This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office.
Rundown
Did we market Knative wrong? (https://ahmet.im/blog/knative-positioning/)
Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/newsroom/press-releases/2021/splunk-announces-1-billion-investment-from-silver-lake.html).
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Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack (https://datastax.medium.com/four-reasons-why-apache-pulsar-is-essential-to-the-modern-data-stack-b90a8bddcb9)
ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/thoughtworks-ipo-details/)
Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/spotify-acquires-podz-a-podcast-discovery-app/)
Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum (https://www.axios.com/broadband-maps-infrastructure-66a91da4-c0f4-415c-8e84-1f58b829b323.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hbo-max-subscribers-confused-amused-042408215.html)
Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ferrari-amazons-aws-enter-agreement-data-2021-06-18/)
Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/good-go-not-washington-states-tolling-software-switchover-will-take-2-weeks/)
How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/06/21/how-h-e-b-achieved-four-nines-of-reliability-using-kubernetes-and-linkerd/)
Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-to-detail-major-windows-update-at-june-24-event-1b386dd1-ef2f-4e59-b3a6-934ddce400b6.html)
Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/22/dutch-payments-startup-mollie-raises-another-800m-at-a-6-5b-valuation/)
Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO (https://www.reuters.com/technology/database-company-couchbase-files-us-ipo-2021-06-21/)
PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now (https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/summit-2021-platform-release/)
Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-wipes-out-2021-gains-as-china-crackdown-continues-142206939.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADvOhiBIzA99Wiine1MSCEKIcUNPEcBBfnJuJgPAQOKNcoRBhJq-8CFJmCVpeKDHlw8kQRoZpox0lDs_kf-nI3qV0Ad4xHt71mgVSGGmsky0BWep7AyET6al7b5VP5bCKp_tg_GzXo-nWqEiKCcGs2ZkcdYo4YaeQMBZtjCT-oyc)
The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer (https://linuxfoundation.org/press-release/the-linux-foundation-appoints-industry-veteran-as-chief-marketing-officer/)
Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software (https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/22/unity-acquires-3d-data-firm-pixyz-software/)
Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-rolls-out-tool-to-show-its-employees-compensation-changes-for-transferring-offices/)
CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control (https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/06/21/centos-replacement-rocky-linux-is-now-in-ga-and-under-independent-control/)
Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/confluent-prices-ipo-above-range-at-36-a-share-11624487558)
Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-announces-windows-11-generally-available-by-the-holidays/)
Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/insight-partners-has-acquired-the-new-stack/)
Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/23/oracle_support_rewards/)
Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-announces-windows-11-generally-available-by-the-holidays/)
Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar (https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-microsoft-teams-integrated-153343398.html)
Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406472/microsoft-teams-145-million-daily-active-users-stats)
Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier (https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-snap-groups-snap-layouts/)
PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now (https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/summit-2021-platform-release/)
State of Digital Operations (https://www.pagerduty.com/state-of-digital-ops/)
Nonsense
Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville (https://www.wate.com/news/buc-ees-to-built-worlds-largest-convenience-store-in-sevierville/)
24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oyG1Vl1Vc)
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank (https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosedge&stream=business)
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RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Listen to my appearance on (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/mid-year-cloud-hot-takes.html) The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/mid-year-cloud-hot-takes.html)
Framing Britney Spears on Hulu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee)
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee)
Matt: We Are the Champions (https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81034679)
ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers (https://amzn.to/2SUzTAd)
Coté: La La IJs (http://lalaijs.nl).
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