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AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam. The Rundown Tech Giant Earnings AWS tops $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time Microsoft Azure update The Immunity of the Tech Giant The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here Backblaze challenges AWS by making its cloud storage S3 compatible The State of Cloud Native Development: A new survey report! - Cloud Native Computing Foundation Salesforce will help businesses return to work with a new set of tools it just announced Fortnite's no-combat mode is its next bold step towards creating a metaverse Relevant to your interests M&A DocuSign acquires Seal Software for $188M to enhance its AI chops Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks Intel's Mobileye targets urban mobility growth with Moovit deal Keybase joins Zoom Announcements IBM Cloud Satellite Abby Kearns takes over as Puppet CTO Microsoft to establish first datacenter region in New Zealand SaltStack Security Critical Salt Vulnerability: Thousands Exposed, Bug Gives Full RCE as Root Hackers are Running Rampant Exploiting the SaltStack Vulnerability Departures VMware Confirms Employee Salary Freeze, CEO Pay Cut A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky Tim Bray, Goodbye Nutanix cuts 1,500 Google Google Cloud training available at no cost for 30 days Google Authenticator’s first Android update in years lets you move your account between devices Google tells employees they can't expense food or other perks when working from home Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team Nonsense Fortnite hosted a Diplo concert in its new party mode About Those Asian Giant Hornets... Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live FlylessConf May 27 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey. 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 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: American Factory on Netflix Matt Ray: Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam. The Rundown Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Released | ServeTheHome Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code Zoom Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too - Last Week in AWS Digitial Ocean: It's all about the bandwidth Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody Fortnite Travis Scott Fortnite Twitter Thread Fortnite Stats Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security Relevant to your interests Deploy Cloud Foundry to Google Kubernetes in 10 minutes Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use Cote.pizza Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of Why we can’t build It’s Time To Learn Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products’ How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility Nonsense What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel? Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say Microservices Video — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile Old french safe Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 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: Sony X950G Matt Ray: Privacy Redirect Auto Close Zoom Tab Photo by Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash Photo by Umberto on UnsplashSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite. The Rundown Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz Conferencing Verizon will buy video conferencing company BlueJeans The Zoom fatigue is real Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more Introducing Splunk Remote Work Insights: Our Solution for the New Work-from-Home Reality Apollo readies IPO of cloud company Rackspace Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years Zhao KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service Google Cloud CEO: Istio is going to a foundation Google Cloud’s fully managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS Over the past 20 years, IBM has bought back $140 billion of its stock. Its current market cap: $105 billion. $IBM Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac Relevant to your interests University of Sydney using cloud to prevent the Tasmanian devil from extinction Facebook employees won't return to offices until at least the end of May, and is cancelling events until June 2021 Hundreds of asylum seekers' names made public in government data breach Top virtual tech conferences to attend in 2020 Who Makes the Best CPUs? Intel vs. AMD CPUs | Tom's Hardware Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation I Took a COBOL Course and It Wasn't The Worst | Hacker Noon Nonsense Emacs way to listen podcasts How to watch Travis Scott’s Fortnite concerts Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Aaron in Sydney “Dude Mark in Brampton close to Toronto Ontario Canada” said we are doing a good and gave us a 4 star review because he never gives 5 Sent stickers to Dan in the UK. He has made listening to SDT as part of his routine. Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 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: HBO’s Westworld Matt Ray: Yeti cups/mugs Photo Credit Phote CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review. The Rundown Contact Tracing Apple, Google Will Require Case Verification for Coronavirus Contact Tracing Tech How Google Plans to Push Its Coronavirus Tracing Feature to Android Phones Apple and Google launch a joint contact-tracing system for iOS and Android Answering the 12 biggest questions about Apple and Google’s new coronavirus tracking project Fargate AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah, 'deemed unnecessary' Under the hood: AWS Fargate data plane Coding Austin Startup Coder Gets $30M from GGV Capital and In-Q-Tel GitHub is now free for teams Pentagon Watchdog Clears Microsoft’s Cloud Win Over Amazon Relevant to your interests Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat Zoom is now 'the Facebook of video apps' The Thing With Zoom A perfect alternative to Zoom doesn't exist IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states 7 cobol examples with explanations. No new emojis in 2021 because of coronavirus Microsoft Teams has 20% adoption rate, says Slack CEO How IBM’s New CEO Plans to Beat Microsoft, Amazon & Google in Cloud Non Sense Invite a Ilma or goat to your next corporate Zoom meeting or video call for under $100 Sponsors MongoDB Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits. Attend MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 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: Facebook The Inside Story Matt Ray: Iriun Webcam QEMU Raspberry Pi postmortem A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat Image credit One & Image credit TwoSponsored By:MongoDB: Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits! Promo Code: ATLASSDT

Brandon interviews Professor Jeremy Hajek from Illinois Tech about what it's like to teach Information Technology in today's rapidy changing IT landscape. Plus, we offer advice to new grads on how to get a job and what cloud certifications are most valuable. Jermey's Links: Twitter: @JeremyHajek Illinois Tech Contact Illinois Tech Admissions Information Photo by Vasily Koloda on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Jeremy Hajek.

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM. Relevant to your interests Unikernels are unfit for production Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways) Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system Slack, Teams and Conferencing Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield DHH is not happy with Zoom Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment Zoom responds with a Blog Post Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities Zoom isn’t Malware. IBM New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business My first day as CEO - our journey together RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier CircleCI CircleCI Raises $100M Series E CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment Apple Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity The Next Chapter of Meetup SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business HashiCorp Joins the CNCF Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014 Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset Non Sense Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights... 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email. My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release Trump order encourages US to mine the moon CNCF Puzzle Sponsors MongoDB Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits. Attend MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 Conferences, Videos et. al. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live Mykel Alvis is speaking at All Day DevOps Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 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: Ozark and Tiger King Matt Ray: The Memory Palace Music to Wash Hands By Disunited Nations Photo by Ciel Cheng on Unsplash Photo by James Besser on UnsplashSponsored By:MongoDB: Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits! Promo Code: ATLASSDT

This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure. They discuss all things "Cloud Native" and what it's like to be a software engineer who helps make movies. Photo by David Brooke Martin on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Justin Garrison .

We discuss micoVMs vs. Containers and Intel vs. ARM. Plus, Matt offers advice on when to teach your children about Github. Big congrats to Coté and his wife on their new baby!!! Relevant to your interests Containers are Not the Future Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances - Honeycomb No more O’Reilly Conferences Lightspeed-backed WorkOS launches to help startup services become enterprise-ready The Demise Of Symantec Ex-Uber engineer pleads guilty to trade secret theft from Google Non Sense These are the hotels and airlines offering elite status extensions for those impacted by coronavirus Peak Cory Doctrow! Pluralistic: 24 Mar 2020 Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/. Conferences, Videos et. al. Request Metrics from TrackJS Request Metrics is a web performance tool that records how fast your production Page and API endpoints are from your users' perspective. Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 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 Rewatchables Matt Ray: Generation Kill Reggae: Toots & The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff Photo Credit

Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker. Plus, Miles tells us a story about Warren Buffet. Links: Container Hereos @miles_matthias Miles talk at Spinnaker Summit 2019 Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Miles Matthias.

Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves. Mood Board: Blur my foreground, that’s what I want. No Yodas Lot of rubber gloves in your youth? I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book. Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix. I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life. It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class. As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams. Why can’t they make it 100% OK? You’ve got a big TV, put me on it! Relevant to your interests Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable! HashiCorp Scores $175M Funding Round, $5B Valuation Exclusive: DevOps unicorn HashiCorp could be valued at $5.25B in new round Rancher - EDGE, BABY! Rancher Labs Raises $40 Million Series D Round to Accelerate Growth of Its Kubernetes Management Platform Platform9 Announces Freedom for Kubernetes Users with New, 'Freedom' and 'Growth' SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Plans npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog Next Phase Montage CNCF starts new artifact hub - “pre-alpha stadium.” Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud... Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5 Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware Non Sense How Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says Sponsors Arrested DevOps Podcast: Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/. Conferences, et. al. DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed. ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration. THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. 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 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: Devs on FX/Hulu . A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money. Tim Hartford’s Cautionary Tales podcast. Coté: Look Up. Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” Dune.