The Hot Take Episode
Episode 227 · April 11th, 2020 · 1 hr 6 mins
About this Episode
This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.
Relevant to your interests
- Unikernels are unfit for production
- Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways)
- Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system
- Slack, Teams and Conferencing
- Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield
- DHH is not happy with Zoom
- Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
- Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
- Zoom responds with a Blog Post
- Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities
- Zoom isn’t Malware.
- IBM
- New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware
- IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business
- My first day as CEO - our journey together
- RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era
- Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier
- CircleCI
- Apple
- The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz
- Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers
- Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation
- Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code
- Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics
- Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity
- The Next Chapter of Meetup
- SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares
- Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak
- OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business
- HashiCorp Joins the CNCF
- Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic
- MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs
- Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production
- Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem
- Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M
- Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014
- Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers
- Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset
Non Sense
- Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic
- Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights...
- 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email.
- My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting
- HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release
- Trump order encourages US to mine the moon
- CNCF Puzzle
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
- Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
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- Mykel Alvis is speaking at All Day DevOps Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Ozark and Tiger King
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