Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

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 (https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production) Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways) (https://thenewstack.io/knative-crowds-out-other-serverless-software-packages-and-other-cncf-survey-takeaways/) Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/slack-is-working-on-microsoft-teams-calling-integration-says-ceo.html) DHH is not happy with Zoom (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1245097507488583681?s=21) Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all (https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/) Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21200844/microsoft-skype-zoom-houseparty-coronavirus-pandemic-usage-growth-competition) Zoom responds with a Blog Post (https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/) Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans-zoom) Zoom isn’t Malware. (https://medium.com/@0xamit/zoom-isnt-malware-ae01618e2046) IBM New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/07/arvind_krishna_becomes_ibm_ceo_letter_to_staff/) IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business (https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/06/business/06reuters-ibm-moves.html) My first day as CEO - our journey together (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-first-day-ceo-our-journey-together-arvind-krishna/) RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/06/red_hat_ceo_paul_cormier/) Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/email-associates-red-hat-president-and-ceo-paul-cormier) CircleCI CircleCI Raises $100M Series E (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/circleci-raises-100m-series-e/) CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment (https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/07/circleci-100-million-automate-app-testing-and-deployment/) Apple Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201666/apple-acquires-weather-app-dark-sky-shut-down-android-wear-os-ios) Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/07/apples-sms-one-time-passcode-proposal-moves-forward-with-help-from-google) Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million (https://wccftech.com/apple-to-buy-virtual-reality-streaming-company-nextvr-for-100-million/) iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features (https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/01/ios-14-keychain-password-features/) The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2020/02/18/marketplace-100/) Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers (https://cloudblog-withgoogle-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/cloudblog.withgoogle.com/products/gaming/introducing-google-cloud-game-servers/amp/) Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation (https://thenewstack.io/forresters-surprising-discovery-about-robotic-process-automation/) Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/new-microsoft-google-amazon-cloud-battle-over-world-without-code.html) Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics (https://www.zdnet.com/article/booz-allen-analyzed-200-russian-hacking-operations-to-better-understand-their-tactics/) Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/) The Next Chapter of Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-meetup/) SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/softbank-wework-shares.html) Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak (https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/03/portland-marketing-technology-startup-opal-lays-off-20-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html) OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/oneweb-goes-bankrupt-wont-challenge-spacex-in-satellite-broadband-race/) HashiCorp Joins the CNCF (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-the-cncf/) Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic (https://nianticlabs.com/blog/6d/) MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/mongodbs-field-level-encryption-protects-private-data-even-from-dbas/) Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production (http://newsroom.medtronic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/medtronic-shares-ventilation-design-specifications-accelerate) Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/03/26/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 (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200402005017/en/Founded-Ex-Googlers-Tailscale-Launches-Secure-Simplify-Remote) Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014 (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/kpt-packaging-up-your-kubernetes.html) Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers (https://qz.com/1832988/covid-19-results-in-new-jersey-desperately-needing-cobol-coders/) Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset (https://ma.tt/2020/03/dont-mute-get-a-better-headset/) Non Sense Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic (https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/) Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights... (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/01/lobsters_coronavirus_australia/) 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email. (https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1243293912049090566?s=21) My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting (https://twitter.com/PettyClegg/status/1244649528285855746) HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release (https://tedium.co/2020/03/31/hp-touchpad-history/) Trump order encourages US to mine the moon (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/SDT-227--Ax2Uwny~HBV2GC0LqlnGLoEDAg-tTxEENZQ7Uw3eBuH3P5GB) CNCF Puzzle (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVB5M3vWoAAVg9C.jpg) 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 (http://MongoDB.Live) on June 9-10, 2020 Conferences, Videos et. al. 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