Episode 298: Come on Gophers

This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.

Rundown

• Red Hat
  • Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
  • Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo
  • RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
• AWS
  • Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion
  • AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out
  • The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?
• The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

Relevant to your interests

• Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech.
• DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
• How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
• Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect
• About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting.
• How Basecamp blew up
• Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
• The ransomware surge ruining lives
• Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
• The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned.
• AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks
• Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
• Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow
• Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World
• In huge demand right now: Warehouses
• Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions
• Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
• Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation
• Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac
• Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14
• Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.
• Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire
• New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet
• How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer
• Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty
• ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report
• Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio
• Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation
• Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion
• "Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.” (@AdamMGrant)
• Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms

Nonsense

• 'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme
• Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds.
• Meet Einstein
• Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO

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Listener Feedback

• Ryan wants you to work at Datadog as Technical Writer
• Jordy says there lots of jobs at Weaveworks
• Jeffrey want you to become the SRE - World of Warcraft

Conferences

• RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
• SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt’s talk is in the can
• SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.

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