Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.

Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week.

Mood board:

• #asksdt
• Remember the Law of Hammarabi.
• They’re not the Poynter institute or anything.
• Are we going to be blamed for all the problems?
• Kubernetes on the barby.
• It’s all the same broken stuff.
• Broken ankle con.
• I’ve never broken a bone.
• A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going!
• The Carl Weathers Cluster.
• I’m really good at thinking while I talk.
• Just ignore the baby yoda.

Relevant to your interests

• The 100 most important gadgets of the decade.
• Broken ankle conference.
• S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC.
• Ubuntu pro.
• Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe.
• Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft.
• This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into.
• Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network.
• AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud.
• Cloud Wars CEO of the Year 2019: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud.
• Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Here's Who Has the Greenest Cloud.
• Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services.
• Eclipse Foundation Warns Operators: Don’t Be a ‘Dumb Pipe’ for AWS.
• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape.
• BPF: A New Type of Software.

Nonsense

• AI Hiring Algorithm
• The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement
• Air France-KLM Group steps up cooperation with Qantas Group

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Conferences, et. al.

• 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

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• 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.

Book Giveaway

• We’re giving away one digital copy of Righting Software. The first person that DM’s @bwhichard on Twitter or in the SDT Slack gets a copy.

Recommendations

• Matt: On the Metal podcast; How Buildings Learn.
• Brandon: General Magic the Movie.
• Coté: The Mandalorian.

Outro: “Tooth Fairy Crunch!,” Teen Titans. Cover art from yusseyhan.