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What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online. Mood board: Sounds normal for now. It was kinda cool, kinda sad. Covered in yoke. We just had to speed test it out. Katamari Damacy M&A. I hate network monitoring, shut it all down! The ProductTK. 7G. What’s the plural of Kubernetes? Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that? Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life. Return the Jewels. The Rundown Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes Relevant to your interests What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground Police scanner apps get record downloads Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs Where GREP Came From - Computerphile Software Engineering Within SpaceX Nonsense Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea. Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too. Conferences MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th 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: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts. Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4. Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks. Header photo from Andrew, probably.

Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio and they discuss building games, Dev Evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest. Margaret on the Web: @dead_lugosi Github: mstaples LinkedIn: Margaret Staples TwilioQuest TwilioQuest @TwilioQuest Photo by Richard Lee on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Margaret Staples.

Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules. Mood board: “The triumphant return to the home office. “ Net Ninety. Software Stockholm Syndrome. Office Mail 360 Whatever. I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy. I never read those emails. I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter. Neck-deep in archaic 2FA. Aggressively defensive. Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision. MoMs are important. Cloud Candyland. I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal. Feed the baby. New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you. The Rundown Microsoft Build Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2 New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls Linux GUI Apps on Windows Remote Work Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom 50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD Relevant to your interests What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners How TechCrunch is like the Iliad IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple Collaboration Tools A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to Nonsense This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch 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. Build a Newsletter Website With the MongoDB Data Platform Conferences 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 Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th 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: ZeroZeroZero on Amazon Prime. Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi. Coté: RØDE Wireless Go. Sponsored 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

We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back! Moodboard: 3rd kids and pandemics Severe consequences - just another way for companies to fuck you. (The exact wording was “severe ramifications.”) It’s all just a spatula. Downwardness. You should talk less. “Show Less” not working as expected. All the complaints flow through my hammer. Bruce Markup Language. It is what it is, Matt Ray. So much trash. I was already kind of full of webinars. Shit content is shit content. Even Screenflow doesn’t do ripple delete by default. A webinar Renaissance. I wanna be a software vegan. The Rundown This whole never return to the office thing. Facebook says you can work from wherever you want if they can pay you less. Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets “devices and data-center systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.” Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation “Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.” Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.) Farewell to Beyond the Beyond Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly. Relevant to your interests Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets “devices and data-center systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.” Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation “Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.” Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.) Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available | Google Cloud Blog yaml-is-not-a-programming-language New York’s Newest Unicorn: DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation Virtana Raises $15M In Funding Facebook to acquire Giphy in a deal reportedly worth $400 million Aren't there lots of copyright violations? Software Maker Chef Hires Guggenheim to Help Raise Funds Airlines vs. Zoom Andreessen Horowitz leading deal for voice chat app Clubhouse Farewell to Beyond the Beyond Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly. Matt to tell Coté what a “Redis” is. ## Nonsense The Great Asshole Fallacy This is What Peak Hello World Looks Like Ditching Zoom for Red Dead Redemption 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. Conferences. FlylessConf May 27 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th 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 Coté: ftrain’s newsletter; LumaFusion for video editing; My short videos. Also available in TikTok. Matt Ray: Quiet fans; Anti-pick- Google Meeting links getting added to invitations. Sponsored 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

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big. The Rundown Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’ Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab More Amazon AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit CDK for Kubernetes AMC shares jump 17% after sources say Amazon is circling the theater chain (NYSE:AMC) Why AMC Networks Stock Soared Today $AMCX vs $AMC Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 | Amazon Web Services The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe Security Ohio Has Stopped Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After A Hacker Targeted Its Website Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 Microsoft adds initial support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Windows Insiders Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with stunning PlayStation 5 demo Cofounders Of Datadog Become Billionaires After The Cloud Computing Firm’s Shares Surge Relevant to your interests Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash to Buoy Struggling Business Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront – TechCrunch CyberArk Acquires Identity as a Service Leader Idaptive Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to Grubhub Twitter Says Employees Can Work Remote Forever Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black Open Sourcing Tinkerbell Nonsense Pretty cool stuff happening at WeWork Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY Oil Trader Owes $9 Million After Starting The Day With $77,000 | OilPrice.com Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences. FlylessConf May 27 ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th — 20th 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. Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog, DataDog now worth $20B LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB Recommendations Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks: Chaos Monkeys Facebook No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram Matt Ray: Starship Sponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

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.