

Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify
May 1, 2020
01:02:10
Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.
The Rundown
- Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ
- Ubuntu
- Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
- Zoom
- Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand
- Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft
- Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too - Last Week in AWS
- Digitial Ocean: It's all about the bandwidth
- Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It
- Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
- Fortnite
- Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security
Relevant to your interests
- Deploy Cloud Foundry to Google Kubernetes in 10 minutes
- Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use
- Cote.pizza
- Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of
- Why we can’t build
- It’s Time To Learn
- Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products’
- How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan
- AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs
- Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility
Nonsense
- What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel?
- Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter
- All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say
- Microservices Video — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile
- Old french safe
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
- Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
- Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
- ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
- MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Sony X950G
- Matt Ray: Privacy Redirect
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