
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 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.
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Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?
August 8th, 2019 | 1 hr 11 mins
Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump.
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Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.
August 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
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Episode 189: The 6 clouds you’ll meet in the MQ
July 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins
It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlauts, ASCII, and Munich bike bells.
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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.