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.