Episode 260: Show me what you got

This week we recap the latest announcements at VMworld, discuss App Modernization and rate the best software features of all time. Plus, lots of talk on what makes for a great EBC experience.

The Rundown

• VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack
• VMworld 2020 Media Kit
• VMware's conversion into a cloud-agnostic management and development platform
• A little bit of the Dormain presentation we mention.
• Coté’s thoughts on EBCs from earlier today.

Relevant to your Interests

• When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
• We have a few questions about Amazon’s flying indoor security camera drone
• Nikola shows Silicon Valley can’t stop worshipping founders
• Can TikTok help Oracle stay relevant in the cloud-computing age?
• Deloitte Consulting ‘Doubling Down’ On $750M AWS Business
• Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
• No one likes a heart-stopping AWS bill shock so now there's a machine learning tool to help detect cost anomalies
• Release notes | Anthos GKE on-prem | Google Cloud
• VMware to Acquire SaltStack for Advanced Multicloud Automation
• How to Change the Default Mail App in iOS 14 – The Sweet Setup
• With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft ## Nonsense
• The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download

Sponsors

• Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more.

Listener Feedback

• Jonathon suggested Raspbernetes an opensource project for aspiring SREs or DevOps engineers to learn how to cut their teeth on kubernetes using a distilled set of security, networking and enablement tools.

Conferences

• EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20

SDT news & hype

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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

• Brandon:
  
  • Under the Radar: #201: Widgetsmith
  • The Talk Show with David Smith
• Coté: iOS 14 bed time alarm. Also, Coté does daily streams for the moment in VMware Tanzu land. Check out the archives in YouTube.