Episode 199: 15 meters of cereal

Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again!

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Mood board:

• It’s probably more of a figurative figurative phrase, not a literal figurative phrase.
• I should probably start the recording again.
• Don’t be so precise.
• Kids these days.
• There’s lots of issues with the Salt Lick.
• Here’s a napkin.
• You’re better off getting a Porche from Germany.
• Let me translate that from Dutch to American.
• 15 meters of cereal.
• Tradeless Commissions
• Some basis points.
• Well, I don’t know that, but I’m gonna look it up later.

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Relevant to your interests

• The webinar Coté mentioned, “The Business Bottleneck, part 01” with Rick Clark.
• Matt Levine on free stock trading stuff.
• AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement
• Docker, once worth over $1 billion, tells employees it's trying to raise cash amid 'significant challenges'
• Google will not donate Knative framework 'to any foundation for the foreseeable future'
  • The announcement is presumed to apply also to Istio, the service mesh on which Knative depends.
  • Both Knative and Istio use the Apache License 2.0 and Google's announcement does confirm that Knative will remain open source and with multi-vendor participation.
• Jessie Frazelle does not like the CNCF and this tweet too.
• Honeycomb Begins Another Chapter with a New Funding Round.
• BMC Software taps CA Technologies exec for permanent CEO position.
• KeyBanc Capital Markets - with some VMware coverage.
• Read the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings.

Nonsense

• Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to Zunleash growth. Then things got messy
• Hercules cargo plane flew between skyscrapers

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• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
• Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
• Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
• NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. Call for Papers ends on Oct. 7th. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. †

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Recommendations

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Outro: “That's Right, You're Not From Texas,” Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.