We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.
The Rundown
Google Next
Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough' (https://9to5google.com/2020/07/14/google-cloud-confidential-computing/)
BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-bigquery-omni)
Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/assured-workloads-for-government-compliance-without-compromise)
Rackspace
Rackspace IPO S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810019/000119312520190902/d915709ds1.htm)
Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership (https://www.channele2e.com/business/finance/rackspace-ipo-business-evolution/)
Long Term Stock Exchange (https://longtermstockexchange.com)
Relevant to your interests
VC
Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock (https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/16/puppet-announces-40-million-debt-round-from-blackrock/)
Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/portland-cloud-automation-startup-puppet-raises-40m/)
Auth0 Announces $120M in Series F Funding (https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-announces-120m-seriesf-funding/)
Messaging
Slack has filed an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Teams in the EU (https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/slack-has-filed-an-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft-teams-in-the-eu/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIllSRtHgcGS7g6oto1maWCCQ890CSmZ84JdsJKJBaN03YDoQxpd3-_1eGnXMPZNiOaygWKkQ5MgJzFPgHWrc523cAcMVFfKMdU4SjGqEMITr4NGPkGkm7LfVMMTw4Cv6BhiPfI8zDXhfprunrEtjEb_qByhLU7sCgJNq3sUExmk)
Major Gmail redesign will bring Chat, Meet, Tasks and Docs into one interface (https://www.techradar.com/news/major-gmail-redesign-integrates-chat-meet-tasks-and-docs-collaboration-into-one)
Share screens using Messages on Mac (https://support.apple.com/guide/messages/screen-sharing-icht11883/mac)
AWS
Salesforce, AWS launch Amazon Connect integration with Service Cloud | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/salesforce-aws-launch-amazon-connect-integration-with-service-cloud/)
Announcing AWS App2Container - Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/announcing-aws-app2container/)
Just Too Efficient (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Efficient) from Tim Bray
Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/technology/tiktok-amazon-security-risk.html?referringSource=articleShare)
The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS (https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/07/20/the-growing-dependence-of-vmware-on-aws/)
Hacks and Outages
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html)
Twitter explains outage on Twitter (https://twitter.com/twittersupport/status/1284331132255756288?s=21)
Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others – TechCrunch (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEFCrt1oQs_NAsoBZB4gnL4YqFAgEKg0IACoGCAowlIEBMLEXMOc_?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story - Tony Chen, Microsoft - Platform Security Summit 2019 (https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/)
IBM
IBM improves gross margins in Q2 under new CEO (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/20/ibm-earnings-q2-2020.html)
IBM Earnings Preview: Red Hat Merger Is The Future, But Pandemic Timing Couldn't Be Worse (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4359079-ibm-earnings-preview-red-hat-merger-is-future-pandemic-timing-couldnt-be-worse)
Kube Corner
Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community - DevOps.com (https://devops.com/google-exposes-old-wounds-in-open-source-community/)
Operator Framework (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/07/09/toc-approves-operator-framework-as-incubating-project/)
More
16 Must-Listen Podcasts for IT/Tech Professionals (https://www.bmc.com/blogs/tech-it-podcasts/)
Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/10/digicert_pulls_certs/)
JetBrains Technology Day for Java (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FNNO3X_go0)
Aerial fiber deployment, faster and more efficient - Facebook Engineering (https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/aerial-fiber-deployment/)
You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/if_customer_service_for_verizon/)
TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They’re Infected (https://threatpost.com/trickbot-sample-accidentally-warns-victims/157390/)
Samsung’s 6G White Paper Lays Out the Company’s Vision for the Next Generation of Communications Technology (https://news.samsung.com/global/samsungs-6g-white-paper-lays-out-the-companys-vision-for-the-next-generation-of-communications-technology)
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020)
It would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses (https://twitter.com/thecitywanderer/status/1283160448192446466?s=21)
Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale (https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/softbank_considering_arm_sale_report/)
Dell Says It’s Exploring Potential Spinoff of VMware Unit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/dell-says-it-s-exploring-the-spinoff-of-vmware-unit)
OKD4 is now Generally Available (https://www.openshift.com/blog/okd4-is-now-generally-available)
VS Code grows, Emacs holds steady (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1283939343334346752?s=21)
Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/airbnb-coronavirus-layoffs-.html)
How to setup Role based access to Kubernetes Cluster - InfraCloud Technologies (https://www.infracloud.io/role-based-access-kubernetes/)
A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investment-reshape-economics-web/)
Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation (https://www.nearform.com/blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracing-app-to-linux-foundation/)
How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves (https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/how-costco-convinces-brands-to-cannibalize)
Straddling the firewall: cloud from 2010 to 2020 (& what to do next) (https://cote.io/2020/07/22/straddling-the-firewall-cloud-from-2010-to-2020-what-to-do-next/)
SUSE releases major Linux update | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-releases-major-linux-update/)
How to broadcast to Twitch and Zoom with OBS (https://tech.paulcz.net/blog/obs-broadcast-to-zoom-and-twitch/)
Nonsense
Travel Dress Pant Sweatpants (https://www.betabrand.com/travel-dress-pant-sweatpants)
IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/ibm_kubernetes_experience_job_ad/)
British Airways retires its entire fleet of Boeing 747 jets (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/british-airways-retires-its-entire-fleet-of-boeing-747-jets.html)
I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBrbdU_y0s)
Coté’s ambient noise videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXXWnYOt2H47MvTGAIjiqV_)
Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions?utm_campaign=cote), Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) on Aug 26th.
SDT news & hype
Listen to Richard Seroter interview (http://Richard Seroter)
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
Matt Ray: Palm Springs (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9484998/).
Brandon: Reckoning (https://www.netflix.com/title/81277909).
Coté:
Vivino wine app (https://www.vivino.com/app) (you can order wine, next day!)
Apple Magic Touch pad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Trackpad_2) thing.
Setapp (https://setapp.com/).
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