Episode 323: Boxes and Arrows

This week we discuss AWS Step Functions, VMware Tanzu Community Edition and Zoom’s M&A Strategy. Plus, some thoughts on car batteries… Rundown AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition Tanzu Community Edition Zoom M&A And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off – TechCrunch Zoom loses Five9 - leaves the cloud contact center business open to innovative alternatives Telegram added 70M new users amid six-hour WhatsApp outage Relevant to your interests Announcing Trusted Cloud Principles Australian Bureau of Statistics runs 2021 Census on the AWS Cloud "A New Strategy, R2" Cloudflare’s Disruption PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools Microsoft announces Office 2021 features and pricing Paperlike, the Screen Protector for iPad: write and draw like on paper Microsoft sets Oct. 5 as Windows 11 launch date COVID Breathalyzers Could Transform Rapid Testing AWS Mistakes The Verica Open Incident Database Developer-focused infrastructure security platform Mondoo raises $15M 1 big thing: Enterprise software's reawakening FB Outage Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet Tools to explore BGP Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR Security The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked | VGC DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked Nonsense There are six internet links on my office on wheels. Seven when Starlink arrives. Australia accelerates its plans to allow international travel. As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again. April Fools' copy-paste button for lazy programmers now actually for sale Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt Conferences KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 MongoDB.local London 2021 - November 9, 2021 THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 Listener Feedback James wants you to wort at GoCardless in London as a IT Engineering Manager, IT Support Manager or Business Systems Engineer - HR Systems 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, LinkedIn and YouTube. 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! TriggerMesh is hiring! Recommendations Brandon: Bayco LBC-400 Recessed Light Bulb Changer Drones changing bulbs Matt: Lee “Scratch” Perry A Live Injection: Anthology 1968-1979 Cloud Native AF: Farmers Don't Care About Kubernetes with Mike Dvorkin Photo Credit Photo Credit