Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”

Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos!

Relevant to your interests

• ChefConf Highlights
  • Habitat in your dashboards, Habitat + Chef/InSpec and chef.io/migration
  • DJ Darek Mazzone
  • Mudhoney + Deep Sea Diver
• Kube stuff
  • At peak hype? Kubernetes hopes to survive the boom and bust cycles of cloud services
  • Apptio, Inc Announces Intent To Acquire Cloudability
  • Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability
  • Digital Ocean’s Kubernetes service is now generally available
• Security
  • New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking
  • Over 10 million people hit in single Australian data breach: OAIC | ZDNet
  • How do high-tech services outsmart ransomware? Often, by paying the ransoms
• Building Software
  • How Netflix Thinks of DevOps
  • Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech
  • The Problem with Software: A Conversation With Former Microsoft Programmer Adam Barr
• Grab Bag
  • U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange
  • Data collected by connected cars ends up with carmakers, not consumers
  • Google attempts to shed light on the confusing 'Works with Nest' to 'Works with Google Assistant' transition
  • HP Enterprise acquires supercomputer maker Cray in the race to "exascale" performance

Nonsense

• New Board Game Uses All Your Other Unopened Board Games as Resource Tokens

Sponsors

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Conferences, et. al.

• ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
• 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours 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. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
• ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
• Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.

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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

Recommendations

• Matt: American Gods Season 2
• Brandon: Facebook Marketplace

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