It's an Ending, That's Enough
Episode 485 · September 20th, 2024 · 1 hr 10 mins
About this Episode
This week, we discuss IBM acquiring Kubecost, AWS moving OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, and Amazon employees heading back to the office. Plus, some thoughts on what it means to be in "employee mode."
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Runner-up Titles
- That’s a good looking setup there
- Feels like sweatpants
- London’s busy, Amsterdam's laid back
- AIFinOps
- Mission Bankruptcy
- The settings page is more than 1 page
- Don’t get turned into hamburger, that’s the goal
- Feature checkbox acquisition.
- Employee Mode
- Using people as a whiteboard.
- Work on smarter things, not dumber things.
Rundown
- Announcing Kubecost’s Acquisition by IBM!
- AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation
- Update from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on return-to-office plans and manager team ratio
- JPMorgan creates new role overseeing junior bankers as Wall Street wrestles with workload concerns
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- Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals
Nonsense
- Polishing Cloth
- United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes
- Founder mode, baby #tech #founder #foundermode
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- Passport renewals go digital to ease wait times for American travelers
Conferences
- Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
- VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
- SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
- DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
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