Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?

On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite.

The Rundown

Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz

1. Conferencing
   • Verizon will buy video conferencing company BlueJeans
   • The Zoom fatigue is real
   • Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more
2. Introducing Splunk Remote Work Insights: Our Solution for the New Work-from-Home Reality
3. Apollo readies IPO of cloud company Rackspace
4. Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years
5. Zhao KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips
6. AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier
7. AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service
8. Google Cloud CEO: Istio is going to a foundation
9. Google Cloud’s fully managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS
10. Over the past 20 years, IBM has bought back $140 billion of its stock. Its current market cap: $105 billion. $IBM
11. Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac

Relevant to your interests

• University of Sydney using cloud to prevent the Tasmanian devil from extinction
• Facebook employees won't return to offices until at least the end of May, and is cancelling events until June 2021
• Hundreds of asylum seekers' names made public in government data breach
• Top virtual tech conferences to attend in 2020
• Who Makes the Best CPUs? Intel vs. AMD CPUs | Tom's Hardware
• Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon
• Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation
• I Took a COBOL Course and It Wasn't The Worst | Hacker Noon

Nonsense

• Emacs way to listen podcasts
• How to watch Travis Scott’s Fortnite concerts

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Conferences, Videos et. al.

• Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
• Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
• ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
• MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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Recommendations

• Brandon: HBO’s Westworld
• Matt Ray: Yeti cups/mugs

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