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 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”
February 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 25 secs
Google goes enterprise, Time to upgrade Win 2008, Redis changes licenses again. All this and more in this episode. Plus, Matt explains good parenting to Brandon.
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Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"
February 15th, 2019 | 49 mins 55 secs
Matt makes his return! What do vendors mean by “multi-cloud” and “digital transformation.” Could Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory apply to the public cloud? We discuss all of this and offer more advice on tacos.
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Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing
January 18th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
Are we still on that open source licensing thing? Yes. “The most boring topic of all time.” Also, Slack's logo and long term support software monetization models: how do they work?
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Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins”
January 10th, 2019 | 55 mins 52 secs
Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s life a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids.
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Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model”
December 21st, 2018 | 55 mins 8 secs
Should cloud providers be able to host open source software? Exactly, what does the Australia Assistance Act mean for employees? What is Melbourne Cup Day? We answer these questions and more. Enjoy!
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Episode 159: "Cloud native is pretty simple. You just need to know Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Jaeger, Envoy, Core DNS, Linkerd, Rook, Vitess, Etcd and Raft."
December 15th, 2018 | 58 mins 56 secs
This week we recap all the news and announcements from the KubeCon Keynotes and discuss the repercussions of Australia’s new encryption-busting law. Plus, Brandon offers his review of “The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes“ and Phippy.
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Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away
December 8th, 2018 | 59 mins 4 secs
Istio comes to GKE, Kubernetes needs to be patched, Microsoft & Docker announce a standard and what is going on at Faceback. We talk about all this and give you some tips for your next QBR.
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Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!
November 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”?
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Episode 154: Singapore Sanka & tech idears
November 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
More consolidation in the kubernetes community, plus the X Windowing System and Canonical. Related: “I’m not waiting for an answer, I’m just going to go on.”
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Episode 153: “I have no idea, but I’ll go on,” or IBM buying Red Hat
November 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 25 mins
IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired.
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Episode 151: Who vivisected Mr Peanut?
October 18th, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or not, there’s something for you in this episode: serverless vs. FaaS, Docker’s funding, Crossing the Chasm revisited, and GitHub actions.
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The dogs under the desk people, plus, Elastic, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and hotel loyalty programs and breakfast buffets
October 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies.
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Episode 148: What do these consultants do anyway?
September 28th, 2018 | 45 mins 37 secs
We recap the latest Linux controversy, review the new Chef release and discuss how and when you should consider hiring outside consultants. Plus, an entire segment on putting away your laundry.
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Episode 147: Strategy, the systems management company lifecycle, or, Adobe didn’t fuck it up!
September 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA
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Episode 146: The 2018 State of DevOps Report, a gander
September 6th, 2018 | 59 mins 34 secs
This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it.