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 297 Episodes.
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Episode 187: Beyond the Fitzgeraldian Theory of Cloud Barriers to Entry
July 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin’ hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Coté finds video chats annoying, and he can’t keep all the camera lingo in his head.
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Episode 185: Drink your own dog food
July 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows?
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Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG
June 21st, 2019 | 52 mins 34 secs
Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, still don’t use build pipelines or issue trackers. When will these kids learn? And Coté explains why Nietzsche’s Eternal Return thing seems unhelpful.
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Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind
June 14th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.
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Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!
June 7th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software! Cloudera misses their forecast, Oracle and Microsoft team up on cloud computing and more open source licensing discussion. Plus, we try to make sense of the metric system once and for all!
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Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone
June 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 18 mins
You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be bores.
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Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”
May 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos!
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Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin
May 16th, 2019 | 1 hr 17 mins
Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles.
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Episode 178: What is this: a fucking <marquee/> tag?
May 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 19 mins
Putting together the M&A case for Docker, Inc., Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Oracle’s cloud grudge. Also, dead pets and kids: no good answers.
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Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”
May 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 42 secs
Microsoft and VMware made peace, Java goes native, Apache goes to Github and Red Hat gets a new logo. Plus, Matt Ray explains why the Internet in Australia is slow.
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Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage
April 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries.
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Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler
March 29th, 2019 | 1 hr 16 mins
There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers.
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Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update
March 22nd, 2019 | 59 mins 51 secs
SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed with business, is back once again: Coté craves some intellectual closer. Also, Google announced some big game platform thing. So. Chips?
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Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch
March 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch are fighting, and why are there so many tech foundations? All this and more on this week’s episode. Plus, Matt Ray tells us how he survived the Facebook outage.
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Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors
March 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
Security. mostly.
Also:
The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management
They need Java in Cincinnati.
The Mongols have no wine.
Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf. -
Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear
March 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
There’s a lot of notions about what IT executives actually want to hear in a presentation. It turns out that, like all of us, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Also, is kubernetes really a platform for building platforms, or just a platform?