Prime Minster of Thinking
Episode 314 · August 6th, 2021 · 1 hr 7 mins
About this Episode
This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary?
Rundown
- Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
- Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021
- The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021
- AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS)
- Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers
Relevant to your interests
- Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2
- Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices
- The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest
- Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country
- Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit
- Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app
- Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace
- Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers
- IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours
- Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available
- Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall
- Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget
- Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy
- Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services
- Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes
- Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform
- Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz
- Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence
- One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way
- Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
- LISA Community Message
Nonsense
- Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit
- Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries
- HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the store
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Let Him Go.
- Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows podcast.
- Coté: La Vallade restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline wine, which you should also try.