Episode 375: For the Birds

Software Defined Talk

This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?

Runner-up Titles

• Where’s my admin?
• All my children qualify as adults
• Start by eating their food
• Put two letters in front of it
• Where’s the grocery store
• I got that everything bagel spice
• Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?
• In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.
• The runbook’s already written.
• Spagetti Bowl
• Tanzu the Shih Tzu
• A FinOps Type of Motion
• The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff
• Growth is best done in the shadows.
• Wrapping bullshit with bullshit
• Nopehouse, home of the fast follower
• The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans
• Thought-leadership suicide mission

Rundown

• VMware Explore
• How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users
  • Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado
  • Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions
• Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This

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Nonsense

• Sounds right
• When the development team meet their first Scrum Master
• Chart of the year nominee

Conferences

• DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
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