With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview), but who has time for that?
Relevant to your interests
A 3-year-old boy repeatedly entered the wrong password, locked up his dad’s iPad until 2067 (https://fox4kc.com/2019/04/09/a-3-year-old-boy-repeatedly-entered-the-wrong-password-locked-up-his-dads-ipad-until-2067/)
Anthos | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/)
Anthos docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview)
New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook to help catch up to Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-oracle-strategies-2019-4)
Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/googles-anthos-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-coming-to-aws-and-azure/)
Analysts get hot under collar as ex-Oracle cloud guru ditches corporate wardrobe for Google (http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/09/kurian_oracle_google_indicates_enterprise_change/)
Collaboration with Anaconda, Inc. (https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2019/04/collaboration-with-anaconda-inc/)
"Open source" companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure (https://boingboing.net/2019/04/04/open-ish.html)
Jeff Bezos retains control of Amazon after divorce (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295609/jeff-bezos-amazon-mackenzie-voting-power-control-blue-origin)
Microsoft Introduces Azure Front Door, a Scalable Service for Protecting Web Applications (https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/Azure-Front-Door)
(https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html)- Pinterest sets IPO terms below last private valuation (https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html)
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Drills Down On Cloud Adoption And Amazon’s Culture (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-ceo-andy-jassy-drills-down-on-cloud-adoption-and-amazon-s-culture)
Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English (https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/)
Netflix axes Apple AirPlay support (https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-kills-apple-airplay-support/)
Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports massively overstate broadband adoption (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/)
Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations (https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-04-04-tech-company-drops-conference-swag-in-favor-of-13-000-school-donations)
Slack integration with Office 365 one more step toward total enterprise integration (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/slack-integration-with-office-365-one-more-step-toward-total-enterprise-integration/)
Nonsense
Japanese Hotel Launches Unnecessary $900 Burger to Celebrate New Emperor (https://www.eater.com/2019/4/3/18293431/grand-hyatt-tokyo-oak-door-expensive-burger)
Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today (http://www.righto.com/2019/04/iconic-consoles-of-ibm-system360.html?m=1)
GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/06/gps-rollover-is-today-heres-why-devices-might-get-wacky/)
Interview
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) on this week’s Software Defined Interviews (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com). Great discussion about his experience starting Chef and Chef’s decision to make 100% of products open source.
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
April 11th, 2019 (https://www.enterprise-cio.com/) - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Free lunch and stickers!
ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Coté: The Tick (https://www.amazon.com/The-Tick/dp/B01J776HVW), season 2.
Brandon: Apple iPad Pro First Gen (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FLMP2LL/A/Refurbished-97-inch-iPad-Pro-Wi-Fi-32GB-Silver?fnode=d85254fd5d3b07671c8897146a62e29357b455f205e12cb229cd884a5104fa2103009c40cd05032029a9eced87bec0c6e4dd7dc16983300eb67d1bdeabb19bc9eaabaaa8d39f5152cd918bb148d97a42)
Outro: Can't fix the car without a whole lotta milka (https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g), Kids in the Hall (https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g).
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