Episode 289: The sabbatical is not going well

This week we discuss how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills.

Rundown

• Post-pandemic Predications?
  • Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain
• VC
  • Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round
  • Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up
  • How to pronounce Snyk
• Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service
• Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up
  • Excel Never Dies
  • Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete
  • Pickle Rick (Pure CSS)

Relevant to your interests

• Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws
• India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees
• Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data
• McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion
• Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok?
• Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban
• SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe
• Blame the Intern
• Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia
• What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021
• Presentations — Benedict Evans
• Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop
• Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab
• Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million
• Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls
• Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch
• Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition
• - Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS
• Identity and Access Management
  • Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch
  • IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019
  • Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA
  • Brandon interviews Squire Earle

Nonsense

• That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer
• IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers
• The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds
• Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges

Sponsors

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Conferences

• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

SDT news & hype

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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Recommendations

• Matt: William Gibson’s Agency
• Brandon: WandaVision
• Coté: Werther’s Originals

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