Episode 375: For the Birds

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…?

Runner-up Titles

• Where’s my admin?


• All my children qualify as adults


• Start by eating their food


• Put two letters in front of it


• Where’s the grocery store


• I got that everything bagel spice


• Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?


• In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.


• The runbook’s already written.


• Spagetti Bowl


• Tanzu the Shih Tzu


• A FinOps Type of Motion


• The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff


• Growth is best done in the shadows.


• Wrapping bullshit with bullshit


• Nopehouse, home of the fast follower


• The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans


• Thought-leadership suicide mission

Rundown

• VMware Explore


• How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users
  
  
  • Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado
  
  
  • Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions
  
  


• Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This

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Nonsense

• Sounds right


• When the development team meet their first Scrum Master


• Chart of the year nominee

Conferences

• DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022


• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting


• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022


• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022


• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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• Brandon: Black Bird


• Matt: BirdNetPi
  
  
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