Episode 248: They want cloud grade

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.

The Rundown

• Google Next
  
  
  • Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough'
  
  
  • BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics
  
  
  • Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise
  
  


• Rackspace
  
  
  • Rackspace IPO S1
  
  
  • Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership
  
  
  • Long Term Stock Exchange
  
  

Relevant to your interests

• VC
  
  
  • Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock
  
  
  • Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M
  
  
  • Auth0 Announces $120M in Series F Funding
  
  


• Messaging
  
  
  • Slack has filed an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Teams in the EU
  
  
  • Major Gmail redesign will bring Chat, Meet, Tasks and Docs into one interface
  
  
  • Share screens using Messages on Mac
  
  


• AWS
  
  
  • Salesforce, AWS launch Amazon Connect integration with Service Cloud | ZDNet
  
  
  • Announcing AWS App2Container - Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud
  
  
  • Just Too Efficient from Tim Bray
  
  
  • Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk
  
  
  • The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS
  
  


• Hacks and Outages
  
  
  • Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside
  
  
  • Twitter explains outage on Twitter
  
  
  • Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others – TechCrunch
  
  
  • Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story - Tony Chen, Microsoft - Platform Security Summit 2019
  
  


• IBM
  
  
  • IBM improves gross margins in Q2 under new CEO
  
  
  • IBM Earnings Preview: Red Hat Merger Is The Future, But Pandemic Timing Couldn't Be Worse
  
  


• Kube Corner
  
  
  • Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community - DevOps.com
  
  
  • Operator Framework
  
  


• More
  
  
  • 16 Must-Listen Podcasts for IT/Tech Professionals
  
  
  • Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle
  
  
  • JetBrains Technology Day for Java
  
  
  • Aerial fiber deployment, faster and more efficient - Facebook Engineering
  
  
  • You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot
  
  
  • TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They’re Infected
  
  
  • Samsung’s 6G White Paper Lays Out the Company’s Vision for the Next Generation of Communications Technology
  
  
  • The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic
  
  
  • It would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses
  
  
  • Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale
  
  
  • Dell Says It’s Exploring Potential Spinoff of VMware Unit
  
  
  • OKD4 is now Generally Available
  
  
  • VS Code grows, Emacs holds steady
  
  
  • Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started
  
  
  • How to setup Role based access to Kubernetes Cluster - InfraCloud Technologies
  
  
  • A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web
  
  
  • Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation
  
  
  • How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves
  
  
  • Straddling the firewall: cloud from 2010 to 2020 (& what to do next)
  
  
  • SUSE releases major Linux update | ZDNet
  
  
  • How to broadcast to Twitch and Zoom with OBS
  
  

Nonsense

• Travel Dress Pant Sweatpants


• IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old


• British Airways retires its entire fleet of Boeing 747 jets


• I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors


• Coté’s ambient noise videos

Conferences

• SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd.


• Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th.


• GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th.

SDT news & hype

• Listen to Richard Seroter interview


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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.

Recommendations

• Matt Ray: Palm Springs.


• Brandon: Reckoning.


• Coté:
  
  
  • Vivino wine app (you can order wine, next day!)
  
  
  • Apple Magic Touch pad thing.
  
  
  • Setapp.
  
  

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