Episode 316: All we need is cURL

This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber…
Rundown
Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/16/users-lobby-1password-to-abandon-new-electron-version)
Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/16/cisco-beefing-up-app-monitoring-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-epsagon-for-500m/)
Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3915010,00.html)
Relevant to your interests
Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA (https://clearlake.com/clearlake-capital-completes-strategic-equity-investment-in-rsa/)
Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/13/apple-svp-craig-federighi-responds-to-confusion-over-ios-15-icloud-child-safety-policies-in-new-interview/)
Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets. (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html)
PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty (https://cryptopotato.com/polynetworks-hacker-returns-all-funds-on-ethereum-and-refuses-a-500k-bug-bounty/)
Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers (https://deadline.com/2021/08/disney-q3-beats-estimates-streaming-116-million-subscribers-1234813827/) (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html)
Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects (https://github.com/triggermesh/aktion)
Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-16/music-distributor-distrokid-raises-money-at-1-3-billion-valuation?srnd=markets-vp)
HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud)
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-investigating-claims-of-massive-data-breach/)
Funding, Buyback, and Hiring (https://ma.tt/2021/08/funding-buyback-hiring/)
Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/palantir-bought-50-million-in-gold-bars-in-august-as-cash-accumulates.html)
In No Code you delete code as you write it. (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1427707854090215429?s=20)
Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021 (https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/16/roblox-bookings-grow-35-to-665-5m-for-q2-2021/)
WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvy5/whatsapp-says-its-not-banning-the-taliban-because-it-cant-read-their-texts)
OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/18/poly_network_job/)
Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World (https://blog.postman.com/postman-announces-series-d/)
Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/would-the-math-work-if-databricks-were-valued-at-38b/)
Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/debian_11_bullseye_released/)
This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/)
Nonsense
The Most Dangerous Writing App (https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app)
Suicide Linux (https://qntm.org/suicide)
Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/austin-expected-to-become-least-affordable-metro-for-homebuyers-outside-of-california/269-6bbed38e-ce06-453e-a659-aece44c6c111)
These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-people-who-work-from-home-have-a-secret-they-have-two-jobs-11628866529)
How QR codes are made (https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1425606620265000965)
Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips (https://blog.bostondynamics.com/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backflips)
Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes (https://news.yahoo.com/every-hot-dog-eaten-shortens-142355450.html)
Progress Report: August 2021 (https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/)
PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink (https://linuxstoney.com/pine64-presents-pinenote/)
EC2 offers 400 Instance Types (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1426323051168165891?s=20)
Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6i-instances-powered-by-the-latest-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors/)
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Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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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.
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Recommendations
Brandon: The White Lotus (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/2)
Mitani Chicken Salt (https://www.mitani.com.au/)
Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave (https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/746608/sharp-r20ds.html). Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1423964819787485184).
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This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber…

Rundown

Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version
Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M
Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million

Relevant to your interests

Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA
Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview
Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets.
PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty
Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers
Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects
Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com
HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach
Funding, Buyback, and Hiring
Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
In No Code you delete code as you write it.
Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021
WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts
OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief
Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World
Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B?
Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye
This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS

Nonsense

The Most Dangerous Writing App
Suicide Linux
Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California
These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs
How QR codes are made
Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips
Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes
Progress Report: August 2021
PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink
EC2 offers 400 Instance Types
Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt
Clubhouse.io — is project management built specifically for software teams. Sign up to day at www.clubhouse.io/sdt

Conferences

SpringOne, Sep 1-2
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 - see Coté’s promo video.
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022

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, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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: The White Lotus on HBO
Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart

Mitani Chicken Salt

Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave. Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves.

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