Episode 390: It’s just a bunch of programming

This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390

Runner-up Titles

It’s never stopped us before.
Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment
Three kinds of mayonnaise
An aspirational architectural pattern.
There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there.
I don’t have a computer science degree.
Mid-Code
It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be?
Is it a utopian Wall-E or not?

Rundown

AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels

Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events
Design Patterns book

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow?
Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil
Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore.

Relevant to your Interests

Elastic Earnings
Snowflake Earnings
IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain
OpenStack cloud sees explosive growth
Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon Web Services
HYPR, the Leader in Phishing-Resistant MFA, Raises $25M
Future is quietly shutting down
Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps
No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff)
Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again
Here's everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote
Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter
Twitter lawsuit
the only cheat sheet you need
Google Plans to Lay Off 10,000 'Poor Performing' Employees. Why That's a Big Lie, According to Harvard Professor

Broadcom again tries to quash VMware price rise rumors
Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard
If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software
Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform
The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set
The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up
mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out
Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation
9 insights on real world container use
Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce co-CEO
Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down
Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January
Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature to take on Facebook and Discord

Nonsense

Advent of Code
The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck
Dangerously Advanced Git

Conferences

THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th

Use code SDT for 5% off

New State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

Listener Feedback

Send “End of Year” listener questions to questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com.
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It’s just a bunch of programming

Episode 390

December 9th, 2022

1 hr 6 mins

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About this Episode

This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390

Runner-up Titles

• It’s never stopped us before.

• Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment

• Three kinds of mayonnaise

• An aspirational architectural pattern.

• There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there.

• I don’t have a computer science degree.

• Mid-Code

• It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be?

• Is it a utopian Wall-E or not?

Rundown

• AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels

• Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events

• Design Patterns book

• ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

• ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow?

• Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil

• Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore.

Relevant to your Interests

• Elastic Earnings

• Snowflake Earnings

• IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain

• OpenStack cloud sees explosive growth

• Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon Web Services

• HYPR, the Leader in Phishing-Resistant MFA, Raises $25M

• Future is quietly shutting down

• Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down

• AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps

• No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff)

• Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again

• Here's everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote

• Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter

• Twitter lawsuit

• the only cheat sheet you need

• Google Plans to Lay Off 10,000 'Poor Performing' Employees. Why That's a Big Lie, According to Harvard Professor

• Broadcom again tries to quash VMware price rise rumors

• Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard

• If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software

• Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform

• The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set

• The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up

• mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out

• Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation

• 9 insights on real world container use

• Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce co-CEO

• Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down

• Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January

• Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature to take on Facebook and Discord

Nonsense

• Advent of Code

• The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck

• Dangerously Advanced Git

Conferences

• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th

• Use code SDT for 5% off

• New State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023

• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

Listener Feedback

• Send “End of Year” listener questions to questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com.

• Tim recommends Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) | Acquired Podcast

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.

• Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!

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