Episode 287: The Bureaucracy Episode

This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad? Rundown LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know. (https://thehustle.co/02222021-linkedin-gig-marketplace/?amp=1) Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new-gig-a-linkedin-freelancer-market-rivaling-upwork-fiverr) Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/platform9-raises-additional-series-d-140000245.html) HEY World experiment (https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1363956784600281088?s=20) Relevant to your interests Clouds The Google Cloud Surge: 5 Slides from Thomas Kurian Tell the Story (https://cloudwars.co/google-cloud/google-cloud-at-goldman-sachs-5-slides-explain-surge/) HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/hpe-acquires-cloud-assessment-crown-jewel-cloudphysics) Watson IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-explores-sale-of-ibm-watson-health-11613696770) IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-said-consider-sale-watson-020948431.html) Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/20/happy_birthday_python_youre_30/) IPOs and M&A Airbrake has been acquired by LogicMonitor (http://bwhichard:grinning: 7:46 PM https://twitter.com/airbrake/status/1364214679569072130?s=21) TransferWise rebrands as Wise ahead of an expected IPO (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/21/wise/) HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/hpe-acquires-cloud-assessment-crown-jewel-cloudphysics) Security SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/23/solarwinds-hack-senate-hearing-microsoft) SolarWinds Hack Grabs Senate Spotlight With CEO in the Hot Seat (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/key-lawmaker-prepares-for-first-public-hearing-on-major-hack) Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security (https://www.wired.com/story/apple-platform-security-guide-researchers/) New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-malware-found-on-30000-macs-has-security-pros-stumped/) RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things - Running with Ruby (https://mensfeld.pl/2021/02/rubygems-dependency-confusion-attack-side-of-things/) Investing The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/gamestop-price-congress-robinhood.html?smid=url-share) Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap, Soars To Another Record High (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bitcoin-market-cap_n_602fee6bc5b66dfc101e4ac1) Chips Chip Shortage (https://twitter.com/anjani_trivedi/status/1364392820761522177?s=20) Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains (https://link.thehustle.co/click/23038968.125304/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMi8yNC9iaWRlbi1zaWducy1leGVjdXRpdmUtb3JkZXItdG8tYWRkcmVzcy1jaGlwLXNob3J0YWdlLXRocm91Z2gtYS1zdXBwbHktY2hhaW4tcmV2aWV3Lmh0bWw/5f3be10f2c81bf6314610498B60246b50) IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/24/aix_7_3_announced/) Salesforce is building a private CRM for the State Department (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/salesforce-private-crm-state-department?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Overcast overhauls its Apple Watch app (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22300649/overcast-podcast-app-new-watch-update) As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success? (https://www.zdnet.com/article/as-power-bi-aces-gartners-new-magic-quadrant-whats-the-story-behind-microsofts-success/) Nonsense Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business (https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-closure/index.html) New next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your (https://twitter.com/samjmintz/status/1364321263439724544) Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it (https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-echo-frames/) Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT) Listener Feedback Cloudbees is looking for a Remote DevOps Consultant-Continuous Delivery (https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudbees/jobs/2928508) anywhere in North America. Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/) SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp). 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