Roll For Enterprise

Automation making IT Infrastructure invisible and the market adapting to citizen developers; including AI


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Reference Episode 3 Stupid Sh*t Vendors do: https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Stupid-Sht-Vendors-Do-eedp3s

Topic 1: Moving from monitoring to automation.

  • Chef acquired by Progress (https://devops.com/progress-announces-acquisition-of-chef/)
  • Chef to be acquired for $220M by Progress in ‘next chapter’ for Seattle automation tech company (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/chef-acquired-220m-progress-next-chapter-seattle-automation-tech-company/)
  • Progress Q3 Preliminary Results and Chef Acquisition (https://investors.progress.com/static-files/ff4a1323-3cd6-4fc0-9b83-e9de625ad986)
  • Autonomous operations, self-healing infrastructure
  • Tanzu? https://mailchi.mp/thenewstack/aws-bottlerocket-blasts-off?e=cafeea848e
  • Anthos? https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/google_anthos_onair/
  • Topic 2: Citizen developers

    • Episode 6: What happened to the developers? https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/What-happened-to-the-developers-efbgqs
    • What’s next for low-code/no-code? https://itbrief.co.nz/story/what-s-next-for-low-code-no-code
    • OutSystems Pushes Low-Code Beyond Its Visual Basic Legacy – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/outsystems-pushes-low-code-beyond-its-visual-basic-legacy/ 
    • Lightning round

      Jobs

      • Dominic is hiring: Americas https://www.mongodb.com/careers/jobs/2317693 EMEA https://www.mongodb.com/careers/jobs/2318858
      • Recommendations:

        • Mike: Not a recommendation but fascinating article from the Guardian: A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? GPT-3 (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3)
        • Dominic: https://www.moritzplassnig.com/saas-and-moving-downmarket-mongodbs-transformation/ disrupting yourself is hard, but it’s the only way to avoid being disrupted by someone else
        • Zack: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/technology/fawkes-tool-protects-photos-from-facial-recognition.html 
        • Dazzle camouflage against facial recognition: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/privacy-campaigners-dazzle-camouflage-met-police-surveillance
        • This week in Startups E1100 Clearview AI https://thisweekinstartups.com/e1100-clearview-ai-ceo-hoan-ton-that-on-facial-recognition-advancements-balancing-privacy-security-engaging-with-controversy-more/ 
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          Roll For EnterpriseBy Dominic Wellington, Lilac Schoenbeck, Mike Ianiro, Zack Zilakakis

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