Episode 392: Success is going to Day 2

This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 392 Runner-up Titles We’re always recording, Coté, we’re not always streaming. I live the middle. Best 10 microphones to put in a drawer and never use. The lanyard is a child-management platform “That’s great, Brandon…” Finally DNS does something good Amazon is a dog now But then what? N equals me Rundown Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals Amazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four Executives Amazon's heroic phase is over A Faster Horse Layoffs, buyouts, and rescinded offers: Amazon’s status as a top tech employer Report: HPE has expressed interest in acquiring Nutanix Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami Talks Broadcom, VMware, And His Vision Relevant to your Interests What if failure is the plan? Tensions Grew at Salesforce Between Co-CEOs Benioff and Taylor Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days. A good discussion on ChatGPT from Benedict Evans OpenAI ChatGPT is now an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner! Airtable, last valued at $11 billion for its no-code software, lays off over 250 Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer | The GitHub Blog As Carvana crashes hard, used car dealers — not buyers — stand to win big Amazon Wants to Kill the Barcode RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable An Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures Broadcom braced for full EU probe into $61B VMware buyout AWS Events Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M The death of Rackspace's ‘Fanatical Support’ News aggregator Flipboard to add user-generated "conversations" Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B Japan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to China LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership Oracle beats on top and bottom lines How Slack’s Marriage to Salesforce Crumbled Nonsense Dr Pepper Unveils Limited-Edition Bourbon Flavored Fansville Reserve Hertz Car-Rental Company to Pay $168 Million over False Arrests Conferences THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th Use code SDT for 5% off State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023 CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023 DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023 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 Brandon: Wednesday **on Netflix AirPods case with AirTag Holder Matt: RIP Mike Leach Swing your Sword via Brandon Coté: Fishman’s Friend, which I should have some of in this episode. Substack. Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Movie. Photo Credits Header CoverArt