Software Defined Talk Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings
Nov 1, 2019
01:12:22
The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.
Mood board:
- Stroke City.
- QBR times four.
- Travel costs.
- We need a better word than “politics.”
- Corporate virtue signaling.
- Never ask anything.
- There’s going to be Werner Hertzog!
- There’s a difference between making a point and making money.
- Are you just fillin’ a seat?
- The fixie of IDEs.
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Relevant to your interests
- Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.”
- Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract
- Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract
- Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap
- Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”
- Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office.
- The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic
- “89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x
- DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change
- Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications
- My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be?
- Google moves to buy Fitbit
- Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others
- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
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Conferences, et. al.
- Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
- December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
- December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
- Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
- NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. †
SDT news & hype
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- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
- Brandon: eBay for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub
- Matt: Dolly Parton’s America.
- Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.
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