Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…

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Rundown

Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet
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Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion
Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks

How big could the cloud get? Part 1

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This smells like shenanigans

Episode 353

April 15th, 2022

51 mins 58 secs

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About this Episode

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…

Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups

Rundown

• Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet

• The PE Yo-Yo

• Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion

• Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks

• How big could the cloud get? Part 1

Relevant to your Interests

• Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge

• Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch

• Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon

• Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids

• What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don’t Get

• Are Microsoft’s days as the ‘friendly’ tech giant over? – POLITICO

• The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week

• Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems

• Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer

• ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost

• Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs

• How do you know when a business leads with technology?

• CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders

• Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey

Nonsense

• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert

• CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report

• The Origins of the Dutch Angle

Sponsors

• Drata — Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT

Conferences

• THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022

• Discount Codes:

• Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75

• 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50

• Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75

• DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022

• Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.

• DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022

• DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022

• MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022

• Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022

• THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022

• VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022

• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.

• Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!

• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

• Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations

• To Scale

• Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it?

Photo Credits

• Banner Header

• CoverArt

Episode Sponsors

[Drata

Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot](https://drata.com/partner/SDT)

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