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This week, we discuss the relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering, Gartner’s take on Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, and Nvidia’s search for new use cases. Plus, a listener chimes in to clear up some Podman misconceptions.

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Runner-up Titles

• Prove me wrong AWS, prove me wrong
• Please turn off the lights
• Who’s googling for “shift left”?
• I realized what they were talking about, it’s computers
• They’re talking but you’re not listening
• Piling on the dead horse
• We gave this guy $5 billion dollars, check him out
• Podman is Pepsi
• Nobody’s paying for that
• Niche Player

Rundown

• Platform Engineering Is The New DevOps
  • SRE Books
• Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
  • AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
• Nvidia
  • AI Easts the World — Benedict Evans
  • Nvidia revenue almost doubles on the year even as growth slows from previous quarter
  • Nvidia’s Huang Spreads the Gospel of AI in Search of More Customers
  • Amazon Updates Homegrown Chips, Even as It Grows Nvidia Ties
  • Nvidia Earnings, Strawberry and Video, The Networking Question
• Podman:
  • Podman in Action | Red Hat Developer
  • Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 164 - Podman, with Daniel Walsh and Brent Baude
  • DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling | Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more

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Listener Feedback

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