Upcoming Conferences, Events, and Promotions Discussion

This week, we discuss whether or not Kubernetes is boring, Winglang’s attempt to simply cloud deployments and Linkerd status as a graduated CNCF project. Plus, a few thoughts on frogs…

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Runner-up Titles

• Blame the seagulls
• Speaking of lizards in our houses
• Burying people under B-trees
• Compiler for the Cloud
• I’m tired of speaking French
• We need a big pie
• If we stop shooting each other we can sit down and eat some pie.
• The Jacob Principle
• Has there every been a config file format love affair?

Rundown

• Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong
• Wing Programming Language for the Cloud
• #1262 Health of Linkerd project
  • Craig Box X Thread
  • Adam Jacob’s X Thread
• Five Cloud News Trends for February

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Nonsense

• When a funeral is clickbait

Conferences

• SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th–17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
• KubeCon EU Paris, March 19–22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
• Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024.
  • If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.
• Tanzu (Re)defined, April 11th, Palo Alto.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Dune Part 2
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• Coté: Bruce Sterlings new-ish blog, especially the color scheme.

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