Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings… Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HabWg2nxKf2-qAavMSihlHbACjpr-qVDJFeBTKAJZJQ/edit) Rundown Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3656734/perforce-to-acquire-infrastructure-as-code-pioneer-puppet.html) The PE Yo-Yo Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion (https://www.reuters.com/business/thoma-bravo-buy-cybersecurity-firm-sailpoint-69-bln-ft-2022-04-11/) Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/12/private-equity-giant-kkr-buys-security-firm-barracuda-networks/) How big could the cloud get? 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(https://blogs.gartner.com/mark-mcdonald/2022/04/13/how-do-you-know-when-a-business-leads-with-technology/) CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders (https://news.a2z.com/articles/ceo-andy-jassy-s-letter-to-shareholders-2?bypass_deeplink=true) Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey (https://www.infoq.com/articles/k8s-cncf-survey-chasm/) Nonsense USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert (https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.html) CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report (https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/cnn-draws-fewer-than-10000-daily-viewers-report/) The Origins of the Dutch Angle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofBDXc749wE) Sponsors Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOps Days Birmingham AL, (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022 Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th. 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