Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community

This week we discuss CentOS going upstream, Kubernetes removes Docker support and who’s buying the AirPods Max. Plus, Coté critiques Apple’s Notes App.

The Rundown

• CentOS
  • CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream
  • Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry
  • Meet Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator
• Docker
  • Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker
  • Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal
  • Mirantis to take over support of Kubernetes dockershim
• Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design

Relevant to your Interests

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• Stocks, M&A and VCs
  • Why Snowflake's stock price just jumped 16%
  • DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share
  • SoftBank Vision Fund turns $680 million DoorDash investment into $11.5 billion based on Wednesday's opening price
  • Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing
  • Cisco to buy software firm IMImobile in $730 million deal
  • Calm raises $75M more at $2B valuation
• Chips
  • Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?
  • New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt
  • Apple's 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips
• Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
• IBM bet the company on hybrid cloud. Analysts just rated it a mere 'contender' for hybrid management
• Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
• Austin's popularity knows no limits | LinkedIn
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 Recap
• U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition
• The Google Disease Afflicting AWS - Last Week in AWS
• The Return to the Office Gets Put on Hold
• Puppet’s journey into Continuous Compliance
• Nomad 1.0 is released!
• GitHub introduces dark mode and auto-merge pull request
• Daily Insights
• VMware COO Jumps Ship To Become New Nutanix CEO
• The State of the Octoverse

Nonsense

• Warner’s 2021 releases also going to HBO Max
• Hyundai spends almost $1B to buy Boston Dynamics, makers of Spot dog robot
• Elon Musk confirms he has moved to Texas
• Handwonden door ontpitten avocado's groeiend probleem

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