Cote and Brandon discuss PagerDuty's acquisition of Rundeck, the current state of AIOps and why is Reed Hastings writing a book about Netflix’s Culture. Plus, some advice on haircuts.
The Rundown
PagerDuty
PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck to Expand DevOps Automation Capabilities Across Digital Operations | PagerDuty (https://www.pagerduty.com/newsroom/pagerduty-to-aquire-rundeck/)
PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck (https://www.enterpriseai.news/2020/09/21/pagerduty-acquires-devops-automator-rundeck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pagerduty-acquires-devops-automator-rundeck)
Exclusive: Netflix, Google, GitHub top employer survey (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e09b1c2a-94a2-4b80-ab8f-619eb195df0b.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3)
Survey (https://hired.com/state-of-software-engineers#intro).
Relevant to your Interests
Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. (https://mashable.com/article/apple-iphone-ios-14-app-developers-release/)
Judge blocks US ban on WeChat that was set to go into effect today (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/20/21447540/judge-blocks-ban-wechat-tiktok-trump)
New downloads of TikTok, WeChat to be blocked in U.S. on Sunday (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-wechat-ban-downloads-app-store-sunday-trump-8b67a773-de33-4d2f-9fa5-4fff21b2179f.html)
Larry Ellison’s statement about the TikTok (https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1307495138625642496?s=21)
Snowflake May Melt Before Your Eyes (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4375251-snowflake-may-melt-your-eyes)
Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/21/amazon-details-its-low-bandwidth-sidewalk-neighborhood-network-coming-to-echo-and-tile-devices-soon/)
Chef Gets Gobbled Up (Whiteboard Confessional) - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/chef-gets-gobbled-up-whiteboard-confessional/)
Who wants to buy a video service no one watches? Quibi is trying to find out. (https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/9/21/21449795/quibi-sale-video-buyers)
Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm (https://cacm.acm.org/news/247515-huangs-law-is-the-new-moores-law-and-explains-why-nvidia-wants-arm/fulltext)
How BT is shifting its engineers into the fast lane (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3575414/how-bt-is-shifting-its-engineers-into-the-fast-lane.html)
Microsoft unveils Azure Orbital, competing with Amazon to connect satellites to the cloud (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-azure-orbital-satellite-service-to-compete-with-amazon-aws-.html)
SUSE Announces Third Quarter Financial Results - insideHPC (https://insidehpc.com/2020/09/suse-announces-third-quarter-financial-results/)
Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3576290/still-not-dead-the-mainframe-hangs-on-sustained-by-linux-and-hybrid-cloud.html#tk.rss_all)
What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps? (https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/10/247595-what-do-agile-lean-and-itil-mean-to-devops/fulltext)
TransferWise reports accelerating revenue growth to 70% in its March, 2020 fiscal year (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/transferwise-reports-accelerating-revenue-growth-to-70-in-its-march-2020-fiscal-year/?guccounter=1)
Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff' (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/microservices_talk_gotopia/)
Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/google-launches-a-work-tracking-tool-and-airtable-rival-tables/?guccounter=1)
State of Cloud Learning Report 2020 (https://go.acloudguru.com/2020-state-of-cloud-learning-report)
Nonsense
LAMBDA - A Serverless Musical (Hamilton "My Shot" Parody) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMua0cuhFnc&feature=youtu.be)
Classic crispy tacos | Homesick Texan (https://www.homesicktexan.com/2020/09/classic-crispy-tacos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HomesickTexan+%28Homesick+Texan%29)
Qantas' 'Flight to Nowhere' Sells Out in Just 10 Minutes (https://www.complex.com/life/2020/09/qantas-flight-to-nowhere-sells-out-just-10-minutes)
Costco co-founder once said ‘I will kill you’ to CEO who wanted to hike the price of the $1.50 hot dog combo (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/costcos-founder-once-threatened-the-ceo-over-raising-hot-dog-prices-and-the-internet-is-eating-it-up-11600712231)
Sponsors
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Conferences
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SDT news & hype
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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:
The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One (https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk)
How to use iOS 14’s App Library to organize your apps (https://www.theverge.com/21443994/ios-14-app-library-iphone-organize-how-to)
Coté: Pilot G-2 07, blue (https://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Retractable-Rollerball-Refillable-BL-G2-7/dp/B00MELLCW8/).
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