Episode 287: The Bureaucracy Episode

This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad?

Rundown

• LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know.
• Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr
• Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding
• HEY World experiment

Relevant to your interests

• Clouds
  • The Google Cloud Surge: 5 Slides from Thomas Kurian Tell the Story
  • HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics
• Watson
  • IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health
  • IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus
  • Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time
• IPOs and M&A
  • Airbrake has been acquired by LogicMonitor
  • TransferWise rebrands as Wise ahead of an expected IPO
  • HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics
• Security
  • SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate
  • SolarWinds Hack Grabs Senate Spotlight With CEO in the Hot Seat
  • Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security
  • New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped
  • RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things - Running with Ruby
• Investing
  • The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy
  • Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap, Soars To Another Record High
• Chips
  • Chip Shortage
  • Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains
• IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015
• Salesforce is building a private CRM for the State Department
• Overcast overhauls its Apple Watch app
• As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success?

Nonsense

• Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business
• New next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your
• Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it

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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

• Read this book we are going to discuss it: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
• Brandon: I Care a Lot
• Coté: LoseIt! The Golem and the Jinni.

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