Episode 322: I didn’t make these rules

This week we discuss the launch of Cloudflare R2 Storage and the DevRel Salary Survey. Plus, some thoughts on nuts…

Rundown

• Cloudflare
  
  
  • Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees
  
  
  • How Cloudflare thinks it can become ‘the fourth major public cloud’
  
  
  • @Cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52.
  
  


• DevRel
  
  
  • 2021 DevRel Salary Survey results
  
  
  • Big tech and promotion processes that lead to unnecessary complexity and waste.
  
  

Relevant to your interests

• iPhone Carrier Deal Spreadsheet


• We asked celebrities what they think Tanzu and Kubernetes means


• Dev Ops Solutions | Google Cloud


• Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores


• Online Learning Company Udemy Plans October IPO


• 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins


• AWS US East region wobbles for eight hours


• Vista bets on software robotics with $1.5 billion Blue Prism takeover


• Amazon announces Astro home robot that roams around your house


• Akamai to acquire cloud security firm Guardicore for about $600 million


• Facebook Reels exits beta in the US with offers to pay creators for well-performing videos


• The cloud is NOT just someone else’s computer


• Netflix Has Acquired Its First Video Game Studio


• How IBM lost the cloud


• Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones


• Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service


• First cryptocurrency fund approved in Switzerland


• OS/2’s Last Stand: IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Turns 25

Nonsense

• Costco placing purchase limits on toilet paper, other products due to COVID-related demand


• Release Notes


• William Shatner's Going to Space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Ship


• A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500


• Heatbit - electric heater that earns you money

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Conferences

• DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.


• KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person


• MongoDB.local London 2021 - November 9, 2021


• THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022

Listener Feedback

• Anova Precision® Cooker Nano was highly recommended


• OpenNebula is hiring


• Biogen needs a Digital Health Program Manager and Sr. Manager- Quality Engineering

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• TriggerMesh is hiring!

Recommendations

• Brandon: https://claimittexas.org


• Matt: Emacs M-x zone
  
  
  • Cloud Native AF: Jacques Chester
  
  


• Coté: Sandman Act 2, in Audible.

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