
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 338 Episodes.
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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…?
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Episode 374: Is there no Dev in DevOps?
August 26th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King.
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Episode 373: Everything is a nail, find your hammers
August 19th, 2022 | 56 mins 24 secs
This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means.
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Episode 371: What’s your TAM
August 5th, 2022 | 47 mins 33 secs
This week we do a deep dive into the Total Addressable Market of Cloud and discuss the rise of Cloudflare. Plus, details about the SDT Meetup in Austin on August 27th.
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Episode 370: In the long run…
July 29th, 2022 | 1 hr 14 mins
This week we discuss developer toil, local vs. remote development and Facebook’s management woes. Plus, some thoughts on business books…
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Episode 369: DJ .pptx FINAL_0707-V2
July 22nd, 2022 | 56 mins 4 secs
If capitalism is so great, why aren’t we working less? We discuss the potential for the GDP to finally do something for us, plus simplifying “sovereign cloud” and the potential of containers with their own jurisdiction. Also, thoughts on PowerPoint filenames.
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Episode 368: Managing Cloud Costs
July 19th, 2022 | 21 mins 18 secs
Barton George interviews Matt Ray about how to manage costs in the cloud.
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Episode 365: Automating for Auditing
July 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
This week we discuss the Stack Overflow Dev Survey, Securing the Supply Chain and Slack Huddles. Plus, some thoughts on coffee down under.
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Episode 364: First class SaaS
June 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs.
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Episode 360: Radical Transparency
May 27th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad.
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Episode 359: Sell the Slide
May 20th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
This week we discuss the "sum of the parts" of Rackspace, Rocky Linux recreates CentOS and thoughts on the economy. Plus, a debate: rental car vs. Uber.