This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving…
Rundown
DevOpsDays Austin (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/)
Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063499/uber-ceo-slash-costs-hiring-slowdown-ride-hailing-profit)
A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/next-tech-downturn-cheat-sheet-recession)
Relevant to your Interests
Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud (https://www.ign.com/articles/square-enix-says-embracer-acquisitions-allow-it-to-invest-more-in-the-blockchain-ai-and-the-cloud)
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html)
What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/07/may-not-know-dell-snowflake-deal/)
The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world (https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-twitter-doesn-t-rule-the-social-world)
I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs (https://interconnected.org/home/2022/05/05/larping)
Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/)
Podcast Details (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/https://podcastdetails.com/)
3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets? (https://overcast.fm/+QN1pbp6qs)
Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-general-motors-collaborate-trailblaze-future-software-defined-vehicles?sc_cid=7013a000002pyDRAAY)
Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-advances-container-isolation-and-workloads-with-acquisition-of-nestybox/)
Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appian-awarded-2-036-billion-in-damages-against-pegasystems-inc-301543673.html)
4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022 (https://www.securemac.com/news/4-new-icloud-keychain-features-for-2022)
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (https://www.wired.com/story/fido-alliance-ios-android-password-replacement/)
Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1522592192472121345)
Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/googles-cloud-group-forms-web3-product-and-engineering-team.html)
Nonsense
Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/)
Sponsors
IT Brew — Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST. Register Here! (https://www.itbrew.com/events/it-brew-virtual-launch-event?utm_campaign=itb_sdtvirtualevent_051322&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=crosspromo&utm_term=2022-04-26)
Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022
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Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/)
Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod
MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Outer Range (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjD6eSS6tX3AhXXam8EHa55B98YABAAGgJqZg&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESbeD2gX-q2K65uLuKzoQSEiKkGaXTpp9RAoJvlxlVPxR4LhROL0ylc9MUb1dLMuoOjK6vgpj6-pR2_8Lrntvbf8wa_QDIU5pSrGKNVSpV7DC9ZUOpval8pLWvDwXMkxZaCToCTryt5P87wp9Zyjc&sig=AOD64_3eTUtq0o5DQELmJ4xY31WYRxL5Cw&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwjonNmS6tX3AhUrg2oFHaZID8EQ0Qx6BAgDEAE&dct=1)
Matt: IKEA Hektar lamp (https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/hektar-work-lamp-with-wireless-charging-dark-grey-80323435/)
Treasury Series I Bonds (https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds.htm) via Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096314685/a-secret-weapon-to-fight-inflation)
Coté: EPICKA Universal Travel Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/EPICKA-Universal-Travel-Adapter-Power/dp/B078S3M2NX?asc_campaign=&asc_source=&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fauthor%2Fdorri-olds&tag=w050b-20&ascsubtag=%20%20%20%20%20%205:21)
Photo Credits
Banner (https://blog.atmtxphoto.com/2019/08/12/el-mercado-color/)
