Episode 486: Platform Engineering vs. DevOps

This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.

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Runner-up Titles

• I’m out of nuts, time to podcast


• System Settings


• Security, it never ends


• Fancy Sysadmins


• Providing needles for your balloons


• Batman’s not real


• What’s the opposite of a taboo


• DevOps is not the tooling


• Software gets old


• Release the turbo button

Rundown

• ‎Windows App


• PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
  
  
  • Has DevOps been "worth it" to you?
  
  
  • Renaming a few DevOpsDays to PlatformDays.
  
  
  • Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs
  
  


• Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
  
  
  • How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers
  
  
  • FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
  
  


• Apple
  
  
  • Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence
  
  
  • Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia
  
  


• Intel
  
  
  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
  
  
  • Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
  
  


• Wordpress Drama
  
  
  • Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
  
  
  • Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
  
  
  • WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking
  
  
  • WP Engine responds
  
  

Relevant to your Interests

• IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims


• Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project


• Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’


• Yaak Is Now Open Source


• OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding


• Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager


• A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management


• Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea.


• Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems


• Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion


• Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds


• Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership


• John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this


• The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors


• Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning


• IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff


• More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok


• Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses


• Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout,


• Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage


• Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion


• Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business


• Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app


• Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative


• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look


• Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl


• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report

Nonsense

• Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you.

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.


• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.


• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.


• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Use Magnifier on your iPhone or iPad


• Matt: Ghosts


• Coté: The Modern Myths.

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