Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.

The Rundown

• Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’
  • Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift
  • AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab
• More Amazon
  • AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use
  • Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit
  • CDK for Kubernetes
  • AMC shares jump 17% after sources say Amazon is circling the theater chain (NYSE:AMC)
  • Why AMC Networks Stock Soared Today $AMCX vs $AMC
  • Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose
  • New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 | Amazon Web Services
• The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
• Security
  • Ohio Has Stopped Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After A Hacker Targeted Its Website
  • Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking
  • Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365
  • Microsoft adds initial support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Windows Insiders
• Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple
• Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with stunning PlayStation 5 demo
• Cofounders Of Datadog Become Billionaires After The Cloud Computing Firm’s Shares Surge

Relevant to your interests

• Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash to Buoy Struggling Business
• Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront – TechCrunch
• CyberArk Acquires Identity as a Service Leader Idaptive
• Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to Grubhub
• Twitter Says Employees Can Work Remote Forever
• Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start
• VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black
• Open Sourcing Tinkerbell

Nonsense

• Pretty cool stuff happening at WeWork
• Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
• Oil Trader Owes $9 Million After Starting The Day With $77,000 | OilPrice.com

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Conferences.

• FlylessConf May 27
• ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
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Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack

• Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog, DataDog now worth $20B
• LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos
• Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB

Recommendations

• Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks:
  • Chaos Monkeys
  • Facebook
  • No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
• Matt Ray:
  • Starship