Matt Ray
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Matt Ray is a Sydney, Australia-based Technical Account Manager for Wiz. He is an active open source contributor, blogs at MattRay.dev and is @mattray on Mastodon, BlueSky, 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 344 Episodes.
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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.
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Episode 232: Amazon’s doing OK
May 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
On this episode AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam.
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Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify
May 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.
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Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?
April 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite.
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Episode 229: Does it work with JSON? That’s what I do
April 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 28 secs
On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review.