Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM. Relevant to your interests Unikernels are unfit for production Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways) Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system Slack, Teams and Conferencing Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield DHH is not happy with Zoom Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment Zoom responds with a Blog Post Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities Zoom isn’t Malware. IBM New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business My first day as CEO - our journey together RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier CircleCI CircleCI Raises $100M Series E CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment Apple Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity The Next Chapter of Meetup SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business HashiCorp Joins the CNCF Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014 Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset Non Sense Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights... 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email. My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release Trump order encourages US to mine the moon CNCF Puzzle Sponsors MongoDB Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits. Attend MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live Mykel Alvis is speaking at All Day DevOps Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. 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. Recommendations Brandon: Ozark and Tiger King Matt Ray: The Memory Palace Music to Wash Hands By Disunited Nations Photo by Ciel Cheng on Unsplash Photo by James Besser on Unsplash