Episode 296: Fungated into my mind

This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.
Rundown
Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/26/zoom-launches-immersive-view-to-unify-participants-in-the-same-virtual-room/)
M&A
Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/04/29/2219796/0/en/Rackspace-Technology-Announces-Strategic-Investment-in-Platform9-and-Launches-Rackspace-Managed-Platform-for-Kubernetes.html)
Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk (https://kinvolk.io/blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/)
IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud (https://blog.turbonomic.com/ibm-acquires-turbonomic-to-power-the-future-of-ai-driven-hybrid-cloud?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=124211037&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8bgvAwh22J1XyhQ904BZseJT0hDZ64fB5OvSvr9lVdQLRHZY0gS8_3E8JGPecL4b7I4lxO2rrnQU4ntmTsPzDG6j0dnQ&utm_content=124211037&utm_source=hs_email)
Microsoft
Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-q3-earnings-2021-164756837.html)
Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/microsoft-msft-earnings-q3-2021.html)
Kubernetes Usability SIG (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-usability)
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/28/aws_jedi_ruling/)
Earnings
Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34% (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/alphabet-goog-earnings-q1-2021.html)
Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor (https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/04/28/apple-is-on-fire/)
The Commodification of DevOps (https://aparker.io/posts/the-commodification-of-devops/)
7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map (https://medium.com/tech-sojourna/7-things-wrong-with-deloittes-agile-tube-map-641192e20068)
Atlassian’s Open DevOps (https://sdtimes.com/devops/atlassian-reveals-open-devops-vision/)
Crypto miners are killing free CI (https://layerci.com/blog/crypto-miners-are-killing-free-ci/)
Relevant to your interests
Is Octopus Deploy Australia’s next unicorn? (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2021/is-octopus-deploy-australia-s-next-unicorn-.html)
Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln (https://www.reuters.com/business/panasonic-says-it-will-buy-us-supply-chain-software-firm-blue-yonder-2021-04-23/)
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357)
Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years (https://www.axios.com/apple-5g-infrastructure-north-carolina-east-coast-b7b3e756-12f5-4b96-ad46-f7ee0defddb3.html)
Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/thoma-bravo-buys-cybersecurity-vendor-proofpoin-for-12-3b-in-cash/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-suse-ipo/open-source-software-company-suse-to-float-in-frankfurt-idUSKBN2CD0ND)
SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/siriusxm-acquires-roman-mars-99-invisible-podcast-301276779.html)
Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts (https://www.axios.com/spotify-subscription-podcast-platform-408aa2c6-5a4b-46ce-bbda-851b829f5500.html)
What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/what-is-amazon-athena-an-introduction-and-walkthrough/)
Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/snap-has-acquired-pixel8earth-a-3d-mapping-developer-for-7-6m/)
How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data (https://www.vox.com/recode/22325420/t-mobile-verizon-att-ad-targeting-data)
Changes at Basecamp (https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5)
Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22405300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-worldwide-issues)
IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4421480-ibm-stock-things-are-changing)
HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure (https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-12-codecov-security-event-and-hashicorp-gpg-key-exposure/23512)
Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party (https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-quarterly-revenue-beats-expectations-2021-04-28/)
The Slander Industry (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html)
What really happened at Basecamp (https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp)
Changes at Basecamp (https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5)
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-Disasters/dp/1590597214)
Nonsense
YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993 (https://youtu.be/rjQV0U56FVk)
Google Timelapse (https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/)
World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction (https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/04/25/skinnker-auctioneers-worlds-oldest-whiskey/)
"Microsoft Excel Influencer” (https://twitter.com/adamnash/status/1387236381684944896?s=21)
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/nypd-robot-dog-backlash.html?referringSource=articleShare)
Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/04/28/beyond-calibri-finding-microsofts-next-default-font/)
Sponsors
CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt)
strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT)
ConfigCat — Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com (https://configcat.com) and signing for their forever free plan.
Listener Feedback
Samanyu wants you to work InfraCloud. They are hiring Solutions Architects (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2520288425/) and SREs (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2516404219/).
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual (https://email.linuxfoundation.org/e2t/tc/VWml6b55qjqKW2hPD2x5vv5K7W3hB9jJ4qq-fZN5XFYmZ3lGnpV1-WJV7CgLSHW6c6fTc2FfQyxN7g0lPHGRD_6W3jzTZk1pFVwyW2TqJ-y2KjpL1W666rY84ZWYv2W4yllM695TrCZW8bhGxR4f4mq3W39LtnJ6TjCqYVy1jDF2TkR7VW1K9Y5275t_kyN8TQXfWZ3KgfW44qYYk2CCPz7W1GXGWw3BBkG9W2p-LYF6r2s4tW8t1_l_4clKzSW8dhgc05lDwm2W51kqWx8rcLr-W33XLWC2RDQ4MW7szTYq448CMJW8dmjp05HCYvrW1h0y7242lcY1W2K08W81bljrbW3w35h-19DyxzW22rbKg2qW5KrW201w0v1Wzm9vW8Z5fgl57cm6p329f1)
SLOConf - (https://www.sloconf.com/) Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk (https://twitter.com/SLOconf/status/1386643722616676354)
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
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 Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
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.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3) (https://www.amazon.com/Deaths-End-Remembrance-Earths-Past/dp/0765377101)
Matt: Leeroy Jenkins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4)
Coté: MonitorControl (https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl/releases/tag/v2.1.0). You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAO_81kIug).
Image Credit (https://aparker.io/posts/the-commodification-of-devops/)
Image Credit (https://blog.zoom.us/introducing-zoom-immersive-view/)

This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.

Rundown

Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
M&A

Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft

Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales
Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018
Kubernetes Usability SIG
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision

Earnings

Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor

The Commodification of DevOps

7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map
Atlassian’s Open DevOps

Crypto miners are killing free CI

Relevant to your interests

Is Octopus Deploy Australia’s next unicorn?
Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years
Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt
SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast
Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts
What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS
Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch
How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data
Changes at Basecamp
Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours
IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)
HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party
The Slander Industry
What really happened at Basecamp
Changes at Basecamp
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

Nonsense

YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993
Google Timelapse
World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction
"Microsoft Excel Influencer”
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash
Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font

Sponsors

CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt
strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT
ConfigCat — Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan.

Listener Feedback

Samanyu wants you to work InfraCloud. They are hiring Solutions Architects and SREs.

Conferences

RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.

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

Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)
Matt: Leeroy Jenkins
Coté: MonitorControl. You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid.

Image Credit

Image Credit

Sponsored By: