Software Defined Talk Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?
Apr 24, 2020
01:04:05
On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite.
The Rundown
Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz
- Conferencing
- Introducing Splunk Remote Work Insights: Our Solution for the New Work-from-Home Reality
- Apollo readies IPO of cloud company Rackspace
- Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years
- Zhao KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips
- AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier
- AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service
- Google Cloud CEO: Istio is going to a foundation
- Google Cloud’s fully managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS
- Over the past 20 years, IBM has bought back $140 billion of its stock. Its current market cap: $105 billion. $IBM
- Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac
Relevant to your interests
- University of Sydney using cloud to prevent the Tasmanian devil from extinction
- Facebook employees won't return to offices until at least the end of May, and is cancelling events until June 2021
- Hundreds of asylum seekers' names made public in government data breach
- Top virtual tech conferences to attend in 2020
- Who Makes the Best CPUs? Intel vs. AMD CPUs | Tom's Hardware
- Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon
- Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation
- I Took a COBOL Course and It Wasn't The Worst | Hacker Noon
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- Matt Ray: Yeti cups/mugs
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