Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads.
The Rundown
VMware’s app modernization chief: ‘We’ve put to bed the debate about containers versus virtual machines’ (https://siliconangle.com/2020/09/01/vmwares-app-modernization-chief-weve-put-bed-debate-containers-versus-virtual-machines/)
Zoom — Fad or new dominant over lord
Zoom crushes Q2 analyst expectations amid pandemic (https://www.axios.com/zoom-crushes-q2-analyst-expectations-amid-pandemic-8d2efec7-0aa4-4a8d-9fba-b278709c6a4f.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
I have never seen such numbers in my life. $ZM. (https://twitter.com/_ram_/status/1300538139971260416?s=21)
What happened at Kubecon: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/08/kubecon-cloudnativecon-summary/)
BPF Performance Tools (http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html)
Security
Valley private equity firm pays Dell $2.1B for RSA security business (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/02/19/palo-alto-private-equity-firm-buys-rsa-security.html)
Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/former_cisco_engineer_aws_webex_teams/)
Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/stolen-fortnite-accounts-sold-as-part-of-1-billion-black-market)
Follow up
Discord is a thing…Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d2587314-f65c-4cf0-b20f-50ab02564d47.html?chunk=1&utm_term=twsocialshare#story1)
Apple
New Apple TV in the works with 'upgraded' remote, Find My Apple TV remote feature (https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/31/bloomberg-apple-tv-new-remote/)
Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil (https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/apple-google-or-facebook-fortnite-lawsuit-shows-who-s-been-ncna1238775)
Is anyone going to buy TikTok
Poll: Google is the best fit to buy TikTok (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7faca673-ebfe-4d17-acd4-de2c17c60823.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Relevant to your Interests
AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability (https://siliconangle.com/2020/08/31/aws-launches-bottlerocket-container-operating-system-general-availability/)
Facebook may block news from being shared on its platforms in Australia (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/31/21409644/facebook-block-news-australia-legislation-google-publishers)
Tencent's Dreams, Part II: Investing In The Metaverse (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4371548-tencents-dreams-part-ii-investing-in-metaverse?utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&mail_subject=must-read-tencent-s-dreams-part-ii-investing-in-the-metaverse&utm_campaign=nl-must-read&utm_content=link-1)
Dell enjoys solid earnings beat thanks to remote-work demand surge (https://siliconangle.com/2020/08/27/dell-enjoys-solid-earnings-beat-thanks-remote-work-demand-surge/)
Nonsense
The Resilience of Costco (https://issuu.com/slowappreciation/docs/costco_deck)
Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | email with nuance (https://heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com/)
Airline pilots reported seeing 'a guy in a jetpack' flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airline-pilots-reported-seeing-guy-jetpack-flying-3-000-feet-n1239027?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)
Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790) (https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/joseph-ducreux-self-portraits)
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Conferences
Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world). September 22-24, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
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Listen to Brandon’s Interview Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/254)
Recommendations
Matt Ray: FTL: Faster Than Light (https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html)
Brandon: The Vow on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-vow)
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