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June 10, 2022Episode 362: Are we using version control?
This week we discuss work life balance, the State of Continuous Delivery Survey and recap WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on Buddha and parenting…
Runner-up Titles
The Buddha had no kids
The Air Fryer is a PaaS.
Rundown
Work vs. Life
Office workers get little reward for returning to the office – an idle factory is taboo
CEOs had a phenomenal year. Workers, less so
Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push
Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit
Ford factory workers get 40-hour week
Survey Says
State of Continuous Delivery
Chainguard raises $50M Series A for supply chain security
WWDC
Apple WWDC 2022: the 16 biggest announcements
Create macOS or Linux virtual machines - WWDC22 - Videos
Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura
All the New Features Coming to Your Mac This Fall
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
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Earnings
HashiCorp quarter
MongoDB quarter
GitLab quarter
Salesforce stock jumps as it raises profit forecast
Tech Valuations Tumble, but Business Software Stocks Are Cushioned by the Cloud
A Framework for Navigating Down Markets
VMware
Good thread (VMware history)
Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure
Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware
Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure
Brian Madden’s brutal and unfiltered thoughts on the Broadcom / VMware deal
Broadcom will tame the VMware beast
VMware Blockchain
Bolt, the payments start-up, has begun laying off employees.
Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
OpenStack, except it's outer space,
Microsoft confirms it's taking a 'new approach' with its game streaming device | Engadget
How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person
Over 380 000 open Kubernetes API servers | The Shadowserver Foundation
Twitter fined $150M for misusing 2FA data
First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto.
Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone'
Microsoft won't lower software costs on AWS, Google clouds
A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says
Forget LinkedIn—Your Next Job Offer Could Come via Slack
Sheryl Sandberg will leave Meta after 14 years this fall
This crypto startup believes 'sex-to-earn' is the future of web3
ExpressVPN rejects CERT-In directives, removes its India servers
MongoDB CTO on (no)SQL, Superapps, and Southeast Asia
Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls
This VR headset will measure a user's brain activity
Tesla has to respond to increase in phantom braking complaints
Amazon’s retail CEO is resigning after 23 years
Zoom Hires Greg Tomb as President
Peloton hires Amazon Web Services executive Liz Coddington as new CFO in latest shakeup
Musk accuses Twitter of 'resisting and thwarting' his right to information on fake accounts
‘A new IBM’: How the tech giant simplified its marketing
Coinbase extends hiring pause for 'foreseeable future' and plans to rescind some offers
Evading the Big Blue Name Police
IBM CEO explains why company offloaded Watson Health
MongoDB fires up new cloud, on-premises releases
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
OpenCost: Open Source Collaboration on Kubernetes Cost Standards
Kubecost launches open-source OpenCost project
Datadog’s 2022 State of Serverless report
The IRS needs digital transformation
Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner
Nonsense
The Cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW)
WSJ News Exclusive | Justin Timberlake Sells Song Catalog to Blackstone-Backed Fund
Every person in the U.S. now receives an average of 65 packages a year.
Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise
Flying ice cream? Unilever links with drone delivery service Flytrex
Texas to reclaim home of the largest Buc-ee’s
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Conferences
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
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THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
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VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023,
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June 03, 2022Episode 361: This is Bonkers
This week Brandon is joined by special guest host JJ Ashgiar and they record a live episode at the THAT Conference. Brandon and JJ interview Clark Sell and Brett Slaski about the origins and purpose of the THAT Conference and then the group discusses Broadcom acquiring VMware.
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Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61 Billion in Cash and Stock
Guests
Clark Sell
Brett Slaski
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May 27, 2022Episode 360: Radical Transparency
This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad.
Runner-up Titles
I’m here for the sandwich talk
I want to get back to the garbage chairs
Paying for Petrol
Paying at the Pump
Anonymize your trash
I don’t want to improve
Making life hard for HR
Radical transparency for you, not me
Where’d this public cloud come from?
Don’t ever fall into the trap of sucking
That’s a Circle
Rundown
Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings
Bridgewater Principles & Culture
You need meeting knobs like this
Seth Green's Stolen NFT Puts His New Animated Bored Ape Series in Jeopardy
Adam Neumann’s Web3 Startup Raises $70 Million From VCs, ‘Goddess Nature Token’
How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud?
Zoom’s QTR
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Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
Cloud Foundry Launches Korifi to Ease Kubernetes Development
Get The Report: State of Observability 2022
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS | Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2022
Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware
Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware
Dell Becomes Billionaire Kingmaker in Broadcom, VMware Deal
Broadcom Discussing Paying Around $140 a Share for VMware, People Say
DevOps inspiration from Toyota Production System and Lean considered harmful
Artifice and Intelligence
Klarna fires 10% of its team amid valuation crunch
New – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processors
Planview Acquiring Long-Time Partner Tasktop - Mike West
Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield
K8s (⁦@kubernetesio⁩) startups raised $500M ~ in funding over the last 30 months alone.
The results are in, and the longlist of management books for 2022 is being revealed!
Joining Docker
LogDNA Unveils New Brand Identity Reflecting Vision for Observability Data
SlashData: Cloud native continues to grow with more than 7 million developers worldwide
We Sign Tomorrow? Inside A Tech Acquisition | Paddle Documentary
Nonsense
Resolution in Rackspace slide lawsuit
Central Texas man takes on Elon Musk's Boring Company, unkept promises
Spreadsheet The Game
A message from the staff of Reply All:
It’s the end of Superman.
National bank hit by ransomware trolls hackers
Conferences
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual
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MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
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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Brandon: After Steve
Matt: REI Anniversary Sales
Screaming in the Cloud: AWS Commerce Platform
Reply All: Flying the Coop
Coté: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem.
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May 20, 2022Episode 359: Sell the Slide
This week we discuss the "sum of the parts" of Rackspace, Rocky Linux recreates CentOS and thoughts on the economy. Plus, a debate: rental car vs. Uber.
Rundown
Rackspace Technology Reports First Quarter 2022 Results; Company Evaluating Strategic Alternatives
Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services
Rocky Linux developer CIQ raises $26M to recreate CentOS for enterprises
Snowflake Stock: Finally, This Software Titan Is Worth A Nibble (NYSE:SNOW)
Job vacancies outpace unemployment for first time
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Observability Engineering - O'Reilly Book 2022 Download
Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform
Apple discontinues its last iPod
Ploopy. Open-source hardware.
[DigitalBridge to Buy Switch for $11 Billion as Data Center M&A Binge Continues](http://)
Aiven Raises $210M to Invest in Sustainable Open Source Cloud
Workforce management startup Rippling raises $250M at $11.25B valuation
Google finally announces the Pixel Watch
IBM's massive 'Kookaburra' quantum processor might land in 2025
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service
Komodor provides a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform
Nvidia Does the Unexpected: Open Sources GPU Drivers for Linux
Hands-Free Voice Control | Sonos
Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-content-moderation law
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Redbox
Hasura raises $100M to create GraphQL APIs for databases
Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for PowerShell
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's $214 million pay package is 'excessive' and should be vetoed by shareholders, say advisory firms
Netflix tells employees they can quit if they don't want to work on content they disagree with, according to new company culture guidelines
Not all open-source leaders are jerks
Intel Poaches Open Source Execs from Netflix, Apple to Boost Linux Efforts
Jeff Bezos turns up heat on Joe Biden over US inflation
Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation
Musk: Twitter deal at lower price "not out of the question"
Google Lets Personal Users Stay On 'No-Cost Legacy G Suite' With Custom Gmail Domain
Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces
For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over
The State of Kubernetes Security in 2022
Facebook’s hiring crisis: Engineers are turning down offers
Twitter bleeds more top talent in the midst of Musk acquisition
Sisters doing it for themselves: this nun built her own power plant
Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust security services
Orbit + Hoopy: Writing the Future of DevRel - Orbit
A beef over NFTs is shaking the sneaker industry - The Hustle
Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report
Apple has shown its mixed reality headset to its board of directors: report (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Why Did Heroku Fail?
Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux
Nonsense
Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast
Dad's take on Peloton from 2019
A solar power plant in space? The UK wants to build one by 2035.
Elon discovers Lawyers
More Cables
Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months
Southwest introduces transferable credits
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Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual
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MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté helps put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
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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Brandon: tvOS 15.4 lets you finally log in to captive Wi-Fi portals on Apple TV
Matt: The Poppy War
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May 17, 2022Episode 358: Philip Griffiths on Zero Trust Networking and OpenZiti
Brandon interviews Philip Griffiths, the VP of Global Business Development at NetFoundry. They discuss how OpenZiti enables zero trust networking and how to build certificate-based security into your applications. Plus, some thoughts on creating an open source mascot.
Episode Links
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OpenZiti
Zitification
Bootstrapping Trust
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Twitter: @OpenZiggy
Twitter: @ThePGriffiths
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47 min
May 13, 2022Episode 357: Is platform engineer the new thing?
This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving…
Rundown
DevOpsDays Austin
Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees
A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn
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Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show
What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal
The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world
I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs
Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
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3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets?
Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles
Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker
Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc.
4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization
Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto
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Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M
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THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual
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MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 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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58 min
May 06, 2022Episode 356: They should have consulted us
This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro…
Rundown
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple
Passwords
Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins
Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access
Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO
How FIDO Works
1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features
Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable?
Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results
Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works
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Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget
A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings:
Big Tech revenue growth rates.
Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight
Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time
Actual is going open-source
Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better)
Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business
Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart
Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade
Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A
Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer
Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives
Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business
Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com
Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud
Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help.
Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland
Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com
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AOC and Elon
Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID
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Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual
Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod
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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58 min
April 29, 2022Episode 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
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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'
Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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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.
SDT news & hype
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April 22, 2022Episode 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
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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...
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Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund
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Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50.
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
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Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75
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!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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April 15, 2022Episode 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
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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
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