Software Defined Talk

Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Software Defined Talk is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 531 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 89. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Software Defined Talk, a technology show with 531 episodes published.

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  Episode #584

  Episode 584: It’s All God Throwing Dice

  Aug 7, 202649 min

  This week, we discuss the Situational Awareness meltdown, Airtable getting sold, and review the Java documentary. Plus, what you should actually buy at IKEA. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 584 Runner-up Titles Duffle bag of leftovers 5Are you dead in this scenario? Bury me with my IKEA bags Don’t automate the world, nobody really wants that AttentionIsAllYouNeed.blog Take some money off the table No more great ideas Rundown IKEA FRAKTA Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45B Fund Implodes AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling Apart Bending Spoons Buys Airtable for $1.28B Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B sell on story, or sell on revenue The Java Story | The Official Documentary Relevant to your Interests Who's Writing Open Source Code? Satyress Robotics GitHub - mgwalkerjr95/texas-grocery-mcp: MCP server for HEB grocery shopping BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising An announcement from Superlogical An interactive visualization that follows a single HTTP request through its entire ~200ms life Supercharge your Claude, Cursor, and Codex. | Unstructured Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation valock July 2026 Recap tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open npm Worm Poisons keyv, cacheable and 400+ Other Packages Across Twelve Organisations Using AI for Product Management - The Tanzu Platform product management experience Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt Microsoft's stock rockets more than 15% for largest single-day jump in history Amazon revenue soars as AI investments pay off Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow Clouded Judgement 7.31.26 - AWS CapEx ROI Sponsors Signadot: making sure AI-written code actually works. Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA , Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets 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 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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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: Brooks GTS 25 Matt: NearbyWiki Reading Maps Coté: Descript Underlord

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  Episode #583

  Episode 583: HuggingFace make me gazpacho

  Jul 31, 20261h 4m

  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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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

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  Episode #582

  Episode 582: Talking About Modernization

  Jul 24, 20261h 7m

  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 release s 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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.

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  Episode #581

  Episode 581: Arjun Iyer on Shipping Faster with Ephemeral Environments and AI Agents

  Jul 17, 202651 min

  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 Tria l 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 stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.

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  Episode #580

  Episode 580: Varlock: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Environment Variables

  Jul 10, 202655 min

  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 579 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: phil@varlock.dev Music: unsafeharbour.com Contact Theo Ephraim: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theo-ephraim Website: theoephraim.com Twitter/X: @theozero Bluesky: @theozero.bsky.social Email: theo@varlock.dev General Contact: hello@varlock.dev hello@dmno.dev 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: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com 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.

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