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Software Defined Talk

Software Defined Talk

Software Defined Talk LLC

A podcast about Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing that doesn't take itself too seriously.

  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho

    This week, we discuss how normal people use AI, Alphabet's Anthropic-fueled earnings, and skills vs. agents. Plus, catching AI-cheating students with a hidden prompt.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 583

    Runner-up Titles

    • “Do you think they named them red delicious because they knew they were delicious?”
    • I thought they were First World
    • Steal your Alpha-tier
    • Cory uses only 100% free-range, organic AI.
    • Copy, paste, go.
    • Stolen fruit from the poisoned tree all the way down.
    • It’s a different kind of cold. It’s a dry cold.

    Rundown

    • AI IRL
      • How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
      • Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
    • Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues
    • Google Cloud is killing it
    • Skill vs. Agents
      • Atlas: Wiz's autonomous AI Agent for vulnerability research
      • Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
    • Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Embrace, Adding Real User Monitoring to Its Observability Platform
    • IBM CEO Says Company Culture Was Too Slow to Change
    • Domo Announces Agreement to Sell Substantially All Assets and Certain Liabilities to Progress Software for $400 Million
    • Google Cloud is killing it
    • ChatGPT chats are showing up in Google Search — how to find and delete yours [Update]
    • 2026 State of infrastructure in the agentic AI era
    • Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter

    Sponsors

    • Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

    Conferences

    • AI Connect, Aug 22nd, 2026 - Riga, Latvia, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: [email protected]
    • Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Silo Season 3
    • Matt: Hyperion
    • Coté: Cooking with Claude

    Sponsored By:

    • Signadot: AI writes code. Signadot make sure it works.
    31 July 2026, 5:30 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Episode 582: Talking About Modernization

    This week, we discuss Bun's move to Rust, OpenAI hunting for revenue, and Stripe's bid for PayPal. Plus, Coté's Dad wisdom.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 582

    Runner-up Titles

    • Turn off my dog
    • Dad Wisdom
    • Amazon subscription and let it fly
    • Dad box
    • Talking about modernization
    • Skin in the game
    • The ivory tower of “Things Actually Work in the Real World”
    • Business fortnight
    • No SegwaysBanking works everywhere else in the world, not America

    Rundown

    • Rewriting Bun in Rust
    • OpenAI
      • OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-up
      • OpenAI's Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
      • AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
      • OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
      • OpenAI power consolidates under co-founder Greg Brockman ahead of prospective IPO
      • Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
      • Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
      • OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
    • Stripe, Advent make $53 billion takeover offer for PayPal, sending stock soaring

    Relevant to your Interests

    • SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company
    • Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence
    • Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
    • California founder fired for ignoring his company's own return-to-office mandate
    • Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined
    • Did a lottery winner become "the company of the future"?
    • Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%
    • Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI
    • Salesforce MCP Servers: AI, Data & Analytics for Tableau & Data 360 in Slack
    • IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks
    • Infoblox acquires Kentik, adding network observability to its DNS and DDI platform
    • Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses
    • House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
    • United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
    • Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
    • 1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords
    • 1Password and Anthropic Bring Secure Credential Access to Claude
    • forum, an accountable orchestrator for AI agents
    • Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
    • 'Pretty revolting': LG's TV are getting huge backlash from users due to installing software
    • What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend
    • You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
    • China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance
    • Can Lenovo's World Cup AI Moment Cement Its Enterprise PC Dominance?
    • AI Coding Tools Deliver Speed but Not Business Value Unless Wrapped in Process:
    • China’s Moonshot in Talks on Pre-IPO Funds at $50 Billion Value
    • OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
    • AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
    • Oracle Is Now Down 28% in a Month. Will the 52-Week Low of $132 Hold or Fold?
    • IBM stock craters 23% after issuing second-quarter earnings warning
    • Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
    • Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
    • AWS cloud lead Dave Brown heads to Meta - report - DCD
    • Amazon senior cloud executive departs after 18 years
    • Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026
    • Meta Compute Launch Sends AI Compute Stocks Tumbling Globally
    • Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion
    • Dark-Moon: Autonomous AI pentesting engine

    Sponsors

    • Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works.

    Nonsense

    • Messi Beats Ronaldo in 2026 World Cup Password Breach Data Rankings
    • United Airlines' new upsell: Keeping other travelers out of the middle seat
    • Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
    • House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

    Listener Feedback

    • Biogen hiring Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture in Triangle, NC
    • Tim releases a font for developers whose close-up vision isn't what it used to be
    • The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th

    Conferences

    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: [email protected]
    • Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon:
      • entogo — Type a keyword. Go anywhere.
      • 28 Years Later, The Bone Temple
    • Matt: Vacation, not micro-retirement
    • Coté: Wolf Hall books.

    Sponsored By:

    • Signadot: AI writes code. Signadot make sure it works.
    24 July 2026, 5:30 am
  • 51 minutes 19 seconds
    Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents

    Brandon interviews Arjun Iyer, CEO & Co-founder of Signadot. They discuss how Ephemeral Environments eliminate developer toil by shifting validation earlier in the dev cycle, how Signadot's MCP server lets AI coding agents run end-to-end tests autonomously, and real-world results including Brex saving $2M in cloud spend. Plus, how Cisco bought AppDynamics for ~$4 billion the day before their IPO.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 581

    Show Links

    • Signadot
    • Free Trial
    • Brex Case Study
    • Signadot Documentation Overview

    Contact Arjun Iyer

    • LinkedIn: Arjun Iyer
    • Twitter: @arjuniyer_

    SDT News & Hype

    • Join us in Slack.
    • Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
    • Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads 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!

    Special Guest: Arjun Iyer.

    Sponsored By:

    • Signadot: AI writes code. Signadot make sure it works.
    17 July 2026, 5:30 am
  • 54 minutes 34 seconds
    Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables

    Every project has environment variables. Almost nobody manages them well. This week Brandon talks with Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim, who built varlock to fix that — bringing structure and security to the humble .env file.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 580

    Show Links:

    • varlock.dev
    • varlock on GitHub
    • @env-spec Overview
    • DMNO (corporate site)
    • Varlock MCP Server (docs)
    • howtostore.food — Theo's side project on the best way to store produce
    • unsafeharbour.com — Phil's music label
    • Nautical Artifacts on Bandcamp
    • bumpy

    Contact Phil Miller:

    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/themillman
    • Email: [email protected]
    • Music: unsafeharbour.com

    Contact Theo Ephraim:

    • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim
    • Website: theoephraim.com
    • Twitter/X: @theozero
    • Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social
    • Email: [email protected]

    General Contact:

    • [email protected]
    • [email protected]

    Varlock Community

    • Varlock Discord — Chat with the team and other users
    • GitHub Discussions — Suggestions, questions, and feature requests
    • varlock on GitHub — Star the project and follow updates
    • Varlock on X
    • Varlock on Bluesky

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: [email protected]
    • Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Special Guests: Phil Miller and Theo Ephraim.

    10 July 2026, 5:30 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Episode 579: The Headless Lifestyle

    This week, we discuss Anthropic's 18-day Fable timeout, whether AI is actually killing jobs, and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO problem. Plus, SoftBank's golden goose slides.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 579

    Runner-up Titles

    • Everything is Files
    • It’s just about meetings
    • Did you do the pre-meet?
    • Meetings
    • Judgement
    • Let it ride
    • If it’s hot, turn on the AC
    • I don’t have time for a towel.
    • Headless HEB

    Rundown

    • I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI
    • Fable is Back
      • White House lifts export control on advanced AI model from Anthropic
      • Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
      • OpenAI and Anthropic limit new AI models to Trump-approved customers during cybersecurity review
    • AI News of the Month - June 2026
    • AI is NOT killing jobs
      • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
      • AWS puts $1 billion into new AI unit to embed engineers with customers
      • A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs
      • The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
    • Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
    • OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for I.P.O.
    • SoftBank’s slides are just trolling us
      • The PDF of the Slides

    Relevant to your Interests

    • The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code
    • Axios Future of Cybersecurity Thought Bubble
    • SpaceX Is Getting Fast-Tracked Into Indexes. Ordinary Investors Could Lose Out.
    • News Flash: You Are the Exit Liquidity for the SpaceX IPO
    • Cerebras Systems Announces Strong First Quarter 2026 Results
    • The AI Compass
    • T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware

    Listener Feedback

    • Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: [email protected]
    • Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Walmart+ for Grocery Delivery
    • Coté: Supermarkt Meerwijk Watergraafsmeer, also in Instagram
    3 July 2026, 2:30 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Episode 578: War for Talent

    This week, we discuss Fable follow-up, Gartner's AI Governance MQ, and the war for AI talent. Plus, Matt and Brandon review Disclosure Day.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 578

    Runner-up Titles

    • Ready to podcast from a sailboat
    • It’s just people fighting
    • Calculator budget
    • Ask Siri to do your homework
    • Software Defined Consulting: SDC
    • The Magic Platform
    • AI Curious
    • I watched ALLLLL the keynotes.
    • I don’t know that, but I know that
    • You gotta stay to vest
    • Brandon, remember Cursor?
    • Educated Hater

    Rundown

    • Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms
      • IBM recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms 
      • What is an "AI Governance Platform?
    • AI Consolidates Talent
      • Alphabet paces for worst day in a year on AI concerns after high-profile exits
      • OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
      • Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agent

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger joins faith-focused tech firm Gloo
    • Explore more than a decade of survey data across markets
    • Did Slate Accidentally Reveal Its Electric Truck Price? Shocking MSRP
    • Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
    • Introducing Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
    • 'Fix this code.' The three words that led the U.S. government to ban …
    • Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million
    • Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
    • Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
    • Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas using natural gas
    • Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
    • U.S.-Backed Chipmaking Startup Chaired by Former Intel CEO Is Raising $350 Million
    • OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
    • Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
    • Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

    Sponsors

    • Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers

    Nonsense

    • Wiz Ice Cream for CISOs
    • IN THE WEIGHTS

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026
    • Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting.

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: [email protected]
    • Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Disclosure Day
    • Matt: Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet
    • Coté:
      • The Millennial Aesthetic
      • Coté’s CFP acceptance rate chart
      • Coté’s newsletter

    Sponsored By:

    • Sentry: Use the code: sdt26 for $100 in Sentry credits for new users
    26 June 2026, 5:30 am
  • 1 hour 29 seconds
    Episode 577: Let’s go to Buc-ee’s

    This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 577

    Runner-up Titles

    • Waited out the storm
    • Maybe we should build some castles or something
    • Years of lawsuits ahead of us
    • The ultimate dream
    • AI SEO
    • I hope you’re paid by the hour
    • Always be monitoring to me

    Rundown

    • Anthropic
      • How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
      • Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
      • Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
    • Cursor
      • Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
      • SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
    • Vibe Coding
      • Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
      • Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
      • Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
    • curl summer of bliss

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
    • apple/container
    • The Virtual OS Museum
    • YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw)
    • OpenAI to acquire Ona
    • Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards
    • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again
    • Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
    • VCs behaving badly
    • Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther

    Sponsors

    • Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers

    Nonsense

    • The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute
    • Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver
    • Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers
    • Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

    Conferences

    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
    • Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Germany.
    • DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK
    • WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD26
      • 25 Free Tickets
    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
    • DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006
    • DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting.
    • VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026

    SDT News & Community

    • Join our Slack community
    • Email the show: [email protected]
    • Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected]
    • Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky
    • Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
    • Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté
    • Sponsor the show
    • Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media

    Recommendations

    • Brandon: Digital ID
    • Matt: Murderbot Diaries: Platform Decay
    • Coté: WordPress.com. Tetilla cheese from the Camino de Santiago.

    Sponsored By:

    • Sentry: Use the code: sdt26 for $100 in Sentry credits for new users
    19 June 2026, 5:30 am
  • 48 minutes 39 seconds
    Episode 576: Observability's Next Phase

    Brandon talks with OpenObserve's Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham: why observability is still broken, how they fixed it, and where AI takes it next.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 576

    Show Links

    • OpenObserve
    • OpenObserve on GitHub
    • Series A and Observability 3.0 announcement blog post
    • Launching OpenObserve
    • OpenObserve 2-Minute Demo
    • Download OpenObserve

    Contact Prabhat Sharma

    • LinkedIn: hiprabhat
    • Twitter/X: @hiprabhat

    Contact Shani Shoham

    • LinkedIn: shanishoham
    • Twitter: @shohams

    SDT News & Hype

    • Join us in Slack.
    • Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
    • Follow us: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads 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!

    Special Guests: Prabhat Sharma and Shani Shoham.

    Sponsored By:

    • Open Observe: Petabyte-scale, unified observability built for the AI era.
    12 June 2026, 5:30 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Episode 575: UI blizzard

    This week, we discuss NVIDIA going consumer, Microsoft Build, and the Anthropic/OpenAI IPO race. Plus, does credit card insurance work?

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 575

    Runner-up Titles

    • Who Wins AI?
    • Models vs. Middleware
    • Jensen After Dark
    • Once again, robots
    • Why is this something you talk about in a keynote?
    • Could this have been an app?
    • Defeating Apple, the sword in the stone
    • Your tokens are my margin
    • Prisons, schools and military - what is the Venn diagram?
    • Every enterprise is unhappy in their own way

    Rundown

    • Nvidia
      • NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI
      • Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind
      • Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia's new N1X laptop processors
      • Blackstone and Google launch $5B TPU cloud venture with 500MW of AI capacity
      • AI server demand drives staggering revenue growth for Dell and its stock soars
    • Microsoft Build
      • Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work
      • Microsoft Build Live Blog
      • Microsoft admits its "infuriating" floating AI button was a mistake
    • OpenAI and Anthropic Go Public
      • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
      • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
      • How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast
      • Anthropic and SpaceX compute
      • OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
      • OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push
      • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph

    Relevant to your Interests

    • Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack
    • GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
    • Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
    • SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
    • Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
    • Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out + AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
    • Introducing UniFi 5G Backup
    • AI Generated Summaries
    • WSJ: How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace with AI
    • Microsoft open-sources the earliest DOS source code discovered to date
    • Audio-generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down
    • Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking.
    • How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
    • Snowflake to Acquire Natoma to Bring Governed Agentic Access to the Enterprise
    • U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution
    • Meta to start testing AI subscription services, cheapest plan at $7.99/month

    Sponsors

    • Sentry - Quit Buggin': use code sdt26 for $100 in credit for new customers

    Nonsense

    • What Is a Dickover?

    Listener Feedback

    • Henning corrects Coté’s pronunciation of León.

    Conferences

    • VMware User Group, Dallas, June 9-11, 2026
    • WeAreDevelopers Europe, July 8-10, 2026 Berlin, Coté speaking.
    • DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026
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    • DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026
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    Episode 574: Nobody Wants to Be a Measurer

    This week, we discuss the Cloudflare CEO's op-ed, upcoming tech IPOs and GitHub getting breached. Plus, ranking our favorite manifestos.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 574

    Runner-up Titles

    • We’re not making money so we can’t put in place the enshitification strategy.
    • Go easy on the AI
    • I hope they’re not using PowerPoint in the Vatican
    • I didn’t’ come here to talk about the Pope
    • I should take more showers
    • I came to measure and chew bubblegum
    • Matt Ray Dalio is not a wave rider.
    • Usability golf
    • No dependencies, no problems
    • Peak Software
    • We are a safe haven for measures
    • Tools and Rules

    Rundown

    • Layoffs
      • How do AI Layoffs Work? Some Speculation.
      • How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI
    • Revenue and IPO
      • Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year
      • OpenAI Prepares to File to Go Public in Coming Weeks
      • SpaceX TAM - $28.5 trillion. US GDP - $31 trillion.
    • GitHub Got Hacked. The AI Security Arms Race is Here
      • NHS Pulls OSS
      • Wiz + Anthropic: Claude Enterprise Meets the Security Graph | Wiz Blog

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    Episode 573: How many quadrillions in a Googol?

    This week, we discuss Google I/O, the OpenAI soap opera, and ChatGPT going full financial advisor. Plus, thoughts on improving the conference hallway track.

    Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 573

    Runner-up Titles

    • Stupid Macs
    • I like my idea
    • What was I thinking?
    • Opt-in AI
    • Kentucky Derby’s this Weekend
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    • There’s no vibe in X-Code
    • Matt’s trading with AI
    • Everyone’s watching

    Rundown

    • Google I/O
      • A new era for AI Search
      • All the news from the Google I/O 2026 Developer keynote
      • I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era
    • AI Stuff
      • Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman
      • Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
      • OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts
      • Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader

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