This week we discuss Oracle buying Corner, drama at Coinbase and the Gartner MQ for Observability. Plus, some thoughts on European Design Style…
Runner-up Titles
Secular Winds.
Internet Hygiene
Don’t Bang the Table
Do you own a motorcycle?
The Hilda World-building Executive Retreat for Toxic Crytpo Execs.
That’s some flavor
Client/server Bias.
Power of Privilege
Rundown
Everyone tries to fix verticals like healthcare but can an outsider really do it?
Oracle thinks it can fix healthcare’s biggest tech issue (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23162503/oracle-cerner-health-records-data-interoperability)
Oracle stock jumps 9% on strong cloud revenue (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-stock-jumps-9-on-strong-cloud-revenue-11655151953)
CEO Bias
Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62a7fbc951acba00209259f5/elon-musk-brian-armstrong-coinbase-crypto/)
Coinbase CEO Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1535304943728414721)
An Open letter to Elon… (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk-internal-open-letter-behavior)
Productivity
Google’s changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23166474/google-calendar-gmail-invite-redesign-updated-info)
Who the **** Enjoys Using Outlook? (https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/gmail-versus-outlook.html)
Honeycomb Cements Its Position as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-leader-observability-gartnermq)
Relevant to your Interests
Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey | The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/)
Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/9/23159460/microsoft-xbox-tv-app-samsung-2022-tv-xbox-cloud-gaming-streaming)
MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/10/apple-m1-unpatchable-flaw/)
Spotify comes for audiobooks (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/9/23161536/spotify-audiobooks-amazon-audible-podcasts)
Joe Beda retires, sort of. (http://:
Amazon Prime Air prepares for drone deliveries (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-prepares-for-drone-deliveries)
Apple CEO Tim Cook heaps praise on ‘cutting-edge’ Chinese software developers (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3181696/apple-ceo-tim-cook-expects-continued-growth-cutting-edge-chinese)
The Origin of Git (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1536832603411451905?s=21&t=MOP-Q2LxtK9mGe8b5NyXCg)
Snowflake switches gears, from data warehouse to application cloud (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3663700/snowflake-switches-gears-from-data-warehouse-to-application-cloud.html)
The Washington Post is not selling its software business, despite offers (https://www.axios.com/2022/06/14/wapo-arcxp-not-selling-tech-business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Nonsense
The SDT THREAD is now over 7k messages. (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/1537479093595168768)
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DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022
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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
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
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Recommendations
Brandon: Top Gun: Maverick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giXco2jaZ_4)
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