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This week, we discuss Netflix's DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts on why Europe needs more ice.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 431

Runner-up Titles

• Try Harder
• It’s a necessary luxury
• Someone’s drinking too much water here
• A culture of ice
• Where are the high performers, at home or at work
• Quit using your Gmail address
• Thou shalt export to CSV

Rundown

• Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too)
• Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals
• Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die
• Can you trust 'open source' companies?
• OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!
• OpenTF pulls the trigger on its open-source Terraform fork

Relevant to your Interests

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• Nvidia's blowout offers a giddy whiff of 1995
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• Top Ten social media platforms we spend the most time on
• Max will launch a 24/7 CNN stream for all subscribers next month
• Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama
• As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle For Control Of Its Algorithm
• Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture - Slack Engineering
• The Cloud 100 2023
• Data isn’t everything. Judgement counts too.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years
• Instacart is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees it's 'past' time to commit to the company's RTO mandate and their jobs are at stake
• Duet AI, Google's AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud
• Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate
• What’s new with GKE at Google Cloud Next | Google Cloud Blog
• Duet AI in Google Cloud Preview | Google Cloud Blog
• What’s new in Oracle to PostgreSQL database migrations with DMS | Google Cloud Blog
• US AI startup Poolside raises $126m seed round and relocates to France
• Ping, ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo, the power of open source, and the madness of IAM
• Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock; Combines ForgeRock into Ping Identity
• Interoperability between Google Chat and other messaging platforms — powered by Mio
• Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy
• Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures
• Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format
• Google unveils AI tools for enterprise customers at $30 a month
• Chip design firm Arm seeks up to $52 billion valuation in blockbuster U.S. IPO
• Birmingham City Council goes under after Oracle disaster
• IBM Introduces 'Watsonx Your Business'
• Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads
• Announcing Kubecost Cloud in General Availability: The Easiest Way to Optimize Your Kubernetes Costs
• Platform Engineering - What You Need To Know Now
• The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US
• Introducing ONCE

Nonsense

• The fight for the right to repair McFlurry machines
• Delta Airlines Offers Woman $1,800 After Losing Her Dog

Conferences

• Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
• October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
• November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
• November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending
• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas
• If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: JUST ONE MILE | Official Trailer
• Matt: Deadloch
• Coté: Rick Rubin interviews Rory Sutherland. I doubt much of the airport business book stuff in here is “true,” but that’s sort of the whole point, and it’s fantastic listening. His book Alchemy has a great one word review right there in the title. But, again: it’s fun! When you’ve listened to too much If Books Could Kill you can check in on Rory if you need to take the cure.

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