Episode 316: All we need is cURL

This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber…

Rundown

• Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version


• Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M


• Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million

Relevant to your interests

• Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA


• Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview


• Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets.


• PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty


• Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers


• Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects


• Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com


• HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey


• T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach


• Funding, Buyback, and Hiring


• Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows


• In No Code you delete code as you write it.


• Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021


• WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts


• OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief


• Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World


• Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B?


• Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye


• This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS

Nonsense

• The Most Dangerous Writing App


• Suicide Linux


• Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California


• These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs


• How QR codes are made


• Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips


• Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes


• Progress Report: August 2021


• PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink


• EC2 offers 400 Instance Types


• Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

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Conferences

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Recommendations

• Brandon: The White Lotus on HBO


• Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart
  
  
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• Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave. Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves.

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