Matt Ray
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Matt Ray is the Sydney, Australia-based Community Manager for the CNCF open source OpenCost project working for Kubecost. He is an active open source contributor, blogs at MattRay.dev and is @mattray on Mastodon, BlueSky, Twitter, Slack, and GitHub. He has presented at OSCON, Velocity, DevOpsDays, OpenStack Summits, ChefConf, LinuxCon, SCALE and many other conferences and meetups.
Matt Ray has hosted 300 Episodes.
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Episode 257: Once again, I have not read the report
September 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 39 secs
This week we discuss Snowflake’s IPO, Forrester’s Multicloud Container Wave and Nvidia buying ARM. Plus, an extensive discussion of what constitutes a breakfast taco.
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Episode 255: We should not emphasise this behaviour
September 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads.
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Episode 253: People don’t understand how pay works
August 28th, 2020 | 52 mins 25 secs
This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…?
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Episode 252: It can be exciting, but excitement ends.
August 21st, 2020 | 1 hr 59 secs
Why would Oracle buy TikTok? Why would Amazon invest in Rackspace? We answer these questions and discuss the state of cloud migrations. Plus, Matt and Coté offers advice on hot dogs.
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Episode 251: Don’t you use my words against me
August 14th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store.
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Episode 249: Was Tom Landry cool?
July 31st, 2020 | 57 mins 35 secs
The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap.
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Episode 248: They want cloud grade
July 24th, 2020 | 46 mins 48 secs
We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.
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Episode 246: Istio-washing, 20 domain names, .docx
July 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files.
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Episode 245: Michael Coté’s Discount Webinar Barn, aka, The Webinar Episode
July 3rd, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers.
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Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers
June 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.
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Episode 241: Ask more questions, send more one line emails
June 19th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries.
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Episode 239: Coté got up at 2am
June 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore.
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Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”
June 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.
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Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land
May 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 27 secs
Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.
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Episode 234: The “severe ramifications” episode
May 22nd, 2020 | 57 mins 44 secs
We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back!
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Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here
May 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.