Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?

On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite. The Rundown Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz Conferencing Verizon will buy video conferencing company BlueJeans The Zoom fatigue is real Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more Introducing Splunk Remote Work Insights: Our Solution for the New Work-from-Home Reality Apollo readies IPO of cloud company Rackspace Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years Zhao KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service Google Cloud CEO: Istio is going to a foundation Google Cloud’s fully managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS Over the past 20 years, IBM has bought back $140 billion of its stock. Its current market cap: $105 billion. $IBM Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac Relevant to your interests University of Sydney using cloud to prevent the Tasmanian devil from extinction Facebook employees won't return to offices until at least the end of May, and is cancelling events until June 2021 Hundreds of asylum seekers' names made public in government data breach Top virtual tech conferences to attend in 2020 Who Makes the Best CPUs? Intel vs. AMD CPUs | Tom's Hardware Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation I Took a COBOL Course and It Wasn't The Worst | Hacker Noon Nonsense Emacs way to listen podcasts How to watch Travis Scott’s Fortnite concerts Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Aaron in Sydney “Dude Mark in Brampton close to Toronto Ontario Canada” said we are doing a good and gave us a 4 star review because he never gives 5 Sent stickers to Dan in the UK. He has made listening to SDT as part of his routine. Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event http://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: HBO’s Westworld Matt Ray: Yeti cups/mugs Photo Credit Phote Credit