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Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

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This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.

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  • Unikernels are unfit for production
  • Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways)
  • Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system
  • Slack, Teams and Conferencing
    • Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield
    • DHH is not happy with Zoom
    • Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
    • Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
    • Zoom responds with a Blog Post
    • Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities
    • Zoom isn’t Malware.
    • IBM
      • New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware
      • IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business
      • My first day as CEO - our journey together
      • RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era
      • Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier
      • CircleCI
        • CircleCI Raises $100M Series E
        • CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment
        • Apple
          • Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
          • Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google
          • Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million
          • iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features
          • The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz
          • Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers
          • Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation
          • Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code
          • Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics
          • Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity
          • The Next Chapter of Meetup
          • SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares
          • Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak
          • OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business
          • HashiCorp Joins the CNCF
          • Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic
          • MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs
          • Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production
          • Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem
          • Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M
          • Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014
          • Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers
          • Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset
            • Non Sense
            • Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic
            • Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights...
            • 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email.
            • My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting
            • HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release
            • Trump order encourages US to mine the moon
            • CNCF Puzzle
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              Conferences, Videos et. al.
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                  • Recommendations
                  • Brandon: Ozark and Tiger King
                  • Matt Ray:
                    • The Memory Palace Music to Wash Hands By
                    • Disunited Nations

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