Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough

Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity to football fans.

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Relevant to your interests

• State of DevOps Report with Coté’s notes
  • “The proportion of our elite performers has almost tripled, showing that excellence is possible—it just requires execution.”
• OSS
  • Dear Searched Guard Users
  • Why doesn't anyone weep for Docker?
  • Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar
• More Security
  • XKCD has been pwned
  • Twitter temporarily shuts down ability to tweet via SMS
• More VMware
  • With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes - The New Stack
  • Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos - Cloud Native Apps Blog
  • VMware Welcomes Estranged Sibling Pivotal Back Home
  • VMworld 2019 US Day 1 General Session
  • VMworld 2019 US Day 2 General Session
  • VMware And IBM Go Full Circle To Dominate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem
• What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers - UpperEdge
• Modern applications at AWS
• Airlines ban all MacBook Pros from checked luggage
• NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS Reader Rebuilt from Scratch, Now Free and Open Source
  • Vienna
• One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession

Nonsense

• 16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
• Costco has a ‘grate’ deal on a 72-pound wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

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Conferences, et. al.

• Agile Scotland
• CF Summit EU, Sep 11th to 12th.
• Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
• Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
• Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney

SDT news & hype

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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
• 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.

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  
  • Short article on Uber Values
    
  • Podcast Interview: “The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times”
  • Audiobook Super Pumped
• Matt: Anti-pick: Sports downloads

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