Episode 282: The Engine Should Not Be the Differentiator

This week we discuss Elasticsearch changing their license and the merits of Bitcoin. Plus, what is the prefect age for reincarnation. Rundown Elasticsearch and SSPL The SSPL is Not an Open Source License Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all Truly Doubling Down on Open Source | Logz.io Bitcoin and Blockchain Is blockchain coming to your bank? 85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins Relevant to your interests Intel lured new CEO Pat Gelsinger with a package valued at $116 million New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects Cloud Native Predictions for 2021 and Beyond How China Took Western Tech Firms Hostage The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz AWS is creating a 'new open source design system' with React Malwarebytes said it was hacked by the same group who breached SolarWinds The SolarWinds and US government breach is not a marketing opportunity Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook Software effort estimation is mostly fake research What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting Apple Plans Podcasting Subscription Service in Threat to Spotify We all love Atlassian ... the $60B SaaS leader that came out of Australia GitLab CEO weighing options for going public after employee share sale valued company at $6 billion Apple AirPods did ~$18 billion in revenue in 2020. Man who called Cloud a Bookstore hasn’t learned any lessons. BlackBerry (TSX:BB) Stock Soars 14% After Huge Win Over Facebook - The Motley Fool Canada Wasmer - The Universal WebAssembly Runtime CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers Nonsense President Biden’s Peloton exercise equipment under scrutiny Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback JustWatch - The Streaming Guide recommend from Colin Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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 and LinkedIn. 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 Matt: MF DOOM X Tasuro Yamashita rabbithole The Day the Mixtape Died: DJ Drama Brandon: The Dark Forest Coté: Baudolino. Nutella Videos Photo Credit