Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.

Relevant to your interests

• Unikernels are unfit for production
• Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways)
• Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system
• Slack, Teams and Conferencing
  • Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield
  • DHH is not happy with Zoom
  • Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
  • Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
  • Zoom responds with a Blog Post
  • Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities
  • Zoom isn’t Malware.
• IBM
  • New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware
  • IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business
  • My first day as CEO - our journey together
  • RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era
  • Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier
• CircleCI
  • CircleCI Raises $100M Series E
  • CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment
• Apple
  • Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
  • Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google
  • Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million
  • iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features
• The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz
• Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers
• Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation
• Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code
• Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics
• Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity
• The Next Chapter of Meetup
• SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares
• Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak
• OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business
• HashiCorp Joins the CNCF
• Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic
• MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs
• Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production
• Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem
• Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M
• Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014
• Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers
• Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset

Non Sense

• Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic
• Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights...
• 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email.
• My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting
• HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release
• Trump order encourages US to mine the moon
• CNCF Puzzle

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Conferences, Videos et. al.

• Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
• Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
• Mykel Alvis is speaking at All Day DevOps Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020
• ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
• MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Ozark and Tiger King
• Matt Ray:
  
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  • Disunited Nations

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