Episode 314: Prime Minster of Thinking

This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary?

Rundown

• Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021
  • Heroku and Digital Ocean make the Cloud Platforms list
• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021
• AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS)
• Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers

Relevant to your interests

• Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2
• Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices
• The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest
• Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country
• Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit
• Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app
• Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace
• Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers
• IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours
• Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available
• Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall
• Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget
• Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy
• Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services
• Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes
• Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform
• Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz
• Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence
• One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way
• Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
• LISA Community Message
  

Nonsense

• Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit
• Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries
• HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the store

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Let Him Go.
• Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows podcast.
• Coté: La Vallade restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline wine, which you should also try.

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