Episode 323: Boxes and Arrows

This week we discuss AWS Step Functions, VMware Tanzu Community Edition and Zoom’s M&A Strategy. Plus, some thoughts on car batteries…

Rundown

• AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation
• Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition
  • Tanzu Community Edition
• Zoom M&A
  • And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off – TechCrunch
  • Zoom loses Five9 - leaves the cloud contact center business open to innovative alternatives
• Telegram added 70M new users amid six-hour WhatsApp outage

Relevant to your interests

• Announcing Trusted Cloud Principles
• Australian Bureau of Statistics runs 2021 Census on the AWS Cloud
• "A New Strategy, R2"
• Cloudflare’s Disruption
• PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools
• Microsoft announces Office 2021 features and pricing
• Paperlike, the Screen Protector for iPad: write and draw like on paper
• Microsoft sets Oct. 5 as Windows 11 launch date
• COVID Breathalyzers Could Transform Rapid Testing
• AWS Mistakes
• The Verica Open Incident Database
• Developer-focused infrastructure security platform Mondoo raises $15M
• 1 big thing: Enterprise software's reawakening
• FB Outage
  • Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
  • Tools to explore BGP
  • Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR
• Security
  • The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked | VGC
  • DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it
  • Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw
  • Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked

Nonsense

• There are six internet links on my office on wheels. Seven when Starlink arrives.
• Australia accelerates its plans to allow international travel.
• As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again.
• April Fools' copy-paste button for lazy programmers now actually for sale

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