No PTO from picking up your kids
Episode 305 · June 11th, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min
About this Episode
This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school.
Rundown
- Confluent IPO
- Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements
Relevant to your interests
- Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch
- Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion
- FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion
- Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps
- Passport
- Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023
- The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer
- Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch
- Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry
- Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton
- Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app
- Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour)
- Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations
- Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service
- The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote
- The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
- Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside
- Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy?
- Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang
Nonsense
- MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says
- The Great Wings Rush
- AMC is the new meme stock posterchild.
- Introducing the United supersonic fleet.
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
- Noe wans you to work as Senior Systems Engineer at Riot Games based in L.A.
- Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing.
Conferences
- RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
- SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
- THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14
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- SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th.
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Recommendations
- Brandon: NYT Games Subscription
- Matt: Secrets of the Whales documentary
- Magnetic USB charging cables (recommended by Mykel Alvis)
- Coté: The Hidden Palace.