Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…

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Rundown

• Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet


• The PE Yo-Yo
  
  
  • Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion
  
  
  • Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks
  
  


• How big could the cloud get? Part 1

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• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert


• CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report


• The Origins of the Dutch Angle

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