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 399: Two Guys Live in the Southern Hemisphere, with Craig Box
February 3rd, 2023 | 54 mins 24 secs
interview, notkubepod
This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media empire future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. We also discuss the British Monarchy...
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Episode 397: Mark as Unread
January 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne….
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Episode 396: Aloha to your strategy
January 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes…
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Episode 394: 2022 Year in Review
December 30th, 2022 | 1 hr 25 mins
This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps.
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Episode 392: Success is going to Day 2
December 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones…
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Episode 390: It’s just a bunch of programming
December 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.
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Episode 389: The Miscellaneous Keynote
December 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 12 mins
This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and discuss application vendors mandating use of specific Kubernetes distros. Plus, some thoughts on dog boarding…
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Episode 387: Trust and Incentives
November 18th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars.
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Episode 386: I’ve been to VMware Media Training
November 11th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
This week we recap VMware Explore Europe and discuss the Battery Ventures 2022 State of the OpenCloud report. Plus, some thoughts on cologne…
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Episode 384: KubeCon NA 2022 Recap
November 1st, 2022 | 47 mins 5 secs
conference
Matt reports in from Detroit with all the news at KubeCon NA 2022. Plus, some tips on proper etiquette when stretching on International Flights.
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Episode 383: My bag did not make the flight
October 28th, 2022 | 1 hr 12 secs
This week we discuss Twitter’s Workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on International Travel.
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Episode 382: The Ultimate Dogfooding
October 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google Next. Plus, Matt Ray goes car shopping.
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Episode 381: Aspiration Fatigue
October 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse.
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Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts
October 7th, 2022 | 53 mins 54 secs
This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses…
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Episode 377: Coffee is for closers
September 16th, 2022 | 46 mins 49 secs
This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee…
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Episode 375: For the Birds
September 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 11 mins
This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?