Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.

Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week.

Mood board:

• #asksdt


• Remember the Law of Hammarabi.


• They’re not the Poynter institute or anything.


• Are we going to be blamed for all the problems?


• Kubernetes on the barby.


• It’s all the same broken stuff.


• Broken ankle con.


• I’ve never broken a bone.


• A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going!


• The Carl Weathers Cluster.


• I’m really good at thinking while I talk.


• Just ignore the baby yoda.

Relevant to your interests

• The 100 most important gadgets of the decade.


• Broken ankle conference.


• S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC.


• Ubuntu pro.


• Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe.


• Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft.


• This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into.


• Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network.


• AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud.


• Cloud Wars CEO of the Year 2019: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud.


• Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Here's Who Has the Greenest Cloud.


• Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services.


• Eclipse Foundation Warns Operators: Don’t Be a ‘Dumb Pipe’ for AWS.


• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape.


• BPF: A New Type of Software.

Nonsense

• AI Hiring Algorithm


• The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement


• Air France-KLM Group steps up cooperation with Qantas Group

Sponsors

SolarWinds:

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Conferences, et. al.

• NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too.


• June 1-4: ChefConf 2020


• Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th

SDT news & hype

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


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

Book Giveaway

• We’re giving away one digital copy of Righting Software. The first person that DM’s @bwhichard on Twitter or in the SDT Slack gets a copy.

Recommendations

• Matt: On the Metal podcast; How Buildings Learn.


• Brandon: General Magic the Movie.


• Coté: The Mandalorian.

Outro: “Tooth Fairy Crunch!,” Teen Titans. Cover art from yusseyhan.

Sponsored By:

• SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
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