The week we preview AWS re:Invent, breakdown the latest CNCF Survey and discuss container adoption. Plus, a review of banking apps, Google Pay and an update on Coté’s quest to achieve the iPad Lifestyle.
The Rundown
AWS RE:invent (https://virtual.awsevents.com/agenda)
CNCF survey (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNCF_Survey_Report_2020.pdf)
Datadog Report 11 facts about real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21573109/epic-tim-sweeney-apple-app-store-fee-cut-reduction-criticize)
Cloud gaming services use iPhone's web browser door (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-765269c9-3841-4958-aa1d-839cb1e51e04.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3)
Roblox IPO (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-be45e818-9f5c-4fd5-a285-5f00beef25e3.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi (https://puppet.com/resources/report/2020-state-of-devops-report/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldSbVpUbGtaVEZtWVRFMiIsInQiOiJhYWtBcEcxQ3Z2TitXcCtkbXJDZTBIbVcrb25qMEtTR1VvWXZNaDV2QmZEXC96ekJxZGxIRmxcL0JwaHdjN1FVYWMrUm9rRG8rYTE3QmozRlo4QU9IdFhvRWt3WUNvdDVvZWJSVmpLaFEzZnhNMllocGZNZUlUS0RmcVwvTDVZSEh3RSJ9)
FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M, announces $400M investment – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/19/fireeye-acquires-respond-software-for-186m-announces-400m-investment/)
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools (https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/)
CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/11/exclusive-cia-awards-secret-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract/170227/)
The Substackerati (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2904)
Act against Deep fakes (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2904)
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html)
Nonsense
The Ultimate Texas Tacopedia — Texas Monthly (https://apple.news/Am6Utkw2LT3ef1xCA3R4Q7A)
Professor Cold Takes 2: Freeze Harder (https://twitter.com/vcbrags/status/1330510704441503744?s=21)
Kubernetes Services explained (https://twitter.com/rpkatz/status/1330511026849275909?s=21)
Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21573109/epic-tim-sweeney-apple-app-store-fee-cut-reduction-criticize)
(https://twitter.com/rpkatz/status/1330511026849275909?s=21)
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Coté: PDF Expert (https://pdfexpert.com/ios). Dithering (https://dithering.fm) podcast is still good.
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