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Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook

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We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall.

Matt Ray’s Facebook links

  • BIG SNAKE
  • Matt Ray’s son and a dog..?
  • Kangaroo vs. Bicyclist

    • Matt’s Coterie of Browser Plugins:

    • TrackMeNot
    • uBlock Origin
    • Ghostery
    • Privacy Badger
    • KB SSL Enforcer
    • TamperMonkey

      • Relevant to your interests

      • The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be.
      • The Facebook Brand
      • Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts
      • Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal
      • Salesforce buys a mule, but pays for a horse
      • Salesforce’s $6.5b acquisition of Mulesoft: what it means for the cloud ecosystem
      • Update: Red Hat could be a Google takeover target – a deal wouldn't be cheap
      • IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads
      • IBM's Watson Assistant is coming to IFTTT
      • Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling
      • Oracle's New Licenses Sales Drop While Revenue Meets Estimates
        • Don’t Anthropomorphize Larry the Lawnmower
        • Docker Cloud is shutting down • r/docker
        • Introducing Windows Server 2019 – now available in preview
        • Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence

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          Exegesis

          Want more talk about FANG? Then Listen to Cotê and Brandon review Scott Galloway’s book The Four on Episode of 52 of Software Defined Interviews from awhile back. Even more relevant today!

          Nonsense

          • Jeff Bezos has a robot dog
          • WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

            • Conferences, et. al.

            • April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour.
            • April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
            • April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit
            • April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
            • May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
            • May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.

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