Software Defined Talk

• Episode 517: Trademark’s in the Mail

  This week, we discuss the new Slate Pickup, Synadia’s attempt to reclaim NATS from the CNCF, and the latest DORA AI report. Plus, Google leaves old Nest thermostats out in the cold. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2JhdgLpIg) 517 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2JhdgLpIg) Runner-up Titles We have a dumb house Ultimately I blame myself You can educate people, but they’re not going to listen It’s hard to have the same level of empathy with a talking logo I don’t want a subscription car No Take Backs Rugpulls are part of the landscape now Vacuum Hypothesis Major releases forever Making bad developers 10x faster Spaces or Braces Don’t bring tabs into this Rundown Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25 (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/26/google-will-stop-supporting-early-nest-thermostats-on-october-25/) The Slate Truck is a whole new kind of car (https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast/657836/slate-truck-auto-pickup-screen-time-vergecast) Open Source Regret Syndrome How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired (https://www.runtime.news/how-synadias-attempt-to-exit-the-cncf-by-holding-a-trademark-hostage-might-have-backfired/) Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/?ref=runtime.news) DORA Impact of Generative AI in Software Development (https://cloud.google.com/resources/content/dora-impact-of-gen-ai-software-development?hl=en) Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers) Google launches AI tools for practicing languages through personalized lessons (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/google-launches-ai-tools-for-practicing-languages-through-personalized-lessons/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACKh9xMr7tOVcmFQP-5C8PDElghg3W1m2SmQAVKY4UhlHXs69qyd-CrNSI5aLcFTcZCQ0_crhAmIf4h3m816HtKLF1FfYof3Tcfai-qMt_sbXeTLDn2ap8l_X54hB-MNXCQtjjpNo0rHs9yMrXlXQbcRqLKfEAERgEh3piRMF_KM) Viral Shopify CEO Manifesto Says AI Now Mandatory For All Employees (https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglaslaney/2025/04/09/selling-ai-strategy-to-employees-shopify-ceos-manifesto/) Introducing the Meta AI App: A New Way to Access Your AI Assistant (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-new-way-access-ai-assistant/) Relevant to your Interests 2D Chip Breakthrough: 6,000 Transistors, 3 Atoms Thick (https://spectrum.ieee.org/2d-semiconductors-molybdenum-disulfide) AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency (https://semianalysis.com/2025/04/23/amd-2-0-new-sense-of-urgency-mi450x-chance-to-beat-nvidia-nvidias-new-moat/) Apple Partner TSMC Unveils Advanced 1.4nm Process for 2028 Chips (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/24/apple-partner-tsmc-1-4nm-process-2028-chips/) Elon Musk forced back to the boardroom as Doge ‘blowback’ pummels Tesla (https://on.ft.com/3Rx0z4z) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders—Annotated (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/2024-amazon-ceo-letter-to-shareholders/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20[Last%20Week%20in%20AWS%20Extras]:%20Amazon%20CEO%20Andy%20Jassy) How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer (https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-first-king-of-home-computing) Yahoo wants to buy Chrome (https://www.theverge.com/policy/655975/yahoo-search-web-browser-prototype-google-trial-antitrust-chrome) Microsoft launches Recall and AI-powered Windows search for Copilot Plus PCs (https://www.theverge.com/news/656106/microsoft-recall-copilot-plus-pc-available) Tech Workers Are Just Like the Rest of Us: Miserable at Work (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-workers-are-just-like-the-rest-of-us-miserable-at-work/ar-AA1DDKjh) Backblaze: A Loss-Making Data Storage Business Mired in Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, and Brazen Insider Dumping (https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/) IBM pledges $150 billion to boost U.S. tech growth, computer manufacturing (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/ibm-to-invest-150-billion-to-boost-us-tech-growth-computer-manufacturing.html) Economic Termites Are Everywhere (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/economic-termites-are-everywhere) 40 years ago, Acorn fired up the first Arm processor (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/arm_40/) Nonsense Between 2 Servers - S1E2 - Not THAT Hasselhoff feat. Dr. Kate Holterhoff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6VrO8rl-iM) Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions (https://www.foldnfly.com/) Conferences Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking. KCD Texas Austin 2025 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-austin-2025/), May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking Fr (https://vmwarereg.fig-street.com/051325-tanzu-workshop/)ee AI workshop (https://vmwarereg.fig-street.com/051325-tanzu-workshop/), May 13th. day before C (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/)loud (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/)Foundry (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) Day (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) Melbourne Wiz Meet-Up (https://www.wiz.io/events/melbourne-wizdom-meet-up-may-2025), May 13. Matt will be there NDC Oslo (https://ndcoslo.com/), May 21st-23th, Coté speaking. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: Airpod Cleaner Kit (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3CKVRK3?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1) Matt: Soul Coughing Live 2024 (https://li.sten.to/soulcoughinglive2024) Cooking with Beagles (https://www.instagram.com/beagleskiko/) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/white-thermostat-at-62-mAwE-fqgDXc)

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• Episode 516: Vibe Strategy

  This week, we discuss Google being found to be a monopoly, OpenAI’s “offer” to buy Chrome, and some hot takes on JSON. Plus, is it better to wait on hold or ask for a callback? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhUxUPJv5g4) 516 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhUxUPJv5g4) Runner-up Titles Just Fine The SDT “Fine” Scale Callback Asynchronous Friendship I would love to get to know you better…over text Send you Jams to the dry cleaners. JSON Take it xslt-easy! Rundown OpenAI OpenAI in talks to pay about $3 billion to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/openai-in-talks-to-pay-about-3-billion-to-acquire-startup-windsurf.html) The Cursor Mirage (https://artificialintelligencemadesimple.substack.com/p/the-cursor-mirage) AI is for Tinkerers (https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2023/06/27/ai-is-for-tinkerers/) Vibe Coding is for PMs (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2025/04/18/vibe-coding-is-for-pms/) OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-releases-new-simulated-reasoning-models-with-full-tool-access/) Clouded Judgement 4.18.25 - The Hidden Value in the AI Application Layer (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-41825-the-hidden?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=161562220&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email) OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google (https://www.theverge.com/news/653882/openai-chrome-google-us-judge) The Creators of Model Context Protocol (https://www.latent.space/p/mcp?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Judge finds Google holds illegal online ad tech monopolies (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/17/judge-finds-google-holds-illegal-online-ad-tech-monopolies.html) Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers (https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/) Relevant to your Interests Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/switch-2-carts-still-taste-bad-designed-purposefully-to-be-spat-out/1100-6530649/) CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-2024-letter-to-shareholders) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI costs will come down (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/amazon-ceo-andy-jassys-2025-shareholder-letter.html) Happy 18th Birthday CUDA! (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-2024-letter-to-shareholders) Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-acquires-grit) Everything Announced at Google Cloud Next in 12 Minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OpHbyN4vEM) GitLab vs GitHub : Key Differences in 2025 (https://spacelift.io/blog/gitlab-vs-github) Old Fashioned Function Keys (https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/04/11/old-fashioned-function-keys/) Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions, (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/fake-job-seekers-use-ai-to-interview-for-remote-jobs-tech-ceos-say.html) NetRise raises $10M to expand software supply chain security platform (https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/15/netrise-raises-10-million-expand-software-supply-chain-security-platform/) Mark Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas from Meta’s history (https://www.theverge.com/policy/649520/zuckerberg-meta-ftc-antitrust-testimony-facebook-history) How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability? (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/how-much-should-i-spend-on-observability-pt1) Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP? (https://seroter.com/2025/04/16/did-we-just-make-platform-engineering-much-easier-by-shipping-a-cloud-idp/) Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI Stack, Multimodality, And Sovereignty (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/google-next-2025-agentic-ai-stack-multimodality-and-sovereignty/) iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China's Q1 Smartphone Boom (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/18/iphone-shipments-down-in-china-q1/) Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away (https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtual-employees-security) Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/nas/synology-requires-self-branded-drives-for-some-consumer-nas-systems-drops-full-functionality-and-support-for-third-party-hdds) Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 (https://tailscale.com/blog/plan9-port?ck_subscriber_id=512840665&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=[Last%20Week%20in%20AWS]%20Issue%20#418:%20Another%20New%20Capacity%20Dingus%20-%2017270009) CVE Foundation (https://www.thecvefoundation.org/) The Cursor Mirage (https://artificialintelligencemadesimple.substack.com/p/the-cursor-mirage) There's a Lot of Bad Telemetry Out There (https://blog.olly.garden/theres-a-lot-of-bad-telemetry-out-there) Gee Wiz (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2025/04/04/gee-wiz/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=[Last%20Week%20in%20AWS]%20Issue%20#418:%20Another%20New%20Capacity%20Dingus%20-%2017270009) Nonsense Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/) A Visit to Costco in France (https://davidlebovitz.substack.com/p/a-visit-to-costco-in-france) No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon (https://apnews.com/article/china-robot-half-marathon-153c6823bd628625106ed26267874d21) Metre, a consistent measurement of the world (https://mappingignorance.org/2025/04/23/150-years-ago-the-metre-convention-determined-how-we-measure-the-world/) Conferences DevOps Days Atlanta (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-atlanta/welcome/), April 29th-30th. KCD Texas Austin 2025 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-austin-2025/), May 15th, Whitney Lee Speaking. Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking. Fr (https://vmwarereg.fig-street.com/051325-tanzu-workshop/)ee AI workshop (https://vmwarereg.fig-street.com/051325-tanzu-workshop/), May 13th. day before C (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/)loud (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/)Foundry (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) Day (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/). NDC Oslo (https://ndcoslo.com/), May 21st-23th, Coté speaking. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: Dope Thief (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/dope_thief) on Apple TV (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/dope_thief) Coté: Check out the recording of the Tanzu Annual update (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QZXzJcAfQ), all about Tanzu’s private AI platform. Next, watch Coté’s new MCP for D&D video (#4) figures out something cool to do with MCP Prompts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEtYBznneFg), they make sense now. And, a regret-a-mmendation: Fields Notes annual subscription (https://fieldnotesbrand.com/limited-editions). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-telephone-sitting-on-top-of-a-wooden-shelf-2XnGRN_caHc)

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• Episode 515: Rick Houlihan, MongoDB Field CTO on Document Databases

  Brandon talks with Rick Houlihan, Field CTO at MongoDB (https://fnf.dev/4ipjSI9), about why document databases are more important than ever, how MongoDB fits into modern app architectures, and where AI comes into play. Plus, Rick shares the story of how he helped deprecate 3,000 Oracle databases at Amazon. Show Links MongoDB (https://fnf.dev/4ipjSI9) Contact Rick Houlihan LinkedIn: Rick Houlihan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickhoulihan/) Twitter/X: @houlihan_rick (https://x.com/houlihan_rick) SDT News & Hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Special Guest: Rick Houlihan.

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• Episode 514: It’s All Affiliate Links

  This week, we discuss the rise of MCP, Google’s Agent2Agent protocol, and 20 years of Git. Plus, lazy ways to get rid of your junk. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/o2bmkzXOzHE?si=bPrbuPlKYODQj88s) 514 (https://www.youtube.com/live/o2bmkzXOzHE?si=bPrbuPlKYODQj88s) Runner-up Titles They like to keep it tight, but I’ll distract them Bring some SDT energy Salesforce is where AI goes to struggle I like words Rundown MCP The Strategy Behind MCP (https://fintanr.com/links/2025/03/31/mcp-strategy.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Google’s Agent2Agent Protocol Helps AI Agents Talk to Each Other (https://thenewstack.io/googles-agent2agent-protocol-helps-ai-agents-talk-to-each-other/) Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)- Google Developers Blog (https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/) MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters (https://addyo.substack.com/p/mcp-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters) 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. (https://blog.gitbutler.com/20-years-of-git/) A love letter to the CSV format (https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md?ref=labnotes.org) Relevant to your Interests JFrog Survey Surfaces Limited DevSecOps Gains - DevOps.com (https://substack.com/redirect/dc38a19b-484e-47bc-83ec-f0413af42718?j=eyJ1IjoiMmw5In0.XyGUvWHNbIDkkVfjKDkxiDWJVFXc4dKUhxHaMrlgmdI) Raspberry Pi’s sliced profits are easier to swallow than its valuation (https://on.ft.com/42d3mol) 'I begin spying for Deel': (https://www.yahoo.com/news/begin-spying-deel-rippling-employee-151407449.html) Bill Gates Publishes Original Microsoft Source Code in a Blog Post (https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/bill-gates-publishes-original-microsoft-source-code-in-a-blog-post/) WordPress.com owner Automattic is laying off 16 percent of workers (https://www.theverge.com/news/642187/automattic-wordpress-layoffs-matt-mullenweg) Intel, TSMC recently discussed chipmaking joint venture (https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-tsmc-tentatively-agree-form-chipmaking-joint-venture-information-reports-2025-04-03/) TikTok deal scuttled because of Trump's tariffs on China (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tiktok-ban-extension-rcna199394) NVIDIA Finally Adds Native Python Support to CUDA (https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-finally-adds-native-python-support-to-cuda/) Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase (https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-acquires-outerbase-to-expand-developer-experience/) UK loses bid to keep Apple appeal against demand for iPhone 'backdoor' a secret (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/uk-loses-bid-to-keep-apple-appeal-against-iphone-backdoor-a-secret.html) Cloud Asteroids | Wiz (https://www.wiz.io/asteroids) Unpacking Google Cloud Platform’s Acquisition Of Wiz (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/unpacking-google-cloud-platforms-acquisition-of-wiz/) Trade, Tariffs, and Tech (https://stratechery.com/2025/trade-tariffs-and-tech/?access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InN0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LnBhc3Nwb3J0Lm9ubGluZSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJzdHJhdGVjaGVyeS5wYXNzcG9ydC5vbmxpbmUiLCJhenAiOiJIS0xjUzREd1Nod1AyWURLYmZQV00xIiwiZW50Ijp7InVyaSI6WyJodHRwczovL3N0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LmNvbS8yMDI1L3RyYWRlLXRhcmlmZnMtYW5kLXRlY2gvIl19LCJleHAiOjE3NDY2MjA4MTAsImlhdCI6MTc0NDAyODgxMCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hcHAucGFzc3BvcnQub25saW5lL29hdXRoIiwic2NvcGUiOiJmZWVkOnJlYWQgYXJ0aWNsZTpyZWFkIGFzc2V0OnJlYWQgY2F0ZWdvcnk6cmVhZCBlbnRpdGxlbWVudHMiLCJzdWIiOiJDS1RtckdldHdmM1lYa3FCYkpKaUgiLCJ1c2UiOiJhY2Nlc3MifQ.pVeppxFZcYy960AbHM--oz5gzQdMEa_mv3ZPrqrZmbw9PhwL3iCEQ7_PtfPEKgInTfvSGWofXW0ZjAN-G_Eug5BlvwlF8T6HhXOCNJlwJJeqkWKvNdjvVz0t6bc5fOjn4Tbt_JobtrwxIEe-4-L7QRMhzFj9ajiiRqU6KNi3qYxWScg3XWfYmuhRdItQsgWINcSyW9iLaTkDLga_m95MMBNAat-CXDhEeKKCrAApZBM_RoNFaQ3s679vslz2IbJuCIAN1jVvZYR2Vg18lDbwubPiddDQAOkjs77PZRX_tCnMSwVXtOq0S1cCn4GZIw1qPY8j0qWWmkUck_izqPAveg) Google Workspace gets automation flows, podcast-style summaries (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-workspace-gets-automation-flows-podcast-style-summaries/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAm5axmZnaAYjPgnDoqozIFkZHFPG8FHWa9y8pWwoQMN-oJ8MvJjY0IOg7Ej35bBB1Y2Ej192X3dHr5Q8PZ4i8WP_VNeXKj4f1n-KXFgqrpjfjUbiUvE4eGIl1j1VPWIg62ApISVGhYQ-__bXdIteBex8_k5-wxcpSYtfmlAFxsk) Zelle is shutting down its app. Here’s how you can still use the service (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/business/zelle-cash-transferring-app-shuts-down/index.html) One year ago Redis changed its license – and lost most of its external contributors (https://devclass.com/2025/04/01/one-year-ago-redis-changed-its-license-and-lost-most-of-its-external-contributors/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=[Last%20Week%20in%20AWS]%20Issue%20#417:%20Way%20of%20the%20Weasel,%20RDS%20and%20SageMaker%20Edition%20-%2017192200) Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet (https://tailscale.com/blog/series-c) Nonsense NFL announces use of virtual measurement technology for first downs (https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6247338/2025/04/01/nfl-announces-virtual-first-down-measurement-technology/?source=athletic_scoopcity_newsletter&campaign=13031970&userId=56655) Listener Feedback GitJobs (https://gitjobs.dev/) Freecycle (https://www.freecycle.org) Conferences Tanzu Annual Update AI PARTY! (https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/april-moment-2025?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter), April 16th, Coté speaking DevOps Days Atlanta (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-atlanta/welcome/), April 29th-30th Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA, Coté speaking Fr (https://vmwarereg.fig-street.com/051325-tanzu-workshop/)ee AI workshop (https://vmwarereg.fig-street.com/051325-tanzu-workshop/), May 13th. day before C (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/)loud (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/)Foundry (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) Day (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/) NDC Oslo (https://ndcoslo.com/), May 21st-23th, Coté speaking SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: KONNWEI KW208 12V Car Battery Tester (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MPXGSGN?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title) Matt: Search Engine: The Memecoin Casino (https://www.searchengine.show/planet-money-the-memecoin-casino/) Coté: :Knipex Cobra High-Tech Water Pump Pliers (https://www.amazon.com/atramentized-125-self-service-87-01/dp/B098D1HNGY/) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-bicycle-parked-on-the-side-of-a-road-next-to-a-traffic-sign-wPv1QV_i8ek)

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• Episode 513: Put On A Musical

  This week, we discuss the shifting world of observability, the nightmare of “Configuration Hell,” and OpenAI’s latest valuation. Plus, a surprise Broadway musical review! Runner-up Titles We say we’re friends, but I don’t really know them Observability 2025 I don’t have any sympathy for anyone If you want to win observability, put on a musical Just is THE trigger word It’s a well-known Hell The blog posts are making me angry Rundown CISO MUSICAL | Official Broadway Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W17F9Ho_38) Monitoring is back Observability 3.0 - bitdrift Blog (https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/observability-3-0) Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon (https://charity.wtf/2025/03/24/another-observability-3-0-appears-on-the-horizon/) ControlTheory Secures $5M Seed Funding to Bring Controllability to Observability (https://www.controltheory.com/blog/controltheory-secures-5m-seed-funding-to-bring-controllability-to-observability/) What is (https://www.controltheory.com/blog/what-is-controllability/) Cloud veterans launch ConfigHub to fix 'configuration hell' (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/cloud-veterans-launch-confighub-to-fix-configuration-hell/) DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse (https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/) OpenAI Exclusive | The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-story-behind-sam-altman-firing-from-openai-efd51a5d?st=GmdXEX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink) OpenAI closes $40 billion funding round, largest private tech deal on record (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/openai-closes-40-billion-in-funding-the-largest-private-fundraise-in-history-softbank-chatgpt.html) Relevant to your Interests How vibe coding will affect Engineering Managers (https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/effect-of-ai-on-engineering-managers) Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode (https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/mastering-github-copilot-when-to-use-ai-agent-mode/) Using Spring AI 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Important Changes and Updates (https://spring.io/blog/2025/03/27/spring-ai-update-to-snapshots) Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Makes a Few More Long-Shot Bets (https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-makes-a-few-more-long-shot-bets-01e7337f) Pat Gelsinger has joined VC firm Playground Global (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-ad45da7c-2daa-4290-b379-bba556718155.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) Amazon Is Canceling a Major Alexa Privacy Feature on March 28: Should You Worry? (https://www.cnet.com/home/security/amazon-is-canceling-this-alexa-privacy-feature-on-march-28-should-you-worry/) oneAPI: A New Era of Heterogeneous Computing (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html#gs.kqodnv) Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/amazon-unveils-nova-act-an-ai-agent-that-uses-a-web-browser/) Ransomware Found in VSCode Extensions Raises Concerns Over Microsoft’s Security Review (https://www.cysecurity.news/2025/03/ransomware-found-in-vscode-extensions.html?m=1) Lip-Bu Tan says Intel will spin off non-core units (https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/lip-bu-tan-says-intel-will-spin-off-non-core-units/) Announcing Chainguard VMs: Minimal, Zero-CVE Container Host Images (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/announcing-chainguard-vms-minimal-zero-cve-container-host-images) Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok’s Chinese owners (https://on.ft.com/4iXhAkG) Nonsense This couple is obsessed with Costco. Why do they love it so much? (https://www.deseret.com/2024/1/10/24031947/joy-of-costco-susan-and-david-schwartz-king-husein-utah/) CISO MUSICAL | Official Broadway Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W17F9Ho_38) Conferences DevOps Days Atlanta (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-atlanta/welcome/), April 29-30 Cloud Foundry Day US (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-north-america/), May 14th, Palo Alto, CA NDC Oslo (https://ndcoslo.com/), May 21-23, Coté speaking. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Follow us on social media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com) Watch us on: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Sponsor the show (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads): [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Recommendations Brandon: OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux (https://orbstack.dev/) Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/red-theater-curtain-WW1jsInXgwM)

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