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 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster
December 12th, 2019 | 47 mins 26 secs
This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.
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Episode 208: re:Invent, Oracle's stickyness, and medieval stick candy-bread
December 6th, 2019 | 1 hr 14 mins
It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt.
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Episode 207: All the good stuff is proprietary
November 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 8 mins
Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing.
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Episode 206: The Sanka of hot sauces
November 23rd, 2019 | 1 hr 20 mins
We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff!
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Episode 205: No Change in our journey
November 14th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings.
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Episode 204: Foiled by Physical Access Again
November 8th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook.
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Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings
November 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.
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Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?
October 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia.
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Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy
October 18th, 2019 | 1 hr 18 mins
"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is.
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Episode 198: Don’t get a Private Jet
September 27th, 2019 | 41 mins 32 secs
Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray.
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Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS
September 21st, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.
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Episode 196: The janitor strategy
September 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 21 mins
Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang.
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Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough
September 6th, 2019 | 57 mins 3 secs
Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity for football fans.
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Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates
August 29th, 2019 | 51 mins 15 secs
This week, the title says it all.
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Episode 193: “WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.
August 22nd, 2019 | 56 mins 46 secs
SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.”
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Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work
August 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing.