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This week we answer listener questions, recap the year’s top stories and make a few predictions. Plus, we select the slides of the year! Slides of the Year SoftBank Unicorn Forrester Survey The State of Kubernetes 2020 from VMware Cloud Native Survey 2020 Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. Listener Feedback Justin Garrison from AWS recommends Containers from the Couch YouTube Channel 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: Anti-pick Jabra Elite 75t Sport Domino’s Anywhere Delivery Brandon: Mini Motorways on Apple Arcade Coté: Transmetropolitan. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored 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.

This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it…? The Rundown AWS re:Invent AWS CloudShell AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Amazon Web Services AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship State of Cloud 2018 Report Solarwinds Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features Relevant to your Interests Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage Nonsense ‘Damn Good Taco’ Maker Torchy’s Sells Stake to General Atlantic The Office’s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines The 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 | Discover the Best Podcasts | Discover Pods Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback From Slack Flow by Moleskine · Flow 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: AppleTV+ and Tiny World. Brandon: Tenet. Coté: Eve strip lights. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored 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.

This week we discuss CentOS going upstream, Kubernetes removes Docker support and who’s buying the AirPods Max. Plus, Coté critiques Apple’s Notes App. The Rundown CentOS CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry Meet Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator Docker Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal Mirantis to take over support of Kubernetes dockershim Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design Relevant to your Interests Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations SoftBank Is Discussing a ‘Slow-Burn’ Buyout to Go Private Stocks, M&A and VCs Why Snowflake's stock price just jumped 16% DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share SoftBank Vision Fund turns $680 million DoorDash investment into $11.5 billion based on Wednesday's opening price Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing Cisco to buy software firm IMImobile in $730 million deal Calm raises $75M more at $2B valuation Chips Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt Apple's 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary IBM bet the company on hybrid cloud. Analysts just rated it a mere 'contender' for hybrid management Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol Austin's popularity knows no limits | LinkedIn KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 Recap U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition The Google Disease Afflicting AWS - Last Week in AWS The Return to the Office Gets Put on Hold Puppet’s journey into Continuous Compliance Nomad 1.0 is released! GitHub introduces dark mode and auto-merge pull request Daily Insights VMware COO Jumps Ship To Become New Nutanix CEO The State of the Octoverse Nonsense Warner’s 2021 releases also going to HBO Max Hyundai spends almost $1B to buy Boston Dynamics, makers of Spot dog robot Elon Musk confirms he has moved to Texas Handwonden door ontpitten avocado's groeiend probleem Sponsors Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT 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: Factorio. Brandon: The Good Shepard. Coté: 1Blocker. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:Teleport: Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com.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.

This week we discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack and recap all the important announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some advice on chopping onions and robot vacuums. The Rundown AWS Outage Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident AWS re:Invent AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 | Amazon Web Services Compute AWS launches EC2 computing instances that run Apple's MacOS operating system Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce Databases Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish Kubernetes Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) | Amazon Web Services Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere Amazon EKS Anywhere New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support AWS quietly enters the multicloud era Serverless Amazon Aurora Serverless | MySQL PostgreSQL Relational Database New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support DevOps Guru New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes Hybrid Cloud or a cloud close to you In the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021 AWS Outposts 1U and 2U form factors Slack Best analysis ever Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions How a Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack - Salesforce News Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring | Acquired Podcast Slack: The Bulls are typing... Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration, But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams Relevant to your Interests Splunk acquires network observability service Flowmill Productivity Scores in Office 365 IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale Apple Plans to Run Most of Its ‘Compute Management’ on Kubernetes Tony Hsieh, iconic Las Vegas tech entrepreneur, dies aged 46 Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware Robert Smith Breakup Exclusive: Billionaire Brian Sheth Reveals Why He’s Leaving Vista Following Tax Evasion Case Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production Should we really be worried about vendor lock-in in 2020? Future of Online Security and Privacy is being decided now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston Nonsense People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down Listener Feedback Brett from Slack recommends Upptime an open source Status Page Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com 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: 99% Invisible: You’ve Got Enron Emails Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic Brandon: iRobot Roomba 985 Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum Yahoo Mail discontinues automatic email forwarding for free users Coté: Photoshop Express. 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.Teleport: Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com.

This week we preview AWS re:Invent, breakdown the latest CNCF Survey and discuss container adoption. Plus, a review of banking apps, Google Pay and an update on Coté’s quest to achieve the iPad Lifestyle. The Rundown AWS RE:invent CNCF survey Datadog Report 11 facts about real world container use Relevant to your Interests Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers Cloud gaming services use iPhone's web browser door Roblox IPO 2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M, announces $400M investment – TechCrunch Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract The Substackerati Act against Deep fakes Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? Nonsense The Ultimate Texas Tacopedia — Texas Monthly Professor Cold Takes 2: Freeze Harder Kubernetes Services explained Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. 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: Shot: Build a DIY screen out of recycled parts for cheap Brandon: Chefman 1.8 Liter Electric Glass Kettle With Removable Tea Infuser Coté: PDF Expert. Dithering podcast is still good. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored 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.Teleport: Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com.

This week we discuss IBM buying Instana, highlights from Kubecon and the rise of Substack. Plus, Coté updates us on his quest to live the iPad lifestyle. The Rundown IBM To Acquire Instana For Undisclosed Terms Instana Crunch Base Overview KubeCon Review Envoy Mobile Joins the CNCF Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation - The Linux Foundation Relevant to your Interests The Evolution of Cloud 2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi Amazon's Inferentia AI Chip Is Ready For Prime Time, Now Powers the Alexa Service FinOps Foundation launches Kubernetes Whitepaper with CNCF, adds vendor members, Densify, SoftwareOne, Virtasant and more... Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more New Zoom feature can alert room owners of possible Zoombombing disruptions Fast Facts Your Pa$$word doesn't matter 11 facts about real world container use Half of all containers are now managed by cloud provider and third-party registries Apple Apple to lower commissions for small businesses on App Store Safely open apps on your Mac Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue Nonsense Welcome to Slow Boring Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com Listener Feedback Little Snitch from Jordy Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue Conferences Mykel Alvis All Day DevOps Talk 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: Rewatching Veep. Brandon: The Undoing on HBO and Serverless Data APIs from the Cloudcast Coté: Dithering) podcast) (https://dithering.fm/); Ted Laso. Photo Credit from Red Hat Container Coloring Book Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Teleport: Teleport provides consolidated access to all computing resources such as servers, Kubernetes clusters or internal applications across all environments. Watch a demo, download the free version, or sign up for cloud at goteleport.com.

This week we breakdown Apple’s new M1 chip, the new MacBook Air and discuss why so many devs still use vi. Plus, a discussion about when to use the default Documents Folder. The Rundown Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs? Everything Apple Announced, From New Macs to New Chips Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking Relevant to your Interests Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, and many others fall at China's top hacking contest 375% Return on One Startup to Help SoftBank Get Past WeWork Woes Google Cloud’s Big Win: the Remarkable 2-Year Journey of CEO Thomas Kurian Spotify acquires podcast monetization company Megaphone Every last Slingbox will become a brick in two years Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks got crushed on the positive vaccine news TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up EU charges Amazon in antitrust lawsuit, alleges unfair competition Austin software maker Planview sold in $1.6B deal Nonsense Steve Nouri on LinkedIn: #datascience #business #strategy | 404 comments Ugliest App Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC - Raspberry Pi Train caught by Whale Why I Still Use an Old PowerPC Mac in 2020 Chipotle to open its first digital-only restaurant as online orders soar Sponsors Linode — Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. Find all the details at linode.com/SDT. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 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: Things you can make from old dead laptops - DIY Perks Brandon: The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix Coté: Patagonia Men's Torrentshell. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Linode: Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Software Defined Talk. You can find all the details at linode.com/sdt. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Promo Code: SDT

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This week we discuss Docker Hub's new rate limits, Tech Earnings and what Apple’s shift to ARM means for the industry. Plus, some advice on gaming for kids. The Rundown Big Tech earnings weren't slowed by the coronavirus pandemic Amazon posts strong Q3 results despite ongoing pandemic costs Alphabet revenue up 14% after second-quarter slump Apple sets September quarter sales record despite later iPhone launch Facebook beats on earnings Container Registry Advice for customers dealing with Docker Hub rate limits, and a Coming Soon announcement | Amazon Web Services AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit Consuming Public Content Download rate limit Relevant to your Interests The new H-1B rules make finding talent a lot harder for startups ARM has launched an Nvidia CPU monster that will get Intel and AMD very worried SiFive Is Launching The Most Compelling RISC-V Development Board Yet - Phoronix Cloud Native Applications: Stateless or Stateful Services? AWS is opening yet another cloud computing region | ZDNet An Open Source Leader Is Gone, a Remembrance of Dan Kohn Why NerdWallet Is Buying Fundera Pulumi raises Series B to build the future of Cloud Engineering Descript | Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts D2iQ Takes the Next Step Forward | D2iQ Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 The man who brings the human touch to Google Cloud Sponsors Linode — Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. Find all the details at linode.com/SDT. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Nonsense Steve Nouri on LinkedIn: #datascience #business #strategy | 404 comments Ugliest App Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC - Raspberry Pi Train caught by Whale Why I Still Use an Old PowerPC Mac in 2020 Listener Feedback Chetan wants you to work as InfraCloud as a Product Engineer Conferences KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 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: Back in Time for Dinner. Brandon: Whistleblower Podcast. Coté: Sorted app. By Force Alone vs. Mists of Avalon. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Linode: Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Software Defined Talk. You can find all the details at linode.com/sdt. Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Promo Code: SDT

Brandon interviews Drew Firment from A Cloud Guru. They discuss Drew's career, how Capital One embraced the cloud and A Cloud Guru's mission to teach the world to cloud. Plus, Drew offers advice on deciding which cloud certifications to get first. Show links The Phoenix Project Hygieia The cloud resume challenge Contact Drew A Cloud Guru Drew's LinkedIn Twitter: @drewfirment Photo CreditSpecial Guest: Drew Firment.