Episode 215: The Jez Humble/Life Insurance Renewal PDF Continuum

Software Defined Talk

Coté proposes that there’s three types of apps to pay attention to in enterprises. Or something like that. Also, he has a magical method for doing digital transformation: actually do it. We open up discussing the delightful adventure of doing analyst feature matrixes. Also, some brief discussion of Apple Watches in the impeachment trial.

Mood board:

• The game is won or lost before the spreadsheet it sent.
• Incrementally updating apps, vs. making new businesses (digitizing) - like, maybe there just needs to be more programmers.
• It’s not “stupid,” it’s “antiquated.”
• Don’t make them think it is a big deal, or they’ll be afraid.
• Finding business case loopholes, or ignoring them.
• Can you base practices on loopholers?
• Wearing Apple Watches to senate hearings - a real ok boomer moment - gadgets in meetings in general.
• Audio books.
• I just made myself a sandwich, wow.

Relevant to your interests

• Google
  • AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace
  • Epic Systems, a major medical records vendor, is warning customers it will stop working with Google Cloud
    • Not sure what to think about this.
    • Google will have to make clear that it doesn't filch data, agreed on or not.
    • Can they ever convince paranoid enterprise buyers that their data will be safe, not from hackers, but from Google?
  • Google offers IBM AS/400 apps new home in its cloud
  • Google to phase out third-party cookies - does this mean ads will disappear for me, or just that Google and Facebook will be the only ones who can do it?
  • Forrester study highlights benefits of Google Anthos hybrid cloud app platform - and same with Pivotal.
• IBM
  • IBM forecasts full-year profit above estimates on cloud growth
  • Six months after IBM spent $34 billion to acquire an open source software company, IBM's Q4 results showed that 'Red Hat goodness is kicking in'
  • IBM Stock Rose More Today Than in the Last 10 Years. It’s Time For A Shake-Up
• Bad News
  • DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
  • Report: Firefox maker Mozilla is laying off 70 people
• Good News
  • AI for code, serverless, monitoring, SD-WAN.
  • Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code
  • TriggerMesh 2020 - Cloud Native Integration
  • DevOps Startup Sysdig Raises $70M Series E
  • VMware to acquire Nyansa for AI-based network analytics
• Australia
  • Australians Stick With Their Banks Through Years of Scandal
  • Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle
• Phone Hacking
  • Here Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone
  • U.N. Experts Call for Inquiry into Hack of Bezos’s Phone
  • Apple reportedly scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention
• Grab Bag
  • Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices
  • VCs are just tired
  • An introduction to VMware vRealize Operations Cloud
  • Nearly 200 CEOs just agreed on an updated definition of "the purpose of a corporation"
  • 2020: The year of seeing clearly on AI and machine learning
  • 2019 CNCF Annual Report - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • Flow Time - How Fast are We Delivering Business Value? - Tasktop Blog
  • DuckDuckGo Traffic
  • The billion-dollar battle over .org registry ownership intensifies
  • What Senators Wearing Apple Watches During the Impeachment Trial Teach Us About Invisible Tech - seems like an “ok boomer” story.

Nonsense

• Why Texans Love H-E-B So Much
• Travel company’s sneaky ad trick
• Frozen iguanas falling from trees in South Florida
• Sunshine Map
• To Your Brain, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’

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Conferences, et. al.

• June 1-4: ChefConf 2020
• KubeCon EU, March 30 – April 2*,* use discount code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
• DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
• Devopsdays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
• Listener Brett wants you to go to THAT Conference August 3 - 6, 2020 - Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: The Outsider on HBO
• Coté: Tasty Meats Paul’s latest kubernetes and Spring talk. Also, Paul’s food in Instagram.