Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.
The Rundown
Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’ (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/sanjay-poonen-on-vmware-vs-red-hat-openshift-may-the-best-product-win-)
Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-aws-extend-collaboration-introducing-amazon-red-hat-openshift)
AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/14/red_hat_openshift_aws/)
More Amazon
AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/13/aws-open-sources-cdk8s-make-kubernetes-easier-use/)
Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/introducing-the-cdk-for-kubernetes-a-new-software-development-framework-and-open-source-project-for-defining-kubernetes-applications-using-code/)
CDK for Kubernetes (https://cdk8s.io/)
AMC shares jump 17% after sources say Amazon is circling the theater chain (NYSE:AMC) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3572552-amc-shares-jump-17-after-sources-say-amazon-is-circling-theater-chain)
Why AMC Networks Stock Soared Today $AMCX vs $AMC (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/05/12/why-amc-networks-stock-soared-today.aspx)
Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose (https://www.cringely.com/2020/05/11/jeff-bezos-cant-lose/)
New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-m6g-ec2-instances-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton2/)
The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe (https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2020/05/12/moving-to-europe/)
Security
Ohio Has Stopped Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After A Hacker Targeted Its Website (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wwdw/ohio-has-stopped-kicking-workers-off-unemployment-after-a-hacker-targeted-its-website)
Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking (https://www.wired.com/story/thunderspy-thunderbolt-evil-maid-hacking/)
Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-protection-against-reply-all-email-storms-in-office-365/)
Microsoft adds initial support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Windows Insiders (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-initial-support-for-dns-over-https-doh-in-windows-insiders/)
Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple (https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engineers)
Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with stunning PlayStation 5 demo (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21256079/epic-unreal-engine-5-playstation-5-demo-next-gen-graphics-release-date)
Cofounders Of Datadog Become Billionaires After The Cloud Computing Firm’s Shares Surge (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/05/13/billionaires-datadog-cloud-computing/#36b2c90176ca)
Relevant to your interests
Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash to Buoy Struggling Business (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/podcaster-luminary-seeks-fresh-cash-to-buoy-struggling-business?srnd=technology-vp)
Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/atlassian-acquires-halp-to-bring-slack-integration-to-the-forefront/)
CyberArk Acquires Identity as a Service Leader Idaptive (https://investors.cyberark.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2020/CyberArk-Acquires-Identity-as-a-Service-Leader-Idaptive/default.aspx)
Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to Grubhub (https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-technologies-makes-takeover-approach-to-grubhub-11589296216)
Twitter Says Employees Can Work Remote Forever (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/twitter-says-employees-can-work-remote-forever)
Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/business/media/jeffrey-katzenberg-quibi-coronavirus.html)
VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/vmware-to-acquire-kubernetes-security-startup-octarine-and-fold-it-into-carbon-black/)
Open Sourcing Tinkerbell (https://www.packet.com/blog/open-sourcing-tinkerbell/)
Nonsense
Pretty cool stuff happening at WeWork (https://twitter.com/jmillstein/status/1259907300342415360)
Why we at $FAMOUSCOMPANY Switched to $HYPEDTECHNOLOGY (https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-company-switched-to-hyped-technology/)
Oil Trader Owes $9 Million After Starting The Day With $77,000 | OilPrice.com (https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Trader-Owes-9-Million-After-Starting-The-Day-With-77000.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences.
FlylessConf (https://flylessconf.com/) May 27
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th — 20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9).
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.
Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack
Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/), DataDog now worth $20B
LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1812595956)
Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB (https://www.mongodb.com/careers)
Recommendations
Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks:
Chaos Monkeys (https://www.audible.com/pd/Chaos-Monkeys-Revised-Edition-Audiobook/B07DFM9W2V?qid=1589428019&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=J13DX31VJNDS8G4QG3KS)
Facebook (https://www.audible.com/pd/Facebook-Audiobook/1524755478?qid=1589427957&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=Q86QJD38KTH24H15RDF5)
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (https://www.audible.com/pd/No-Filter-Audiobook/1797102958)
Matt Ray:
Starship (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1260738961619603456?s=21)

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.

The Rundown

Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’

Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift
AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab

More Amazon

AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use
Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit
CDK for Kubernetes
AMC shares jump 17% after sources say Amazon is circling the theater chain (NYSE:AMC)
Why AMC Networks Stock Soared Today $AMCX vs $AMC
Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose
New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 | Amazon Web Services

The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
Security

Ohio Has Stopped Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After A Hacker Targeted Its Website
Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking
Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365
Microsoft adds initial support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Windows Insiders

Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple
Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with stunning PlayStation 5 demo
Cofounders Of Datadog Become Billionaires After The Cloud Computing Firm’s Shares Surge

Relevant to your interests

Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash to Buoy Struggling Business
Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront – TechCrunch
CyberArk Acquires Identity as a Service Leader Idaptive
Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to Grubhub
Twitter Says Employees Can Work Remote Forever
Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start
VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black
Open Sourcing Tinkerbell

Nonsense

Pretty cool stuff happening at WeWork
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
Oil Trader Owes $9 Million After Starting The Day With $77,000 | OilPrice.com

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT

Conferences.

FlylessConf May 27
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th — 20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey.

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.

Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack

Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog, DataDog now worth $20B
LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos
Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB

Recommendations

Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks:

Chaos Monkeys
Facebook
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Matt Ray:

Starship

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