Episode 286: Press the turbo button on that one

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.
Rundown
Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-can-t-have-its-900-million-back)
Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115) (https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/brian-armstrong/)
Operating Systems
CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome (https://jaymzh.medium.com/centos-stream-why-its-awesome-5c45d944fb22)
The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-worlds-second-most-popular-desktop-operating-system-isnt-macos-anymore/)
Relevant to your interests
‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ford-google-connected-cars-cloud)
Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/miami-mayor-pushes-crypto-with-offer-to-pay-workers-in-bitcoin)
Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/12/notion-outage-dns-domain-issues/)
Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams (https://penpot.app/)
Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software (https://www.taiga.io/)
Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-meets-apple-in-clash-of-the-tech-titanswe-need-to-inflict-pain-11613192406)
CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/13/22281698/ceo-reddit-robinhood-roaring-kitty-testify-gamestop-hearing-congress-stocks)
Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users (https://medium.com/apache-pinot-developer-blog/analyzing-wikipedia-in-real-time-with-apache-kafka-and-pinot-4b4e5e36936b)
Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database” (http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/microsoft-excel-is-the-worlds-most-used-database/)
Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/02/16/code-with-me-beta-support-for-audio-and-video-calls/)
The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy (https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1361789872432771073?s=20)
The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/the-mars-relay-network-connects-us-to-nasas-martian-explorers)
Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/elon-musks-spacex-raised-850-million-at-419point99-a-share.html)
This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/technology/corey-quinn-amazon-aws.html?referringSource=articleShare)
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook (https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Security
Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/logging-startups-are-suddenly-hot-as-crowdstrike-nabs-humio-for-400m/)
Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions (https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/12/datadog-bolsters-app-security-and-observability-data-management-with-sqreen-and-timber-acquisitions/)
The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro).
Passwords
LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd88v/lastpass-free-accounts-will-now-work-on-either-your-phone-or-computer-not-both?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology)
Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22259720/apple-icloud-passwords-chrome-browser-extension-released)
Hardware highlights…?
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/).
Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/22280262/qualcomm-microsoft-google-nvidia-arm-acquisition-investigations-concerns)
Audio is the future?
Clubhouse’s Inevitability (https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/)
The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi (https://www.axios.com/the-new-media-mogul-andreessen-horowitz-969145da-43f0-4153-8da2-0a35f2f21632.html)
Nonsense
90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T (https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/man-90-spends-10k-on-wall-street-journal-ads-to-shame-att/)
Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years' (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-austin-joe-rogan-biggest-boom-town-50-years-2021-2)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (https://bookinglive.zohorecruit.com/recruit/PortalDetail.na?digest=iHU1EAOPeO@465g4gK.nYDgjwjkyaz8ZkMQbQdbLaAs-&iframe=true&jobid=297951000002327006&widgetid=297951000000072311&embedsource=CareerSite) (UK based)
Conferences
DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/)
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
SDT news & hype
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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.
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Recommendations
Matt: HDMI LCD controllers (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001623726553.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.5aad98bbnSzTR4).
Brandon: Fake Famous (https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/fake-famous).
Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52374.Against_Interpretation_and_Other_Essays).

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.

Rundown

Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back
Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115)
Operating Systems

CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome
The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore

Relevant to your interests

‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal
Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin
Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch
Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams
Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software
Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’
CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing
Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users
Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database”
Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls
The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy
The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers
Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously.
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook
Security

Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M
Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions
The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier.

Passwords

LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both
Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords

Hardware highlights…?

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020.
Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm

Audio is the future?

Clubhouse’s Inevitability
The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi

Nonsense

90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T
Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years'

Sponsors

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

Listener Feedback

Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based)

Conferences

DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.

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 Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Matt: HDMI LCD controllers.
Brandon: Fake Famous.
Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation.

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