Episode 286: Press the turbo button on that one

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.

Rundown

• Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back
• Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115)
• Operating Systems
  • CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome
  • The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore

Relevant to your interests

• ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal
• Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
• Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch
• Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams
• Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software
• Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’
• CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing
• Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users
• Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database”
• Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls
• The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy
• The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers
• Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
• This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.
• Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook
• Security
  • Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M
  • Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions
  • The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier.
• Passwords
  • LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both
  • Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords
• Hardware highlights…?
  • Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020.
  • Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm
• Audio is the future?
  • Clubhouse’s Inevitability
  • The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi

Nonsense

• 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T
• Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years'

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Listener Feedback

• Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based)

Conferences

• DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

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Recommendations

• Matt: HDMI LCD controllers.
• Brandon: Fake Famous.
• Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation.