Description

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?
• Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake.

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Listener Feedback

• Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks.

Conferences

• Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30
• RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14
• THAT Conference, July 26-29
• SpringOne, Sep 1-2

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