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Episode 256: There is no passion in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

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

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

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!

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).

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