Episode 296: Fungated into my mind

This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.

Rundown

• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
• M&A
  • Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
  • Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
  • IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud
• Microsoft
  • Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales
  • Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018
  • Kubernetes Usability SIG
  • Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
• Earnings
  • Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
  • Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor
• The Commodification of DevOps
  • 7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map
  • Atlassian’s Open DevOps
• Crypto miners are killing free CI

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• Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
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• SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast
• Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts
• What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS
• Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch
• How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data
• Changes at Basecamp
• Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours
• IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)
• HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
• Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party
• The Slander Industry
• What really happened at Basecamp
• Changes at Basecamp
• In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

Nonsense

• YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993
• Google Timelapse
• World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction
• "Microsoft Excel Influencer”
• N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash
• Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font

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Conferences

• RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)
• Matt: Leeroy Jenkins
• Coté: MonitorControl. You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid.

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