This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxrtrRWtvc) 486 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxrtrRWtvc)
Runner-up Titles
I’m out of nuts, time to podcast
System Settings
Security, it never ends
Fancy Sysadmins
Providing needles for your balloons
Batman’s not real
What’s the opposite of a taboo
DevOps is not the tooling
Software gets old
Release the turbo button
Rundown
Windows App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/windows-app/id1295203466?mt=12)
PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
Has DevOps been "worth it" to you? (https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1f5srog/has_devops_been_worth_it_to_you/)
R (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the)enaming a few DevOpsDays (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the) t (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the)o PlatformDays (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the).
Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs (https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/)
Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-23/how-sonos-botched-an-app-and-infuriated-its-customers)
FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/us_air_traffic_control_system_upgrade/)
Apple
Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-launches-iphone-16-with-apple-intelligence-183724722.html)
Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/06/apple-removes-control-click-option-for-skipping-gatekeeper-in-macos-sequoia)
Intel
Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days (https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-a-takeover-in-recent-days-fa114f9d)
Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-launches-new-ai-chips-as-takeover-rumors-swirl-153749461.html)
Wordpress Drama
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/matt-mullenweg-calls-wp-engine-a-cancer-to-wordpress-and-urges-community-to-switch-providers/)
Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP (https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/matt-mullenweg-wp-engine-debacle/)
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking (https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/)
WP Engine responds (https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf)
Relevant to your Interests
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/ibm_job_cuts/)
Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262#issuecomment-2357919000)
Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’ (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/starbucks-new-ceo-on-return-to-office-we-re-all-adults-here)
Yaak Is Now Open Source (https://yaak.app/blog/now-open-source)
OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/openai-to-decide-which-backers-to-let-into-6-5-billion-funding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/google-rolls-out-automatic-passkey-syncing-via-password-manager/)
A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/a-leader-in-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-container-management/)
Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea. (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/competition-companies-employees-9099a425)
Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems (https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-announced-new-efforts-to-improve-its-cybersecurity-systems/)
Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/oracle-sees-104-billion-sales-in-fiscal-2029-on-cloud-expansion)
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds (https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/10/oracle-runs-oci-clones-at-rival-aws-google-and-azure-clouds/)
Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ocw24-oracle-and-amazon-web-services-announce-strategic-partnership-2024-09-09/)
John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1727125631774399)
The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors (https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/sect2024/?ck_subscriber_id=1141233388)
Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-deletes-itself-installs-ultraav-antivirus-without-warning/)
IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/ibm_layoffs_ai_talent/)
More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/17/more-americans-regularly-get-news-on-tiktok-especially-young-adults/)
Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/25/meta-augmented-reality-glasses/)
Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout, (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/google-rehired-noam-shazeer-major-141808501.html)
Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/24/congress-grills-crowdstrike-about-multibillion-dollar-july-outage/)
Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-24/cyber-firm-wiz-in-talks-to-sell-shares-at-20-billion-valuation)
Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business (https://archive.ph/VtRiP)
Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24253023/mkbhd-panels-wallpaper-app-response-criticism)
Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/09/23/securing-our-future-september-2024-progress-update-on-microsofts-secure-future-initiative-sfi/?ref=runtime.news)
OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/openai-rolls-out-advanced-voice-mode-with-more-voices-and-a-new-look/)
Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-launches-new-ai-chips-as-takeover-rumors-swirl-153749461.html)
Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report (https://therecord.media/major-us-companies-unwittingly-hire-north-korean-remote-it-workers)
Nonsense
Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/grocery-store-owners-map-kroger-albertsons-merger/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3f166c7%2F66f2df1965e56477aea35218%2F5ed96de79bbc0f3a78a62db3%2F8%2F54%2F66f2df1965e56477aea35218)
Conferences
Cloud Foundry Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/devopsday-la) at SCALE22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x), March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
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