Episode 493: Stay in the sandbox

This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.

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Runner-up Titles

• Yes, No, Maybe


• Infinite Password Loop


• Bring your kids to work day: passwords.


• Password Talk


• Escaping characters


• Stone Cold Steve Austin


• Don’t hire people with pets


• Eats AWS stuff natively.


• I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox


• Enron for cloud purchasing

Rundown

• OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation


• Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance


• VMware
  
  
  • Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
  
  
  • New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
  
  


• M&A
  
  
  • Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps
  
  
  • Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic
  
  
  • IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
  
  
  • Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely
  
  
  • IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
  
  


• VMware
  
  
  • Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
  
  
  • New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
  
  
  • Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly.
  
  


• RTO
  
  
  • Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals
  
  
  • Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half
  
  
  • Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,
  
  
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'
  
  
  • Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week
  
  
  • Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great!
  
  
  • Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs”
  
  

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Nonsense

• 'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

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