Episode 255: We should not emphasise this behaviour

Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads.

The Rundown

• VMware’s app modernization chief: ‘We’ve put to bed the debate about containers versus virtual machines’
• Zoom — Fad or new dominant over lord
  • Zoom crushes Q2 analyst expectations amid pandemic
  • I have never seen such numbers in my life. $ZM.
• What happened at Kubecon: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary
  • BPF Performance Tools
• Security
  • Valley private equity firm pays Dell $2.1B for RSA security business
  • Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts
  • Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market
• Follow up
  • Discord is a thing…Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots
• Apple
  • New Apple TV in the works with 'upgraded' remote, Find My Apple TV remote feature
  • Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil
• Is anyone going to buy TikTok
  • Poll: Google is the best fit to buy TikTok

Relevant to your Interests

• AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability
• Facebook may block news from being shared on its platforms in Australia
• Tencent's Dreams, Part II: Investing In The Metaverse
• Dell enjoys solid earnings beat thanks to remote-work demand surge

Nonsense

• The Resilience of Costco
• Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | email with nuance
• Airline pilots reported seeing 'a guy in a jetpack' flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles
• Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790)

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Listener Feedback

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Conferences

• Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020
• EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20

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• Listen to Brandon’s Interview Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design

Recommendations

• Matt Ray: FTL: Faster Than Light
• Brandon: The Vow on HBO

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