Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups Rundown Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet The PE Yo-Yo Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks How big could the cloud get? Part 1 Relevant to your Interests Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don’t Get Are Microsoft’s days as the ‘friendly’ tech giant over? – POLITICO The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs How do you know when a business leads with technology? CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey Nonsense USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report The Origins of the Dutch Angle Sponsors Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022 Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th. DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022. 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 on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn 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 Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations To Scale Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it? Photo Credits Banner Header CoverArt