Exchange your “Buddy Bucks” for Nagios
Episode 416 · May 26th, 2023 · 47 mins 2 secs
About this Episode
This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds…
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Runner-up Titles
- How big are your almonds?
- It’s under consideration
- The Olympics of Monitoring
- Putting Hats on Cats
- Stanley Nickels for Monitoring
- The 3 Fines
- It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work
- I was told the test was log management
- IDC is the thin balogna
Rundown
- New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ
Relevant to your Interests
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- Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online
- Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source
- Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain
- Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy
- The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023
- Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform
- Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff
- Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms
Nonsense
- A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works
- The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage
- Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted!
- The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One
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Recommendations
- Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0?
- Matt: Have a picnic
- Coté: Hoodie and shorts for the spring; the “web browsing” plugin in ChatGPT does not work well.
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