Episode 495: The most honorable of mentions

Software Defined Talk

This week, we discuss the relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering, Gartner’s take on Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, and Nvidia’s search for new use cases. Plus, a listener chimes in to clear up some Podman misconceptions.

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Runner-up Titles

• Prove me wrong AWS, prove me wrong
• Please turn off the lights
• Who’s googling for “shift left”?
• I realized what they were talking about, it’s computers
• They’re talking but you’re not listening
• Piling on the dead horse
• We gave this guy $5 billion dollars, check him out
• Podman is Pepsi
• Nobody’s paying for that
• Niche Player

Rundown

• Platform Engineering Is The New DevOps
  • SRE Books
• Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
  • AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
• Nvidia
  • AI Easts the World — Benedict Evans
  • Nvidia revenue almost doubles on the year even as growth slows from previous quarter
  • Nvidia’s Huang Spreads the Gospel of AI in Search of More Customers
  • Amazon Updates Homegrown Chips, Even as It Grows Nvidia Ties
  • Nvidia Earnings, Strawberry and Video, The Networking Question
• Podman:
  • Podman in Action | Red Hat Developer
  • Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 164 - Podman, with Daniel Walsh and Brent Baude
  • DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling | Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more

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Listener Feedback

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Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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