Episode 267: Databases are at the end of a network connection

We discuss Zoom’s new phone system, debate the merits of Serverless and reflect on how SaaS has taken over the enterprise. Plus, Coté explains why he is trying to live the iPad Pro life.

The Rundown

• Zoom
  • Get Zoom Phone Service in 40+ Countries & Territories for One Flat Monthly Price
  • Introducing Zapps, Bringing Best-of-Breed Apps Into the Zoom Experience
• Severless or Serverful
  • Serverlessconf New York 2019: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | Simon Wardley
  • TheNewStack - From DevOps to DevApps
  • IBM Introduces IBM Cloud Code Engine
  • When (and why) not to go serverless

Relevant to your Interests

• 2020, the unexpected Requirement
• AMD to buy chip peer Xilinx for $35 billion in data center push
• Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker | Brave Browser
• Can We Replace YAML With an Easier Markup Language? - Slashdot
• OpenStack at 10 years old: A failure on its own terms, a success in its own niche
• PayPal to let you buy and sell cryptocurrencies in the US – TechCrunch
• Backstage Pass with Arctiq - Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Anthos with Kf
• Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes
• Turing Pi 2 announcement - Turing Pi Cluster Board
• Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet

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Nonsense

• AWS Multicloud Snark Tweet
• 168 AWS services in 2 minutes
• Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat
• Hema's veggie smoked sausage is ok but original is a 'culinary high point' - DutchNews.nl

Conferences

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20
• OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020

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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Brandon: Otter.ai see example transcript in interview with Dan Balcauski
• Coté: Darondo.

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