Episode 208: re:Invent, Oracle's stickyness, and medieval stick candy-bread

It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt.

Mood board:

• #asksdt
• “Where are you thought-lording us to?”
• Pepernoot.
• Always pack a back-up croissant.
• Here’s the thing with bread.
• I thought he hated the swans.
• Dogs clearly rank as humanities number one friend.
• Then it’s bread/alcohol.
• Everyone knows when Bastille Day is Coté.
• Halloween in London grocery stores: not this shit again.
• They got a pee-jug back there?

Relevant to your interests

• AWS re:Invent
  • AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Sunday, December 1st
    • AWS DeepRacer Update – New Features & New Racing Opportunities
    • AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models
    • AWS End-of-Support Migration Program for Windows Server
    • Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers
    • Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder
  • No Monday blog post with announcements?
  • AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Tuesday, December 3rd
    • AWS Outposts brings hybrid cloud support – but only for Amazon
    • Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available
    • Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, & Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances
    • Amazon SageMaker Processing – Fully Managed Data Processing and Model Evaluation
    • Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS)
    • Easily Manage Shared Data Sets with Amazon S3 Access Points
    • Amazon Redshift Update – Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage
  • AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Wednesday, December 4th
  • Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
  • Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
  • Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer
  • Amazon Kendra AI search tool indexes enterprise data
• Oxide - nice cake!
• John Chambers and a star team of ex-Cisco engineers have finally launched Pensando Systems, a startup with $278 million in funding, to take on Amazon — and Cisco.
• A letter from Larry and Sergey.

Nonsense

• Costco Pays Dearly for Shopping SNAFU
• The Taco Cleanse Is a Real Diet — and Involves Eating Tacos All Day
• United Changes it Frequent Flyer Program
• The Effort to Make Everyone Look Less Awful on Video Conference Calls

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Conferences, et. al.

• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
• NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too.
• June 1-4: ChefConf 2020
• Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.
• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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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

• Matt: SysAdvent 2019
• Brandon: The Irishmen; Venture Capital and Control with Dave Teare.
• Coté: Pivot podcast; Art as Therapy book.