This week we recap the latest announcements at VMworld, discuss App Modernization and rate the best software features of all time. Plus, lots of talk on what makes for a great EBC experience.
The Rundown
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/intent-to-acquire-saltstack.html)
VMworld 2020 Media Kit (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/media-resources/vmworld-2020-media-kit.html)
VMware's conversion into a cloud-agnostic management and development platform (https://diginomica.com/vmwares-conversion-cloud-agnostic-management-and-development-platform)
A little bit of the Dormain presentation (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dormain_vmworld2020-ugcPost-6716819141812088832-dk9z) we mention.
Coté’s thoughts on EBCs from earlier today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBAsF6wWWPY&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1).
Relevant to your Interests
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number (https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram)
We have a few questions about Amazon’s flying indoor security camera drone (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/9/24/21454943/amazon-ring-always-home-cam-drone-security-biggest-questions)
Nikola shows Silicon Valley can’t stop worshipping founders (https://www.theverge.com/21454738/nikola-cult-founder-worship-trevor-milton-general-motors)
Can TikTok help Oracle stay relevant in the cloud-computing age? (https://www.economist.com/business/2020/09/23/can-tiktok-help-oracle-stay-relevant-in-the-cloud-computing-age)
Deloitte Consulting ‘Doubling Down’ On $750M AWS Business (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/deloitte-consulting-doubling-down-on-750m-aws-business)
Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-objects/)
No one likes a heart-stopping AWS bill shock so now there's a machine learning tool to help detect cost anomalies (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/aws_cost_anomaly_detection/)
Release notes | Anthos GKE on-prem | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/release-notes)
VMware to Acquire SaltStack for Advanced Multicloud Automation (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-to-acquire-saltstack-for-advanced-multicloud-automation/)
How to Change the Default Mail App in iOS 14 – The Sweet Setup (https://thesweetsetup.com/how-to-change-the-default-mail-app-in-ios-14/)
With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/29/onedrive_azure_active_directory_outage/)
(https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/intent-to-acquire-saltstack.html)## Nonsense
The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download (https://happymag.tv/bbc-sound-effects-archive/)
Sponsors
Twilio (http://twilio.com) is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more.
Listener Feedback
Jonathon suggested Raspbernetes (https://raspbernetes.github.io/) an opensource project for aspiring SREs or DevOps engineers to learn how to cut their teeth on kubernetes using a distilled set of security, networking and enablement tools.
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
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 Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
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:
Under the Radar: #201: Widgetsmith (https://www.relay.fm/radar/201)
The Talk Show with David Smith (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2020/09/30/ep-297)
Coté: iOS 14 bed time alarm (https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/adjust-wake-up-alarm-iphone-apple-watch/). Also, Coté does daily streams for the moment in VMware Tanzu land (https://www.twitch.tv/vmwaretanzu). Check out the archives in YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U).
