Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land

Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.
Mood board:
“The triumphant return to the home office. “
Net Ninety.
Software Stockholm Syndrome.
Office Mail 360 Whatever.
I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy.
I never read those emails.
I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter.
Neck-deep in archaic 2FA.
Aggressively defensive.
Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision.
MoMs are important.
Cloud Candyland.
I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal.
Feed the baby.
New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you.
The Rundown
Microsoft Build
Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/42d3ed24-6773-45c8-82bd-6dec4a583c89?source=sessions)
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features)
The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2 (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/5b3a111b-ea47-452c-be4d-8387501efbd2?source=sessions)
New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON
Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access
Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls
Linux GUI Apps on Windows
Remote Work
Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij (https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1264341436138270720?s=21)
Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital (https://twitter.com/spignal/status/1264894800265916417?s=21)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2020)
Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python
GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom
50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps
Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD
Relevant to your interests
What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners (https://www.scalevp.com/blog/what-just-happened-flash-report-on-q1-saas-sales)
How TechCrunch is like the Iliad (https://lukekanies.com/how-techcrunch-is-like-the-iliad/)
IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/ibm-to-cut-jobs-for-first-time-under-new-ceo.html)
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/22/21267321/broadband-internet-speed-record-australia-researchers-micro-comb-fiber)
Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/hertz-bankruptcy-coronavirus-car-rental.html?referringSource=articleShare)
What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiQGh0dHBzOi8vdGVjaGNydW5jaC5jb20vMjAyMC8wNS8yMi93aGF0LXRoZS1oZWxsLXNhYXMtdmFsdWF0aW9ucy_SAURodHRwczovL3RlY2hjcnVuY2guY29tLzIwMjAvMDUvMjIvd2hhdC10aGUtaGVsbC1zYWFzLXZhbHVhdGlvbnMvYW1wLw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/)
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Torvalds-Threadripper)
Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech (https://tbtech.co/migrating-to-kubernetes-moving-to-a-better-world/)
ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple (https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-announces-cortex-x-custom-cpu-program/)
Collaboration Tools (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1265860249371566080?s=20)
A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/27/smaller-simpler-docker-looks-get-groove-back/)
Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/choosing-2fa-authenticator-apps-can-be-hard-ars-did-it-so-you-dont-have-to/)
Nonsense
This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2020/5/18/21262771/sudoku-puzzle-cracking-the-cryptic-watch-this-video-simon-anthony)
Sponsors
MongoDB
Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits.
Build a Newsletter Website With the MongoDB Data Platform (https://developer.mongodb.com/article/build-newsletter-website-mongodb-data-platform)
Conferences
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
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)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
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.
Recommendations
Brandon: ZeroZeroZero (https://www.amazon.com/ZeroZeroZero/dp/B084GJTDYV) on Amazon Prime.
Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/).
Coté: RØDE Wireless Go (https://wirelessgo.rode.com/).
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Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.

Mood board:

“The triumphant return to the home office. “
Net Ninety.
Software Stockholm Syndrome.
Office Mail 360 Whatever.
I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy.
I never read those emails.
I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter.
Neck-deep in archaic 2FA.
Aggressively defensive.
Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision.
MoMs are important.
Cloud Candyland.
I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal.
Feed the baby.
New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you.

The Rundown

Microsoft Build

Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2

New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON
Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access
Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls
Linux GUI Apps on Windows

Remote Work

Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij
Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020

Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python
GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom
50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps
Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD

Relevant to your interests

What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners
How TechCrunch is like the Iliad
IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps
Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection
What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix
Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech
ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple
Collaboration Tools
A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back
Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to

Nonsense

This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch

Sponsors

MongoDB

Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits.

Build a Newsletter Website With the MongoDB Data Platform

Conferences

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

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.

Recommendations

Brandon: ZeroZeroZero on Amazon Prime.
Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi.
Coté: RØDE Wireless Go.

Sponsored By:

MongoDB: Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits! Promo Code: ATLASSDT