Episode 248: They want cloud grade

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.

The Rundown

• Google Next
  • Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough'
  • BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics
  • Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise
• Rackspace
  • Rackspace IPO S1
  • Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership
  • Long Term Stock Exchange

Relevant to your interests

• VC
  • Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock
  • Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M
  • Auth0 Announces $120M in Series F Funding
• Messaging
  • Slack has filed an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Teams in the EU
  • Major Gmail redesign will bring Chat, Meet, Tasks and Docs into one interface
  • Share screens using Messages on Mac
• AWS
  • Salesforce, AWS launch Amazon Connect integration with Service Cloud | ZDNet
  • Announcing AWS App2Container - Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud
  • Just Too Efficient from Tim Bray
  • Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk
  • The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS
• Hacks and Outages
  • Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside
  • Twitter explains outage on Twitter
  • Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others – TechCrunch
  • Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story - Tony Chen, Microsoft - Platform Security Summit 2019
• IBM
  • IBM improves gross margins in Q2 under new CEO
  • IBM Earnings Preview: Red Hat Merger Is The Future, But Pandemic Timing Couldn't Be Worse
• Kube Corner
  • Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community - DevOps.com
  • Operator Framework
• More
  • 16 Must-Listen Podcasts for IT/Tech Professionals
  • Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle
  • JetBrains Technology Day for Java
  • Aerial fiber deployment, faster and more efficient - Facebook Engineering
  • You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot
  • TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They’re Infected
  • Samsung’s 6G White Paper Lays Out the Company’s Vision for the Next Generation of Communications Technology
  • The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic
  • It would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses
  • Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale
  • Dell Says It’s Exploring Potential Spinoff of VMware Unit
  • OKD4 is now Generally Available
  • VS Code grows, Emacs holds steady
  • Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started
  • How to setup Role based access to Kubernetes Cluster - InfraCloud Technologies
  • A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web
  • Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation
  • How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves
  • Straddling the firewall: cloud from 2010 to 2020 (& what to do next)
  • SUSE releases major Linux update | ZDNet
  • How to broadcast to Twitch and Zoom with OBS

Nonsense

• Travel Dress Pant Sweatpants
• IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old
• British Airways retires its entire fleet of Boeing 747 jets
• I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors
• Coté’s ambient noise videos

Conferences

• SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd.
• Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th.
• GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th.

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Recommendations

• Matt Ray: Palm Springs.
• Brandon: Reckoning.
• Coté:
  • Vivino wine app (you can order wine, next day!)
  • Apple Magic Touch pad thing.
  • Setapp.

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