Episode 357: Is platform engineer the new thing?

This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving…
Rundown
DevOpsDays Austin (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/)
Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063499/uber-ceo-slash-costs-hiring-slowdown-ride-hailing-profit)
A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/next-tech-downturn-cheat-sheet-recession)
Relevant to your Interests
Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud (https://www.ign.com/articles/square-enix-says-embracer-acquisitions-allow-it-to-invest-more-in-the-blockchain-ai-and-the-cloud)
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html)
What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/07/may-not-know-dell-snowflake-deal/)
The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world (https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-twitter-doesn-t-rule-the-social-world)
I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs (https://interconnected.org/home/2022/05/05/larping)
Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/)
Podcast Details (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/https://podcastdetails.com/)
3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets? (https://overcast.fm/+QN1pbp6qs)
Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-general-motors-collaborate-trailblaze-future-software-defined-vehicles?sc_cid=7013a000002pyDRAAY)
Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-advances-container-isolation-and-workloads-with-acquisition-of-nestybox/)
Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appian-awarded-2-036-billion-in-damages-against-pegasystems-inc-301543673.html)
4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022 (https://www.securemac.com/news/4-new-icloud-keychain-features-for-2022)
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (https://www.wired.com/story/fido-alliance-ios-android-password-replacement/)
Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1522592192472121345)
Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/googles-cloud-group-forms-web3-product-and-engineering-team.html)
Nonsense
Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/)
Sponsors
IT Brew — Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST. Register Here! (https://www.itbrew.com/events/it-brew-virtual-launch-event?utm_campaign=itb_sdtvirtualevent_051322&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=crosspromo&utm_term=2022-04-26)
Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022
Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/)
Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod
MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
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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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Photo Credits
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This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving…

Rundown

DevOpsDays Austin
Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees
A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn

Relevant to your Interests

Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show
What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal
The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world
I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs
Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work
Podcast Details
3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets?
Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles
Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker
Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc.
4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization
Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto

Nonsense

Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M

Sponsors

IT Brew — Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST. Register Here!

Conferences

THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022

Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75

cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual

Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod

MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022
Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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: Outer Range
Matt: IKEA Hektar lamp

Treasury Series I Bonds via Planet Money

Coté: EPICKA Universal Travel Adapter

Photo Credits

Banner

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Tune in to IT Brew’s virtual launch event on May 19th at 12pm EST.