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).
Episodes
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, orga...
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...
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.
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
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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.
- He...
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&r...
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 moni...
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
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,...
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 P...
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
- It’s a low plateau
- There’s no vibe in X-Code
- Matt’s trading with AI
- Everyone’s...
This week, we discuss how security gets sold to execs, where agentic coding and security collide, and Cloudflare vs. Datadog's diverging paths. Plus, Coté weighs in on sugar cookies.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 572
Runner-up Titles
- Sugar Kingdom
- Bastard Sugar
- Choose butter
- It’s just AI now
- People don’t like paying for software
- It’s an exciting time to be writing software
- Are we goi...
This week, we discuss AI labs driving cloud revenue, hyperscalers laying off instead of building, and kids defeating age verification. Plus, Brandon has too many thoughts on Workday.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 571
Runner-up Titles
- The world is just paper.
- TODO debris pile
- Fancy countries you live in
- Enron Conspiracy Shredder.
- Cote’s mom’s gonna love this
- Brandon works out his Workday tr...
This week, we discuss Google's enterprise agent stack, what makes an agent an agent, and AI's biggest critic. Plus, Coté wants better vision.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 570
Runner-up Titles
- You can’t win against time
- The Shining Path of Least Resistance
- The Burger Diagram
- You guys were talking about CORBA the other day.
- Is this just destiny
- Burger Diagram Aficionado
- Think like a computer
- Thos...
This week, we discuss agents taking over at Google Cloud Next, Apple's new CEO, and Cursor getting acquired (sort of). Plus, Coté's e-waste has no exit strategy.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 569
Runner-up Titles
- I love throwing stuff in the trash.
- Dillo dirt’s a thing.
- BurgerOps.
- Thomas opens for Richard.
- Department of “No” people
- Starfish Stomach Model
- Enterprise — come into ...
This week, we discuss Claude's harness, OpenAI's ongoing drama, and whether Backstage is still a thing. Plus, Coté gives up on the green screen.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 568
Runner-up Titles
- It’s clearly an AI chair.
- I’ve given up on the green screen
- No animals, only buttholes
- I don’t know if I can think on my own
- Make your pecans really pop
- Did they shut it down? I wasn’t...
Brandon interviews Alberto González, CTO of WebRTC.ventures, about building voice and streaming applications for the enterprise. They dig into how developers can integrate WebRTC into their apps, the unique challenges it presents, and where AI fits in. Plus, Alberto shares tips on kitesurfing and why you should visit Barcelona.
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This week, we discuss the Claude Code leak, locking down coding agents, and the Axios supply chain attack. Plus, Coté considers breaking up with his Gmail address of 20+ years.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 566
Runner-up Titles
- pawpatrol891@gmail.com
- I get that dude’s email
- Those turtles are dyslexic
- I’m just a space hyperchicken judge
- curl|bash is the d...
This week, we discuss big bets gone wrong, OpenAI buying the Python toolchain, and Claude's favorite tools. Plus, how fast should AI agents ship bug fixes?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 565
Runner-up Titles
- Product Management Slot Machine
- We poisoned our own data
- As the resident hater of SDT
- I’m optimistic on this one
- I’ll check back when you call it Siri
- AI SEO
- The Ryan Gosling of Podcast...
This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564
Runner-up Titles
- Let's T this up.
- One Trillion Dollars
- Leader to laggard
- My terms of service
- Someone should come up with a term
- Networking FOMO
- Slide crimes
- It’s token machines all the way down.
- The...
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