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May 07, 2021Episode 298: Come on Gophers
This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.
Rundown
Red Hat
Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo
RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
AWS
Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion
AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out
The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
Relevant to your interests
Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech.
DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect
About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting.
How Basecamp blew up
Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
The ransomware surge ruining lives
Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned.
AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks
Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow
Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World
In huge demand right now: Warehouses
Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions
Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation
Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac
Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14
Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.
Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire
New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet
How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer
Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty
ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report
Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio
Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation
Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion
"Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.” (@AdamMGrant)
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Nonsense
'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme
Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds.
Meet Einstein
Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO
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Listener Feedback
Ryan wants you to work at Datadog as Technical Writer
Jordy says there lots of jobs at Weaveworks
Jeffrey want you to become the SRE - World of Warcraft
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt’s talk is in the can
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
SDT news & hype
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Brandon:
Mare of Eastown
Listen my interview with Grant from Replicated
Matt:
Long Service Leave
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May 04, 2021Episode 297: Grant Miller from Replicated on delivering and managing Kubernetes apps anywhere
Brandon interviews Grant Miller the CEO of Replicated. They discuss Grant's background, building enterprise software and how to deliver Kubernetes apps anywhere. Plus, Grant tell us what it's really like to be an intern at an investment bank.
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EnterpriseReady.io
EnterpriseReady Podcast
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Twitter: @GrantM
LinkedIn: grantlmiller
Replicated Demo
Special Guest: Grant Miller.
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April 30, 2021Episode 296: Fungated into my mind
This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.
Rundown
Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
M&A
Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud
Microsoft
Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales
Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018
Kubernetes Usability SIG
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
Earnings
Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor
The Commodification of DevOps
7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map
Atlassian’s Open DevOps
Crypto miners are killing free CI
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Is Octopus Deploy Australia’s next unicorn?
Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years
Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt
SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast
Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts
What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS
Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch
How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data
Changes at Basecamp
Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours
IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)
HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party
The Slander Industry
What really happened at Basecamp
Changes at Basecamp
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
Nonsense
YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993
Google Timelapse
World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction
"Microsoft Excel Influencer”
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash
Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font
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Listener Feedback
Samanyu wants you to work InfraCloud. They are hiring Solutions Architects and SREs.
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
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Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)
Matt: Leeroy Jenkins
Coté: MonitorControl. You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid.
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April 23, 2021Episode 295: Status Quo Fork
This week we discuss Grafana moving to the AGPL, Signal goes on offense and Grad Students infecting the Linux Kernel. Plus, how many door locks do you need?
Rundown
AGPL
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
Chris Aniszczyk’s take
Another Thread Twitter Thread
Hacking
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
A Twitter Thread on Signal and Celebrate
Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on
University of Minnesota hacks the Linux Kernel?
Discord took our advice
Discord Ends Deal Talks With Microsoft
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Oracle plans $1.2 billion campus in Nashville, creating 8,500 jobs
IBM acquires Italy’s myInvenio to integrate process mining directly into its suite of automation tools
New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband
Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it? – TechCrunch
Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA Corporation: public interest intervention
Dollars flow to live audio as moderation problems loom
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off on historic 1st powered flight on another world
IBM beats across the board, posts revenue growth after four quarters of declines
Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Mac getting complete overhaul with native UI and more
The ascent of Lina Khan, tech antitrust icon
Apple Podcasts launches in-app subscriptions
Emerging storage-based cryptocurrency Chia could jack up SSD/HDD prices in the future
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
IBM and IPwe want to issue patents as NFTs and make them easier to monetize
Security Incident Disclosure
Netflix earnings are out – here are the numbers
Netflix stock craters after subscriber miss — is now a great time to buy?
Microsoft Edge, Safari, Firefox have no plans for FLoC yet
Why Brave Disables FLoC
Nonsense
RIP, Apple TV remote: There’s finally a replacement and it’s only $15 at Amazon
LMAO
Amazon signs with ULA for rockets to launch Jeff Bezos' Kuiper internet satellites
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Listener Feedback
CloudBees is hiring a Solution Architect, APAC
Nate wants you to attend the AWS Strategic Accounts Solutions Architect Recruiting Event
Jordi wants you to work out Weaveworks — The Original GitOps Company
Read Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
THE THREAD exceeds 4k messages
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
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Brandon: iPad Stand.
Matt: Boyue Likebook P10
Coté: “On Bullshit.”
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1h 6min
April 16, 2021Episode 294: I already have a job
This week we discuss IBM’s Kyndryl, AWS launches OpenSearch and what makes a good strategy. Plus, how much do you really need to know about wine?
Rundown
Kyndryl
IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' after spinoff
IBM spinoff joins a long list of questionable corporate names
Introducing OpenSearch
Relevant to your interests
Social Media Use in 2021
Next Chapter for Gitpod
Reddit is secretly exploring a Clubhouse-like voice chat feature
JetBrains 2020/21 Annual Highlights
Apple M1 hardware support merged into Linux 5.13
Apple TV Digital Signage: Low up-front cost and easy to deploy
Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results
China Fines Alibaba Record $2.8 Billion After Monopoly Probe
Microsoft accelerates industry cloud strategy for healthcare with the acquisition of Nuance
Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion
Glow – Glow joins Libsyn
Cloud transformation challenges in 9 cartoons
Epic reportedly set to lose at least $330m in efforts to compete with Steam
Sony adds $200M to its investment in Epic Games
FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory'
MicroStrategy Pivots to Bitcoin Payouts for Board of Directors
Neelan Choksi posted on LinkedIn
Senior execs Forsyth, Frasca and Lemieux leaving Shopify
Bash Uploader Security Update
Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support now available, up 30% faster VM performance than Intel
Docker Desktop for Mac Updated With Apple Silicon Support
Dell Selling Boomi Cloud iPaaS Business?
Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company
1Password acquires SecretHub and launches new enterprise secrets management tool
1Password targets developers with Secrets Automation, acquisition of SecretHub
Here’s how the FBI managed to get into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone
Nonsense
No more vests
Software Defined Baby?
The Problem with Time & Timezones
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Listener Feedback
The Real Book - 99% Invisible via Chris Winters
strongDM is hiring for Developer Relations Leader, Customer Support Engineer and a Data Engineer
Come work on Coté’s team - developer advocate role: “The Technical Advocacy team at VMware is looking for a Technical Advocate focused on Kubernetes.”
Conferences
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd.
SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
Coté’s webinar, April 20th at 6pm CET: a “book tour” for his upcoming Mindset book.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Brandon: Coherence
Coté: Montreal Steak Seasoning
Matt: Soviet-era Lord of the Rings
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April 09, 2021Episode 293: Don’t steal my kid’s bike, steal my bike
This week we discuss the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Google vs. Oracle and the future of open source business models. Plus, do you really need a yard?
Rundown
API’s for Everyone
Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case
SCOTUS Decision Oracle vs. Google
Xinuos—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM
OSS Business Models
The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud
GitHub Sponsors
Everyone uses OpenSSL, but nobody's willing to fix it — except the Linux Foundation
Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar
Tidelift | A managed open source subscription backed by creators and maintainers
Relevant to your interests
Briefing: Amazon Plans for Return to ‘Office-Centric Culture’
Theme Studio: Create VS Code Themes!
Software development is a losers game
Amazon apologizes
Gitlab acquired Peach Fuzzer Pro then open-sourced most of it
VMware Taps Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes Abstraction - SDxCentral
LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business
Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaks online
Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019
Google will stop using Oracle's finance software and adopt SAP instead
Biden allows Trump admin's H-1B visa program suspension to expire
Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value
Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz
IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services - Container Journal
IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86
Target CIO Mike McNamara makes a cloud declaration of independence
T-Mobile’s 5G home internet service has become a reality
KKR hands Box a $500M lifeline
Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud
Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.
JAB Guidance on CentOS Linux End of Life
Nonsense
Inside a viral website
Engineers Sneakily Upgrade Apple M1 Mac Mini With More Storage, RAM
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Listener Feedback
Ryan from DataDog wants you to know they are hiring a Technical Writer and Technical Curriculum Developer REMOTE available.
Conferences
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Brandon: Formula 1: Drive to Survive.
Coté: Peanut M&M’s; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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1h 4min
April 02, 2021Episode 292: Wrap Around Analysis
This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop?
Rundown
Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT
Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord
Amazon Twitter War
Work / Life
Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager?
Solomon Hykes is back
McKinsey’s advice to European banks: don’t bring an entourage to meetings.
Relevant to your interests
IBM doubles down on OpenShift
VMware Cloud announcement
The New York Times x NFT | Foundation
Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft
Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have
Fintech comes to America at last
Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call
PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code
T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
Introducing the Echo subsea cable
LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too
SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm
ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade
Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore
Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work
Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding
Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time
GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom
Nonsense
'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia
Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team
Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day
Steer through the Suez Canal
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Listener Feedback
Dominic recommends NewsBlur to read newsletters
Owen recommends Ioreader for newsletters
Brian Gracely wants you to work on OpenShift at Red Hat. They are hiring over 10 Product Managers.
Conferences
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Matt: GGloba International Power Board Strip.
Brandon: Flame King Propane Torch Weed Burner.
Coté: Brennenstuhl travel plug / travel adapter (travel socket adapter for: Schuko socket and USA & Japan plug) black.
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March 26, 2021Episode 291: Master of the Coin
This week we discuss Discord rumors, Slack Connect, the new AWS CEO and what would make Tableau and Salesforce better. Plus, why did Google Reader really get canceled…?
Rundown
Messaging
Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion
Box shares rise on report company is exploring sale
Slack Is About to Become a Nightmare
The next Jassy
Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS
Nine things you need to know about the new AWS CEO
Why Google Killed Reader
Relevant to your interests
COVID Accelerated the Future: Now Seize It
Google buy real estate
Google lays out real estate plans for Texas in 2021
Google announces expansion of Bakery Square campus
Google picks Durham for engineering hub, aims to create 1,000 jobs
Google to Invest $7 Billion in Bet on Post-Pandemic Office
Worklife
Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off
Citigroup CEO ordains Zoom-free Fridays to ease 'relentless' pandemic workday
Rackspace Technology gains on takeover speculation
Kelsey Hightower on S3 Object Lambda
Hackers are exploiting a server vulnerability with a severity of 9.8 out of 10
HAMR and MAMR will bring us giant hard drives | Engadget
Apple’s HomePod mini reportedly has a secret temperature and humidity sensor
Twilio and ValueFirst Come Together to Improve Customer Engagement
Apple Developing New 'HomePod' Models With Screens and Cameras
Google is gunning for faster hardware, whether or not you see it
Powell calls cryptocurrencies 'not really useful stores of value' and says Fed will move slowly
Managed open-source software startup Aiven raises $100M in Series C funding
Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus – TechCrunch
Robinhood Is Said to Have Filed Confidentially for U.S. IPO
Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp
How Google really feels about Amazon Redshift…
A Brief History of Semiconductors: How The US Cut Costs and Lost the Leading Edge
Kubecost raises $5.5 million to help teams monitor and reduce their Kubernetes spend
Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud - Cisco Blogs
Intel
Intel invests $20 billion in two Arizona factories, 7nm chips coming in 2023 | Engadget
Pat Gelsinger Hype Video
SiFive collaborates with new Intel Foundry Services to enable innovative new RISC-V computing platforms
DigitalOcean IPO
Nonsense
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated
Silverwood Grove Is A Board Game Bringing Aussie Culture To Tabletop Gaming
Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off
Each State's Favorite Easter Treat (Spoiler: Apparently some people DO like Peeps) - Zippia
So, the #SuezCanal is blocked…
Report: Houses in Austin selling for more over asking price than any major U.S. city
You Can’t Trade Football Futures
A Message From the Skype CEO
Winter storm causes Austin home sales to dip in February for first time since
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Conferences
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
March 31st VMware Tanzu event.
Cloud Native Rust Day
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
Coté: cote.io/downloads
Brandon: Pixelmator Pro and SnagIT
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March 19, 2021Episode 290: Make your own slides
This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.
Rundown
VC
Stripe is now valued at $95 billion
Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market
Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch
Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done
Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing
Work Life
This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout
Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon
Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard
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Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’
Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon
Google’s plan to disrupt higher education
Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions
Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML
Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration
Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices
China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules
Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs
Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise
CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation
Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage
Boosting developer success on Google Play
IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions
AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type
Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021
Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch
Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users
Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google
Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services
Nonsense
Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year
Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more
Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla
IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns
So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5?
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Cloud Native Rust Day
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March 12, 2021Episode 289: The sabbatical is not going well
This week we discuss how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills.
Rundown
Post-pandemic Predications?
Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain
VC
Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round
Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up
How to pronounce Snyk
Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up
Excel Never Dies
Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete
Pickle Rick (Pure CSS)
Relevant to your interests
Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws
India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees
Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data
McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion
Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok?
Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban
SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe
Blame the Intern
Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia
What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop
Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab
Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million
Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls
Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch
Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition
- Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS
Identity and Access Management
Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch
IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019
Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA
Brandon interviews Squire Earle
Nonsense
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer
IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers
The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds
Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges
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SDT news & hype
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Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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