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Cote and Brandon discuss PagerDuty's acquisition of Rundeck, the current state of AIOps and why is Reed Hastings writing a book about Netflix’s Culture. Plus, some advice on haircuts. The Rundown PagerDuty PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck to Expand DevOps Automation Capabilities Across Digital Operations | PagerDuty PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck Exclusive: Netflix, Google, GitHub top employer survey Survey. Relevant to your Interests Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. Judge blocks US ban on WeChat that was set to go into effect today New downloads of TikTok, WeChat to be blocked in U.S. on Sunday Larry Ellison’s statement about the TikTok Snowflake May Melt Before Your Eyes Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon – TechCrunch Chef Gets Gobbled Up (Whiteboard Confessional) - Last Week in AWS Who wants to buy a video service no one watches? Quibi is trying to find out. Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm How BT is shifting its engineers into the fast lane Microsoft unveils Azure Orbital, competing with Amazon to connect satellites to the cloud SUSE Announces Third Quarter Financial Results - insideHPC Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps? TransferWise reports accelerating revenue growth to 70% in its March, 2020 fiscal year Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff' Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables State of Cloud Learning Report 2020 Nonsense LAMBDA - A Serverless Musical (Hamilton "My Shot" Parody) Classic crispy tacos | Homesick Texan Qantas' 'Flight to Nowhere' Sells Out in Just 10 Minutes Costco co-founder once said ‘I will kill you’ to CEO who wanted to hike the price of the $1.50 hot dog combo Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One How to use iOS 14’s App Library to organize your apps Coté: Pilot G-2 07, blue. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:Twilio: Twilio is the platform that millions of developers trust to build seamless communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. It’s time to build. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

This week we discuss Snowflake’s IPO, Forrester’s Multicloud Container Wave and Nvidia buying ARM. Plus, an extensive discussion of what constitutes a breakfast taco. The Rundown IPOs Snowflake shares more than double. It's the biggest software IPO ever Worth more than VMware. Sumo Logic's IPO prices above the expected range Tech investors await IPO bonanza next week, highlighted by Snowflake and Unity, even as market looks shaky Multicloud Red Hat Named a Leader in Forrester Multicloud Container Development Platforms Wave VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup Simplify Your Approach to Application Modernization with 4 Simple Editions for the Tanzu Portfolio Tiffany’s overview of VMware Tanzu kubernetes stuff. ARM SoftBank is reportedly preparing to sell ARM to Nvidia for more than $40 billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Nvidia’s Integration Dreams It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40B To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut SiPearl Lets Rhea Design Leak: 72x Zeus Cores, 4x HBM2E, 4-6 DDR5 AWS is bursting with pride for its Arm CPU cores – so much it’s put them behind a burstable instance type Relevant to your Interests Hyland enters definitive agreement to acquire Alfresco Mellanox Technologies now called NVIDIA Networking after acquisition Oracle's stock jumps as company returns to growth Michael Dell: ‘We Are Not Selling VMware’ VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture Using JAAS in the Cloud Era GitLab’s radical vision for the future of remote work Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. Marc Andreessen On Productivity Building YouTube Shorts, a new way to watch & create on YouTube Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years The S-1 Club | Unity is Manifesting the Metaverse Amazon's profits, AWS and advertising — Benedict Evans A $200 Million Seed Valuation - Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation Microsoft Says Its Bid for TikTok Was Rejected in U.S.-China Standoff TikTok Reaches Deal to Sell U.S. Operations to Oracle | Digital Trends Oracle poised to become TikTok's U.S. technology partner after Chinese owners reject Microsoft's bid Nonsense The billionaire behind 'Fortnite' has played over 1,600 matches without anyone knowing it was him Paul Rudd, Certified Young Person Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Conferences Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt: Supersizers Go. Brandon: Raised by Wolves. Coté: Beyond the Phoenix Project. Image Credit Image CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Cote and Brandon discuss Chef being acquired, the Private Equity Operating Model and Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant. Plus, Cote offers advice on peanut better and jelly sandwiches. The Rundown Chef Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef | Progress Software Corporation Adam Jacob on Chef’s acquisition Progress snags software automation platform Chef for $220M – TechCrunch The Fourth Chapter of Chef Has Arrived: Progress to Purchase Chef - Chef Blog Chef launched careers Gartner MQ Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Relevant to your Interests JEDI Oracle loses $10B JEDI cloud contract appeal yet again – TechCrunch Pentagon Awards JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft for the Second Time Epic v. Apple Tim Sweeney on Fortnite's Metaverse ambitions (from Epic's Friday filings in Epic v Apple) Apple will seek damages from Epic Games for breach of App Store contract Netflix Culture Work from home? Reed Hastings on Netflix's ‘Hunger Games’ culture: Only focus on employees you'd fight to keep JFrog JFrog sets terms for Nasdaq IPO at valuation of over $3b JFrog Video Security Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise – TechCrunch Giving developers the tools to do security checks Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all Kube Corner No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too Why Adopting Kubernetes for Application Portability Is Not a Good Idea - Marco Meinardi Should You Run a Database in Docker? Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to plow more than $550 million into Snowflake when the cloud-data company goes public | Markets Insider CloudBees Supports General Public License (GPL) Cooperation Commitment Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic | APNIC Blog SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation TikTok plans Los Angeles "transparency center" to assuage critics Red Hat Launches an OpenShift-Based Marketplace to Aid Multicloud Portability Nonsense These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat CNCF Landscape Puzzle | Etsy Carol Baskins Recommends Emacs Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Sidequest — Start tracking your tasks in Slack. Start your free 30-day trial today at: getsidequest.app/sdt. Use promo code SDT for 50% off the first six months. Conferences Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Epic Games episode of Acquired Podcast. Coté: Kubernetes and portability (Simon Sharwood summary, original from Marco Meinardi). Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.Sidequest: Start tracking your tasks in Slack. Start your free 30-day trial today at: getsidequest.app/sdt. Use promo code SDT for 50% off the first six months. Promo Code: SDT

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’ Zoom — Fad or new dominant over lord Zoom crushes Q2 analyst expectations amid pandemic I have never seen such numbers in my life. $ZM. What happened at Kubecon: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary BPF Performance Tools Security Valley private equity firm pays Dell $2.1B for RSA security business Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts 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 Apple New Apple TV in the works with 'upgraded' remote, Find My Apple TV remote feature Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil Is anyone going to buy TikTok Poll: Google is the best fit to buy TikTok Relevant to your Interests AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability Facebook may block news from being shared on its platforms in Australia Tencent's Dreams, Part II: Investing In The Metaverse Dell enjoys solid earnings beat thanks to remote-work demand surge Nonsense The Resilience of Costco Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | email with nuance Airline pilots reported seeing 'a guy in a jetpack' flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790) Sponsor strongDM strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Johan in Sweden. Sent to stickers to Sacha in Belgium Conferences Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 EnvoyCon 2020 October 15, 2020 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Listen to Brandon’s Interview Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design Recommendations Matt Ray: FTL: Faster Than Light Brandon: The Vow on HBO Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.

Brandon interviews Alexandra Martinez and they discuss the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, API Design and ProstDev. Plus, Alexandra recommends the best tacos in Monterrey, Mexico. Show links ProstDev MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Contact Alexandra Image CreditSpecial Guest: Alexandra N. Martinez.

This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…? The Rundown IPOs the Palantir IPO mission statement is an amazing artifact. Software Developer Tools Company JFrog Adds to Tech IPO Rush. Asana files to go public via direct listing. Snowflake files for IPO, taking on Amazon and Microsoft cloud database businesses. Unity’s IPO filing shows how big a threat it poses to Epic and the Unreal Engine. Redis Labs, Maker Of Database Software, Hits $1 Billion Valuation With New Fundraise. Gamers are logging millions of hours a day on Roblox. Relevant to your Interests Apple A14X Bionic to Be ‘Nearly on Par’ With 8-Core Intel Core i9-9880H, According to Fresh Performance Analysis. Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all. Epic Games wins temporary ruling barring Apple from retaliation. Online Retailing Executives The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company. Downtown Las Vegas fixture Tony Hsieh leaves Zappos. Tony Hsieh out as CEO of shoe and clothing giant Zappos. MSFT Cloud Revenue: Microsoft Bigger than Amazon and Google, 2X IBM. Microsoft plans cloud contract push with foreign governments after $10 billion JEDI win. Microsoft’s new Transcribe in Word feature is designed for students, reporters, and more. TikTok Plans to Challenge Trump Administration Over Executive Order. At scale, all B2B products converge. It’s reports, alerts, workflow, permissions and approvals all the way down. Malicious Chinese SDK In 1,200 iOS Apps With Billions Of Installs Causing ‘Major Privacy. Concerns To Hundreds Of Millions Of Consumers.’ Freedom of cloud choice: The myths and truths about multi-cloud. Application modernization requires more than just technology, lots of consultative analysis. Fun fact: Nvidia is now worth more than Intel + AMD combined. TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?” Nonsense @PopeyesChicken mobile app doesn't think @heyhey email addresses are real. Sponsor CloudBees Register for DevOps Worlds by CloudBees and visit cloudbees.com to learn more about their products. Listener Feedback Eric wants you to work on monitoring Get a job at DigitalOcean. Conferences SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins. September 22-24, 2020 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt Ray: Connected:Digits Benford’s Law. Anti-recommendation: San Miguel Nacho Cheese. Brandon: Yellowstone Season 3 Finale. Coté: Microsoft OneNote…? Photo CreditSponsored By:CloudBees: CloudBees invites you to attend their DevOps World Conference on September 22-24, 2020. It’s a free virtual event with talks on CI/CD at scale, DevSecOps, Chaos Engineering and AI and Machine Learning. Register today!

Why would Oracle buy TikTok? Why would Amazon invest in Rackspace? We answer these questions and discuss the state of cloud migrations. Plus, Matt and Coté offers advice on hot dogs. The Rundown Oracle and Tik Tok? Oracle interested in buying TikTok: report Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations Amazon invests in Rackspace? Amazon reportedly eyes Rackspace minority stake Exclusive: Amazon in talks to invest in cloud services company Rackspace Relevant to your Interests Monitoring Why Grafana: Part II Thanos Takes Scalable, Highly-Available Prometheus Monitoring to CNCF Incubation Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams IBM rolls out newest processor chip, taps Samsung for manufacturing Michigan is devoting a 40-mile stretch of highway to testing self-driving cars and improving public transportation Codice Software joins Unity Technologies to bring version control to real-time 3D workflows Professor Cold Takes Laying the foundation for Rust's future | Rust Blog Hot Chips 2020: Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs - Up to 60 Cores Per Die, 96 Dual-Die in 2021 R281-T94 (rev. 100) | ARM Servers - GIGABYTE Global WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Bets on Office-Based Work With Expansion in Major Cities Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You Apple and Epic are still fighting: Epic Games Newsroom Nonsense AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines - credit cards dollars/miles count for Milljon Miles program. The Qwerty Effect An Australian surfer saved his wife from a great white shark attack by leaping on the predator's back and repeatedly punching until it let go No worries Harry Potter's invisibility cloak is almost a reality, but only for likely military use Conferences GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt Ray: Arch Linux, so fun? IKEA veggie dogs Brandon: The Wubi Effect from Radiolab Coté: hot dogs, Danish red and American. Photo Credit

We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store. Plus, we offer advice on air conditioning and cars. The Rundown Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store TikTok Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveoutRelevant to your interests We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud. Datadog Why Datadog Stock Was Slammed on Friday @themotleyfool #stocks $DDOG Datadog Acquires Undefined Labs to Provide Visibility into CI/CD Workflows Why Datadog Stock Popped Today @themotleyfool #stocks $DDOG $CRM Google Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud? Google Cloud's expanding enterprise footprint and the rise of the 10 year deal ****- Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh based on Envoy – TechCrunch Matt’s corner Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm Relevant to your Interests The Ten Commandments of Container Security - InfraCloud Technologies The Second Edition of “The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem” Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns Apple Buys Startup to Challenge Square in Mobile Payments IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn't Even Using GNU/Linux Rackspace IPO prices at bottom of target range to raise about $703 million Mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer's apps - 9to5Mac Resigning from AWS on Ethical Grounds with Tim Bray — Screaming in the Cloud Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates Toshiba Will No Longer Make Laptops VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products | ZDNet Google rolls out virtual visiting card in India – TechCrunch Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes – TechCrunch Working in Public and the Economics of Free “Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." Nonsense Decision making IS FUN | Spin The Wheel App AAirpass kelseyhightower/mesh Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th. GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Sachin in NSW Australia Sent stickers to Jesse in Georgia, he says we are like family. Colin tweeted at us. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt Ray: Google Docs → Tools → Voice typing: Matt’s SDT 251 Transcript Brandon: Anker Wireless Charger Photo Credit Photo Credit

Slide decks, paper proposals and steering group sessions all take a significant investment to prepare, avoiding “difficult” conversations by socializing and re-socializing in advance of exec meetings, deferring decisions, requesting a raft of meeting minutes to document, correcting, amending and signing them off—the majority of which few people read.... The speed of these cycles determines the heartbeat of the organization. This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software. Check out the paper and Jana in LinkedIn. Also, check out the talk she has coming up at SpringOne Platform.Special Guest: Jana Werner.

The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap. The Rundown Friend us and follow SDT on Twitch: sdtpodcat New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation Analysts Estimate New Relic (NEWR) to Report a Decline in Earnings: Relevant to your interests How Kubernetes adds agility in challenging times The Impact of AI on Organizations The Opportunity in App Modernization Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverless Lunch Amazon reportedly invested in startups and gained proprietary information before launching competitors, often crushing the smaller companies in the process Huawei overtook Samsung in global smartphone shipments for Q2 – TechCrunch Transformation case study Growth+Sales: The New Era of Enterprise Go-to-Market Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud? Taiwan is now Arrakis | Epsilon Theory Congress's historic tech hearing suggests antitrust crackdown could come soon The new Teams experience Op-Ed: Kubernetes May Be Google’s Last Great Open Project Nonsense How to Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking more Conferences SpringOne Platform, Sep 2nd and 3rd. Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th. GitLab Commit: You Belong Here on Aug 26th. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Matt Ray: Anti-picks Cisco WebEx, Sabrent (no links, no recommendations) Brandon: Audio Hijack. Coté: AU apostrophe’s.