Funding of Monitoring Companies and Layoffs at CUBECON

This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 440

Runner-up Titles

• Keep on keeping on
• They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects
• It was USB thing
• If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report
• The platter days
• Wait a second, I’m a pro
• Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition
• Vanity Metrics are for Vanity
• Rub some A.I. on it
• Rubbing A.I. on all of it
• Of course this is the way you’re going to do it

Rundown

• Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
• CNCF
  • October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project
  • Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments
• OpenAI
  • OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
  • All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference
  • ChatCSV
  • How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
  • OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 | TechCrunch
• CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest
  • Andrew says gets switch tester

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Nonsense

• Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
• Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami

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