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Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Latest episodes

May 28, 2021 • 58min
Episode 302: Amsterdam hates cars
This week we try to make sense of Snowflake’s stance on open source and review the State of Serverless. Plus, some advice on parking cars in Amsterdam.
Rundown
Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake
Matt Asay’s Take on Snowflake
Data Warehouse Wars: Snowflake Vs. Google BigQuery
The State of Serverless
Relevant to your interests
Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus
SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern
U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
Coinbase suffers outages as cryptos plummet in massive sell-off
Snapchat's partner summit this year was done entirely in augmented reality
Snap says it now has 500 million monthly active users
Snap buys WaveOptics, a company that makes parts for augmented reality glasses, in $500 million deal
Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix
Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it’ll take a 20 percent cut of sales
Oracle insiders say there is a ‘culture of fear’ under the leadership of its key cloud unit
It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux
The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught
Netflix Reportedly Wants To Get Into The Video Games Industry
Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing
Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds
Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders
Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro
Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News
Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3
Green Software Foundation
The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS - Last Week in AWS
Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: CISOs React
Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple
Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine
Nonsense
The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has an unusual approach to his finance
Twitch launches a dedicated "hot tubs" category after advertiser pushback
Nonstop flights to Amsterdam back on Austin's horizon
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA
THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14
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May 25, 2021 • 46min
Episode 301: Justin McCarthy on Zero Trust and securing hybrid clouds
Brandon interviews Justin McCarthy the CTO and Co-founder of strongDM and they discuss Zero Trust, securing hybrid clouds and keeping auditors happy. Plus, a few tips on gardening during a pandemic.
Links
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May 21, 2021 • 55min
Episode 300: No more architecture talk
This week we discuss cloud migration strategies, the rise of Serverless and the future of PaaS. Plus, advice on how to start your day.
Rundown
AWS introduces new Application Migration Service
AWS App Runner – Fully managed container application service
Develop production-scale modern web apps quickly with Azure Static Web Apps
Relevant to your interests
Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says
Lightstep is joining ServiceNow
Pentagon Weighs Ending JEDI Cloud Project Amid Amazon Court Fight
Crypto Markets Are Where the Fun Is
You can now buy NFTs on eBay, and ‘blockchain-driven collectibles’ are coming soon
TikTok is launching a job hiring service to help find gigs for Gen Z
VMware CEO Raghuram On ‘Vigorously’ Competing With Nutanix
Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire
A Conversation With a Dogecoin Millionaire
Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network Exploited via Bluetooth
Jeff Blackburn Returns To Amazon To Oversee Combined Media & Entertainment
Goldman Sachs Executive Quits After Making Fortune on Dogecoin: Report | The Daily Hodl
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021
Antonio García Martínez’s controversial exit from Apple — Recode Media
Google Cloud CEO predicts boom in business-process-as-a-service
GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features
1 big thing: The new digital extortion
Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown
Apple robbed the mob's bank | Mobile Dev Memo
Apple Music subscribers will get lossless and spatial audio for free next month
Top 15 Kubernetes Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021
Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine
Apple’s M1 is a fast CPU—but M1 Macs feel even faster due to QoS
First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives,
PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator
Google Workspace turns to "smart chips" to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together
Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform – TechCrunch
Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network
Service Mesh Wars, Goodbye Istio
Google revives RSS
Google Wants to Make Everyone Use Two Factor Authentication
Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs
Media Statement Updated May 8, 2021: Colonial Pipeline System Disruption
Snyk Acquires FossID to Accelerate Worldwide Developer-First Security Adoption
We raised $100M in our Series F: here’s what we’re building next (Circle CI)
Amazon Said to Make $9 Billion Offer for MGM
What to Know Ahead of the Squarespace's Direct Listing
WarnerMedia and Discovery combine to create a $150B streaming giant
Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex
A Big Day for Business Texting: Twilio Acquires Zipwhip for $850 Million
SoftBank Reports Highest-Ever Annual Profit for a Japanese Company
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek and Launches Next Generation of Deploy Previews to Streamline Collaboration for Web Teams
Nonsense
Video shows man making slow escape in ride-on mower 'test drive'
Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks
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SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA.
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May 14, 2021 • 1h 20min
Episode 299: Working Backwards
This week we take a deep look inside life at Amazon by discussing the book Working Backwards written by two former Amazon Executives.
Rundown
Working Backwards
Amazon Leadership Principles
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
AWS Compensation Explained
The Everything Store
Nonsense
17 Remarkable Facts About Outdoor Amsterdam Urinals
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Conferences
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SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt’s talk is in the can
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
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May 7, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 298: Come on Gophers
This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.
Rundown
Red Hat
Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo
RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
AWS
Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion
AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out
The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
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Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech.
DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information
How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel
Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect
About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting.
How Basecamp blew up
Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
The ransomware surge ruining lives
Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned.
AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks
Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online
Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow
Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World
In huge demand right now: Warehouses
Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions
Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation
Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac
Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14
Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them.
Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire
New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet
How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer
Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty
ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report
Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio
Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation
Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion
"Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.” (@AdamMGrant)
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Nonsense
'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme
Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds.
Meet Einstein
Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt’s talk is in the can
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
SDT news & hype
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Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Mare of Eastown
Listen my interview with Grant from Replicated
Matt:
Long Service Leave
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May 4, 2021 • 47min
Episode 297: Grant Miller from Replicated on delivering and managing Kubernetes apps anywhere
Brandon interviews Grant Miller the CEO of Replicated. They discuss Grant's background, building enterprise software and how to deliver Kubernetes apps anywhere. Plus, Grant tell us what it's really like to be an intern at an investment bank.
Show Links
The Submarine by Paul Graham
EnterpriseReady.io
EnterpriseReady Podcast
kURL
Kots
Contact Grant
Twitter: @GrantM
LinkedIn: grantlmiller
Replicated Demo
Special Guest: Grant Miller.

Apr 30, 2021 • 59min
Episode 296: Fungated into my mind
This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.
Rundown
Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
M&A
Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes
Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud
Microsoft
Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales
Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018
Kubernetes Usability SIG
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
Earnings
Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34%
Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor
The Commodification of DevOps
7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map
Atlassian’s Open DevOps
Crypto miners are killing free CI
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Is Octopus Deploy Australia’s next unicorn?
Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years
Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt
SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast
Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts
What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS
Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch
How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data
Changes at Basecamp
Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours
IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)
HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party
The Slander Industry
What really happened at Basecamp
Changes at Basecamp
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
Nonsense
YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993
Google Timelapse
World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction
"Microsoft Excel Influencer”
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash
Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk
SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd.
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Matt: Leeroy Jenkins
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Apr 23, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 295: Status Quo Fork
This week we discuss Grafana moving to the AGPL, Signal goes on offense and Grad Students infecting the Linux Kernel. Plus, how many door locks do you need?
Rundown
AGPL
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
Chris Aniszczyk’s take
Another Thread Twitter Thread
Hacking
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
A Twitter Thread on Signal and Celebrate
Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on
University of Minnesota hacks the Linux Kernel?
Discord took our advice
Discord Ends Deal Talks With Microsoft
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Oracle plans $1.2 billion campus in Nashville, creating 8,500 jobs
IBM acquires Italy’s myInvenio to integrate process mining directly into its suite of automation tools
New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband
Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it? – TechCrunch
Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA Corporation: public interest intervention
Dollars flow to live audio as moderation problems loom
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off on historic 1st powered flight on another world
IBM beats across the board, posts revenue growth after four quarters of declines
Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Mac getting complete overhaul with native UI and more
The ascent of Lina Khan, tech antitrust icon
Apple Podcasts launches in-app subscriptions
Emerging storage-based cryptocurrency Chia could jack up SSD/HDD prices in the future
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
IBM and IPwe want to issue patents as NFTs and make them easier to monetize
Security Incident Disclosure
Netflix earnings are out – here are the numbers
Netflix stock craters after subscriber miss — is now a great time to buy?
Microsoft Edge, Safari, Firefox have no plans for FLoC yet
Why Brave Disables FLoC
Nonsense
RIP, Apple TV remote: There’s finally a replacement and it’s only $15 at Amazon
LMAO
Amazon signs with ULA for rockets to launch Jeff Bezos' Kuiper internet satellites
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THE THREAD exceeds 4k messages
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
SLOConf - Virtual May 17-20
SDT news & hype
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Apr 16, 2021 • 1h 5min
Episode 294: I already have a job
This week we discuss IBM’s Kyndryl, AWS launches OpenSearch and what makes a good strategy. Plus, how much do you really need to know about wine?
Rundown
Kyndryl
IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' after spinoff
IBM spinoff joins a long list of questionable corporate names
Introducing OpenSearch
Relevant to your interests
Social Media Use in 2021
Next Chapter for Gitpod
Reddit is secretly exploring a Clubhouse-like voice chat feature
JetBrains 2020/21 Annual Highlights
Apple M1 hardware support merged into Linux 5.13
Apple TV Digital Signage: Low up-front cost and easy to deploy
Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results
China Fines Alibaba Record $2.8 Billion After Monopoly Probe
Microsoft accelerates industry cloud strategy for healthcare with the acquisition of Nuance
Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion
Glow – Glow joins Libsyn
Cloud transformation challenges in 9 cartoons
Epic reportedly set to lose at least $330m in efforts to compete with Steam
Sony adds $200M to its investment in Epic Games
FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory'
MicroStrategy Pivots to Bitcoin Payouts for Board of Directors
Neelan Choksi posted on LinkedIn
Senior execs Forsyth, Frasca and Lemieux leaving Shopify
Bash Uploader Security Update
Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support now available, up 30% faster VM performance than Intel
Docker Desktop for Mac Updated With Apple Silicon Support
Dell Selling Boomi Cloud iPaaS Business?
Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company
1Password acquires SecretHub and launches new enterprise secrets management tool
1Password targets developers with Secrets Automation, acquisition of SecretHub
Here’s how the FBI managed to get into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone
Nonsense
No more vests
Software Defined Baby?
The Problem with Time & Timezones
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The Real Book - 99% Invisible via Chris Winters
strongDM is hiring for Developer Relations Leader, Customer Support Engineer and a Data Engineer
Come work on Coté’s team - developer advocate role: “The Technical Advocacy team at VMware is looking for a Technical Advocate focused on Kubernetes.”
Conferences
SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd.
SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual
Coté’s webinar, April 20th at 6pm CET: a “book tour” for his upcoming Mindset book.
SDT news & hype
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Coté: Montreal Steak Seasoning
Matt: Soviet-era Lord of the Rings
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Apr 9, 2021 • 1h 4min
Episode 293: Don’t steal my kid’s bike, steal my bike
This week we discuss the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Google vs. Oracle and the future of open source business models. Plus, do you really need a yard?
Rundown
API’s for Everyone
Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case
SCOTUS Decision Oracle vs. Google
Xinuos—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM
OSS Business Models
The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud
GitHub Sponsors
Everyone uses OpenSSL, but nobody's willing to fix it — except the Linux Foundation
Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar
Tidelift | A managed open source subscription backed by creators and maintainers
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Briefing: Amazon Plans for Return to ‘Office-Centric Culture’
Theme Studio: Create VS Code Themes!
Software development is a losers game
Amazon apologizes
Gitlab acquired Peach Fuzzer Pro then open-sourced most of it
VMware Taps Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes Abstraction - SDxCentral
LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business
Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaks online
Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019
Google will stop using Oracle's finance software and adopt SAP instead
Biden allows Trump admin's H-1B visa program suspension to expire
Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value
Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz
IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services - Container Journal
IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86
Target CIO Mike McNamara makes a cloud declaration of independence
T-Mobile’s 5G home internet service has become a reality
KKR hands Box a $500M lifeline
Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud
Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.
JAB Guidance on CentOS Linux End of Life
Nonsense
Inside a viral website
Engineers Sneakily Upgrade Apple M1 Mac Mini With More Storage, RAM
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Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Formula 1: Drive to Survive.
Coté: Peanut M&M’s; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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