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Episode 274 · December 4th, 2020 · 1 hr 13 mins
About this Episode
This week we discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack and recap all the important announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some advice on chopping onions and robot vacuums.
The Rundown
- AWS Outage
- AWS re:Invent
- AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 | Amazon Web Services
- Compute
- AWS launches EC2 computing instances that run Apple's MacOS operating system
- Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps
- EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors
- How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce
- Databases
- Kubernetes
- Serverless
- DevOps Guru
- Hybrid Cloud or a cloud close to you
- Slack
- Best analysis ever
- Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions
- How a Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape
- Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close
- Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack - Salesforce News
- Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring | Acquired Podcast
- Slack: The Bulls are typing...
- Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration, But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams
Relevant to your Interests
- Splunk acquires network observability service Flowmill
- Productivity Scores in Office 365
- IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale
- Apple Plans to Run Most of Its ‘Compute Management’ on Kubernetes
- Tony Hsieh, iconic Las Vegas tech entrepreneur, dies aged 46
- Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware
- Robert Smith Breakup Exclusive: Billionaire Brian Sheth Reveals Why He’s Leaving Vista Following Tax Evasion Case
- Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production
- Should we really be worried about vendor lock-in in 2020?
- Future of Online Security and Privacy is being decided now
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston
Nonsense
Listener Feedback
- Brett from Slack recommends Upptime an open source Status Page
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