Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.

Mood board:

• Stroke City.
• QBR times four.
• Travel costs.
• We need a better word than “politics.”
• Corporate virtue signaling.
• Never ask anything.
• There’s going to be Werner Hertzog!
• There’s a difference between making a point and making money.
• Are you just fillin’ a seat?
• The fixie of IDEs.

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Relevant to your interests

• Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.”
• Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
• Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract
• Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap
  • Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”
• Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office.
• The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic
  • “89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x
• DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change
• Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications
• My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be?
• Google moves to buy Fitbit
• Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
• AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard

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Conferences, et. al.

• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
• Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
• NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. †

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Recommendations

• Brandon: eBay for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub
• Matt: Dolly Parton’s America.
• Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.