Episode 493: Stay in the sandbox

This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 493

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OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation
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Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly.

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Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,
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Stay in the sandbox

Episode 493

November 15th, 2024

1 hr 11 mins

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About this Episode

This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 493

Runner-up Titles

• Yes, No, Maybe

• Infinite Password Loop

• Bring your kids to work day: passwords.

• Password Talk

• Escaping characters

• Stone Cold Steve Austin

• Don’t hire people with pets

• Eats AWS stuff natively.

• I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox

• Enron for cloud purchasing

Rundown

• OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation

• Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance

• VMware

• Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery

• New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations

• M&A

• Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps

• Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic

• IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year

• Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely

• IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year

• VMware

• Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery

• New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations

• Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly.

• RTO

• Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals

• Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half

• Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'

• Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week

• Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great!

• Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs”

Relevant to your Interests

• Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI

• Threads has 275 M Monthly Users

• Dropbox is laying off 20% of its global workforce

• From IaC to Cloud Management: Pulumi's Evolution Story

• For Jeff Bezos and his businesses, Washington has become more important

• Russian court fines Google $2 decillion

• GitHub Next | GitHub Spark

• The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM

• Meta says open sourcing Llama models will be a money-saver

• Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts

• Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again

• Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types

• Nintendo Just Launched a Music Streaming App, and It's Surprisingly Good

• Why The US Military Chose Silicon-Graphene Batteries

• Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud

• Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It

• Curbside charging is coming to Michigan.

• Nintendo says the Switch successor will be compatible with Switch games

• Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference?

• Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)

• Thunderbolt 5: Only Necessary for the Most Demanding Uses

• Guide to Selling Your Company

• The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter

• IronCalc

• Neptyne is shutting down

• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI

• Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama

• Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance

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