Episode 258: One more adjustment and then we can start

Cote and Brandon discuss PagerDuty's acquisition of Rundeck, the current state of AIOps and why is Reed Hastings writing a book about Netflix’s Culture. Plus, some advice on haircuts.

The Rundown

• PagerDuty
  • PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck to Expand DevOps Automation Capabilities Across Digital Operations | PagerDuty
  • PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck
• Exclusive: Netflix, Google, GitHub top employer survey
  • Survey.

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• State of Cloud Learning Report 2020

Nonsense

• LAMBDA - A Serverless Musical (Hamilton "My Shot" Parody)
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