Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”

This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,.

Relevant to your interests

• Confluent’s meteoric rise.
• Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data.
• The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS.'
• Opinion | The Facts About Facebook.
• Google asks Supreme Court to rule on when code can be copyrighted.
• My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales.
• Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1.
• Google Hangouts is shutting down for some users in October.
• Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up.
• Software Chasms with Martin Casado.
• Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users.
• Puppet Names Yvonne Wassenaar as Next CEO.
• Automation Software That Helped Consulting Firm Cut 40,000 Jobs Is Reportedly Now for Sale.
• OmniTI ~ credativ massively expands U.S. footprint with OmniTI acquisition.
• Microsoft cloud services see global authentication outage.
• Interview with Jason Cohen
• WP Engine Announces $132M in Annual Recurring Revenue

Non Sense

• Modern OSI Model

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• Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
• Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Movies Anywhere and Disc to Digital from Vudu
• Coté: new Preditor.