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Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings

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The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.

Mood board:

  • Stroke City.
  • QBR times four.
  • Travel costs.
  • We need a better word than “politics.”
  • Corporate virtue signaling.
  • Never ask anything.
  • There’s going to be Werner Hertzog!
  • There’s a difference between making a point and making money.
  • Are you just fillin’ a seat?
  • The fixie of IDEs.

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    Relevant to your interests
    • Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.”
    • Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
    • Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract
    • Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap
      • Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”
      • Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office.
      • The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic
        • “89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x
        • DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change
        • Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications
        • My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be?
        • Google moves to buy Fitbit
        • Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
        • AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
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          Conferences, et. al.
          • Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
          • December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
          • December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
          • Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
          • NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. †
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              • Recommendations
              • Brandon: eBay for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub
              • Matt: Dolly Parton’s America.
              • Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.

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