Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”

What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.

Mood board:

• Sounds normal for now.
• It was kinda cool, kinda sad.
• Covered in yoke.
• We just had to speed test it out.
• Katamari Damacy M&A.
• I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!
• The ProductTK.
• 7G.
• What’s the plural of Kubernetes?
• Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that?
• Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.
• Return the Jewels.

The Rundown

• Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software
• Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions
• DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes

Relevant to your interests

• What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates
• Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge
• GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware
• Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence
• Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager
• Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher
• Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence
• Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral
• Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies
• Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground
• Police scanner apps get record downloads
• Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use
• Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs
• Where GREP Came From - Computerphile
• Software Engineering Within SpaceX

Nonsense

• Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives
• the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute

Listener Feedback

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• Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too.

Conferences

• MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey
• Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts.
• Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4.
• Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks.

Header photo from Andrew, probably.