Description

This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King.

Runner-up Titles

• Don’t have the USB cable
• Barton, can you get me a drink?
• Just like a beer
• This is my own podcast, I can do whatever the fuck I want!
• One day, I’m going to stop being the the butt of all the jokes
• Throwing a lot of Harvard shade.
• If you are in France, eat at the Burger King
• They came for the DevOps glory
• The jury’s still out for the Dev in DevOps
• The same sane things
• Security, always a problem
• What if there was just one company?

Rundown

• Dallas DevOpsDays
• Devs don’t want to do ops
• Twitter
  • Twitter's security alarm
  • Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s
• Apple
  • Wait, When Did Everyone Start Using Apple Pay? — The Wall Street Journal
  • Ad Revenues
  • The golden noose around Apple’s neck
  • 1 big thing: Americans' beliefs are privacy law's hidden roadblock

Relevant to your Interests

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• AIOps startup BigPanda raises Series E extension, bringing its total capital to $340M
• Sync Computing nabs $15.5M to automatically optimize cloud resources
• GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
• Cybersecurity platform Aceiss unveils product after seed close
• Excel @ mentions feature approaches GA on the desktop
• Cisco pops as guidance, Q4 results top expectations amid concerns of slowdown
• There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet
• Google Cloud claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever attempted
• Excel Formula Generator - Excel Formula AI Bot
• WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health
• Twitter tests a special tag to highlight phone number-verified accounts
• YouTube․com/podcasts goes live as simple 'Explore' page
• Will MoviePass’ return help struggling theaters?
• Zoom pares back annual forecast as revenue growth slows to single digits
• Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’
• The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable
• Sony confirms PS VR2 is coming to market 'in early 2023'
• Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws
• SSH Security Best Practices using Certificates, 2FA and Bastions
• Twitter CEO @paraga weighs in on whistleblower story.
• The House passed a defense spending bill saying you can't sell software to the DoD that has any known CVEs in it.
• There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet
• Neumann’s Resurrection & The Trump Org’s Future

Nonsense

• Shouting in the Datacenter
• Kubernetes
• CS Final Exam

Conferences

• Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM
• VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.
  • Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page
• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
• Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28
• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Recommendations

• Brandon: The Sandman Audio Book
• Coté: Amazing Oriental

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