Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.
Mood Board:
Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
No Yodas
Lot of rubber gloves in your youth?
I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.
Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.
I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.
As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.
Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!
Relevant to your interests
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype
Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pentagon-reconsider-jedi-microsoft-amazon-web-services-2020-3?r=US&IR=T)
HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable!
HashiCorp Scores $175M Funding Round, $5B Valuation (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/hashicorp-scores-175m-funding-round-5b-valuation/2020/03/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Exclusive: DevOps unicorn HashiCorp could be valued at $5.25B in new round (https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/devops-company-hashicorp-seeks-525b-valuation-in-new-round)
Rancher - EDGE, BABY!
Rancher Labs Raises $40 Million Series D Round to Accelerate Growth of Its Kubernetes Management Platform (https://rancher.com/press/rancher-labs-raises-series-d-fundraising-to-accelerate-growth-of-kubernetes-management-platform)
Platform9 Announces Freedom for Kubernetes Users with New, 'Freedom' and 'Growth' SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Plans (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/platform9-announces-freedom-for-kubernetes-users-with-new-freedom-and-growth-saas-managed-kubernetes-plans-301025164.html)
npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/)
Next Phase Montage (https://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-montage?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=84796364&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_EuORWSkYIHmS8nqMc0WCk8B2JPOcD3eOpqljJX0aaD_hQpOJ2QucYIFMw8Z8vsLz1_j2JZjRSHbvrbZVXqW2h80901EglStEJDlhLyQmH1NcjGSk&_hsmi=84796364)
CNCF starts new artifact hub (https://devclass.com/2020/03/12/cncf-starts-new-artifact-hub/) - “pre-alpha stadium.”
Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions (https://medium.com/@inowland/using-6-page-and-2-page-documents-to-make-organizational-decisions-3216badde909)
Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's (https://diginomica.com/book-review-real-deal-technology-deal-making-2020s)
Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21175785/wwdc-2020-online-only-apple-keynote-announced-coronavirus)
Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud... (http://blog.enterprisemanagement.com/righting-a-wrong-ibm-is-a-leader-in-the-cloud)
Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim (https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/)
Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-g-suite-now-has-2-billion-users/)
Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table (https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-15/coronavirus-covid19-self-isolation-announced-for-australia/12057772?pfmredir=sm)
Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/coronavirus-will-change-how-we-shop-travel-and-work-for-years)
Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-europe-remote-working-coronavirus?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting (https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-govt-pledges-to-introduce-mandatory-data-breach-reporting-539109)
What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/pivotal-platform-vmware-tanzu)
Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA (https://blog.openshift.com/announcing-openshift-serverless-1-5-0-tech-preview-a-sneak-peek-of-our-ga/)
Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/17/21183701/google-cloud-next-delay-indefinitely-coronavirus-digital-event-postponed)
Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/17/dotnet_5_preview_1/)
Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/apple-unveils-new-ipad-pro-with-lidar-scanner-and-trackpad-support-in-ipados/)
Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/03/17/2002043/0/en/Spectro-Cloud-Launches-With-7-5-Million-to-Help-Enterprises-Realize-the-Promise-of-Kubernetes.html)
Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/17/ibm_cloud_tuesday_partial_outage/)
Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ansible-devops-comes-to-the-mainframe/)
Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/mainframe-developers-get-boost-from-bmc-acquisition-of-compuware/)
Non Sense
How Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator (https://howmuchtoiletpaper.com/)
You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says (https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2020/03/19/you-can-get-alcohol-delivered-with-your-food-when-you-order-from-texas-restaurants-gov-abbott-says/)
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Conferences, et. al.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed. (https://twitter.com/DoDAustin/status/1240645494440894465?s=20)
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
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THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Devs (https://www.fxnetworks.com/news/devs/) on FX/Hulu .
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1081584611?i=1000448075759)
Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money (https://amzn.to/2vDZnpQ).
Tim Hartford’s Cautionary Tales podcast (http://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/).
Coté: Look Up.
Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRv1De7Hjs&t=231s) Dune.
