This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPR3HLPjfI) 493 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPR3HLPjfI)
Runner-up Titles
Yes, No, Maybe
Infinite Password Loop
Bring your kids to work day: passwords.
Password Talk
Escaping characters
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Don’t hire people with pets
Eats AWS stuff natively.
I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox
Enron for cloud purchasing
Rundown
OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation (https://www.opencost.io/blog/cncf-incubation)
Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/492)
VMware
Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery (https://news.broadcom.com/app-dev/reflections-from-explore-barcelona-and-the-challenges-of-modern-app-delivery)
New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/new-smb-friendly-subscription-tier-may-be-too-late-to-stop-vmware-migrations/)
M&A
Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-01/apple-to-acquire-pixelmator-maker-of-popular-photo-editing-apps?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_alert&utm_term=241101&utm_campaign=author_19842959)
Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic (https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/red-hat-acquires-ai-optimization-startup-neural-magic/)
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year (https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/24/ibms-red-hat-acquisition-will-pay-for-itself-by-early-next-year/)
Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/11/12/2979082/0/en/Snyk-Acquires-Developer-First-DAST-Provider-Probely.html)
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year (https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/24/ibms-red-hat-acquisition-will-pay-for-itself-by-early-next-year/)
VMware
Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery (https://news.broadcom.com/app-dev/reflections-from-explore-barcelona-and-the-challenges-of-modern-app-delivery)
New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/new-smb-friendly-subscription-tier-may-be-too-late-to-stop-vmware-migrations/)
Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkgwl9mKL2Y).
RTO
Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-exec-says-9-10-103742343.html)
Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half (https://x.com/arpitrage/status/1849530101035160031)
Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees, (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-open-letter-aws-ceo-office-return-rto-2024-10)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff' (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/05/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-5-day-office-mandate-isnt-a-backdoor-layoff.html)
Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/business/media/washington-post-return-to-office.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great! (https://thehustle.co/news/everyone-agrees-a-shorter-workweek-is-great)
Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs” (https://overcast.fm/+AAQLdtAb8Tc)
Relevant to your Interests
Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-ceo-says-over-25-of-new-google-code-is-generated-by-ai/)
Threads has 275 M Monthly Users (https://www.threads.net/@alexheath/post/DBw02uLSE53?xmt=AQGzqxkKe87WI9ToiqUrcEIU6mxhBohSO8BNX4ve1zqRHQ)
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its global workforce (https://www.threads.net/@cnbc/post/DBwYF88uYSr?xmt=AQGz-t_BCEcQFjjZwD05xps9bJGHO7FL25RD1h6JIauuOQ)
From IaC to Cloud Management: Pulumi's Evolution Story (https://thenewstack.io/from-iac-to-cloud-management-pulumis-evolution-story/)
For Jeff Bezos and his businesses, Washington has become more important (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/30/bezos-business-federal-government/)
Russian court fines Google $2 decillion (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/)
GitHub Next | GitHub Spark (https://githubnext.com/projects/github-spark)
The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/30/24282981/apple-macbook-air-m2-m3-16gb-ram-minimum-price-unchanged)
Meta says open sourcing Llama models will be a money-saver (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/meta_q3_2024/)
Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/google-employees-pressure-execs-at-all-hands-for-clarity-on-cost-cuts.html)
Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again (https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285513/intel-ceo-lunar-lake-one-off-memory-package-discrete-gpu)
Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/against-incident-severities-favor-incident-types)
Nintendo Just Launched a Music Streaming App, and It's Surprisingly Good (https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-just-launched-a-music-streaming-app-and-its-surprisingly-good-2000518802)
Why The US Military Chose Silicon-Graphene Batteries (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60hjFvj64s)
Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud (https://www.thestack.technology/warren-buffetts-geico-repatriates-work-from-the-cloud-continues-ambitious-infrastructure-overhaul/)
Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It (https://gizmodo.com/google-confirms-jarvis-ai-is-real-by-accidentally-leaking-it-2000521089)
Curbside charging is coming to Michigan. (https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289516/curbside-charging-is-coming-to-michigan)
Nintendo says the Switch successor will be compatible with Switch games (https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24284745/switch-2-backward-compatibility-nintendo-online-preservation)
Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference? (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/platform-vs-devex-teams)
Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too) (https://lifehacker.com/health/stravas-heatmap-privacy-problem)
Thunderbolt 5: Only Necessary for the Most Demanding Uses (https://tidbits.com/2024/11/06/thunderbolt-5-only-necessary-for-the-most-demanding-uses/)
Guide to Selling Your Company (https://www.onlycfo.io/p/guide-to-selling-your-company)
The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter (https://on.ft.com/3ADujb9)
IronCalc (https://www.ironcalc.com/?utm_source=changelog-news)
Neptyne is shutting down (https://www.neptyne.com/blog/neptyne-is-shutting-down)
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/openai-google-and-anthropic-are-struggling-to-build-more-advanced-ai)
Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/matt-mullenweg-says-automattic-is-very-short-staffed-amid-wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama/)
Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/automattic-offered-employees-another-chance-to-quit-this-time-with-nine-months-severance/)
Automattic's new site tracks how many websites left WP Engine following feud (https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/automattics-new-site-tracks-how-many-websites-left-wp-engine-following-feud-with-matt-mullenweg/)
Cloudflare Blocks Automattic's WP Engine Tracker For Phishing (https://www.searchenginejournal.com/cloudflare-blocks-automattics-wp-engine-tracker-for-phishing/532244/)
We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/we-are-leaving-kubernetes)
Nonsense
'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o)
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Conferences
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CfgMgmtCamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/), February 2rd to 5th.
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