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This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores…

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Runner-up Titles

• Going Hardcore
• Sleeping under the desk
• The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet

Rundown

• Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores
• Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas
• Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game
• God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
• The Twitpocalypse may have begun today
• What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob
• Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…
• These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers
• IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management
• Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion
• Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake
• The maze is in the mouse

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS'
• The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins
• AI Homework
• Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’
• Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does.
• "The New Gatekeepers"
• A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology
• AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime
• Can this man turn Amazon around?
• A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
• An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij

Nonsense

• De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou

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Conferences

• Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
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• PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023
• KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023
• DevOpsDays Austin 2023, May 4-5

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