Episode 423: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?

This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aW-9Zv1maQ) 423 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aW-9Zv1maQ)
Runner-up Titles
Capitalizing on Competitors
Bring the Go Bag
There are no backpacks in Gucci ads
No bad vibes
Rundown
Threads
Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/technology/threads-app-meta-twitter-killer.html)
Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-metas-twitter-rival-arrives-with-adam-mosseri.html)
Facebook's Threads is so depressing (https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing)
Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion (https://staysaasy.com/product/2023/07/07/twitter-threads-social-implosion.html)
Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/10/instagrams-threads-app-reaches-100-million-users-in-just-five-days/)
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/how-threads-privacy-policy-compares-to-twitters-and-its-rivals/)
Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps (https://www.axios.com/2023/07/06/metas-copycat-machine-threads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Linux
Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/07/red_hat_open_source/)
Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/)
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment (https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/)
History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes. (https://ciq.com/blog/history-never-repeats-but-sometimes-it-rhymes/)
Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/oracle_ibm_rhel_code/?td=rt-3a)
Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9 (https://engineering.salesforce.com/automation-at-scale-migrating-200000-machines-from-centos-7-to-rhel-9/)
Shifting
"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)" (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/shift-left-and-leave-versus-shift?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=134452721&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/richard-seroter-on-shifting-down-vs-shifting-left)
Matt’s packing list (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTSZKJ9FQsW70spJtSHwN7TkuFqQdEux/view?usp=share_link)
Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/12/gmail-brings-in-calendly-style-availability-sharing-from-google-calendar/)
Relevant to your Interests
DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/digitalocean-acquires-cloud-computing-startup-paperspace-for-111m-in-cash/)
Snowflake vs. Databricks (https://open.substack.com/pub/aspiringforintelligence/p/snowflake-vs-databricks?r=2l9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030 (https://changelog.com/posts/webassembly-runtimes-will-replace-container-runtimes-by-2030)
Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/1678128857763950593?s=46&t=-2GRjYw3L96Jh3hL9tDPcg)
Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022 (https://siliconangle.com/2023/06/29/court-filing-shows-microsoft-azure-generated-lower-expected-34b-revenue-2022/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision (https://twitter.com/marklucovsky/status/1678465552988381185)
87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation (https://gamehistory.org/87percent/)
IBM watsonx (https://www.ibm.com/watsonx)
ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch (https://www.reuters.com/technology/booming-traffic-openais-chatgpt-posts-first-ever-monthly-dip-june-similarweb-2023-07-05/)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project (https://twitter.com/CloudNativeFdn/status/1679143862256951297?s=20)
Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/google-cloud-shakeup-urs-holzle-to-step-down-from-executive-management.html)
Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware (https://apps-cloudmgmt.techzone.vmware.com/blog/being-acquired-smallish-start-vmware)
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-07-11-gartner-says-worldwide--pc-shipments-declined-16-percent-in-second-quarter-of-2023)
Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-cloud-server-business-in-2022-was-less-than-half-of-aws-new-document-reveals)
Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/10/microsoft-confirms-more-job-cuts-on-top-of-10000-layoffs-in-january.html)
Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. (https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1679130177819881475?s=20)
Nonsense
If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan? (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/if-you-dont-buy-jony-ives-60000-turntable-are-you-really-a-music-fan/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJAa2W94DiGgNgW_6JYJlL5YfxUkrkPKqhok-JRQ7R9oVhR7RfppOcMzOmGT0a9ZAz5-Azv2dqgLtpchPjtcXX3gaH4jAqpgDPgaiAqQDjl2tqZwK5VnxICubA-JYISytIETZIZAiYbkVvkABjxuyQirthfmyE46rL3XWXEk94rv)
Conferences
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Hijack (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/hijack/umc.cmc.1dg08zn0g3zx52hs8npoj5qe3)
Matt: Murderbot Diaries (https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diaries)
Coté: Fantastical (https://flexibits.com/fantastical), read-out of second HEY try.
Photo Credits
Header (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Is-the-enemy-of-my-enemy-my-friend--B78kG9125I6L26iQ7ANBrxDaAg-AymUiXqVRaytqe3gqMPDv)
Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/MlTLNTDx8VvoCaCEiMc16oDi/oFNRSDbXIEng8pevJZCfCYnE)

This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 423

Runner-up Titles

Capitalizing on Competitors
Bring the Go Bag
There are no backpacks in Gucci ads
No bad vibes

Rundown

Threads

Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived
Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri
Facebook's Threads is so depressing
Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion
Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps

Linux

Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked
Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment
History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes.
Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall
Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9

Shifting

"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)"
Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left

Matt’s packing list
Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar

Relevant to your Interests

DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash
Snowflake vs. Databricks
WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030
Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter
Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022
Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision
87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation
IBM watsonx
ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project
Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup
Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023
Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals
Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January
Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year.

Nonsense

If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan?

Conferences

August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.

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: Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads 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: Hijack
Matt: Murderbot Diaries
Coté: Fantastical, read-out of second HEY try.

Photo Credits

Header
Artwork