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This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad? Rundown LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know. Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding HEY World experiment Relevant to your interests Clouds The Google Cloud Surge: 5 Slides from Thomas Kurian Tell the Story HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics Watson IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time IPOs and M&A Airbrake has been acquired by LogicMonitor TransferWise rebrands as Wise ahead of an expected IPO HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics Security SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate SolarWinds Hack Grabs Senate Spotlight With CEO in the Hot Seat Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things - Running with Ruby Investing The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap, Soars To Another Record High Chips Chip Shortage Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015 Salesforce is building a private CRM for the State Department Overcast overhauls its Apple Watch app As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success? Nonsense Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business New next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Cloudbees is looking for a Remote DevOps Consultant-Continuous Delivery anywhere in North America. Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. 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 Read this book we are going to discuss it: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Brandon: I Care a Lot Coté: LoseIt! The Golem and the Jinni. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse. Rundown Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115) Operating Systems CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore Relevant to your interests ‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database” Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook Security Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier. Passwords LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords Hardware highlights…? Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020. Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm Audio is the future? Clubhouse’s Inevitability The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi Nonsense 90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years' Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Andy wants you to work at BookingLive as DevOps Engineer (UK based) Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th. Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th. 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 Matt: HDMI LCD controllers. Brandon: Fake Famous. Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation. 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 Googler’s ideas for making open source more secure, obsessing over top of funnel influencer lifestyle management, and a bit of surfing. The power at Brandon’s house went out just as we were starting, so it’s mostly just Matt and Coté. Mood board: I have three screens. I have enough screen space. I don’t need my shit moved, I moved my own shit. This direct shit. Thank goodness for holidays in Singapore and Japan. I think about this every day “Work is punishment.” We’ll skip the Brandon things and get to the Cote’ things. It’s ready to be PowerPointed. Members Only Security Discussion. Hackin’ the mainframe. They love themselves the McGlauglin group. Back on the Funnel. “Work is Punishment.” Label maker go brrrr. Rundown Open source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects No unilateral changes to code. Changes would require code review and approval by two independent parties Authenticate participants. This means owners and maintainers cannot be anonymous; contributors are required to use strong authentication (eg 2FA) There need to be notifications for changes in risk to the software Enabling transparency for software artifacts Create ways to trust the build process Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack Steve(n) Sinofsky is serialising a book about h is time at Microsoft a16z pushing product - “DIRECT” The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the world's buzziest social network to talk about the future CartaX - Andreessen Horowitz Security SolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based Attack Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack Apple Patches 10-Year-Old macOS SUDO Root Privilege Escalation Bug Monitoring and Observability Announcing Change Intelligence Anchor it around what’s changed. Go Serverless! Bitcoin HODL Chart Migrate Everything to OpenBSD…? Relevant to your interests SoftBank SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together SoftBank getting their slide of the year nominee early M&A, VC and Partners Palantir surges on partnership with IBM, COO says the tie-up is its largest Reddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuation Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity Box acquires e-signature startup SignRequest for new content workflows It’s AWS not A.W.S. How Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next C.E.O., Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff Bezos Amazon to buy half of the energy produced by huge offshore wind farm in the Netherlands diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car Facebook's not the only one worried about Apple's privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it Tickets to Space They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop. Salesforce to allow permanent remote work for most employees, with big implications for S.F. Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? Greater fool theory Nonsense Texas public-safety officials accidentally sent an Amber Alert warning that the killer doll Chucky was on the loose MIT researchers devised a way to allow spinach plants to send emails Mass Over-The-Air Update Of Tesla Cars Captured On Video Naming Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse Suspend his comments and figure out why he is upside down “I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback the THREAD is now over 3k replies. Who knows where this ends? Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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 Matt: Manly Surf School Dymo Label Maker Coté: The Paris Review. Sarah Manguso. Banner image from wikipedia/JunkyardsparkleSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…? Rundown Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings Email from Jeff Bezos to employees Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition GCP Earnings Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year VC Money Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation EOL’d Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook Apple and Facebook Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort Relevant to your interests Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize A Brief History of Web Design Tools WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google Why You Should Also Switch to Linux Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind' Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure Nonsense Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice AWS CEO fake Job Post 20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Marc wants you to work at abstraction.games as an Automation Engineer Remote/Netherlands Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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 Matt: Search Party Sun Run 10k SAFE Animal Rehoming Brandon: In & Of Itself Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move? Rundown Matt Ray finds a snake…? The Battle of GameStop VC Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup Bitcoin Follow up Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it. Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “ Central bank digital currency Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast Earnings IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020 Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates Relevant to your interests https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?) Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services Vagrant First Commit Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time Tucows closes its once-popular software download site Advice on Lambda End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business Google employees have formed another union, this one international Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet Nonsense Costco Prices California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer). Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Dan wants you to work at Gymshark as a Platform Reliability Engineer in the U.K. Michael Neale wants to work at CloudBees as a Senior Ops Engineer in U.S. East or EMEA Prash wants to work at CDK as a Software Architect in the U.K. Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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 Matt: Earth at Night in Colour Transferwise Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam Coté: Money. micro.blog Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Elasticsearch changing their license and the merits of Bitcoin. Plus, what is the prefect age for reincarnation. Rundown Elasticsearch and SSPL The SSPL is Not an Open Source License Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all Truly Doubling Down on Open Source | Logz.io Bitcoin and Blockchain Is blockchain coming to your bank? 85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins Relevant to your interests Intel lured new CEO Pat Gelsinger with a package valued at $116 million New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects Cloud Native Predictions for 2021 and Beyond How China Took Western Tech Firms Hostage The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz AWS is creating a 'new open source design system' with React Malwarebytes said it was hacked by the same group who breached SolarWinds The SolarWinds and US government breach is not a marketing opportunity Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook Software effort estimation is mostly fake research What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting Apple Plans Podcasting Subscription Service in Threat to Spotify We all love Atlassian ... the $60B SaaS leader that came out of Australia GitLab CEO weighing options for going public after employee share sale valued company at $6 billion Apple AirPods did ~$18 billion in revenue in 2020. Man who called Cloud a Bookstore hasn’t learned any lessons. BlackBerry (TSX:BB) Stock Soars 14% After Huge Win Over Facebook - The Motley Fool Canada Wasmer - The Universal WebAssembly Runtime CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers Nonsense President Biden’s Peloton exercise equipment under scrutiny Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback JustWatch - The Streaming Guide recommend from Colin Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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 Matt: MF DOOM X Tasuro Yamashita rabbithole The Day the Mixtape Died: DJ Drama Brandon: The Dark Forest Coté: Baudolino. Nutella Videos Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumping to Intel and what is going on with DevSecOps. Plus, lots advice on picking movies both you and your partner will enjoy. Rundown VMware CEO → Intel What’s the latest Solarwinds hack news? Coté is figuring out “DevSecOps” - or is it “DevOpsSec”? Relevant to your interests M&A Red Hat to Acquire Kubernetes-Native Security Leader StackRox F5 to acquire @Volterra_ VMware/Intel VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel VMware Names Zane Rowe As Interim CEO Prodigal Son Gelsinger Returns As Intel CEO Bitcoin and Blockchain Is blockchain coming to your bank? 85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins RISC-V BeagleBoard BeagleV Raspberry PI Why We Love the Raspberry Pi Buy a Raspberry Pi Zero W – Raspberry Pi Solarwinds Details on SolarWinds Hack SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs NYT JetBrains story, I'm calling it - the story was irresponsibly released. Deplatforming Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services. Parler Finds Refuge With the Far-Right's Favorite Webhost Parler loses data Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters The balkanization of the cloud is bad for everyone Decentralization Is A Necessity Now It happened. Twitter shut down @realDonaldTrump for good State of the World 2021 Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe's website ‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom Video games have replaced music as the most important aspect of youth culture | Sean Monahan Intel CEO Bob Swan to be replaced with VMWare's Pat Gelsinger WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app First Oracle said it powered Zoom. Then AWS claimed it. Now Zoom says it uses co-located kit Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal Dropbox to cut workforce by 11% Nonsense I'm glad you have passed the certification! I just don't want to see it. Coté in TikTok. Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Now Hiring Jordi wants you to work at Tricentis Michael wants to be a Solution Architect at Cloudbees More info in SDT Slack see channel #jobs Conferences Call for Papers ends on Jan. 31st for DevOpsDay Texas on March 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 Matt: Apple TV’s Ted Lasso Brandon: Possessor. Coté: Descript, so far. Bear app. Don’t spike your mind during family time with inserting work. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files. Rundown Zoom to build a calendar Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem Relevant to your interests A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020 Google, Alphabet employees unionize How Google workers secretly built a union Warren Ellis Returns For 2021 AWS IAM Talk Stripe’s Developer Coefficient VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami Wondery to join Amazon Music SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System DALL·E: Creating Images from Text Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Introduction to WebAssembly Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality Reproducible builds and docker Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way Nonsense KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner. Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Call for Papers for DevOpsDay Texas on March 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 Matt: Uncivil podcast MF DOOM Will Never Really Die Brandon: Listen to the recent interviews with Sebastien on Serverless and Squire on Security. Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud Soul Coté: Coconut Rice. Raised by Wolves. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Squire Earle who offers practical advice on how to secure your Enterprise. Plus, Squire shares some personal finance tips and explains how and why he takes mini-retirements. Show Links The 20 CIS Controls & Resources Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps Mr Money Mustache Dan Balcauski interview on sabbaticals Contact Squire @squireearle LinkedIn Cloudentity Sponsor strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Image CreditSpecial Guest: Squire Earle.Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh. They discuss his time in academia, how he got into cloud computing and why he started TriggerMesh. Plus, Sebastien tells us why South Carolina is the OpenStack capital of the world! Show Links Register for the TriggerMesh Webinar Jan 12, 2021 11:30 AM EST Kubecon Presentaton: Serverless or Servicefull Contact Sebastien LinkedIn: sebastiengoasguen Twitter: @sebgoa Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Sebastien Goasguen.Sponsored By:Twilio: Twilio is the platform that millions of developers trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. It’s time to build. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.