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This week we discuss IBM buying Instana, highlights from Kubecon and the rise of Substack. Plus, Coté updates us on his quest to live the iPad lifestyle.

The Rundown

• IBM To Acquire Instana For Undisclosed Terms
  • Instana Crunch Base Overview
• KubeCon Review
  • Envoy Mobile Joins the CNCF
  • Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation - The Linux Foundation

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• The Evolution of Cloud
• 2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi
• Amazon's Inferentia AI Chip Is Ready For Prime Time, Now Powers the Alexa Service
• FinOps Foundation launches Kubernetes Whitepaper with CNCF, adds vendor members, Densify, SoftwareOne, Virtasant and more...
• Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more
• New Zoom feature can alert room owners of possible Zoombombing disruptions
• Fast Facts
  • Your Pa$$word doesn't matter
  • 11 facts about real world container use
  • Half of all containers are now managed by cloud provider and third-party registries
• Apple
  • Apple to lower commissions for small businesses on App Store
  • Safely open apps on your Mac
  • Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away
  • Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue

Nonsense

• Welcome to Slow Boring
• Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day

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Listener Feedback

• Little Snitch from Jordy
  • Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue

Conferences

• Mykel Alvis All Day DevOps Talk

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Recommendations

• Matt: Rewatching Veep.
• Brandon: The Undoing on HBO and Serverless Data APIs from the Cloudcast
• Coté: Dithering) podcast) (https://dithering.fm/); Ted Laso.

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