Episode 272: This time we’re doing it in green

This week we discuss IBM buying Instana, highlights from Kubecon and the rise of Substack. Plus, Coté updates us on his quest to live the iPad lifestyle.

The Rundown

• IBM To Acquire Instana For Undisclosed Terms
  
  
  • Instana Crunch Base Overview
  
  


• KubeCon Review
  
  
  • Envoy Mobile Joins the CNCF
  
  
  • Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation - The Linux Foundation
  
  

Relevant to your Interests

• The Evolution of Cloud


• 2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi


• Amazon's Inferentia AI Chip Is Ready For Prime Time, Now Powers the Alexa Service


• FinOps Foundation launches Kubernetes Whitepaper with CNCF, adds vendor members, Densify, SoftwareOne, Virtasant and more...


• Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more


• New Zoom feature can alert room owners of possible Zoombombing disruptions


• Fast Facts
  
  
  • Your Pa$$word doesn't matter
  
  
  • 11 facts about real world container use
  
  
  • Half of all containers are now managed by cloud provider and third-party registries
  
  


• Apple
  
  
  • Apple to lower commissions for small businesses on App Store
  
  
  • Safely open apps on your Mac
  
  
  • Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away
  
  
  • Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue
  
  

Nonsense

• Welcome to Slow Boring


• Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day

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Listener Feedback

• Little Snitch from Jordy
  
  
  • Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue
  
  

Conferences

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Recommendations

• Matt: Rewatching Veep.


• Brandon: The Undoing on HBO and Serverless Data APIs from the Cloudcast


• Coté: Dithering) podcast) (https://dithering.fm/); Ted Laso.

Photo Credit from Red Hat Container Coloring Book

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