Episode 239: Coté got up at 2am

We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore.

Mood board:

• Is that guacamole talk Amazon approved?
• Why don’t you listen to a few episodes?
• “What generation did they have in the Black Plague?”
• I have a lot of thoughts on OmniFocus and Evernote. Note gonna talk about it.
• The Timezone Tax.
• We win video conferencing bingo!
• Video conferencing Magic Quadrant.
• Remember Blue Jeans!
• They’re gonna go to The Big Data.
• Hadoop: not as big as we once thought it would be.
• Grocery store magazine agile.
• The only thing that’s shocking, is that we’re still shocked.

The Rundown

• Coté got up at 2am.
• Slack and Amazon
  • Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech
  • Slack partners with Amazon to take on Microsoft Teams
  • Who Will Acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, or IBM?
  • Chiming in on Slack with Sid Rao - Last Week in AWS
  • This is going to get ugly, real fast.
  • Google Meet Switches On Jaw-Dropping Feature To Beat Zoom & Microsoft Teams
• Cloudera to Explore Sale After Receiving Takeover Interest
  • what happened with Big Data?
• State of Agile Survey:
  • Coté’s choice cuts.
  • Practices followed, benefits achieved.
  • CI/CD still not widely practiced.
  • Low TDD.
• Apple and ARM
  • Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month, says report
  • Apple plans to announce ARM transition for all Macs at WWDC 2020
  • Sinofsky: Apple going to bring ARM to chips to Mac

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Listen to the Shannon Williams SDT interview from earlier this week.
• Matt Ray: TuringPi.com
• Coté: Marten Beck; Mindless mining in Minecraft; Solar Dial in Apple Watch.