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This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office. Rundown Did we market Knative wrong? Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake. Relevant to your interests Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now State of Digital Operations Nonsense Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville 24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks. Conferences Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Listen to my appearance on The Cloudcast Framing Britney Spears on Hulu Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Matt: We Are the Champions ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers Coté: La La IJs. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter. Rundown SFDC Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first Salesforce Targets ServiceNow: Slack Delivers “Human Workflow” Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future Relevant to your interests AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Proton Amazon rethinks full-time return to office as competitors tout remote flexibility Write for DOnations Side-by-side comparisons between GCP, AWS, and Azure Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative For Sight Impaired Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater Google Workspace for everyone Google’s unified Gmail interface (and Google Chat) launches for everyone Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely RISC-V and Intel? Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud Future - Understand the Future, How Tech Shapes It, and How We Build It Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more Oracle revenue growth accelerates as pandemic recedes Slack goes Clubhouse Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market Has Serverless Jumped the Shark? A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners” Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom Neo4j raises $325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise The public cloud could evolve like streaming services Nonsense 10 fully remote engineering jobs? iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb Peak binge: Consumers are now gravitating towards shows that are released weekly Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback IBM Cloud Podcast hosted by Dan Bettinger Conferences Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Innovation Talk by Cote on June 21st RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Children of Time Matt: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate Coté: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, in Netflix. Also: Wooster and Jeeves books narrated by Jonathan Cecil - included in Audible membership! Cover Art Credit Header Art CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school. Rundown Confluent IPO Everything you need to know about the Confluent IPO Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data Confluent S1 Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements Relevant to your interests Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps Passport Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023 The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour) Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote The Oncoming Ransomware Storm Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang Nonsense MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says The Great Wings Rush AMC is the new meme stock posterchild. Introducing the United supersonic fleet. Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Noe wans you to work as Senior Systems Engineer at Riot Games based in L.A. Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing. Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: NYT Games Subscription Matt: Secrets of the Whales documentary Magnetic USB charging cables (recommended by Mykel Alvis) Coté: The Hidden Palace. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

Coté talks with John about the subject of his new podcast series: Deming. Find his podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1758599Special Guest: John Willis.

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh, the cost of Public Cloud and more M&A. Plus, Coté published a new book that everyone must read. Rundown Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh Interview with Sebastien Goasguen Cofounder of TriggerMesh Coté’s new book is out: Changing Mindsets. Johnny Leadgen’s can get it for free. The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity Cloud is great. But we show it hurts share price of public M&A KKR and CD&R Close to $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Out Cloudera Sumo Logic buys Sensu Prosus buys StackOverflow for $1.8 Billion Relevant to your interests Docker introduces developer environments in containers A handy new Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure product map Apple says Malware is a problem on Macs. So how bad is it? DevRel Collective Wordpress powers 40% of Websites Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs are Coming to the Data Center H1B Visa Salary Database 2021 - By Employer, Job, or City Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado Twitter to launch local weather news service Life at Google vs. Life at Amazon: From Hiring to Firing (and Everything in Between) You'll Have to Wait Until June for Apple's Paid Podcast Subscription Service Zoom reports blowout earnings but warns of a coming slowdown Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors The State of Kubernetes 2021 Hackers hit JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, in ransomware attack Nonsense Formatting show and episode notes Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 Knative Eventing Training - June 30 SpringOne Tour, EMEA - June 15th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Mare of Easttown Finale Matt: macOS Automator & AppleScript. Coté: Stir fry sauce with black vinegar. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Jobs Work with Coté 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 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Last Breath | Netflix Coté: American Gods, season 3 laylacodesit’s Twitch Channel The Leprechauns of Software Engineering Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

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 strongDM Free Trial What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Contact Justin Email: justin@strongdm.com LinkedIn: justinmccarthy Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021. SpringOne, Sep 1st to 2nd. June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: ServerlessChats Matt: Apple M1 Macbook Air Coté: OBS Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

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 Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Michael wants to work as a Senior DevOps Engineer in EMEA Dell Jobs Data Governance Lead, Senior Manager Software Engineering, Business Process Management Doug wants you to work at Ethos Life lots of jobs after recent funding 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 Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.

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 Relevant to your interests 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 Sponsors ConfigCat — Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan. CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Ryan wants you to work at Datadog as Technical Writer Jordy says there lots of jobs at Weaveworks Jeffrey want you to become the SRE - World of Warcraft 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 Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Mare of Eastown Listen my interview with Grant from Replicated Matt: Long Service Leave Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt. ConfigCat: Release features faster with less risk with ConfigCat. Start today by visiting ConfigCat.com and signing for their forever free plan.strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.