Software Defined Talk

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. 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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)

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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) 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.

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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) 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): ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com) 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)

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. 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This week, we discuss Apple’s AI struggles, the never-ending access management puzzle, and the latest Kubernetes vulnerability. Plus, let’s not kill the fun of Vibe Coding. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWt6XwV18v4) 512 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWt6XwV18v4) Runner-up Titles It’s either this or Chips Break glass I’m just making the worst soup Everybody loves a quokka They shipped the product, nobody used it We’re at 95% of setting timers Enterprise software fixes everything Vibecoding for Dummies is already in print (not really) Keep Vibe Coding Pure By making it better, you are making it worse I sold high, bought low and it’s still low Rundown Apple Media “clutching their pearls” Apple puts the Vision Pro guy in charge of Siri (https://www.theverge.com/news/633358/apple-replace-siri-leader-john-giannandrea) Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino?ref=sidebar) Access Management has taken over The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/) Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/hegseth-classified-war-plans-group-chat.html) Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX (https://www.wiz.io/blog/ingress-nginx-kubernetes-vulnerabilities) Nvidia Nvidia CEO stops by Denny's food truck to eat and serve Nvidia Breakfast Bytes (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-ceo-stops-by-dennys-food-truck-to-eat-and-serve-nvidia-breakfast-bytes-before-gtc-2025) GTC AI Conference 2025 (https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/) Vibe Coding Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) (https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/) The Vibe Coding Handbook (https://itrevolution.com/product/vibe-coding-handbook/) Relevant to your Interests Tech worker found guilty of sabotaging company’s systems (https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/tech-worker-found-guilty-of-sabotaging-company-s-systems.html?ref=newsletter&deliveryName=DM25608) SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing (https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20250320) Backstage is dominating the developer portal market (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/backstage-and-the-developer-portal-market) Clouded Judgement 3.21.25 - M&A Roars Back (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-32125-m-and-a-roars?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=159514016&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email) ‘Forced Joy’ Is a Miserable Corporate Trend (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-12/starbucks-tiffany-and-alphabet-make-forced-fun-part-of-the-job) Nonsense Office Space - Joanna - Your Flair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8) 'I made the world's worst keyboard': This YouTuber's homemade board has over 1,000 keys and types in words, not letters (https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-keyboards/i-made-the-worlds-worst-keyboard-this-youtubers-homemade-board-has-over-1-000-keys-and-types-in-words-not-letters/) Mac - Lumon Terminal Pro (https://www.apple.com/mac/lumon-terminal-pro/) Conferences KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), April 1-4, London. 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. 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This week, we discuss Google acquiring Wiz, the rise of Vibe Coding, and what really counts as legacy software. Plus, Coté runs a post-acquisition all-hands meeting. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 511 (https://www.youtube.com/live/ok8lLHFCCRY?si=aos-m8eR1iYcR12v) Runner-up Titles Tattoo “BUSINESS AS USUAL” on the inside of your eyelids BUSINESS AS USUAL One billion a month Turns out they’re gonna put lions in the product. Vibe coding is outcomes-focused. Cote’s AI Thunderdome Don’t make me learn Think About Time VibeCOBOL I don’t like the no-head Rundown Google in Fresh Talks to Buy Cybersecurity Startup Wiz for $30 Billion (https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/alphabet-back-in-deal-talks-for-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-41cd3090?mod=tech_lead_story) Intel board announces Lip-Bu Tan as new CEO (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/intel_lip_bu_tan_new_ceo/) Vibe Coding AI IDEs Need Moats (https://materializedview.io/p/ai-ides-need-moats?ref=dailydev) AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/) Github Coploit does have an agent mode (https://github.com/features/copilot) AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/ai-coding-assistant-cursor-reportedly-tells-a-vibe-coder-to-write-his-own-damn-code/) Vibe Coder job listing (https://getcoai.com/careers/vibe-coder-frontend-developer-role/) Legacy Software Relevant to your Interests Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data (https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/) Open R1: Update #3 (https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3) Sonos has canceled its streaming video player (https://www.theverge.com/tech/628297/sonos-pinewood-streaming-box-canceled) ServiceNow releases no-code, low-code AI agent builder (https://www.ciodive.com/news/servicenow-yokohama-agentic-ai-low-code-development-tool/742275/) Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/technology/meta-book-sales-blocked.html) AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/13/airpods-live-translation-ios-19/) Clouded Judgement 3.14.25 - Authentication in the Age of AI Agents (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-31425-authentication?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=159023089&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email) Google allows users to personalize their Gemini conversations with new features (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/google-now-allows-users-to-personalize-their-gemini-conversations.html) Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture (https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/) Job Seekers Hit Wall of Salary Deflation - WSJ (https://archive.ph/Gn0F9) Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino) OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/openstack-comes-to-the-linux-foundation/?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content) Accusations of Corporate Espionage Shake a Software Rivalry (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/business/dealbook/rippling-deel-corporate-spy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) IBM Mergers: Closing on HashiCorp and Intent to Acquire Data (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2025/03/14/ibm-hashicorp-datastax/)S (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2025/03/14/ibm-hashicorp-datastax/)tax (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2025/03/14/ibm-hashicorp-datastax/) Nonsense The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY&t=7s) Southwest Airlines CEO Video via WFAA (https://www.tiktok.com/@wfaach8/video/7480585081753537835?_t=ZT-8ufHaixEbks&_r=1) Southwest Airlines Just Broke the $5 Chicken Rule, and There Goes What Once Made It Great (https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/southwest-airlines-just-broke-the-5-chicken-rule-and-there-goes-what-once-made-it-great/91161331). Conferences SREday London (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/), March 27-28, Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/Michael_Cote_VMware__Pivotal_Platform_Engineering_for_Private_Cloud). 10% with code LDN10 Monki Gras (https://monkigras.com/), London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 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. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), April 1-4, London. 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This week, we discuss Discord’s IPO plans, Cursor’s big raise, and how much coding developers actually do. Plus, is Southwest making a huge mistake with bag fees and assigned seats? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/JmkVmwAMw6U?si=ywGs_F3DImUFC0LZ) 510 (https://www.youtube.com/live/JmkVmwAMw6U?si=ywGs_F3DImUFC0LZ) Runner-up Titles Cote’s not here, so we’ll keep it tight They treated me like I’m stupid I’m not here to buy into the culture Go eats some rocks and glue My head is full of simultaneous thoughts Fly high Icarus, fly high We are certain of the uncertainty Rundown Southwest Airlines shifts to paid baggage policy to lift earnings (https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/southwest-airlines-shifts-paid-baggage-policy-lift-earnings-2025-03-11/) Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/technology/discord-ipo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k4.eQrV.NtKK_GpiT-Di&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p) IDE Follow up DevTasks outside of the IDE (PDF) (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/devtime-preprint-TSE19.pdf) How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity? — LessWrong (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tqmQTezvXGFmfSe7f/how-much-are-llms-actually-boosting-real-world-programmer) [AI [CursorStartup Anysphere in Talks for Close to $10 Billion Valuation (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/ai-startup-anysphere-in-talks-for-close-to-10-billion-valuation) Market Trends Nvidia Is Down 27% From Its Peak. (https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/03/07/nvidia-stock-down-27-from-peak-history-says-this/) Millennium Loses $900 Million on Strategy Roiled by Market Chaos (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-08/millennium-loses-900-million-on-strategy-roiled-by-market-chaos) Relevant to your Interests OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $20,000/month agent (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-charging-20-000-a-month-for-phd-level-agents> | <http://www.techmeme.com/250305/p29#a250305p29) Introducing the Framework Desktop (https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/introducing-the-framework-desktop) Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age verification bill (https://www.theverge.com/news/624981/utah-app-store-age-verification-bill) Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers (https://www.theverge.com/news/624485/turing-award-andrew-barto-richard-sutton-ai-dangers) Does Big Tech’s suckiness open the door for leaner startups? (https://thehustle.co/news/does-big-techs-suckiness-open-the-door-for-leaner-startups) Apple Explains Why the New Mac Studio Doesn't Have an M4 Ultra Chip (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/05/apple-explains-lack-of-m4-ultra-chip/) Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You (https://www.wired.com/story/your-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-this-surveillance-tech-could-be-waiting-for-you/) Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells (https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs-neuron-brain-chip/104996484) What the Dot-Com Bust Can Tell Us About Today’s AI Boom (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-the-dot-com-bust-can-tell-us-about-todays-ai-boom-c78482e7?mod=hp_lead_pos2) Microsoft is replacing Remote Desktop with its new Windows app (https://www.theverge.com/news/627483/microsoft-remote-desktop-windows-app-replacement) A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/) Niantic's Next Chapter: Introducing a New Home for Niantic Games (https://nianticlabs.com/news/niantic-next-chapter) iRobot Shares Drop 34% in Premarket Trading After Warning of Financial Uncertainty (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irobot-shares-drop-34-premarket-174337217.html) Health NZ used single Excel spreadsheet to track $28b of public money (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/significant-concerns-health-nz-was-using-a-single-excel-spreadsheet-to-track-28-billion-of-public-money/WADIE2J26JEDVCLXYL7HKTMNDE/) $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/) Oracle's Cash Squeeze (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracles-cash-squeeze?rc=x1tr6w) Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off 'More Personal Siri' (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/10/apple-pulls-iphone-16-ad-more-personal-siri/) Apple's AI strategy is showing troubling cracks (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apples-ai-strategy-is-showing-troubling-cracks-150559429.html) Nonsense Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7204505/) Chuck E. Cheese gets a rebrand — which means no more animatronic band (https://www.today.com/food/restaurants/chuck-e-cheese-animatronic-band-rcna195724) Listener Feedback JD recommends The DuckDB Local UI (https://duckdb.org/2025/03/12/duckdb-ui.html) Conferences DevOpsDays Chicago (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-chicago/welcome/), March 18th, 2025. SREday London (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/), March 27-28, Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/Michael_Cote_VMware__Pivotal_Platform_Engineering_for_Private_Cloud). 10% with code LDN10 Monki Gras (https://monkigras.com/), London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 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. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), April 1-4, London. 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This week, we discuss IBM acquisitions, IDEs in the age of AI, and bidding farewell to Skype. Plus, the dos and don’ts of using chat in corporate meetings. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/nWu6QCcr_xo?si=yCZKxkmYK8c6GmOy) 509 (https://www.youtube.com/live/nWu6QCcr_xo?si=yCZKxkmYK8c6GmOy) Runner-up Titles I’m going to make a point until the other people stop talking Is there a place I can type? Rediscovering USENET Let me introduce you to Del.icio.us That Big Blue HOA That assumes that enterprise IT is compelling The Costco liquor store is Open Source Lights out programming. The WebKit of IDEs The DevRel that makes a difference Rundown IBM roll ups? Accelerating Production AI and Bringing NoSQL Data at Scale to All Enterprises (https://www.datastax.com/blog/ibm-plans-to-acquire-datastax) IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp, (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform) IDE up for grabs AI disruption - code editors are up for grabs (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2025/02/21/ai-disruption-code-editors-are-up-for-grabs/) Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/google-launches-a-free-ai-coding-assistant-with-very-high-usage-caps/) Google’s principles for measuring developer productivity (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/googles-principles-for-measuring-developer-productivity) Goodbye Update on Support for Amazon Chime (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/update-on-support-for-amazon-chime/) Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May (https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-killing-skype/), Om’s ode to Skype (https://om.co/2025/02/28/skype-is-dead-what-happened/). Relevant to your Interests The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google—Asterisk (https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-death-and-life-of-prediction-markets-at-google) Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source (https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/microsofts-majorana-1-chip-carves-new-path-for-quantum-computing/) Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quantum-computing-topological-qubit.html) Trump Enforcers Affirm Lina Khan's Approach to Antitrust (https://daringfireball.net/2025/02/thoughts_and_observations_on_todays_iphone_16e_announcement) No Rules Are Implicit Rules (https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/02/no-rules-are-implicit-rules/) Is AWS Delivering on Its 3-Layer Approach to AI? (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-year-of-ai/) Apple Unveils New Lower-Priced iPhone With A.I. Features (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/business/apple-iphone-16e-ai.html) HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/hp_deliberately_adds_15_minutes/) YouTube Plans Lower-Priced, Ad-Free Version of Paid Video Tier (https://archive.ph/2025.02.20-175148/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/youtube-plans-lower-priced-ad-free-version-of-paid-video-tier) Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite (https://www.theverge.com/news/617009/google-youtube-premium-lite-us-launch) He created one of the world’s first websites. It was IMDb. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/02/23/imdb-internet-history-col-needham/) Processing 23 Billion Rows of ALIEN TXTBASE Stealer Logs (https://www.troyhunt.com/processing-23-billion-rows-of-alien-txtbase-stealer-logs/) Introduction to Service Mesh (https://thenewstack.io/introduction-to-service-mesh/) Slack is down — live updates on massive outage (https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/slack-down-updates-outage-2-25) Introducing Alexa+, the next generation of Alexa (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generative-artificial-intelligence) Alphabet's Google cuts some cloud division staff, Bloomberg reports (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabets-google-cuts-cloud-division-192306780.html) British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work (https://apnews.com/article/uk-musicians-protest-ai-copyright-law-dc80620c1c226a816048b87fb30309c4) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2025) The Job Market Is Frozen (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/) The Hardest Career Shift No One Talks About (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEIwHGf1Ko) Intel breaking new organizational ground by formalizing the idea of a co-CEO that reports to a (third?) CEO to be named later. (https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-sec-filings##document-5774-0000050863-25-000024-3) NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang Addresses The "DeepSeek Fiasco" For The First Time; Says Investors "Overreacted" & "Got It All Wrong" (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-addresses-the-deepseek-fiasco-for-the-first-time/) Uber and Waymo officially launch autonomous vehicle service in Austin; what to know (https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2025/03/04/uber-waymo-austin-atx-autonomous-ride-service-driverless-cars-launch/81210367007/) How to Get Hired When AI Does the Screening (https://hbr.org/2025/02/how-to-get-hired-when-ai-does-the-screening) How's that open source licensing coming along? (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/open_source_licensing/) Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-unveils-new-mac-studio-the-most-powerful-mac-ever/) Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-introduces-ipad-air-with-powerful-m3-chip-and-new-magic-keyboard/) Sponsors Subscribe to the Fork Around and Find Out Podcast (https://www.fafo.fm) Nonsense Everyone Hates Pennies, Except This Guy (https://www.wsj.com/business/mark-weller-penny-defender-trump-d543a9de) Mother's Flour Tortillas (https://www.heb.com/recipe/recipe-detail/mothers-flour-tortillas) A Comprehensive Guide to American Regional Cuisine (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/MLHzVqA4YH) Listener Feedback Episode 94: Adding more condiments to the 7 layer networking burrito, with Marino Wijay (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/94) Multi Tool Warren recommends: Micra Multi-Tool | Leatherman (https://www.leatherman.com/micra-20.html) Mykel recommends ROXON 802 Phantom (https://roxontool.com/products/roxon-s802-phantom) Matt recommends the Swiss+Tech Utili-Key 6-in-1 Multi-tool | REI Co-op (https://www.rei.com/product/850418/swisstech-utili-key-6-in-1-multi-tool) Conferences DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/devopsday-la) at SCALE22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x), March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP Open Source Career Day 2025 (https://www.linkedin.com/company/open-source-career-day-2025/), March 9, 2025 VMUG NL (https://vmugnl.nl), March 12th, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Chicago (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-chicago/welcome/), March 18th, 2025. SREday London (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/), March 27-28, Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/Michael_Cote_VMware__Pivotal_Platform_Engineering_for_Private_Cloud). 10% with code LDN10 Monki Gras (https://monkigras.com/), London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 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. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), April 1-4, London. 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This week, we're sharing a Software Defined Interviews episode. Coté and Whitney talk with Brian Gracely from the Cloudcast and Red Hat about cloud news, PaaS evolution, and career advice. If you like this, subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more great conversations! Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Special Guests: Brian Gracely and Whitney Lee.

This week, we discuss how banks beat PayPal with Zelle, what the Wiz survey says about AI usage, and whether you can really “disagree and commit.” Plus, are multitools actually useful? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es_23z-c_fk) 507 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es_23z-c_fk) Runner-up Titles Royal Human Skin I feel bad for the multitools The Hulu of Payments Floppy disk mindset Upgrading the status quo The floppy disk mindset, the floppy disk award. A triangle fighting itself. Fancy database tools Apple’s grammar powers. Rundown Zelle payments top $1 trillion in 2024 as network's growth outpaces rivals including PayPal (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/zelle-payments-top-1-trillion-in-2024.html) The State of AI in the Cloud 2025 | Wiz (https://www.wiz.io/state-of-ai-in-the-cloud) How to add a directory to your PATH (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/13/how-to-add-a-directory-to-your-path/) Relevant to your Interests Juniper CEO, HPE blast DOJ deal denial (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/juniper-ceo-hpe-blast-doj-deal-denial/2025/02) These are the 50 most common four-digit PINs leaked on the dark web (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/most-common-four-digit-pins-leaked-on-the-dark-web-report.html) Believing in Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer’s Career. Now He’s Facing Prison (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-05/aliens-derailed-this-silicon-valley-exec-s-career-now-he-s-facing-prison) Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project (https://on.ft.com/42QT1Rb) Inside Amazon’s Messy Push to Bring Everyone Back to the Office (https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-office-remote-rto-commute-ea57fcc4?st=z3rn13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink) EU ditches plans to regulate tech patents, AI liability, online privacy (https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-ditches-plans-regulate-tech-patents-ai-liability-online-privacy-2025-02-12/) Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work (https://www.tiktok.com/@barrons/video/7471026096083914026?embed_source=121374463%2C1[…]eturn-to-office-7064ee64&referer_video_id=7471026096083914026) TSMC Considers Running Intel’s US Factories After Trump Team Request (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/tsmc-considers-running-intel-s-us-factories-after-trump-team-request) The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research (https://archive.ph/2025.02.15-023640/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/13/the-danger-of-relying-on-openais-deep-research) The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF (https://thenewstack.io/the-feds-push-for-webassembly-security-over-ebpf/) How to add a directory to your PATH (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/13/how-to-add-a-directory-to-your-path/) The “AI Agent As Coworker” Narrative Is Nonsense (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-ai-agent-as-co-worker-narrative-is-nonsense/) This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. (https://bsky.app/profile/nathievr.bsky.social/post/3licnwqjxsk2p) Jamie Dimon offered up candid, lengthy thoughts about remote work (https://www.tiktok.com/@barrons/video/7471026096083914026?embed_source=121374463%2C1[…]eturn-to-office-7064ee64&referer_video_id=7471026096083914026) Nonsense Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant (https://smallssliders.com/) never obsolete (https://www.tumblr.com/never-obsolete/775397821906026496/sony-dvp-c600d-wired-january-1999) Gartner Hype Cycle Demystified (https://hachyderm.io/@forrestbrazeal/114004558069531230) Smalls Sliders: Cheeseburger Slider Restaurant (https://smallssliders.com/) Conferences DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/devopsday-la) at SCALE22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x), March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP VMUG NL (https://vmugnl.nl), March 12th, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Chicago (https://devopsdays.org/events/2025-chicago/welcome/), March 18th, 2025. SREday London (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/), March 27-28, Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2025-london-q1/Michael_Cote_VMware__Pivotal_Platform_Engineering_for_Private_Cloud). 10% with code LDN10 Monki Gras (https://monkigras.com/), London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 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. KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), April 1-4, London. SDT News & Community Join our Slack community (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-1hn55iv5d-UTfN7mVX1D9D5ExRt3ZJYQ#/shared-invite/email) Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) 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): ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:ads@softwaredefinedtalk.com) Recommendations Brandon: Cursor (https://www.cursor.com/) Matt: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel (https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Dodge-Hell-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062458728) Coté: The Substance (https://letterboxd.com/journal/coralie-fargeat-the-substance-interview/). 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