The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.
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Mood board:
The Christmas Greenwich Meantime.
The Salary Vortex.
Podcast Google Alert.
Overnight he is growing 7 inches.
Throwing fish at a growing seal.
I want to be 63.
We’re way too top heavy.
Hot in the sun, cold in the shade.
Is this because of the Federal Reserve?
The chaos monkey of IPOs.
What happened to SVNLab?
College phrases from random places.
War Birds and Red Tides.
Relevant to your interests
VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-ceo-ibm-paid-too-much-for-red-hat/2019/09/)
Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux (https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-announces-oracle-autonomous-linux/)
CentOS release (https://twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432)
A developer goes to a DevOps conference (https://www.darkcoding.net/software/a-developer-goes-to-a-devops-conference/)
GitLab
Announcing $268 million in Series E funding (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-series-e-funding/)
GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-hauls-in-268m-series-e-on-2-768b-valuation/)
GitLab Strategy (https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/)
GitHub
GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot code exploits (https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/github-acquires-semmle-to-help-developers-spot-code-exploits/)
Welcome Semmle to the GitHub family (https://github.blog/2019-09-18-github-welcomes-semmle/)
Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation (https://onezero.medium.com/leak-of-microsoft-salaries-shows-fight-for-higher-compensation-3010c589b41e)
Google Warns LastPass Users Were Exposed To ‘Last Password’ Credential Leak (https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/09/16/google-warns-lastpass-users-were-exposed-to-last-password-credential-leak/#752ad2546000)
Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-resigns-from-mit-over-epstein-comments)
Hold My Beer – Let's Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge (https://capitalistexploits.at/hold-my-beer/)
Apple reschedules iOS 13.1 and iPadOS releases for September 24th (https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/19/apple-ipados-and-ios-13-1-september-24/)
What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/18/google_anthos_new_features_announced/)
Nonsense
The Question of Whether or Not WeWork Is a Tech Company Has Been Answered (https://gizmodo.com/the-question-of-whether-or-not-wework-is-a-tech-company-1837461024)
Sponsors
SolarWinds
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If it logs, it can log to Loggly
HMA
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Conferences, et. al.
Sep 25th - Something in London.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Use Audible Credits in iPhone App (https://www.audible.com/ep/audible-credits-ios?pf_rd_p=90bb67d2-2606-4dd9-9885-ac5d14c54b68&pf_rd_r=1B2X4V83Q5SMWH21AHK7&ref=a_hp_c0_banner_img); Radiolab’s episode Tit for Tat (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-another).
Matt: Aphex Twin (https://aphextwin.warp.net/)’s website for b-sides and other miscellany
Coté: second bike. Traveling Salesmen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) - how does it work?
Outro: SDT Theme (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong), charleswhollien (https://github.com/charleswhollien).
