote from Brandon
    • AWS
      • Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government
      • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
      • All the biggest news from AWS’ big tech show re:Invent 2025
      • AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
      • The Future of AWS CodeCommit | Amazon Web Services
      • Nova Act
    • Code Red
      • OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 20 0 million users in 3 months
      • Anthropic reportedly preparing for one of the largest IPOs ever in race with OpenAI: FT
      • Microsoft stock sinks on report AI product sales are missing growth goals
    • AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

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    • Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image generation model
    • Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys
    • Netflix kills casting from phones

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    • Victorian Name Generator

    Conferences

    • cfgmgmtcamp 2026, February 2nd to 4th, Ghent, BE.
      • Coté speaking and doing live SDI with John Willis.
    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
      • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.
    • Devnexus 2026, March 4th to 6th, Atlanta, GA.

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    Episode 548: Household CMDB Nov 28, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss the Cloudflare outage, their current business strategy, and paying OSS maintainers. Plus, thoughts on loading the dishwasher and managing your home.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 548

    Runner-up Titles

    • Mystery Knob
    • Vegans are cursed vegetarians
    • Skilled enough
    • Defrag the dishwasher
    • Design Intentions
    • QR codes everywhere
    • I don’t know where we draw the line, but I know where we start
    • SDT IoT CMBD, Home Edition.
    • SDT Open Source Money Maker
    • Lead with Nagware
    • Stocks go up, stocks go down
    • Safari’s my naked browser
    • Coté wanted to add periods to all of these but did not.

    Rundown

    • FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
    • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'
    • Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
    • Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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    • Outage Tracker | Updog By Datadog
    • Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
    • PowerPoint is your therapist, Gamma is your coach | Andreessen Horowitz
    • Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
    • A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
    • The platform that needs a platform
    • The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion
    • The Smartest Fliers Use This App to Survive America’s Travel Hell
    • Oracle's Market Cap Decline: Analyzing the Impact on Finance
    • OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
    • Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling

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    • AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
    • Whipped Cream Worth $80K Stolen in Ontario

    Conferences

    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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    • Join our Slack community
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    • Brandon: The Beast in Me
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    • Coté: Fantastic 4 with that Boba Fett guy, “Winter’s Mourning,” from Uncaged Goddesses.

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    Episode 547: Whitney goes to KubeCon Nov 21, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 547

    Rundown

    • Slutty Vegan
    • Cloud Native Rejekts
    • Maintainer Summit
    • Conference Parties
    • Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know
      • Linkerd Forever
      • Migrating from Ingress Resources

    Conferences

    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
      • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com
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    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show: ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: GE Attic Mount Digital TV Antenna
    • Whitney: Obsidian, Wispr Flow
    • Coté: MacWhisper

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    Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

    Episode 546: The cURLing Test Nov 14, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Facebook scams, engineering management trends, and the past and present of curl. Plus, when’s the right time to put up the Christmas tree?

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 546

    Runner-up Titles

    • Matt has a lot of room tone.
    • I shut the kitchen door .
    • You gotta just reboot all of Australia every morning.
    • Did you see my water dragons?
    • Didn’t he die?
    • I’m worried about the future.
    • Quality of revenue.
    • The spatula is higher than the plunger.
    • This discussion has really raised my morale.
    • I know what your API is.

    Rundown

    • Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says
    • "Good engineering management" is a fad
      • When CEO pay exploded
    • Yes, really, curl is still developed

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    • Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'
    • IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls
    • The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting
    • CNCF Launches Kubernetes AI Conformance Program
    • Russia's grand reveal of humanoid robot couldn't have gone worse
    • How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity
    • OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances
    • 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings
    • Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
    • Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App

    Nonsense

    • Interview with Dying Company's VP
    • As Seen on TV

    Conferences

    • Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
    • The good hospitality from Keith Townsend.
    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
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    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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    • Coté: Camo

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    Episode 545: No one cares about Chickens Nov 07, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird?

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545

    Runner-up Titles

    • Stack the deck
    • Pets and Chickens
    • Blame it on Android
    • They’re fungible
    • Are they going to have to introduce a new principle?
    • Managers of rocks
    • The world we live in
    • Marketing wins
    • We’re the healthy skeptics

    Rundown

    • Ex-NFL star QB Brady claims his dog is a clone
    • Cloud Earnings
      • AI & Cloud Trends for October 2025
      • Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
      • Google Cloud Q3 revenue surges 34% as backlog hits $155 billion
      • Microsoft Azure sees 40% revenue growth in Q1
      • Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong results
      • Amazon revenues rise 13% on strength in cloud computing unit
      • Clouded Judgement 10.31.25 - Cloud Giants Report Q3
      • 7m OpenAI work users
    • Amazon's culture went the wrong way
    • Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1
      • What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world?
    • AWS and OpenAI announce multi-year strategic partnership
      • Amazon stock jumps on $38 billion deal with OpenAI to use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips

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    • Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment
    • Meta Stock Slides After Earnings.
    • AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions
    • Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”
    • Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well
    • SaaS Monopoly | Khushi Lunkad
    • The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity
    • Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake | Chef

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    • Disney yanks channels from YouTube TV after media giants fail to resolve carriage dispute | CNN Business
    • Traffic hits record high as commuters rewrite the rush hour - Texas A&M Transportation Institute
    • Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million

    Conferences

    • SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking.
    • Wiz Wizdom Conferences, November 17-19, London
    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
      • Use code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.

    SDT News & Community

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    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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    • Brandon: Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle
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    • Coté: NØLSON shirts

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    Episode 544: The Enterprise Turing Test Oct 31, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544

    Runner-up Titles

    • Cote’ shock jock mode
    • Art with squids
    • Command-Line Life Style
    • AI isn’t for experts.
    • The triumph of the command line
    • The command line lifestyle is now available
    • I don’t even know what sed is
    • The Human Line

    Rundown

    • Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
    • Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts: Reuters, citing sources
    • The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2025
    • “The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3.”

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    • What is Configuration as Data?
    • RDEL #115: What are the 2025 benchmarks for the DORA 4 metrics?
    • a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
    • An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
    • Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
    • Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant
    • Why the “Free” Chef Version Could Be Your Most Expensive Mistake
    • The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

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    • How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA

    Conferences

    • Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
    • SREDay Amsterdam, November 7th, Coté speaking
    • DevOpsDayLA at SCALE23x, March 6th, Pasadena, CA
      • Uxse code: DEVOP for 50% off. CFP open until Dec. 1st.

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    • Join our Slack community
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    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
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    • Coté: "What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)."

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    Episode 543: Arts and Crafts Oct 24, 2025
    Show notes

    This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543

    Runner-up Titles

    • Firewire is dead
    • USB, what are you going to do?
    • It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it.
    • I am just a guest.
    • I don’t need helpful
    • An amazing hole.
    • Slides for nobody
    • You closed the loop
    • It’s pretty amazing, but does it need to exist?
    • Slackhole

    Rundown

    • OpenAI
      • Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
      • OpenAI Is Building a Banker
      • OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion
      • AI agents are not amazing, they are slop: says OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy as he strongly disagrees with CEO Sam Altman on AGI timeline - The Times of India
      • OpenAI’s ChatGPT will soon allow ‘erotica’ for adults in major policy shift
      • OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.
    • Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
    • OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb

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    • The Ruby community has a DHH problem
    • YouTube rolls out its redesigned video player globally
    • Oracle stock rises as company confirms Meta cloud deal
    • Adiós, AirPods
    • NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US
    • This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
    • Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far
    • Marc Benioff says Salesforce is saving about $100M a year by using AI tools in its customer service operations
    • Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services
    • Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours
    • Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
    • AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

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    • Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why
    • Buc-ee's is not America's top convenience store; Midwest chain takes No. 1 spot
    • French post office rolls out croissant-scented stamp

    Listener Feedback

    • Jeffrey is looking for college interns.

    Conferences

    • Wiz Wizdom Conferences, NYC November 3-5, London November 17-19
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    Episode 542: Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud. Oct 17, 2025
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    Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare.

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