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Episode 286 · February 19th, 2021 · 1 hr 5 mins
About this Episode
This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.
Rundown
- Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back
- Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115)
- Operating Systems
Relevant to your interests
- ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal
- Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
- Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch
- Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams
- Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software
- Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’
- CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing
- Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users
- Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database”
- Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls
- The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy
- The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers
- Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
- This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.
- Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook
- Security
- Passwords
- Hardware highlights…?
- Audio is the future?
Nonsense
- 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T
- Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years'
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Listener Feedback
- Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based)
Conferences
- DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
- SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
- Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
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- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
- Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
Recommendations
- Matt: HDMI LCD controllers.
- Brandon: Fake Famous.
- Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation.