Software Defined Talk29 Mar 2019

Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler

There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers.

Plus:

USB-C. Fuck that shit.
Don’t read the comments.
Don’t throw out the executives with the bathwater.
They’re using 1/24th of their ass
Sometime in the future, I am going to be awesome!
If I have a rock question I’ll ask you.
Things aren’t too expensive, you’re just not getting enough value from them.
Light a fire in an air-tight room. Outrun the bear.

Relevant to your interests

Nonsense

Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress
WOW airlines (Iceland) shuts down. Too cheap?
Micro-topic/follow-up: the MacBook Air I have is noticeably slow with some things, e.g., unlocking 1Password, loading pptx's, etc.

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Conferences, et. al.

ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
April 11th, 2019 - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20

SDT news & hype

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Recommendations

Cote: Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka. My blog, cote.io, it’s back! Bruce Sterling talks - I realized that me aping his style causes the style problems people give me notes on, i.e., jokes flying by without time to laugh at them, insiderisms, etc. FUCK IT, DUDE, LET’S BOWL!
Matt: “offline macos netflix. Also, The Culture Map by Erin Meyer.

Outro: “Emmylou,” First Aid Kit.

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