Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.
Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week.
Mood board:
#asksdt
Remember the Law of Hammarabi.
They’re not the Poynter institute or anything.
Are we going to be blamed for all the problems?
Kubernetes on the barby.
It’s all the same broken stuff.
Broken ankle con.
I’ve never broken a bone.
A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going!
The Carl Weathers Cluster.
I’m really good at thinking while I talk.
Just ignore the baby yoda.
Relevant to your interests
The 100 most important gadgets of the decade (https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/20997215/best-gadgets-decade-2010s-list-roundup-apple-iphone-tesla-amazon-samsung).
Broken ankle conference.
S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc-300970643.html).
Ubuntu pro.
Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe (http://axios.link/6xFK).
Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/amazon-blames-trump-for-losing-jedi-cloud-contract.html).
This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into (https://www.fastcompany.com/90440269/ride-home-media-tech-election-news-podcasts-celeb-news).
Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network (https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/12/rings-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-surveillance-network/).
AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/09/aws-is-sick-of-waiting-for-your-company-to-move-to-the-cloud/).
Cloud Wars CEO of the Year 2019: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud (https://cloudwars.co/cloud-wars-ceo-of-the-year-2019-thomas-kurian-google-cloud/).
Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Here's Who Has the Greenest Cloud (https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-microsoft-green-clouds-and-hyperscale-data-centers/).
Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-ubuntu-pro-for-amazon-web-services).
Eclipse Foundation Warns Operators: Don’t Be a ‘Dumb Pipe’ for AWS (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/eclipse-foundation-warns-operators-dont-be-a-dumb-pipe-for-aws/2019/12/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral).
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape (https://landscape.cncf.io/).
BPF: A New Type of Software (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html).
Nonsense
AI Hiring Algorithm (https://xkcd.com/2237/)
The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/12/9/21002605/apple-tv-remote-salt-swiss-tv-company-replacement-buttons-normal)
Air France-KLM Group steps up cooperation with Qantas Group (https://www.airfranceklm.com/en/news/air-france-klm-group-steps-cooperation-qantas-group)
Sponsors
SolarWinds:
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their APM tools – Loggly. To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
Arrested DevOps Podcast:
Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/).
Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Book Giveaway
We’re giving away one digital copy of Righting Software (http://www.informit.com/store/righting-software-9780136524038). The first person that DM’s @bwhichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard) on Twitter or in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) gets a copy.
Recommendations
Matt: On the Metal (https://oxide.computer/blog/categories/on-the-metal/) podcast; How Buildings Learn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0).
Brandon: General Magic the Movie (https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com/).
Coté: The Mandalorian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian).
Outro: “Tooth Fairy Crunch!,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5embxVXocY&list=PLtsdgl5EjTaPZkxc15Biep5OvVxRI1YW8&index=15&t=1m43s) Teen Titans. Cover art from yusseyhan (https://pixabay.com/photos/casserole-stew-crock-hot-pot-2386835/).

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.

Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week.

Mood board:

#asksdt
Remember the Law of Hammarabi.
They’re not the Poynter institute or anything.
Are we going to be blamed for all the problems?
Kubernetes on the barby.
It’s all the same broken stuff.
Broken ankle con.
I’ve never broken a bone.
A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going!
The Carl Weathers Cluster.
I’m really good at thinking while I talk.
Just ignore the baby yoda.

Relevant to your interests

The 100 most important gadgets of the decade.
Broken ankle conference.
S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC.
Ubuntu pro.
Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe.
Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft.
This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into.
Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network.
AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud.
Cloud Wars CEO of the Year 2019: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Here's Who Has the Greenest Cloud.
Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services.
Eclipse Foundation Warns Operators: Don’t Be a ‘Dumb Pipe’ for AWS.
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape.
BPF: A New Type of Software.

Nonsense

AI Hiring Algorithm
The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement
Air France-KLM Group steps up cooperation with Qantas Group

Sponsors

SolarWinds:

This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their APM tools – Loggly. To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.

Arrested DevOps Podcast:

Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/.

Conferences, et. al.

NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too.
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Book Giveaway

We’re giving away one digital copy of Righting Software. The first person that DM’s @bwhichard on Twitter or in the SDT Slack gets a copy.

Recommendations

Matt: On the Metal podcast; How Buildings Learn.
Brandon: General Magic the Movie.
Coté: The Mandalorian.

Outro: “Tooth Fairy Crunch!,” Teen Titans. Cover art from yusseyhan.

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