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This week we discuss GitLab going public, review iOS 15 and a few more thoughts on remote work. Plus, should the EU impose a universal phone charger? Rundown GitLab Microsoft GitHub rival GitLab files to go public after annualized revenue tops $200 million GitLab: Benchmarking the S-1 Data GitLab S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up by @ttunguz Apple iOS 15 Review Buy a 'free' iPhone 13 with trade-in at Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T: All you need to know Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple 1Password’s iOS Safari extension looks good Ship / Show / Ask Spend the money on Zoom-Box-Discord instead! Relevant to your interests Original Creators of Apache Pulsar Raise $23M Series-A for StreamNative, Round Led by Prosperity7 Ventures Werner tweet on NDAs Amazon gives Kindle e-readers a rare user interface overhaul Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless Over the last 90-days, if you average more than 6-viewers, you are in the top 6.7% of Twitch. Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions WeWork shares expected to start trading in late October Salesforce rival Freshworks raises $1.03 bln in U.S. IPO, valued at $10.13 bln Apple rolls major Safari redesign out to Macs ahead of Monterey release This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins Facebook introduces portable Portal Go for $199 Raspberry Pi attracts $45m after lockdowns fuel demand for PCs Zoom's $14.7 billion deal for Five9 under US national security review Rundown Follow the millimetres It Has Come to Subscription Tacos A 10-Foot Wide House In Boston Sells For $1.25 Million Samuel Adams' latest potent beer is illegal in 15 states Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Listener Feedback Go Slack Discussion on Ship / Show / Ask Brian recommends The Disconnect | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station Jordi wants you to be a Developer Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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! TriggerMesh is hiring! Recommendations Brandon: iPhone Battery & Power Repair Matt: Deep Rock Galactic Coté: Hornbach; box cutters; Drunker & Retireder. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes… Rundown Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event iPadOS 15. Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk Relevant to your interests Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America Epic is shutting down Houseparty Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers Open Scheduling Infrastructure, Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs strongDM Raises $54M Series B **** Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion Nonsense They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas How long are you in meetings? Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Listener Feedback Matt wants you to work at Github. Hiring, both senior and non-senior roles. 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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! TriggerMesh is hiring! Recommendations Brandon: Reverse Sear a Steak Matt: Halo Master Chief Collection Coté: AirServer. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss the history of Docker, the rise of Kubernetes and the launch of AWS EKS Anywhere. Plus, how much lumber fits in a cubic meter…? Rundown How Docker broke in half Migrating from Docker to Podman AWS rolls out EKS Anywhere and EKS Connector Relevant to your interests This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained How the 5G experience compares across 50 states and 250 US cities HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests Terraform Understaffed? OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion Open source is selfish Mainframes, ML and digital transformation — Benedict Evans Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future DigitalOcean embraces serverless computing with Nimbella acquisition Tripwire CEO steps down after supporting Texas abortion law 1 big thing: Inside the SolarWinds response The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image Where does AWS profit come from? AWS EC2 egress data transfer pricing ($0.05-$0.09/GB) is more expensive than Israeli internet access, cool, cool. Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources Nonsense Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]" HTTP Request Header Proposal El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Crypto Become Currency Tuesday Man Gets 4 Years in $126 Million Printer Toner Fraud Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Listener Feedback Nate sent in this video on What is a Lake House and why it matters Peter recommended Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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: Recursion Matt: Hammocks Coté: Webster’s Original Dictionary Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Docker’s new licensing, Wirecutter goes behind a paywall and Serverless COBOL. Plus, Coté explains why open source is like College Football. Rundown Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions - Docker Blog New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall Serverless COBOL in Knative Announcing VMware Tanzu Application Platform: A Better Developer Experience on any Kubernetes VMware’s new Tanzu platform aims to unify Kubernetes development Databricks raises $1.6B series H funding round Relevant to your interests EXCLUSIVE Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases Apple loosens rules for developers in major concession amid antitrust pressure Introducing a16z's seed fund - Andreessen Horowitz 30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling NGINX Commits to Open Source and Kubernetes Ingress - The New Stack CITC - About | Greylock Decentralized Investing Platform Syndicate Raises $800K From 100 Investors What you don’t know about working with AWS Forrest Brazeal going to GCP Clubhouse embraces spatial audio for more lifelike conversations Nonsense A (possibly fake?) high school apparently duped its way into playing on ESPN Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences DevOpsDays Zurich, Sep 7th and 8th. DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person Listener Feedback Barton wants you to be a Consultant Product Manager: Cloud Native - Remote, US at Dell 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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: WATOE Wireless Charger 3 in 1 Qi Fast Charging Station Matt: Broad City Coté: Short Life in a Strange World. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Gartner’s Emerging Tech Hype Cycle and analyze 10 years of “Software Eating the World.” Plus, is Willie Nelson a good singer…? Rundown 3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Chris Dixon Blockchain Tweetstorm Ten Years Software Is Eating the World - Andreessen Horowitz Disney wins this round: Here's where the streaming giants stand at the end of earnings season Relevant to your interests Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale Custom Silicon LEAKED MEMO: Google is dismantling its embattled health division as the tech giant reconsiders its strategy for healthcare 'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response 'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 Turing Pi V2 is here - Turing Pi Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps Grafana Labs Raises $220 Million Round at $3 Billion Valuation Serverless, Multicloud Popular with K8s Users, Survey Says Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition ****## Nonsense ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. Rejected Old Bay Jingle Ford doubles Lightning production target on strong pre-launch demand -sources Streaming Churn New Tilting Stops $100 Million Fix of San Francisco's Millennium Tower Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Clubhouse.io — is project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up to day at www.clubhouse.io/sdt Conferences SpringOne, Sep 1-2 DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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: Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks Coté: Noppes thrift store. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber… Rundown Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million Relevant to your interests Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets. PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach Funding, Buyback, and Hiring Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows In No Code you delete code as you write it. Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021 WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B? Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS Nonsense The Most Dangerous Writing App Suicide Linux Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs How QR codes are made Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes Progress Report: August 2021 PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink EC2 offers 400 Instance Types Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Clubhouse.io — is project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up to day at www.clubhouse.io/sdt Conferences SpringOne, Sep 1-2 DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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: The White Lotus on HBO Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart Mitani Chicken Salt Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave. Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch, Reorgs and Remote Pay. Plus, some thoughts on IKEA and QBRs. Rundown This Week in Programming: The ElasticSearch Saga Continues Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments Twitter Thread on Elasticsearch Google staff could see pay cut if they opt to work from home Steven Sinosky: Hardcore Software Relevant to your interests 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built Amazon delays employee office return until 2022 amid COVID-19 surge Red Hat tells U.S. workers they must be vaccinated to come to office Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay Hard Drive Reliability: A Look at HDD and SDD Failure Rates Microsoft announces new 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge Salesforce enters the streaming wars with new video service for professionals Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell is leaving after 23 years as shakeup continues at AWS VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why – TechCrunch Accenture gets hacked Why can we not have an explicit statement about 1Password being a subscription-only service The “Cloud MQ” for 2021 is Out! Reddit Numbers GitHub Codespaces HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey Now Microsoft is protesting after Amazon won a $10 billion NSA cloud contract a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing Announcing AI21 Studio and Jurassic-1 Language Models Nonsense Cabin fever in "Fortress Australia" due to slow vaccination rate AMC theaters will start accepting Bitcoin this year Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Clubhouse.io — Project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up at www.clubhouse.io/sdt Listener Feedback Jordy wants you to work at as a Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks Conferences SpringOne, Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video. THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (Virtual Event) 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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: The Suicide Squad Matt: Uniqlo Fluffy Yarn Fleece Full-Zip Jacket Coté: PÅHL desk. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary? Rundown Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 Heroku and Digital Ocean make the Cloud Platforms list The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021 AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers Relevant to your interests Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2 Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life LISA Community Message Nonsense Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the store Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences SpringOne, Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 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: Let Him Go. Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows podcast. Coté: La Vallade restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline wine, which you should also try. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Infrastructure as Code, GCP's new API policy and The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey. Plus, some thoughts on Olympic Swimming. Rundown Evolving Infrastructure-as-Code to Integration-as-Code Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar Saved by Google? New API policy promises stability and availability. The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic Relevant to your interests Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu Is Now GA, Plus an Integration with TriggerMesh Big-name San Antonio tech company axing 10 percent of workforce Facebook’s cloud gaming service hits iOS devices as a web app | Engadget Clubhouse Breach Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 1 | Amazon Web Services Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website No, we don’t use Kubernetes | Ably Blog: Data in Motion Replicated $50M Series C To Advance Multi-Prem Software Adoption - Replicated a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation | a16z Live Amazon pulls the plug on 3-year effort to migrate from PeopleSoft to Workday. Discord is adding Slack-like threads to keep conversations better organized AWS’s Egregious Egress Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp Report: Vista Equity Partners could sell Tibco for $7.5B+ Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter Microsoft posts big earnings beat and gives optimistic revenue forecast Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall Nonsense United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album Meet the typical Costco shopper Kangaroo vs Human population across Australia. Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback Nate from Slack recommends Oceanhorn 2 in the Apple Arcade Conferences SpringOne, Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 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: Criminal Podcast Episode 48 Hours Matt: King Tubby and other dub music on Spotify Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Netflix getting into games and review the latest State of DevOps Report. Plus, what do you call a domicile in Amsterdam? Rundown Why Netflix is getting into games State of DevOps Report 2021 Relevant to your interests Twitter Is Shutting Down Fleets, Its Vanishing-Post Format, After Less Than a Year Morgan Stanley‘s CIO survey shows a significant moderation in expectations for the migration of workloads to the public cloud. Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner Austin sees pay-off from pandemic-era tech reshuffling Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? The end of open source? DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm – Blocks and Files Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle? Rapid7 + IntSights: Own Your Entire Attack Surface, Internally and Externally Apple to delay office returns to October - Bloomberg News Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure Apple's AirPods did ~$16B in 2020 You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? IBM shows strongest revenue growth in three years What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? Why Zoom bought Five9 for $14.7 billion: Enterprise wallet share and a big customer engagement play Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls ## Nonsense Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom! Noise cancellation neither helps productivity nor perceived performance World's First 3-D-Printed Steel Bridge Debuts in Amsterdam Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Craig in Fort Worth. Craig bought the Doc Martin’s recommended in episode 82. See the pictures. Conferences THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 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: Dark Sky Matt: BOM Weather Coté: 8ball newsletter; Buienradar in the Netherlands. Image Credit Image Credit

This week, Coté and Matt Ray finally nail the secrets of enterprise devrel. You won’t want to miss this one! Also: Coté gives up on streaming PowerPoint and IT survey show that it’s time to ask for a raise. Mood board: Free glowsticks for leadgenning yourself. Our tragic doppleganger. DevRel secrets. If you open a terminal you win streaming. Memes are serverless. You gotta spend money to lose money. All about the pincher. Rundown Cloud Native Integration Platform TriggerMesh Receives Strategic Funding from Cisco Investments, Existing Investors. Cisco leads $5M round for multicloud application integration startup TriggerMesh. Checking in on Matt’s devrel notes. Twitter is shutting down Fleets on August 3, citing low usage. Labor shortages in IT, but growing IT budgets. Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers. Relevant to your interests Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm Stamps.com Agrees to Thoma Bravo Buyout in $6.6 Billion Deal CentOS Stream: 'I was slow on the uptake, but I get what they are doing now,' says Rocky Linux founder Experts analyzed Andy Jassy's first memo to Amazon employees as CEO Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ for >$500 million Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity startup RiskIQ; reports peg deal at more than $500M @vladtenev (CEO of @RobinHoodApp) is now following @profgalloway The Future IBM We Will Probably Never See Q3 IPO cycle starts strong with Couchbase pricing and Kaltura relisting Report: Broadcom in talks to buy SAS for as much as $20B Broadcom No Longer in Talks to Buy SAS Institute, Sources Say Probably Wrong Flowchart, this time on AWS database services! Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy Person advises Principal AWS engineer not to build AWS on AWS, because a16z’s cloud repatriation piece said it’s too expensive at scale. The Windows 365 Cloud PC SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware campaign’ targeting its EOL equipment Analyzing the Legal Implications of GitHub Copilot Kelsey Hightower changing Roles Nonsense Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs Tesla finally releases Full Self-Driving Beta v9 Netflix to offer Video Games Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 Carolina VMUG, July 22 - Coté gives DevOps metrics talk. THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: McGruff's SMART KIDS Album Coté: Cumin Beef, from FuLu Mandarijn.

This week we discuss Copilot’s use of Open Source, changes at IBM and the Infinidash Meme. Plus, an update on Coté’s return to Twitter. Rundown Adam Jacob on OSS IBM Leadership Changes IBM (IBM) Announces President Jim Whitehurst Leaving IBM Email Woes IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out Amazon Eyeing 'Rebel Alliance' With Dropbox, Slack To Challenge Microsoft: Insider New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional Relevant to your interests Who's Winning in the Container Software Market Do the costs of the cloud outweigh the benefits? After Jeff Bezos: the changing of the guard at Amazon Russia Linked Group Hacks 200 Businesses With Ransomware A Large Ransomware Attack Has Ensnared Hundreds of Companies Independence Day: REvil uses supply chain exploit to attack hundreds of businesses Gurman: Apple rapidly expanding outside of Silicon Valley as it struggles to recruit and retain talent Are you ready to become a TV company? The future of tech events is media. Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management We Replaced Splunk at 100TB Scale in 120 Days Roblox partners with Sony Music to connect artists with money-making activities in the metaverse Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps Layoffs hit a record low as companies hold onto employees for dear life TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig – TechCrunch Box claims activist investor wanted in on deal it publicly opposed Nonsense job description: must be willing to work in a fast-paced unpredictable high-energy environment Puppy in a cone is 2% unhappy? Google Reader Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 Carolina VMUG, July 22nd - Coté giving a talk on DevOps metrics, and BEYOND! THAT Conference, July 26-29, Special Promotion SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: Some Kind of Heaven Coté: Newsify Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss the future of PaaS and working for home. Plus, some thoughts on kids and zone defense. Rundown What AWS Tells Us About Heroku 2.0 This is the Awful Voice Inside My Head Amazon, Microsoft lead 40% growth of IaaS public cloud services market in 2020. Relevant to your interests CentOS replacement Rocky Linux 8.4 arrives, and proves instantly popular | ZDNet “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted Ad tech stocks surge as Google delays killing third-party cookies until 2023 Twilio and Asana first to dual-list shares on Long-Term Stock Exchange BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr | Engadget Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda Discord acquires augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 – TechCrunch HashiCorp built its own online events platform and it's awesome. Tiny Wins. Intel Delays New Chip in First Setback for CEO Gelsinger’s Turnaround Effort Kindle Vella AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud A Clubhouse for the office? Slack unveils ‘Huddles’ audio chat rooms Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. Lessons Learnt in Developer Relations Nonsense Owner of venomous zebra cobra previously bitten by green mamba snake Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Stuart in Lake Stevens, WA. Show notes workaround for Apple Podcasts. Example Thanks to Brian White Eagle for enabling Nightbot and adding SDT Twitch Commands Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: A Quiet Place II Matt: The Pulsars Lost Transmissions Coté: Election Profit Makers Episode 100 Photo Credit Photo Credit

He's one of the best #devrel avocado person I know, so I asked Josh Long all my questions about how #devrel works, plus the Spring Framework community, of course. Also: why Josh stays up so late. If you prefer, see the original, video recording.Special Guest: Josh Long.

This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office. Rundown Did we market Knative wrong? Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake. Relevant to your interests Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now State of Digital Operations Nonsense Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville 24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks. Conferences Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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: Listen to my appearance on The Cloudcast Framing Britney Spears on Hulu Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Matt: We Are the Champions ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers Coté: La La IJs. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter. Rundown SFDC Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first Salesforce Targets ServiceNow: Slack Delivers “Human Workflow” Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future Relevant to your interests AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Proton Amazon rethinks full-time return to office as competitors tout remote flexibility Write for DOnations Side-by-side comparisons between GCP, AWS, and Azure Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative For Sight Impaired Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater Google Workspace for everyone Google’s unified Gmail interface (and Google Chat) launches for everyone Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely RISC-V and Intel? Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud Future - Understand the Future, How Tech Shapes It, and How We Build It Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more Oracle revenue growth accelerates as pandemic recedes Slack goes Clubhouse Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market Has Serverless Jumped the Shark? A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners” Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom Neo4j raises $325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise The public cloud could evolve like streaming services Nonsense 10 fully remote engineering jobs? iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb Peak binge: Consumers are now gravitating towards shows that are released weekly Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback IBM Cloud Podcast hosted by Dan Bettinger Conferences Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Innovation Talk by Cote on June 21st RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. 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: Children of Time Matt: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate Coté: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, in Netflix. Also: Wooster and Jeeves books narrated by Jonathan Cecil - included in Audible membership! Cover Art Credit Header Art Credit

This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school. Rundown Confluent IPO Everything you need to know about the Confluent IPO Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data Confluent S1 Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements Relevant to your interests Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps Passport Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023 The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour) Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote The Oncoming Ransomware Storm Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang Nonsense MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says The Great Wings Rush AMC is the new meme stock posterchild. Introducing the United supersonic fleet. Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Noe wans you to work as Senior Systems Engineer at Riot Games based in L.A. Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing. Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. 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: NYT Games Subscription Matt: Secrets of the Whales documentary Magnetic USB charging cables (recommended by Mykel Alvis) Coté: The Hidden Palace. Photo Credit Photo Credit

Coté talks with John about the subject of his new podcast series: Deming. Find his podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1758599Special Guest: John Willis.

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh, the cost of Public Cloud and more M&A. Plus, Coté published a new book that everyone must read. Rundown Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh Interview with Sebastien Goasguen Cofounder of TriggerMesh Coté’s new book is out: Changing Mindsets. Johnny Leadgen’s can get it for free. The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity Cloud is great. But we show it hurts share price of public M&A KKR and CD&R Close to $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Out Cloudera Sumo Logic buys Sensu Prosus buys StackOverflow for $1.8 Billion Relevant to your interests Docker introduces developer environments in containers A handy new Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure product map Apple says Malware is a problem on Macs. So how bad is it? DevRel Collective Wordpress powers 40% of Websites Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs are Coming to the Data Center H1B Visa Salary Database 2021 - By Employer, Job, or City Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado Twitter to launch local weather news service Life at Google vs. Life at Amazon: From Hiring to Firing (and Everything in Between) You'll Have to Wait Until June for Apple's Paid Podcast Subscription Service Zoom reports blowout earnings but warns of a coming slowdown Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors The State of Kubernetes 2021 Hackers hit JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, in ransomware attack Nonsense Formatting show and episode notes Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. 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: Mare of Easttown Finale Matt: macOS Automator & AppleScript. Coté: Stir fry sauce with black vinegar. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we try to make sense of Snowflake’s stance on open source and review the State of Serverless. Plus, some advice on parking cars in Amsterdam. Rundown Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake Matt Asay’s Take on Snowflake Data Warehouse Wars: Snowflake Vs. Google BigQuery The State of Serverless Relevant to your interests Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told Coinbase suffers outages as cryptos plummet in massive sell-off Snapchat's partner summit this year was done entirely in augmented reality Snap says it now has 500 million monthly active users Snap buys WaveOptics, a company that makes parts for augmented reality glasses, in $500 million deal Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it’ll take a 20 percent cut of sales Oracle insiders say there is a ‘culture of fear’ under the leadership of its key cloud unit It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught Netflix Reportedly Wants To Get Into The Video Games Industry Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3 Green Software Foundation The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS - Last Week in AWS Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: CISOs React Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine Nonsense The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has an unusual approach to his finance Twitch launches a dedicated "hot tubs" category after advertiser pushback Nonstop flights to Amsterdam back on Austin's horizon Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Jobs Work with Coté Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 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: Last Breath | Netflix Coté: American Gods, season 3 laylacodesit’s Twitch Channel The Leprechauns of Software Engineering Photo Credit Photo Credit

Brandon interviews Justin McCarthy the CTO and Co-founder of strongDM and they discuss Zero Trust, securing hybrid clouds and keeping auditors happy. Plus, a few tips on gardening during a pandemic. Links strongDM Free Trial What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Contact Justin Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: justinmccarthy

This week we discuss cloud migration strategies, the rise of Serverless and the future of PaaS. Plus, advice on how to start your day. Rundown AWS introduces new Application Migration Service AWS App Runner – Fully managed container application service Develop production-scale modern web apps quickly with Azure Static Web Apps Relevant to your interests Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says Lightstep is joining ServiceNow Pentagon Weighs Ending JEDI Cloud Project Amid Amazon Court Fight Crypto Markets Are Where the Fun Is You can now buy NFTs on eBay, and ‘blockchain-driven collectibles’ are coming soon TikTok is launching a job hiring service to help find gigs for Gen Z VMware CEO Raghuram On ‘Vigorously’ Competing With Nutanix Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire A Conversation With a Dogecoin Millionaire Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network Exploited via Bluetooth Jeff Blackburn Returns To Amazon To Oversee Combined Media & Entertainment Goldman Sachs Executive Quits After Making Fortune on Dogecoin: Report | The Daily Hodl KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 Antonio García Martínez’s controversial exit from Apple — Recode Media Google Cloud CEO predicts boom in business-process-as-a-service GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features 1 big thing: The new digital extortion Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown Apple robbed the mob's bank | Mobile Dev Memo Apple Music subscribers will get lossless and spatial audio for free next month Top 15 Kubernetes Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021 Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine Apple’s M1 is a fast CPU—but M1 Macs feel even faster due to QoS First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives, PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator Google Workspace turns to "smart chips" to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform – TechCrunch Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network Service Mesh Wars, Goodbye Istio Google revives RSS Google Wants to Make Everyone Use Two Factor Authentication Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs Media Statement Updated May 8, 2021: Colonial Pipeline System Disruption Snyk Acquires FossID to Accelerate Worldwide Developer-First Security Adoption We raised $100M in our Series F: here’s what we’re building next (Circle CI) Amazon Said to Make $9 Billion Offer for MGM What to Know Ahead of the Squarespace's Direct Listing WarnerMedia and Discovery combine to create a $150B streaming giant Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex A Big Day for Business Texting: Twilio Acquires Zipwhip for $850 Million SoftBank Reports Highest-Ever Annual Profit for a Japanese Company Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek and Launches Next Generation of Deploy Previews to Streamline Collaboration for Web Teams Nonsense Video shows man making slow escape in ride-on mower 'test drive' Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes Reborn: Journals and Notebooks Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA. 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: ServerlessChats Matt: Apple M1 Macbook Air Coté: OBS Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we take a deep look inside life at Amazon by discussing the book Working Backwards written by two former Amazon Executives. Rundown Working Backwards Amazon Leadership Principles Stevey's Google Platforms Rant AWS Compensation Explained The Everything Store Nonsense 17 Remarkable Facts About Outdoor Amsterdam Urinals Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Michael wants to work as a Senior DevOps Engineer in EMEA Dell Jobs Data Governance Lead, Senior Manager Software Engineering, Business Process Management Doug wants you to work at Ethos Life lots of jobs after recent funding 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 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: Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone Photo Credit Photo Credit

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 Sponsors ConfigCat — Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan. CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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 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: Mare of Eastown Listen my interview with Grant from Replicated Matt: Long Service Leave Photo Credit Photo Credit

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. Show Links The Submarine by Paul Graham EnterpriseReady.io EnterpriseReady Podcast kURL Kots Contact Grant Twitter: @GrantM LinkedIn: grantlmiller Replicated Demo Special Guest: Grant Miller.

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 Relevant to your interests 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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT ConfigCat — Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan. 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. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations 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. Image Credit Image Credit

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 Relevant to your interests 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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: iPad Stand. Matt: Boyue Likebook P10 Coté: “On Bullshit.” Photo Credit

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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt 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 Photo Credit Photo Credit

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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt 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. Photo Credit Photo Credit

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 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt 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. Photo Credit Photo Credit

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 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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

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 Relevant to your interests 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? Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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 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 Matt*:* 1917 & Thin Red Line Coté: Patagonia Torrentshell Pants. (Repeat?) Brandon: What you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture a16z Podcast Photo Credit Photo Credit

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 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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. 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: William Gibson’s Agency Brandon: WandaVision Coté: Werther’s Originals Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Redmonk’s Language Rankings, Okta buys Auth0 and Zoom Fatigue. Plus, Matt gets a puppy and explains why he needs a longer sabbatical. Rundown Blameless Post Mortem Redux John Allspaw says we got it wrong How to run a blameless postmortem Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021 Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 to Provide Customer Identity for the Internet Zoom fatigue causes: 1 easy solution according to a Stanford professor Relevant to your interests Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you Twitter pulls a Patreon Enriching Excel with higher-order functional programming SolarWinds SolarWinds To Pay Ex-CEO $312K To Assist With Investigations Rep. Katie Porter ask SolarWinds CEO about password LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe AWS reorganizes DeepRacer League to encourage more newbies – TechCrunch Flash is back? Sort of in Rust Update Your Browser ASAP! Announcing Our Series C: What's Next for Hopin Microsoft’s Azure Arc multi-cloud platform now supports machine learning workloads Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs People are spending millions on NFTs. What? Why? Jack Dorsey's Square buys Jay-Z's Tidal music streaming service Nonsense Sheep Shearing CEO of Texas power grid operator "terminated" in aftermath of winter storm Building an External 9.7” Monitor from an iPad Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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. 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 History vs. Hollywood The Eggnoggin Toboggan feat. Briggs Brandon: Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ with Chris Evans Coté: Nat that's what i reckon Photo Credit

This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad? Rundown LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know. Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding HEY World experiment Relevant to your interests Clouds The Google Cloud Surge: 5 Slides from Thomas Kurian Tell the Story HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics Watson IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time IPOs and M&A Airbrake has been acquired by LogicMonitor TransferWise rebrands as Wise ahead of an expected IPO HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics Security SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate SolarWinds Hack Grabs Senate Spotlight With CEO in the Hot Seat Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things - Running with Ruby Investing The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap, Soars To Another Record High Chips Chip Shortage Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015 Salesforce is building a private CRM for the State Department Overcast overhauls its Apple Watch app As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success? Nonsense Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business New next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Cloudbees is looking for a Remote DevOps Consultant-Continuous Delivery anywhere in North America. Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. 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. 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 Read this book we are going to discuss it: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Brandon: I Care a Lot Coté: LoseIt! The Golem and the Jinni. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse. Rundown Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115) Operating Systems CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore Relevant to your interests ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database” Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook Security Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier. Passwords LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords Hardware highlights…? Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020. Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm Audio is the future? Clubhouse’s Inevitability The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi Nonsense 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years' Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based) Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. 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. 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: HDMI LCD controllers. Brandon: Fake Famous. Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation.

This week, we discuss Googler’s ideas for making open source more secure, obsessing over top of funnel influencer lifestyle management, and a bit of surfing. The power at Brandon’s house went out just as we were starting, so it’s mostly just Matt and Coté. Mood board: I have three screens. I have enough screen space. I don’t need my shit moved, I moved my own shit. This direct shit. Thank goodness for holidays in Singapore and Japan. I think about this every day “Work is punishment.” We’ll skip the Brandon things and get to the Cote’ things. It’s ready to be PowerPointed. Members Only Security Discussion. Hackin’ the mainframe. They love themselves the McGlauglin group. Back on the Funnel. “Work is Punishment.” Label maker go brrrr. Rundown Open source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects No unilateral changes to code. Changes would require code review and approval by two independent parties Authenticate participants. This means owners and maintainers cannot be anonymous; contributors are required to use strong authentication (eg 2FA) There need to be notifications for changes in risk to the software Enabling transparency for software artifacts Create ways to trust the build process Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack Steve(n) Sinofsky is serialising a book about h is time at Microsoft a16z pushing product - “DIRECT” The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the world's buzziest social network to talk about the future CartaX - Andreessen Horowitz Security SolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based Attack Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack Apple Patches 10-Year-Old macOS SUDO Root Privilege Escalation Bug Monitoring and Observability Announcing Change Intelligence Anchor it around what’s changed. Go Serverless! Bitcoin HODL Chart Migrate Everything to OpenBSD…? Relevant to your interests SoftBank SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together SoftBank getting their slide of the year nominee early M&A, VC and Partners Palantir surges on partnership with IBM, COO says the tie-up is its largest Reddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuation Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity Box acquires e-signature startup SignRequest for new content workflows It’s AWS not A.W.S. How Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next C.E.O., Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff Bezos Amazon to buy half of the energy produced by huge offshore wind farm in the Netherlands diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car Facebook's not the only one worried about Apple's privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it Tickets to Space They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop. Salesforce to allow permanent remote work for most employees, with big implications for S.F. Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? Greater fool theory Nonsense Texas public-safety officials accidentally sent an Amber Alert warning that the killer doll Chucky was on the loose MIT researchers devised a way to allow spinach plants to send emails Mass Over-The-Air Update Of Tesla Cars Captured On Video Naming Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse Suspend his comments and figure out why he is upside down “I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback the THREAD is now over 3k replies. Who knows where this ends? Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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: Manly Surf School Dymo Label Maker Coté: The Paris Review. Sarah Manguso. Banner image from wikipedia/Junkyardsparkle

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…? Rundown Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings Email from Jeff Bezos to employees Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition GCP Earnings Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year VC Money Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation EOL’d Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook Apple and Facebook Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort Relevant to your interests Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize A Brief History of Web Design Tools WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google Why You Should Also Switch to Linux Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind' Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure Nonsense Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice AWS CEO fake Job Post 20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Marc wants you to work at abstraction.games as an Automation Engineer Remote/Netherlands Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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: Search Party Sun Run 10k SAFE Animal Rehoming Brandon: In & Of Itself Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move? Rundown Matt Ray finds a snake…? The Battle of GameStop VC Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup Bitcoin Follow up Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it. Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “ Central bank digital currency Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast Earnings IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020 Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates Relevant to your interests https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?) Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services Vagrant First Commit Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time Tucows closes its once-popular software download site Advice on Lambda End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business Google employees have formed another union, this one international Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet Nonsense Costco Prices California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer). Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer in the U.K. Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer in U.S. East or EMEA Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect in the U.K. Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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: Earth at Night in Colour Transferwise Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam Coté: Money. micro.blog Photo Credit

This week we discuss Elasticsearch changing their license and the merits of Bitcoin. Plus, what is the prefect age for reincarnation. Rundown Elasticsearch and SSPL The SSPL is Not an Open Source License Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all Truly Doubling Down on Open Source | Logz.io Bitcoin and Blockchain Is blockchain coming to your bank? 85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins Relevant to your interests Intel lured new CEO Pat Gelsinger with a package valued at $116 million New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects Cloud Native Predictions for 2021 and Beyond How China Took Western Tech Firms Hostage The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz AWS is creating a 'new open source design system' with React Malwarebytes said it was hacked by the same group who breached SolarWinds The SolarWinds and US government breach is not a marketing opportunity Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook Software effort estimation is mostly fake research What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting Apple Plans Podcasting Subscription Service in Threat to Spotify We all love Atlassian ... the $60B SaaS leader that came out of Australia GitLab CEO weighing options for going public after employee share sale valued company at $6 billion Apple AirPods did ~$18 billion in revenue in 2020. Man who called Cloud a Bookstore hasn’t learned any lessons. BlackBerry (TSX:BB) Stock Soars 14% After Huge Win Over Facebook - The Motley Fool Canada Wasmer - The Universal WebAssembly Runtime CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers Nonsense President Biden’s Peloton exercise equipment under scrutiny Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback JustWatch - The Streaming Guide recommend from Colin Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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: MF DOOM X Tasuro Yamashita rabbithole The Day the Mixtape Died: DJ Drama Brandon: The Dark Forest Coté: Baudolino. Nutella Videos Photo Credit

This week we discuss VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumping to Intel and what is going on with DevSecOps. Plus, lots advice on picking movies both you and your partner will enjoy. Rundown VMware CEO → Intel What’s the latest Solarwinds hack news? Coté is figuring out “DevSecOps” - or is it “DevOpsSec”? Relevant to your interests M&A Red Hat to Acquire Kubernetes-Native Security Leader StackRox F5 to acquire @Volterra_ VMware/Intel VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel VMware Names Zane Rowe As Interim CEO Prodigal Son Gelsinger Returns As Intel CEO Bitcoin and Blockchain Is blockchain coming to your bank? 85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins RISC-V BeagleBoard BeagleV Raspberry PI Why We Love the Raspberry Pi Buy a Raspberry Pi Zero W – Raspberry Pi Solarwinds Details on SolarWinds Hack SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs NYT JetBrains story, I'm calling it - the story was irresponsibly released. Deplatforming Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services. Parler Finds Refuge With the Far-Right's Favorite Webhost Parler loses data Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters The balkanization of the cloud is bad for everyone Decentralization Is A Necessity Now It happened. Twitter shut down @realDonaldTrump for good State of the World 2021 Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe's website ‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom Video games have replaced music as the most important aspect of youth culture | Sean Monahan Intel CEO Bob Swan to be replaced with VMWare's Pat Gelsinger WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app First Oracle said it powered Zoom. Then AWS claimed it. Now Zoom says it uses co-located kit Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal Dropbox to cut workforce by 11% Nonsense I'm glad you have passed the certification! I just don't want to see it. Coté in TikTok. Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Now Hiring Jordi wants you to work at Tricentis Michael wants to be a Solution Architect at Cloudbees More info in SDT Slack see channel #jobs Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 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. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: Apple TV’s Ted Lasso Brandon: Possessor. Coté: Descript, so far. Bear app. Don’t spike your mind during family time with inserting work. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files. Rundown Zoom to build a calendar Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem Relevant to your interests A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020 Google, Alphabet employees unionize How Google workers secretly built a union Warren Ellis Returns For 2021 AWS IAM Talk Stripe’s Developer Coefficient VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami Wondery to join Amazon Music SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System DALL·E: Creating Images from Text Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Introduction to WebAssembly Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality Reproducible builds and docker Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way Nonsense KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner. Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Call for Papers for DevOpsDay Texas on March 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. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: Uncivil podcast MF DOOM Will Never Really Die Brandon: Listen to the recent interviews with Sebastien on Serverless and Squire on Security. Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud Soul Coté: Coconut Rice. Raised by Wolves. Photo Credit Photo Credit

Brandon interviews Squire Earle who offers practical advice on how to secure your Enterprise. Plus, Squire shares some personal finance tips and explains how and why he takes mini-retirements. Show Links The 20 CIS Controls & Resources Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps Mr Money Mustache Dan Balcauski interview on sabbaticals Contact Squire @squireearle LinkedIn Cloudentity Sponsor strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Image CreditSpecial Guest: Squire Earle.

Brandon interviews Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh. They discuss his time in academia, how he got into cloud computing and why he started TriggerMesh. Plus, Sebastien tells us why South Carolina is the OpenStack capital of the world! Show Links Register for the TriggerMesh Webinar Jan 12, 2021 11:30 AM EST Kubecon Presentaton: Serverless or Servicefull Contact Sebastien LinkedIn: sebastiengoasguen Twitter: @sebgoa Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Sebastien Goasguen.

This week we answer listener questions, recap the year’s top stories and make a few predictions. Plus, we select the slides of the year! Slides of the Year SoftBank Unicorn Forrester Survey The State of Kubernetes 2020 from VMware Cloud Native Survey 2020 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. Listener Feedback Justin Garrison from AWS recommends Containers from the Couch YouTube Channel 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: Anti-pick Jabra Elite 75t Sport Domino’s Anywhere Delivery Brandon: Mini Motorways on Apple Arcade Coté: Transmetropolitan. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it…? The Rundown AWS re:Invent AWS CloudShell AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Amazon Web Services AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship State of Cloud 2018 Report Solarwinds Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features Relevant to your Interests Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage Nonsense ‘Damn Good Taco’ Maker Torchy’s Sells Stake to General Atlantic The Office’s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines The 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 | Discover the Best Podcasts | Discover Pods Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback From Slack Flow by Moleskine · Flow 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: AppleTV+ and Tiny World. Brandon: Tenet. Coté: Eve strip lights. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss CentOS going upstream, Kubernetes removes Docker support and who’s buying the AirPods Max. Plus, Coté critiques Apple’s Notes App. The Rundown CentOS CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry Meet Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator Docker Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal Mirantis to take over support of Kubernetes dockershim Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design Relevant to your Interests Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations SoftBank Is Discussing a ‘Slow-Burn’ Buyout to Go Private Stocks, M&A and VCs Why Snowflake's stock price just jumped 16% DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share SoftBank Vision Fund turns $680 million DoorDash investment into $11.5 billion based on Wednesday's opening price Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing Cisco to buy software firm IMImobile in $730 million deal Calm raises $75M more at $2B valuation Chips Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt Apple's 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary IBM bet the company on hybrid cloud. Analysts just rated it a mere 'contender' for hybrid management Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol Austin's popularity knows no limits | LinkedIn KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 Recap U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition The Google Disease Afflicting AWS - Last Week in AWS The Return to the Office Gets Put on Hold Puppet’s journey into Continuous Compliance Nomad 1.0 is released! GitHub introduces dark mode and auto-merge pull request Daily Insights VMware COO Jumps Ship To Become New Nutanix CEO The State of the Octoverse Nonsense Warner’s 2021 releases also going to HBO Max Hyundai spends almost $1B to buy Boston Dynamics, makers of Spot dog robot Elon Musk confirms he has moved to Texas Handwonden door ontpitten avocado's groeiend probleem Sponsors Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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: Factorio. Brandon: The Good Shepard. Coté: 1Blocker. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack and recap all the important announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some advice on chopping onions and robot vacuums. The Rundown AWS Outage Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident AWS re:Invent AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 | Amazon Web Services Compute AWS launches EC2 computing instances that run Apple's MacOS operating system Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce Databases Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish Kubernetes Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) | Amazon Web Services Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere Amazon EKS Anywhere New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support AWS quietly enters the multicloud era Serverless Amazon Aurora Serverless | MySQL PostgreSQL Relational Database New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support DevOps Guru New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes Hybrid Cloud or a cloud close to you In the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021 AWS Outposts 1U and 2U form factors Slack Best analysis ever Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions How a Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack - Salesforce News Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring | Acquired Podcast Slack: The Bulls are typing... Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration, But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams Relevant to your Interests Splunk acquires network observability service Flowmill Productivity Scores in Office 365 IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale Apple Plans to Run Most of Its ‘Compute Management’ on Kubernetes Tony Hsieh, iconic Las Vegas tech entrepreneur, dies aged 46 Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware Robert Smith Breakup Exclusive: Billionaire Brian Sheth Reveals Why He’s Leaving Vista Following Tax Evasion Case Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production Should we really be worried about vendor lock-in in 2020? Future of Online Security and Privacy is being decided now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston Nonsense People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down Listener Feedback Brett from Slack recommends Upptime an open source Status Page Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com 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: 99% Invisible: You’ve Got Enron Emails Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic Brandon: iRobot Roomba 985 Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum Yahoo Mail discontinues automatic email forwarding for free users Coté: Photoshop Express.

This week we preview AWS re:Invent, breakdown the latest CNCF Survey and discuss container adoption. Plus, a review of banking apps, Google Pay and an update on Coté’s quest to achieve the iPad Lifestyle. The Rundown AWS RE:invent CNCF survey Datadog Report 11 facts about real world container use Relevant to your Interests Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers Cloud gaming services use iPhone's web browser door Roblox IPO 2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M, announces $400M investment – TechCrunch Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract The Substackerati Act against Deep fakes Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? Nonsense The Ultimate Texas Tacopedia — Texas Monthly Professor Cold Takes 2: Freeze Harder Kubernetes Services explained Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. 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: Shot: Build a DIY screen out of recycled parts for cheap Brandon: Chefman 1.8 Liter Electric Glass Kettle With Removable Tea Infuser Coté: PDF Expert. Dithering podcast is still good. Photo Credit Photo Credit

This week we discuss IBM buying Instana, highlights from Kubecon and the rise of Substack. Plus, Coté updates us on his quest to live the iPad lifestyle. The Rundown IBM To Acquire Instana For Undisclosed Terms Instana Crunch Base Overview KubeCon Review Envoy Mobile Joins the CNCF Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation - The Linux Foundation Relevant to your Interests The Evolution of Cloud 2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi Amazon's Inferentia AI Chip Is Ready For Prime Time, Now Powers the Alexa Service FinOps Foundation launches Kubernetes Whitepaper with CNCF, adds vendor members, Densify, SoftwareOne, Virtasant and more... Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more New Zoom feature can alert room owners of possible Zoombombing disruptions Fast Facts Your Pa$$word doesn't matter 11 facts about real world container use Half of all containers are now managed by cloud provider and third-party registries Apple Apple to lower commissions for small businesses on App Store Safely open apps on your Mac Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue Nonsense Welcome to Slow Boring Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com Listener Feedback Little Snitch from Jordy Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue Conferences Mykel Alvis All Day DevOps Talk 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: Rewatching Veep. Brandon: The Undoing on HBO and Serverless Data APIs from the Cloudcast Coté: Dithering) podcast) (https://dithering.fm/); Ted Laso. Photo Credit from Red Hat Container Coloring Book Photo Credit