Episode 296: Fungated into my mind

This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.

Rundown

• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room


• M&A
  
  
  • Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
  
  
  • Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
  
  
  • IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud
  
  


• Microsoft
  
  
  • Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales
  
  
  • Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018
  
  
  • Kubernetes Usability SIG
  
  
  • Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
  
  


• Earnings
  
  
  • Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
  
  
  • Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor
  
  


• The Commodification of DevOps
  
  
  • 7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map
  
  
  • Atlassian’s Open DevOps
  
  


• Crypto miners are killing free CI

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• SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast


• Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts


• What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS


• Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch


• How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data


• Changes at Basecamp


• Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours


• IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)


• HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure


• Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party


• The Slander Industry


• What really happened at Basecamp


• Changes at Basecamp


• In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

Nonsense

• YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993


• Google Timelapse


• World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction


• "Microsoft Excel Influencer”


• N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash


• Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font

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Listener Feedback

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Conferences

• RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.


• CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual


• SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk


• SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)


• Matt: Leeroy Jenkins


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