June 05, 2020

Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”

1 hour 2 minutes

What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.

Mood board:

Sounds normal for now.

It was kinda cool, kinda sad.

Covered in yoke.

We just had to speed test it out.

Katamari Damacy M&A.

I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!

The ProductTK.

7G.

What’s the plural of Kubernetes?

Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that?

Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.

Return the Jewels.

The Rundown

Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software

Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions

DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes

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June 05, 2020

Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”

1 hour 2 minutes

What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.

Mood board:

Sounds normal for now.

It was kinda cool, kinda sad.

Covered in yoke.

We just had to speed test it out.

Katamari Damacy M&A.

I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!

The ProductTK.

7G.

What’s the plural of Kubernetes?

Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that?

Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.

Return the Jewels.

The Rundown

Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software

Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions

DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes

Relevant to your interests

What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates

Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge

GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware

Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence

Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager

Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher

Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence

Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral

Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies

Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground

Police scanner apps get record downloads

Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use

Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs

Where GREP Came From - Computerphile

Software Engineering Within SpaceX

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the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute

Listener Feedback

Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea.

Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too.

Conferences

MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020

THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey

Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.

Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!

Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.

Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts.

Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4.

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More shows like Software Defined Talk

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