Episode 214: VPNs, Windows 7 EoL, & Crapplications

This week the title says it all. There’s also some more bread talk.

Mood board:

• “I love the talk about bread, can I get some stickers.”
• Do they have markdown in Intranets now?
• Kicking to fit use cases.
• Porting of Ports
• Crapplications, aka, “Crappity crap”

Relevant to your interests

• Microsoft will stop supporting millions of computers running Windows 7 on Tuesday — here's what you need to know
  • “According to Net Applications figures from December, 32.74% of all laptops and desktops still run Windows 7, behind Windows 10. Windows 10 runs on more than 900 million devices.”
• Now It's Really, Truly Time to Give Up Windows 7
• Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud
  • Check out that Agriculture Inspection app!
• Stack Overflow Bolsters Leadership Team With New Chief Product Officer, Teresa Dietrich
• Spotify Is Now the Single Biggest Podcasting Platform
• Rob Bearden takes over as Cloudera CEO
• Microsoft Azure has an edge over Amazon Web Services at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says
• Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective
• Anthos Ups Google’s Enterprise Efforts
• The president of Marc Benioff's Time reveals how he plans to restore the neglected title and make it a billion-dollar business
• The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming
• Equinix is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet
• Your iPhone can now help you securely log into your Google account with a simple tap
• Google pays $160m for Irish retail tech company Pointy
• Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue
• M&A: Negotiations Don't Start Until Someone Says No
• Red Hat OpenShift Updates Hit Multi-Cloud, Security
• Introducing Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 to Enhance Kubernetes Security

Nonsense

• Top 20 IT Podcasts of 2020
• When Buying in Bulk Is a Mistake
• Zero Mass Water has a new rooftop well that pulls water out of the air
• CES 2020: The Planty Cube Aims to Make Vertical Farming More Modular and Automated

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Conferences, et. al.

• 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.
• June 1-4: ChefConf 2020
• KubeCon EU, March 30 – April 2*,* use discount code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
• DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
• Listener Brett wants you to go to THAT Conference August 3 - 6, 2020 - Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.

SDT news & hype

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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

• Matt: Bruce Sterling’s annual State of the World.
• Brandon: Slack cleaner.
• Coté: Apple News+?