Episode 375: For the Birds

This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?

Runner-up Titles

Where’s my admin?
All my children qualify as adults
Start by eating their food
Put two letters in front of it
Where’s the grocery store
I got that everything bagel spice
Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?
In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.
The runbook’s already written.
Spagetti Bowl
Tanzu the Shih Tzu
A FinOps Type of Motion
The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff
Growth is best done in the shadows.
Wrapping bullshit with bullshit
Nopehouse, home of the fast follower
The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans
Thought-leadership suicide mission

Rundown

VMware Explore
How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users

Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado
Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions

Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This

Relevant to your Interests

Amazon tries a new way to excite you about cybersecurity (it's called laughter)
The golden noose around Apple's neck
Campaign pushes Cloudflare to drop trans hate site
Mudge at Twitter
Bloomberg takes cut and paste seriously
Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog
World’s Most Popular Password Manager Says It Was Hacked
LastPass Says No Passwords Stolen in Data Breach
AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers | Amazon Web Services
Pandas Pivot Table Explained
Charted: Big Tech's bigness
UK's Micro Focus shares nearly double after Canada's OpenText agrees $6 bln takeover
Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform
The State of the Mainframe Market - Summer 2022
City2Surf face recognition raises concerns
IBM Watson Health layoffs disguised as staff 'redeployment'
David Young on LinkedIn: The metaverse economy is set to boom... gambling will be a significant
OCI History
VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns as 'next transition'
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier
Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation

Nonsense

Sounds right
When the development team meet their first Scrum Master
Chart of the year nominee

Conferences

DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

Enlightning from Whitney

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!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Brandon: Black Bird
Matt: BirdNetPi

Festival of Feet Half-Marathon

Coté: Spigen ArcDock 120W [GaN III] 4-Port USB C Charging Stantion USB-C PD/USB-A Hub with Spigen USB 4 Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Cable 100W Charging 40Gbps Data Transfer for MacBook Pro Air iPad USB-C Laptop.

C7/C8 coupler cables

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CoverArt
Banner
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For the Birds

Episode 375

September 2nd, 2022

1 hr 11 mins

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About this Episode

This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?

Runner-up Titles

• Where’s my admin?

• All my children qualify as adults

• Start by eating their food

• Put two letters in front of it

• Where’s the grocery store

• I got that everything bagel spice

• Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?

• In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.

• The runbook’s already written.

• Spagetti Bowl

• Tanzu the Shih Tzu

• A FinOps Type of Motion

• The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff

• Growth is best done in the shadows.

• Wrapping bullshit with bullshit

• Nopehouse, home of the fast follower

• The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans

• Thought-leadership suicide mission

Rundown

• VMware Explore

• How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users

• Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado

• Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions

• Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon tries a new way to excite you about cybersecurity (it's called laughter)

• The golden noose around Apple's neck

• Campaign pushes Cloudflare to drop trans hate site

• Mudge at Twitter

• Bloomberg takes cut and paste seriously

• Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog

• World’s Most Popular Password Manager Says It Was Hacked

• LastPass Says No Passwords Stolen in Data Breach

• AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers | Amazon Web Services

• Pandas Pivot Table Explained

• Charted: Big Tech's bigness

• UK's Micro Focus shares nearly double after Canada's OpenText agrees $6 bln takeover

• Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform

• The State of the Mainframe Market - Summer 2022

• City2Surf face recognition raises concerns

• IBM Watson Health layoffs disguised as staff 'redeployment'

• David Young on LinkedIn: The metaverse economy is set to boom... gambling will be a significant

• OCI History

• VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns as 'next transition'

• Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier

• Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation

Nonsense

• Sounds right

• When the development team meet their first Scrum Master

• Chart of the year nominee

Conferences

• DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022

• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting

• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022

• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022

• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

• Enlightning from Whitney

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!

• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

• Brandon: Black Bird

• Matt: BirdNetPi

• Festival of Feet Half-Marathon

• Coté: Spigen ArcDock 120W [GaN III] 4-Port USB C Charging Stantion USB-C PD/USB-A Hub with Spigen USB 4 Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Cable 100W Charging 40Gbps Data Transfer for MacBook Pro Air iPad USB-C Laptop.

• C7/C8 coupler cables

Photo Credits

• CoverArt

• Banner

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