Tech Challenges and Innovations

This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.

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Runner-up Titles

• I’m out of nuts, time to podcast
• System Settings
• Security, it never ends
• Fancy Sysadmins
• Providing needles for your balloons
• Batman’s not real
• What’s the opposite of a taboo
• DevOps is not the tooling
• Software gets old
• Release the turbo button

Rundown

• ‎Windows App
• PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
  • Has DevOps been "worth it" to you?
  • Renaming a few DevOpsDays to PlatformDays.
  • Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs
• Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
  • How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers
  • FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
• Apple
  • Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence
  • Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia
• Intel
  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
  • Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
• Wordpress Drama
  • Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
  • Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
  • WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking
  • WP Engine responds

Relevant to your Interests

• IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims
• Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project
• Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’
• Yaak Is Now Open Source
• OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding
• Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager
• A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management
• Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea.
• Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems
• Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion
• Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
• Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership
• John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this
• The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors
• Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
• IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
• More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok
• Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses
• Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout,
• Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage
• Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion
• Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business
• Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app
• Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
• Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report

Nonsense

• Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you.

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Use Magnifier on your iPhone or iPad
• Matt: Ghosts
• Coté: The Modern Myths.

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