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A fortnightly show where we talk about all things GCP (Google Cloud Platform), techy things and whatever satisfies our geek minds.

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Episode 062: The Egg

"It was Easter!" - In this episode we discuss; Vim Easter Egg, Word Easter Egg, Go Easter Egg, C64 Vinyl Easter Egg, MS Easter Eggs, Qantum Superposition, Qubit Game, Alister…
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Episode 061: The API

"I fixed the switch" - In this episode we discuss; McDonalds Outage, Azure Egress Charges, Digital ID, HPC Tool Kit, SCC Enterprise, Vic Govt Google Deal, TPG Apigee API, Google…
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Episode 060: The Speed Bump

"I fixed the audio!" - In this episode we discuss; AWS Follows GCP, GCVE API, Musk and OpenAI, CPU Overprovisioning, Jef Bezos AI Tool, Stack Overflow Gen AI, Weaveworks, MS…
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Episode 059: The Co-Host

"It's time for a change, again!" - In this episode we discuss; Parliament Cut Off, Telstra Trails Cloud, Michelle McGuinness, SMS Scams, Dept Health Moving to BigQuery, Internal Range API,…
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Episode 058: The Rack

"It's nearly finished!" - In this episode we discuss; Cloudwards CEO Tomas Kurian, VMWARE Price Increase, Google Lawsuit, Google Africa, FQDN Pod Egress, Google Firestore, Bootloader Bug, Leaky Vessels, Home…
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Episode 057: The Password

"I was pwnd!" - Know your customer, US CLOUD Act, Database Enhancements, Google Q4 Results, SYS:ALL Loophole, GKE Cluster Takeover, Medibank Hacker Sanctions, Optus Triple Zero Calls, Stolen Data on…
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Episode 056: The Wire

Episode Links: Google Transfer Fees, Humboldt Cable, TPU Patent Spat, Cloud Deploy, Yakult Breach, Eagers Breach, St Vincent’s Breach, Victoria Court Breach, Mandiant X Breach, Google Cloud Security Flaw, Google…
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Episode 055: The Xmas Bumper

"We are done!" - In this episode we discuss; Autoclass, Unisuper, Google Deleting Accounts, Google Cloud All Stars, Google Trolls AWS, Lost Drive Data, Unions Getting Worried, Top 3 Hacks…
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Episode 054: The Debacle

"They sacked themselves!." - In this episode we discuss; Google Next, Udemy & Google, Manifest v3, Broadcom & VMWARE, Google AI Search, Memory Store For Redis Cluster, Google Workspace Hack,…
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Episode 053: The Crystal Ball

"Redhat I apologise, I love you still." - In this episode we discuss; Optus Outage, Government Safe Harbour, New Skills Badges, GKE Enterprise, VMWARE Postgres, DP World Hack, Google Calender…
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Episode 052: The Falcon

Sounds like technobabble to me!" - In this episode we discuss; Kurian Award, Google Undersea Cable, Q3 Results, MS Crushing Google, Falcon, GKE HA, WinRAR Exploit, AFP Members at risk,…
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Episode 051: The Largest DDoS

"Blah, Blah, Blah - In this episode we discuss; AI Copyright, New Google Hires, Dev(Sec)Ops Toolkit, Cloud Spanner, Largest DDoS, Super SA Data Breach, npm Malware, QLD govt legislation, AI…
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Episode 050: The Live Show

"AI, AI, AI, Generative AI" - In this episode we discuss; Pixel8, Cloud Wars, New Subsea Cable, New Blockchains in Bigquery, GCVE, MOVEit Hack, Bard, Oracle and Ampere, Gen AI…
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Episode 049: The Old Days

"This again!" - In this episode we discuss; Google In Court, Black Hole In Unused Cloud, Infrastructure Manager, Privacy Sandbox, GCS Limitations, Dymocks Breach, Medibank Breach, Government Security Standards, HWL…
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Episode 048: The New Way To Cloud

"AI all the things!" - In this episode we discuss; Data Centre Outages, Kasna Partner Of the Year, Next ‘23, NetApp On GCP, Ampre, Uni Of Sydney Breach, Australian Security…
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Episode 047: The Screen Name

"Let's Standardise This!" - In this episode we discuss; Managed Prometheus, H3 VM Instance, Post Quantum Encryption, Chronicle CyberShield, auDA Breach, Latitude Financial, CUDs, Suncorp and LLMs, GenAI and Enterprise,…
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Episode 046: The Move

"So much 8 bit!" - In this episode we discuss; Attack Paths, Application Integration, Credentials Risk, HWL Ebsworth, Kasna Heralded as Whiz, Ramsay Health, ANZ Cloud Migrations, Capgemini AI, TAL…
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Episode 045: The Watch

"Why is it flat?" - In this episode we discuss; Pixel Watch Mini Review, Austpost Safety, Deploy Parameters, Cleanup Policies, GCP Profit, APRA, HWL Ebsworth, Zenbleed Expoloit, SA Government AI…
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Episode 044: The Flood

"We made it!" - In this episode we discuss; Twitter Not Paying Bills, Twitter Limits, Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication, AWS to GCP Migration, Google Bug Bounties, HWL Ebsworth Breach, US…
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Episode 043: The Domain

“Why did they shut it down?” – In this episode we discuss; Megaupload Coders Processioned, Twitter to pay bills, SHA-1 Deprecated, Google shuts down domains, Share Persistent disks, Secure Web…
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Episode 042: The Rear Bar

“The current only flows one way!” – In this episode we discuss; Kasna & UniSuper, Twitter Stops Paying Bills, Motherboard Back Door, Google Cross Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Firewall Threat Intelligence,…
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Episode 041: The Moat

“Zip it Good” – In this episode we discuss; Google I/O, Paris Outage, Redhat Layoffs, Zip Domains, Cloud Run Jobs, Cloud Storage Fuse, Latitude Financial, Keypass, NVIDIA H100, Leaked Google…
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Episode 040: The Data Nerd

“Hope You Have Your Sunnies!” – In this episode we discuss; Bruno Aziza Interview, Medibank Class Action, GDG Brisbane, Data Cloud Summit, ANZ Bank Risk Reporting, Looker, Looker Modeler, IBM…
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Episode 039: The Force

“Do we know what happened ?” – In this episode we discuss; Star Wars Day, GCP Profit, GhostToken Flaw, Increased Bandwidth, Private Service Connect, Paris Outage, Geoffrey Hinton. Episode Links:…
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Episode 038: The Goodbye

“Will Doom Run On It ?” – In this episode we discuss; Latitude Financial, ChatGPT meets the Sims, EC Objections, VMWARE Updates, New BigQuery Pricing, Cloud Run Internal Loadbalancers, Google…
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Episode 037: The Reflection

“Everything is hacked!” – In this episode we discuss; LTT Hack, TikTok Ban, 3CX Hack, Latitude Hack, Crown Hack, Service NSW Hacks, Chrome Bugs, Security Frameworks, Pwn2Own, Aussie Sackings, Open…
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Episode 036: The LLM

"What a Week!" - In this episode we discuss; Broadcom & VMWARE, Fastest Growing Cloud Vendors, Bidens Cloud Security, Meta Cuts Jobs, Google AI in Workspaces, MS Announces CoPilot, Google Cloud…
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Episode 035: The Prompt

"Update Your Plex!" -In this episode we discuss; Topaz, Wavelength Selective Switch, Lastpass Breach, Google Data Theft, Australian Job Layoffs, Bing AI Assisted Search, Prompt Engineering. Episode Links: Self Repossessing…
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Episode 034: The Drink

"Don't Drink It!" - In this episode we discuss; Uber Deal, Free Cloud Training, GDG Melbourne, Susan Wojcicki, Flexible Billing, Pricing Updates, New Firewall Feature, Mandiant Report, AI Australia Podcast,…
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Episode 033: The Termination

"You're Fired!" - In this episode we discuss; CRN Article, VMWARE Ransom, Mass Tech Layoffs, Google Q4 Results, AI Wars, Google DOJ Anti-Trust, Google Bug Bounties. Episode Links: Hitchhikers Guide…
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Episode 032: The Crush

"Monrail, monorail, monorail!" - In this episode we discuss; Withings, Vegas Loop, Atlas Robot, Mark LohMeyer, VMWARE Loses Three Execs, Google Cloud Programs For Partners, MS Combat Goggles, ChatGPT Competitor,…
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Episode 031: The Copyright

"We are back!" - In this episode we discuss; Spriggy, Google in 2023, Jobs Skills in 2023, AI Lawsuit, Plagiarism In AI Art, Google Speaker Flaw, 10 Biggest Hacks in…
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Episode 030: The Christmas Show

"Predict like an AI" - In this episode we discuss; ACCC Drop Case, Show Stats, Chat GPT, Favourite Moment, Tech Predictions, Look Back & Highlights Episode Links: ACCC Drop Case,…
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Episode 029: The All Stars Show

"I run my home like a business!" - In this episode we discuss; Partner All-Stars program, Medibank Update, Paul Dearlove, IAM Deny, ASX Drop Blockchain, Bruno Aziza, Chaos Engineering Episode…
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Episode 028: The Meltdown

"Burn it down!" - In this episode we discuss; Amiga-2000-EATX, Twitter meltdown, GCVE Features, Private Marketplace, GKE Gateway, Next Generation Cloud, Broken Wheel, Interview with Adhish Panta. Episode Links: Amiga-2000-EATX,…
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Episode 027: The Surprise

"Everyone was surprised!" - In this episode we discuss; Proxy Blog, Google Cloud Storage, Q3 Results, Google Matches MS, Google Cloud Blockchain, Persistent on GCP, Basecamp and Hey, GCP 5…
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Episode 026: The Reunion

"It's Like Doing Your Own ipTables!" - In this episode we discuss; Hitchhikers Guide To Google Cloud, Medibank Hack, H.264 and i486 going away, Google Next Episode Links: Hitchhikers Guide…
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Episode 025: The Temptation

"It could be very intimidating!" - In this episode we discuss; Dora Report, CI/CD & Security, CPU Boost, Dell PowerScale, Ambient Mesh, 5 Reason for IoT, What is Devops? Episode…
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Episode 024: The Hack

"How long has that API been open!" - In this episode we discuss; Optus Hack, Next 2022, VS Code, Anthos On Prem, BQ Streaming, GCP Data Tools, Firewall Policies, Interview…
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Episode 023: The Exam

“Get some swag!” – In this episode we discuss; Ethereum, Google Fine, VMWare & vSphere 8, New Storage Features, Data Localisation, Mandiant, Chrome ZeroDay, Ape NFT’s Episode Links: Ethereum, Google…
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Episode 022: The Datestamp

“Put a few orders in!” – Monster DDoS attack, Google Cloud Armor, Curated Detections, Chronicle, Virtual Machine Threat Detection, IoT Core Shutdown, Devs Don’t Want to do Ops, Preferring Google…
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Episode 021: The Ski Trip

“Flash that bad boy!” – In this episode we discuss; NZ Region, Google Outage, Google Q2 Results, ACCC Approves Mandiant, Google Removed Workspaces, Google Sued, Google Announcements, Man Robbed, XSS…
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Episode 020: The Google VMWare Engine

“Pizza boxes!” – In this episode we discuss; Empty Epsilon, Rocky Linux, GCVE Frontend, Google Cloud VMWare Engine, Solution Series Talk Episode Links: Empty Epsilon, Rocky Linux, GCVE Frontend, Google…
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Episode 019: The Flex

“Get Flexy!” – In this episode we discuss; Over heating data centres, Microsoft beats AWS, ARM on GCP, PostgreSQL for Cloud Spanner, Bigquery Security, GCP Certified Strategic, Apigee Security, ChromeOS…
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Episode 018: The Remote Show

“This is ridiculous!” – In this episode we discuss; Supply Chain Issues, GCP Certifications, Cheating GCP, GCP NZ, GCP Distributed Cloud Platform, Public Cloud Growth, New GCP Regions Episode Links:…
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Episode 017: The Colonel of Clusters

The king of migrations!” – In this episode we discuss; Google AI, VMWARE & GCVE, Calculating Pi, 10 Hottest GCP Features of 2022 Episode Links: Google AI, VMWARE & GCVE,…
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Episode 016: The Big Chill

“It’s so cold!” – In this episode we discuss; Thomas Kurian, VMWare & Broadcom, Cloud Money, Web3 & GCP Features. Episode Links: Thomas Kurian, Bloomberg, Traffic Guard, VMWare & Broadcom,…
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Episode 015: The Hard Problem

“Wow, that was quick!” – In this episode we discuss; Google Bankrupt, Anthony McMahon, Open Source Service, Zero Trust, Web3, GCP TPU, Terraform vet, Cloud SQL Episode Links: Google Bankrupt,…
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Episode 014: The 3080

“Make your own future” – In this episode we discuss; Kelsy Hightower Talk, Google I/O, Coursea Google Courses, SWIFT on GCP, GCP vs MS Q1 Results. Episode Links: 9 Reasons…
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Episode 013: The Migration

“How’s that migration going?” – In this episode we discuss; Google Q1 Results, Why Cloud Migrations are slow, Google Cuts Jobs, Earth Day, Prevision, Auto DLP, Google Security and the…
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Episode 012: The Tinfoil Hat

“We love a good list!” – In this episode we discuss; Google Cloud Summit, Lapsus$, Google Distributed Edge, Google Search Features, 5 Things CIOs Should Know. Episode Links: Google Cloud…
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Episode 011: The Dulcet Tones

“GCVE Is about to explode!” – In this episode we discuss; Google News Blocked in Russia, VMWare Licencing, Cloud Armor, Diagramming Tool, Google Layoffs, VM Suspending, North Korean Chrome Exploit,…
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Episode 010: The Boat

“They don’t execute it nearly as well!” – In this episode we discuss; Google Cloud to stop accepting new Russian customers, GCP Prices Increase, GCP Cuts Aussie Jobs, Google aquires…
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Episode 009: The Video Card

“These features are coming thick and fast” – In this episode we discuss; The Strangler Pattern, Cloud Carbon Emissions, Google Bug Bounty, Project Zero, MS Defender For Cloud, Cloud Functions…
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Episode 008: The MVP

“GCP Products are highly engineered” – In this episode we discuss; Reasons to choose Google Cloud, Google Cloud revenue, Google Cloud Compute API Library, VM Threat Detection, AMD EPYC CPUs,…
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Episode 007: The Protip

“Resist the temptation to click ops!” – In this episode we discuss the Kubernetes Documentary, New GCP features, Temporal.io, and the top 10 cloud certs. Episode Links: k8 documentary part…
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Episode 006: The Acquisition

“I moved my personal blog to Google Cloud!” – In this episode we discuss Google acquiring Siemplify, A new bigquery feature, Google Cloud improvements for 2021, Google Cloud Marketplace, Google…
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Episode 005: The Big Wet

“What’s the secret to getting a certification?” – In this episode we discuss GCP Developer Certification, Getting Encryption Right With Cloud, a new Sydney Tech Hub, Google Crypto Miners, The…
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Episode 004: The Big Spend

“I can’t see any problem with that!” – In this show we discuss Unicast use of the formerly reserved 127/8, an NPM Bug, the Digital Future Initiative, Kubernetes operators, second…
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Episode 003: The Best Practice

“This horror story is a doozy!” – In this show we discuss, Buildpacks, Careers at Kasna, Best practices for Google Cloud and the value of Alphabet. Episode Links: Horror Stories…
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Episode 002: The Documentary

“A Kubernetes Documentary !?” – In this episode we discuss the Google Cyber Security Action Team, a Google Anti-Trust, Python GIL, Devops Lab, Worlds Fastest Quantum Computer, and a Kubernetes…
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Episode 001: The Quantum Leap

“You probably what to know a bit about us?” – In this episode we discuss, Who we are, Google Next, Dora Research Program, Quantum Computing and Between Two Clouds.Show Notes:…
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