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- Episode 355: That’s why he runs my Marketing department
This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft…
Rundown- Kubecost
- Istio
- Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project
- Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo
- Earnings
- AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions
- Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter
- Microsoft earnings beat across the board
- Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss
- Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft
- The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA
- Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB
- Twitter
- Back to the Future of Twitter
- Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter
- Bezos on Twitter being acquired
- Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
Relevant to your Interests- 7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers
- Is Firefox OK?
- After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch
- Good SDT Slack Thread on this
- The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company
- Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage
- Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return
- Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter
- Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN
- AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B
- SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs
- Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why
- Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience
- YouTube’s growth struggles to load
- Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself
- Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff
- Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you
Nonsense- Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head'
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- DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations- Brandon: F1 TV
- Matt: Factorio Story Missions
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59 min - Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile
This week we discuss the disruption happening to Netflix, Corporate Metrics and a few thoughts on Heroku. Plus, some summer travel tips.
Rundown- Netflix
- Netflix shares crater 25% after company reports it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years
- Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords
- Netflix slowdown leaves streaming biz reeling
- Reporting is hard
- Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count by @ttunguz
- Heroku
- Heroku is practically down for 4 days
- Heroku is like a fallen civilization of elves. Beautiful, immortal, beloved by all who encountered it - but still a dead end. - Adam Jacob
Relevant to your Interests- How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog
- Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company.
- "Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost"
- The Chips That Rebooted the Mac
- The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time
- Apollo Global weighs going in on bid to buy Twitter: report
- Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken
- Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions
- Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules
- Discovery is shutting down CNN+ and is expected to provide details to staffers Thursday...
Nonsense- Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund
Listener Feedback- Brian wants you to work at Solo.io:
- Gloo Edge Product Manager
- Software Engineer (Front-End Systems)
- Software Engineer (Back-End Systems)
- New Business Developer (BDR/SDR)
Conferences- Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50.
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- DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations- Brandon: Rectangle App on macOS
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1 hr 4 min - Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans
This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…
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Rundown- Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet
- The PE Yo-Yo
- Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion
- Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks
- How big could the cloud get? Part 1
Relevant to your Interests- Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge
- Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch
- Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon
- Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids
- What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don’t Get
- Are Microsoft’s days as the ‘friendly’ tech giant over? – POLITICO
- The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week
- Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems
- Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer
- ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost
- Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs
- How do you know when a business leads with technology?
- CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders
- Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey
Nonsense- USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert
- CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report
- The Origins of the Dutch Angle
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- DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
- Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
- DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations- Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations
- To Scale
- Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it?
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52 min - Episode 352: Layers of Abstraction
This week we discuss Dagger’s Launch, Employee Tacking and Executive Compensation. Plus, some thoughts on beans and broccoli…
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Rundown- Dagger
- Introducing Dagger: a new way to create CI/CD pipelines
- Docker founder Solomon Hykes launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup
- CUE
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger earned $178.6M in 2021
- Goldman Sachs is tracking ID swipes so it can crack down on employees who are breaking its return-to-office rules. Here's what happens to those who don't show up enough.
Relevant to your Interests- On Postgres Container Apps. Behold Smooshing: database meet app platform, app platform meet database.
- Update on “reader” app distribution
- Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone
- Tinybird adds $37 million to run realtime analytics APIs for you
- Skillsoft and Codecademy: Equipping today’s workforce with the skills for tomorrow
- A guide to pronouncing names of global tech companies
- Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change
- Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods
- Grafana Labs announces $240 million Series D round led by GIC and welcomes new investor
- Microsoft is integrating its Windows 365 Cloud PCs into Windows 11
- $120M to build a "checkout" button
- Google Cloud cross-platform data storage engine, BigLake
- Announcing the next generation of Amazon Honeycode
- Boeing taps Amazon, Microsoft, Google for cloud mega-deal
- Facebook owner Meta targets virtual currency market with ‘Zuck Bucks’
- The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
- Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night
- Global Unicorn Club
- IBM 'misclassified' mainframe sales to enrich executives
- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed late on Wednesday that it had purchased a stake in computer and printer maker HP Inc worth $4.2bn
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ready With Mesa 22.0, Early Intel Arc Graphics Enabled & Amber Added
- PaaS is back: Why enterprises keep trying to resurrect self-service developer platforms
- We Don't Talk about PaaS - Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #59
- Elon Musk is the new Product Manger of Twitter.
- Twitter plans edit button, says Elon Musk’s poll had nothing to do with it
- Announcing AWS Lambda Function URLs: Built-in HTTPS Endpoints for Single-Function Microservices
- Why AMD Spent $1.9B for Pensando's DPU Biz
- Microsoft Azure vaults into the Arm server era with chips from Ampere
Nonsense- I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks
- 300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day
- Comic Helvetic, an Unholy Combo of Comic Sans and Helvetica
- Footage of Jay Leno Hosting Windows 95 Launch Event Surfaces Online
- American Airlines Restarts Philadelphia Regional Routes With Landline Buses
Listener Feedback- Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command
- Unity hiring: Senior Strategic Business Development @ Austin, TX, USA
- Brain Gracely wants you to join Solo.io in Tech Marketing.
- Happy Birthday Day to Matt Ray.
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- DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
- Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
- DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! 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.
- Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations- Coté: Cojonudos Espárragos.
- Matt: Look at Them Beans - Johnny Cash
- Murder on the Orient Express (book, not the movie)
- Brandon: ****Yasso Bars
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55 min - Episode 351: You can’t put it all on one slide
This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes….
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Rundown- Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption
- Europe says yes to messaging interoperability
- Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players
- Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition
- As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
Relevant to your Interests- Mac Studio Teardown: No upgradable storage… yet
- Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind
- Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos
- PlanetScale Rewind
- Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona
- Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs – TechCrunch
- Sealed IBM files in age-discrimination case now public
- Want to smell in virtual reality? A Vermont-based startup has the technology
- Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
- Nvidia CEO to Look at Intel for Foundry, Says Shift Will Be Hard (
- Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B
- Texas has enough wind and solar power to replace coal almost entirely
- The Overcast Redesign: Part One
- Malicious Packages in npm Targeting Azure Developers
- Google Issues Emergency Security Warning For 3.2 Billion Chrome Users
- The public really have no idea what we do, do they
- The single-largest wind farm in North America comes online in Oklahoma
- Apple’s iPhone SE is the nail in the mmWave 5G coffin
- Gravity - Issue 1: Analytics
- HP seeks to ride hybrid work boom with $1.7 billion Poly buyout
- Chrome and Edge hit with V8 type confusion vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit
- Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa.
- Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
- Arm plans transfer of shares in renegade China unit to speed up IPO
- 20 Kubernetes Blogs, Journals, and Podcasts to Follow in 2022
- Okta: "We made a mistake" delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure
- Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert
- More Okta
- The Okta Mess Is Even Worse Than It Appears
- Google Calendar now lets paid users create a “booking page” website
- Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
- HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar speaks to The Reg
Nonsense- Reference Letter
- Cybersecurity and Skin Care
- U.S. Nuclear Power to China? - Freakonomics
- Some news from Austin
- Dyson's First Wireless Headphones: Fresh Tunes and Fresh Air
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- Ryan wants you to become the Chief of Staff - CISO at DataDog
- Andrew wants you to work at Deepfactor where you will be known as a “Deepfactorianm.”
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- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Recommendations- Brandon: iOS App Developer Settlement with Apple
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58 min - Episode 350: Email in Excel
This week we discuss how the software supply chain impacts business continuity and analyze the latest attempt to disrupt Microsoft Excel. Plus, some thoughts on bread heels….
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Rundown- On the weaponisation of open source
- Hacker Group Claims Access to User Authentication Firm Okta
- The tyranny of Microsoft Excel may finally be over
Relevant to your Interests- Website Builder Webflow Hits $4 Billion Valuation As It Nears $100 Million Revenue
- Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM
- BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war
- DeepMind's New AI: As Smart As An Engineer... Kind Of!
- Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK – TechCrunch
- About Netflix - Paying to Share Netflix Outside Your Household
- CURL is now 24
- Software is no longer sold; it's adopted
- Grafana Labs, raised $220 million in Series C
- Coatue-Backed Grafana Seeks Funds at $5 Billion-Plus Value
- Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data
- Elon Musk's SpaceX has activated more than 5,000 Starlink internet terminals in Ukraine, report says
- The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space. Here’s How It Would Work
- Harness Expands Software Delivery Platform With Acquisition of ChaosNative and Launches Two New Modules to Help Developers Rapidly Deliver Resilient, Reliable, Secure Software
- Harness moves into chaos engineering with ChaosNative acquisition
- Apple hit with a widespread service outage
- SSH and Git, meet 1Password
- Twilio launches Flex Conversations, a unified chat API for contact centers
- Ford's F-150 Lightning will offer an EPA-rated 320 miles of range
- NVIDIA Introduces Grace CPU Superchip
- Long-Enduring COBOL May Still Have A Shelf Life
- RapidAPI Raises $150M Series D Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to Empower Developers to Innovate and Build Software Faster with APIs
- The Ubuntu Application
- COBOL modernization startup CloudFrame bags $7M Series A funding
- Updated Okta Statement on LAPSUS$
- Clocking in at $2.3 billion in losses, Business Email Compromise remains the elephant in the room.
Nonsense- Google's McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car
- Plain Text Sports
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- Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
- DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations- Coté: The Confidential Agent, **Graham Greene.
- Matt: Secrets of The Bullshark
- Brandon: Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
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48 min - Episode 349: The Janitor Strategy for Developer-led Sales, also, The School of the Philosophy of Rocks and Time
This week, Coté and Matt define three sales model for doing developer-led sales. Also, we know that clown fish are optional, but do rocks need to exist?
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Mood Board:- How many of you watch streaming?
- hotdogheadexplosion37 - “I’m your host, exploding hotdog.”
- hotdogheadexplosion37 solves agile financing problems.
- I’m your host, ExplodingHotDogMan
- What if rocks didn’t exist?
- I didn’t take “Philosophy of Rocks 101 in college, but I did take hydrobiology 379.”
- This is what happens when Brandon’s not here
- Legal week
- B to D sales
- The Janitorial Sales Model - vendor creates mess, drives uncontrolled/ungoverned/decentralized viral spread.
- The Mary Poppins Model
- Graffiti Proof Paint Model
Rundown- Rocks.
- The End of Daylight Saving Time?
- Dell Striving To ‘Embrace Developers In A Big Way’: Michael Dell
Relevant to your Interests- Congratulations to The Cloudcast, 600 Shows!
- Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings
- Birdeye Raises $60M Series C Funding Led by Accel-KKR to Help Local Businesses Grow
- Commercial satellites test the rules of war in Russia-Ukraine conflict
- Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership with focus on cloud migrations
- The Conversation: Twitter Trends 2022
- Google's domain name registrar is out of beta after seven years
- Amazon just introduced a bizarre metaverse-like game to train people how to use AWS
- The first RISC-V portable computer is now available
- Launching Valid Capital
- Veracode Announces Significant Growth Investment From TA Associates | Veracode
- Canonical bullish on OpenStack
- Facebook’s Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry
- The next big SaaS player will be the company that solves enterprise billing
- The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase
- HashiCorp beats expectations in first quarterly earnings report since going public
- Oracle's cloud business seen as 'the driver,' of Q3 results
Nonsense- Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died
- Winamp joins LimeWire in the emerging "legacy software comes back from the dead to do NFTs" trope
- One of the greatest videos in all of sports
- The time Vladimir Putin stole Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring
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Conferences- .Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
- THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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- THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
- DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
- Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
- DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
- DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
- Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
- 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: Amazon Fresh store in London
- Matt: The Kubernetes Podcast 170: The Kubernetes Documentary
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1 hr 8 min - Episode 348: Jevons Paradox
This week we discuss the potential digital transformation of the Dollar and Snowflake’s Strategy. Plus, what exactly is Heavy Metal…
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Rundown- Digital Transformation of the Dollar
- The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world
- Biden takes big step toward government-backed digital currency
- Let’s check in on SNOW
- Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout
- Clouded Judgement 3.4.22
- SNOW Investor Deck
Relevant to your Interests- Need to keep your SBC fresh? Armbian v22.02 is out
- Developing Games Around the World: Netflix to Acquire Next Games
- Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman buys 7.5% stake in Splunk
- Report: Twitch confronted with staff "exodus" over strategy disagreements
- As Nvidia hacker deadline looms, 71,000 employee accounts have reportedly been exposed
- Understanding the value of AWS and Amazon Retail integration - a perspective from a long-time $AMZN shareholder.
- Europe attempts to break the internet again:
- Notable Internal Systems at Amazon
- Amazon's assistance in Ukraine
- Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't
- DevOpsDays Austin donated $10,000 saved from 10 yrs of events to Ukraine relief
- For Its Next Trick, Nvidia Is Doing Software-Defined Storage
- Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split
- First Apple M1 Ultra Benchmark Posted, Nearly Matches Threadripper 3990X
- Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
- Google to Acquire Mandiant
- Salesforce is opening four new office towers
- Tech giants move to reopen offices, but differ on hybrid-work plans
- Here's Everything Apple Announced Today
Nonsense- When is a nanometer not nanometer?
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Listener Feedback- Borko wants you to work in DevRel at Render.
Conferences- .Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
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51 min - Episode 347: Son of Beagle
This week we discuss how to measure DevRel, the legacy of Sun and a few thoughts on Markdown. Plus, we determine the TAM for trackballs…
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57 min - Episode 346: Ev Kontsevoy with an opinionated approach to secure access
Brandon interviews Ev Kontsevoy the CEO and Cofounder of Teleport. They discuss Ev’s early career, his experience at Mailgun and Teleport’s opinionated approach to providing secure access.
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