About this Episode

“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.”

The title says it all.

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Relevant to your interests

• Observations on Observability
  • https://medium.com/@copyconstruct
• This GDPR madness has to stop, son!
• AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless
• State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined
• AWS Serverless Application Repository
• Taking Tesla Private
• CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 - not too bad so far.
• Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS?
• A developer’s view of getting up and running with kubernetes.
• “Progressive delivery,” see also James Governor on the term.

Nonsense

• It’s raining tacos
• AWS icon quiz
• To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
• SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume
• “I took the cool out of Cool Rick.”

Conferences, et. al.

• Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
• DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey!
• DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th.
• DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th.
• Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11.
• DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12.
• DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25.
• DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6.
• Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th.
• SpringOne Tour - all over the earth!

Listener Feedback

• Andy from Netflix send me a LinkedIn request and got a sticker

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.
• Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast
  • Chris Donaldson on Automation
  • Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing
• Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off)
• Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Westworld.
• Matt: Dune fandom. As heard on Song Exploder: Jon Hopkins Singularity. The Red Atlas.
• Coté: Hemingway app. Slate Podcast Plus. PodCTL on registries.