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Why would Oracle buy TikTok? Why would Amazon invest in Rackspace? We answer these questions and discuss the state of cloud migrations. Plus, Matt and Coté offers advice on hot dogs. The Rundown Oracle and Tik Tok? Oracle interested in buying TikTok: report Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations Amazon invests in Rackspace? Amazon reportedly eyes Rackspace minority stake Exclusive: Amazon in talks to invest in cloud services company Rackspace Relevant to your Interests Monitoring Why Grafana: Part II Thanos Takes Scalable, Highly-Available Prometheus Monitoring to CNCF Incubation Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams IBM rolls out newest processor chip, taps Samsung for manufacturing Michigan is devoting a 40-mile stretch of highway to testing self-driving cars and improving public transportation Codice Software joins Unity Technologies to bring version control to real-time 3D workflows Professor Cold Takes Laying the foundation for Rust's future | Rust Blog Hot Chips 2020: Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs - Up to 60 Cores Per Die, 96 Dual-Die in 2021 R281-T94 (rev. 100) | ARM Servers - GIGABYTE Global WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Bets on Office-Based Work With Expansion in Major Cities Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You Apple and Epic are still fighting: Epic Games Newsroom Nonsense AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines - credit cards dollars/miles count for Milljon Miles program. The Qwerty Effect An Australian surfer saved his wife from a great white shark attack by leaping on the predator's back and repeatedly punching until it let go No worries Harry Potter's invisibility cloak is almost a reality, but only for likely military use Conferences GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. 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. Recommendations Matt Ray: Arch Linux, so fun? IKEA veggie dogs Brandon: The Wubi Effect from Radiolab Coté: hot dogs, Danish red and American. Photo Credit

We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store. Plus, we offer advice on air conditioning and cars. The Rundown Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store TikTok Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveoutRelevant to your interests We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud. Datadog Why Datadog Stock Was Slammed on Friday @themotleyfool #stocks $DDOG Datadog Acquires Undefined Labs to Provide Visibility into CI/CD Workflows Why Datadog Stock Popped Today @themotleyfool #stocks $DDOG $CRM Google Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud? Google Cloud's expanding enterprise footprint and the rise of the 10 year deal ****- Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh based on Envoy – TechCrunch Matt’s corner Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm Relevant to your Interests The Ten Commandments of Container Security - InfraCloud Technologies The Second Edition of “The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem” Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns Apple Buys Startup to Challenge Square in Mobile Payments IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn't Even Using GNU/Linux Rackspace IPO prices at bottom of target range to raise about $703 million Mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer's apps - 9to5Mac Resigning from AWS on Ethical Grounds with Tim Bray — Screaming in the Cloud Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates Toshiba Will No Longer Make Laptops VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products | ZDNet Google rolls out virtual visiting card in India – TechCrunch Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes – TechCrunch Working in Public and the Economics of Free “Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." Nonsense Decision making IS FUN | Spin The Wheel App AAirpass kelseyhightower/mesh Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th. GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Sachin in NSW Australia Sent stickers to Jesse in Georgia, he says we are like family. Colin tweeted at us. 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. Recommendations Matt Ray: Google Docs → Tools → Voice typing: Matt’s SDT 251 Transcript Brandon: Anker Wireless Charger Photo Credit Photo Credit

Slide decks, paper proposals and steering group sessions all take a significant investment to prepare, avoiding “difficult” conversations by socializing and re-socializing in advance of exec meetings, deferring decisions, requesting a raft of meeting minutes to document, correcting, amending and signing them off—the majority of which few people read.... The speed of these cycles determines the heartbeat of the organization. This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software. Check out the paper and Jana in LinkedIn. Also, check out the talk she has coming up at SpringOne Platform.Special Guest: Jana Werner.

The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap. The Rundown Friend us and follow SDT on Twitch: sdtpodcat New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation Analysts Estimate New Relic (NEWR) to Report a Decline in Earnings: Relevant to your interests How Kubernetes adds agility in challenging times The Impact of AI on Organizations The Opportunity in App Modernization Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverless Lunch Amazon reportedly invested in startups and gained proprietary information before launching competitors, often crushing the smaller companies in the process Huawei overtook Samsung in global smartphone shipments for Q2 – TechCrunch Transformation case study Growth+Sales: The New Era of Enterprise Go-to-Market Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud? Taiwan is now Arrakis | Epsilon Theory Congress's historic tech hearing suggests antitrust crackdown could come soon The new Teams experience Op-Ed: Kubernetes May Be Google’s Last Great Open Project Nonsense How to Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking more Conferences SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th. GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. 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. Recommendations Matt Ray: Anti-picks Cisco WebEx, Sabrent (no links, no recommendations) Brandon: Audio Hijack. Coté: AU apostrophe’s.

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube. The Rundown Google Next Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough' BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise Rackspace Rackspace IPO S1 Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership Long Term Stock Exchange Relevant to your interests VC Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M Auth0 Announces $120M in Series F Funding Messaging Slack has filed an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Teams in the EU Major Gmail redesign will bring Chat, Meet, Tasks and Docs into one interface Share screens using Messages on Mac AWS Salesforce, AWS launch Amazon Connect integration with Service Cloud | ZDNet Announcing AWS App2Container - Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud Just Too Efficient from Tim Bray Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS Hacks and Outages Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside Twitter explains outage on Twitter Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others – TechCrunch Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story - Tony Chen, Microsoft - Platform Security Summit 2019 IBM IBM improves gross margins in Q2 under new CEO IBM Earnings Preview: Red Hat Merger Is The Future, But Pandemic Timing Couldn't Be Worse Kube Corner Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community - DevOps.com Operator Framework More 16 Must-Listen Podcasts for IT/Tech Professionals Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle JetBrains Technology Day for Java Aerial fiber deployment, faster and more efficient - Facebook Engineering You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They’re Infected Samsung’s 6G White Paper Lays Out the Company’s Vision for the Next Generation of Communications Technology The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic It would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale Dell Says It’s Exploring Potential Spinoff of VMware Unit OKD4 is now Generally Available VS Code grows, Emacs holds steady Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started How to setup Role based access to Kubernetes Cluster - InfraCloud Technologies A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves Straddling the firewall: cloud from 2010 to 2020 (& what to do next) SUSE releases major Linux update | ZDNet How to broadcast to Twitch and Zoom with OBS Nonsense Travel Dress Pant Sweatpants IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old British Airways retires its entire fleet of Boeing 747 jets I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors Coté’s ambient noise videos Conferences SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th. GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. SDT news & hype Listen to Richard Seroter interview Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. 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. Recommendations Matt Ray: Palm Springs. Brandon: Reckoning. Coté: Vivino wine app (you can order wine, next day!) Apple Magic Touch pad thing. Setapp. Photo Credit

On this episode Brandon interviews Richard Seroter from Google. They discuss Richard's career, Product Management & Marketing, Google Anthos and what App Modernization really means. Plus, Richard tells us how a doctor removes a wedding ring when you have a fractured finger. Mentioned on the Show Richard joins Google Richard on the web Blog: Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings Twitter: @rseroter LinkedIn: seroter Phote CreditSpecial Guest: Richard Seroter.

We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files. Mood board: I read a lot of Wikipedia when I should be working After all this, time people probably think that whatever you’re doing is “working.” Did you respond with an emoji thumbs-up? I read the email. Thought about it for a few hours. Then thought “I’m just going to archive that email.” He’s big in the Angular community - works all the angels. Little components that talk with each other over the network. Gotta do a whole bunch of shit for that. You don’t sue people who are using it if you want them to use it. Service mesh is Greek for “service mesh.” Lady Cathemhouse’s Rules. Chekhov’s Trademark. Couple thousand stores. …and maybe integrate with their Active Directory. “Federated Slacks.” I think I like the Word file. No one can poop all over your stuff in a way that you forgot what it looked like when it was clean. De-headwind yourself from the COVID. I’m mad about The Edit by Default. I can’t find my tongs, they’ve gone somewhere. I wouldn’t say that I’d recommend it, I’m just saying I enjoy it. The Rundown Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance SUSE corrals Rancher Labs SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs SUSE acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs Linux company SUSE outbids competitors for fast-growing start-up Rancher Labs Slack The Slack Social Network swyx Writing | Slack is Fumbling Developers Slack acquires SaaS start-up Rimeto State of Developer Relations 2020 Report Redis The end of the Redis adventure New Governance for Redis | Redis Labs Relevant to your interests Tim Bray Blogs Anti monopoly Amazon profit from AWS A Cloud PR FAQ Break up Google Why Buybacks & Boeing are Public Enemy Number One (w/ Dr. William Lazonick) iOS 14 Snitches on LinkedIn and Reddit's Snooping Practices Quibbi Gossip Third Base | No Mercy / No Malice Uber Buys Postmates for $2.65 Billion Digital Contact Tracing's Mixed Record Abroad Spells Trouble for US Efforts to Rein in COVID-19 FBI Opens a New China-Related Counterintelligence Investigation Every 10 Hours, Director Says Oracle: Low Revenue Growth And Excessive Buybacks Have Pushed Oracle Out Of Competition The collaborative browser based IDE How to add a README to your GitHub profile Nonsense How to make incredible juicy burgers from extra lean ground beef The Blue Label Burger Blend Recipe Sponsor strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Listen to the Adam Jacob Interview on Open Source Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. 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. Recommendations Brandon: The Missing Matt Ray: Watchmen Coté: Oatly Milk. Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers. Mood board: They got money, kicking out the Nazis Have you tried saying it louder? It came out fine. The burger meat here is like a bunch of little worms. Long form commercials. Webinar as conference. Sitting in a Zoom. People don’t want to show up and consensually watch a YouTube video. The Wine Bottle Leads. The Minecraft Yellers. The pink slurry of enterprise software content. There’s nothing at the bottom of their funnel. I know all those things, I just don’t like them. HigherGradeWebinars.biz The conclusion of the plutes. Today was the last day of school for the kids. Tomorrow, the nightmare begins. The Rundown The New Conference Apple’s virtual WWDC wasn’t just okay—it could be the future of keynotes Google Next over 9 Weeks In the first cohort of HEY signups, 37% have converted to a paid account! Relevant to your interests Email Is Broken Analysis: Here are five strategic options for Dell and VMware Arm Macs and AMD rising: How Intel's endless 10nm struggles cost it so much US police using Chinese drones are ‘at risk’ of data breach, DHS warns Amazon jumps into self-driving taxis with purchase of Zoox Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation Your Place to Talk An Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming Ranking the Observability Offerings - APM Experts Flying Secret Flying | Cheap Flights & Error Fares Jack's Flight Club | Cheap Flights, Flight Deals & Alerts Interactive Route Map of Low Cost Airline flights in Europe Alternative Airlines | Book Flights on 100s of Airlines Nonsense Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks Big Red soda is the secret to make deliciously tender smoked pork chops Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Listen to interview with Kylie Grenier about Digital Transformation Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. 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. Recommendations Brandon: Land of the Giants podcast. Matt Ray: Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway. Coté: Euro breakfast on the go.

Brandon interviews Kylie Grenier from DXC Technology. They discuss Kylie's experience in leading digital transformation in the public sector, her time as a Cloud Futurist at Cisco and how she helps clients build digital transformation strategies today. Plus, Kylie offers some tips on how to get a new job. Kylie on the web Twitter: @CurrentKylie LinkedIn: kyliegrenier Image creditSpecial Guest: Kylie Grenier.

Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly. Mood board: One How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet? I got the Call Recorder! Brand Police. You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing. Dunning Keurig Yeet your email. I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it. People just throwing tickets into the wind. Awk yeah You should sanitize your inputs every day, Matt Ray. I’ve been treating Apple news like Star Wars news. The Builders. We got piles of clip art. Elfin robot children on a sea of green binary. MacOS 11.1, “Green Goddess” There’s only one MC who talks about space and cross-country truck driving. Watch the get to school on time tapes. John Irving Parenting. Until then, I’ll just ground him from his iPad. The Rundown Kool Keith interview: “I’m dis-attached from reality on my own terms.” Luxury Email Cote reviews HEY Outlook update: e works in the Mac desktop app. Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced Basecamp is good at PR — How Basecamp bent Apple Wait — Slack is killing email with Slack Connect M&A ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle Not sure about people who use the word “infra.” I think it’s a configuration store that plugs into CI pipelines - sort of like a ConfigMap for Jenkins. “SWEAGLE provides a quality gate for your configuration data. Includes versioning, management, and validation of all types of config data.” https://github.com/jenkinsci/sweagle-plugin It will run validates to make sure the hostname is valid, there are no empty values, etc. Has a JavaScript SDK for writing validation code. ServiceNow integration that extracts confit from CMDB. https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely Apple Talk Apple will let you emulate old apps and run iOS apps on ARM Macs – TechCrunch The End of OS X Apple Docker Tweet Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year Are you actually changing? Relevant to your interests Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension Spotmicro - robot dog by KDY0523 The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs Fortnite’s new season has flooded the map The Next Step for Mixer - From the Myxer Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform WSJ News Exclusive | Dell Explores Spinoff of $50 Billion Stake in VMware Amazon is looking to add live TV to Prime Video kelseyhightower/nocode Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024 Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations Nonsense Chocolate Digestives Scottish Man tries Southern Snacks Emoji Search Finally Coming to iOS in iOS 14 Not enough public toilets in Amsterdam especially for women, wheelchair users BYE Sponsor strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Listen to interview with Brian Gracely Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. 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. Recommendations Brandon: **The Data Coach - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis; Trust Fall : Invisibilia. ****- Matt Ray: The Coup: Party Music Coté: Razer Kiyo. Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.