Episode 312: Crossing The Brown Horizon

This week we discuss Netflix getting into games and review the latest State of DevOps Report. Plus, what do you call a domicile in Amsterdam?

Rundown

• Why Netflix is getting into games
• State of DevOps Report 2021

Relevant to your interests

• Twitter Is Shutting Down Fleets, Its Vanishing-Post Format, After Less Than a Year
• Morgan Stanley‘s CIO survey shows a significant moderation in expectations for the migration of workloads to the public cloud.
• Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner
• Austin sees pay-off from pandemic-era tech reshuffling
• Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders
• IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver?
• The end of open source?
• DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm – Blocks and Files
• Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?
• Rapid7 + IntSights: Own Your Entire Attack Surface, Internally and Externally
• Apple to delay office returns to October - Bloomberg News
• Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
• Apple's AirPods did ~$16B in 2020
• You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between
• Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks
• Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders
• IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver?
• IBM shows strongest revenue growth in three years
• What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?
• Why Zoom bought Five9 for $14.7 billion: Enterprise wallet share and a big customer engagement play
• Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion
• Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation
• Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls ## Nonsense
• Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom!
• Noise cancellation neither helps productivity nor perceived performance
• World's First 3-D-Printed Steel Bridge Debuts in Amsterdam

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Listener Feedback

• Sent stickers to Craig in Fort Worth. Craig bought the Doc Martin’s recommended in episode 82. See the pictures.

Conferences

• THAT Conference, July 26-29
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Dark Sky
• Matt: BOM Weather
• Coté: 8ball newsletter; Buienradar in the Netherlands.

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