For the Birds
Episode 375 · September 2nd, 2022 · 1 hr 11 mins
About this Episode
This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?
Runner-up Titles
- Where’s my admin?
- All my children qualify as adults
- Start by eating their food
- Put two letters in front of it
- Where’s the grocery store
- I got that everything bagel spice
- Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?
- In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.
- The runbook’s already written.
- Spagetti Bowl
- Tanzu the Shih Tzu
- A FinOps Type of Motion
- The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff
- Growth is best done in the shadows.
- Wrapping bullshit with bullshit
- Nopehouse, home of the fast follower
- The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans
- Thought-leadership suicide mission
Rundown
- VMware Explore
- How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users
- Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This
Relevant to your Interests
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- Mudge at Twitter
- Bloomberg takes cut and paste seriously
- Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog
- World’s Most Popular Password Manager Says It Was Hacked
- LastPass Says No Passwords Stolen in Data Breach
- AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers | Amazon Web Services
- Pandas Pivot Table Explained
- Charted: Big Tech's bigness
- UK's Micro Focus shares nearly double after Canada's OpenText agrees $6 bln takeover
- Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform
- The State of the Mainframe Market - Summer 2022
- City2Surf face recognition raises concerns
- IBM Watson Health layoffs disguised as staff 'redeployment'
- David Young on LinkedIn: The metaverse economy is set to boom... gambling will be a significant
- OCI History
- VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns as 'next transition'
- Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier
- Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation
Nonsense
Conferences
- DevOps Talks Sydney, Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
- Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
- KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
- THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Black Bird
- Matt: BirdNetPi
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