This week, we discuss the latest DORA report and what happens when open-source projects make money. Plus, some thoughts on Halloween abroad in the Netherlands and Australia.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcL0uQFjNkY) 491 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcL0uQFjNkY)
Runner-up Titles
This is a lifestyle business.
The Benioff Line.
Mahalo
The innings in the marathon
We’re left picking up the trash
20 pounds of crap in a 10 pound sack
Focus on all parts of the chain
If any open source project creates value, it’s going to create resentment.
The Open Source Success Paradox
Mad King for Cash. (In the world of Brandon’s mind.)
Rundown
DORA
2024 State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/resources/devops/state-of-devops)
L (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1729668625078209)istener Chris did some live PDF reading in the SDT Slack (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1729668625078209)
Key findings and takeaways from this year’s State of DevOps report (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/2024-dora-report)
DORA Community of Practice (https://dora.community/)
AI is terrible at shift-left (DORA Models and Practices) (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/ai-is-terrible-at-shift-left?open=false#§dora)
Trademarks and OSS
The Wordpress Drama Interview (this got cited in a lawsuit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUJgahHjAKU)
Elasticsearch is open source, again with Shay Banon (https://changelog.com/podcast/614)
Linkerd Forever (https://buoyant.io/blog/linkerd-forever)
Relevant to your Interests
Excel enters its 40th year (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/excel_enters_its_40th_year/)
San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/212-million-contract-will-finally-get-san-francisco-trains-off-floppy-disks/)
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs)
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop)
Ghosts in the Machine - JSTOR Daily (https://daily.jstor.org/ghosts-in-the-machine/)
Apple opens Private Cloud Compute to public scrutiny (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/apple_private_cloud_compute/)
#1467 OpenCost Incubation Proposal #1046 (vote closed) (https://github.com/cncf/toc/discussions/1467)
Big Blue (https://buildingslack.com/big-blue/)
Balatro creator admits his attempt to 100% his own roguelike game before the mobile port was doomed, and now he has "some words for John Balatro" (https://www.gamesradar.com/games/roguelike/balatro-creator-admits-his-attempt-to-100-percent-his-own-roguelike-game-before-the-mobile-port-was-doomed-and-now-he-has-some-words-for-john-balatro/)
We finally have an 'official' definition for open source AI (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/28/we-finally-have-an-official-definition-for-open-source-ai/)
Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai (https://www.anthropic.com/news/analysis-tool)
A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon. (https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/a-million-people-play-this-video-wargame-so-does-the-pentagon-e6388f50?mod=tech_lead_story)
Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad have USB-C (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24275569/apple-usb-c-magic-keyboard-mouse-trackpad-no-lightning)
Nonsense
Severance season two teaser trailer shows the world's worst return-to-office policy in action (https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/severance-season-two-teaser-trailer-shows-the-worlds-worst-return-to-office-policy-in-action-142930296.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKB3e3-ph307Dt1A-GNN2BkGZidUcGuIlF-9SUa05b35lAsup7k_0PSunw3bFWTOX1PhMZ3lnHtlu-iJGvK5TE_U_JEn560pHkGuwsG0E4pY2Mpo_ZmEIsLVc1LUHawBc8sjtHXpWZXQ5X7p76XwuYvdL_VU9vRZt4A0usKg7YFd)
Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/nfl-player-illegally-streams-his-own-teams-game-garners-mostly-sympathy/)
Listener Feedback
T-Mobile back up Home Internet (https://www.t-mobile.com/home-internet/plans/5g-backup-internet-options)
Conferences
VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
GoTech World (https://www.gotech.world/), Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY
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Recommendations
Brandon: ESPN, Disney+ to Stream Live NFL Game Set in the World of ‘The Simpsons’ (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-simpsons-nfl-game-espn-disney-plus-altcast-1236046927/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Matt: Audio books on Spotify
200,000+ Audiobooks Are Now Available to Spotify Premium Listeners in the U.S (https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-08/audiobooks-us-spotify-premium-users/)
Coté: Impro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro:_Improvisation_and_the_Theatre) book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro:_Improvisation_and_the_Theatre). paper and pen. Best (https://bsky.app/profile/cote.io/post/3l7nrtcwsru2k) The Economist (https://bsky.app/profile/cote.io/post/3l7nrtcwsru2k) cover ever (https://bsky.app/profile/cote.io/post/3l7nrtcwsru2k).
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