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Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.

Relevant to your interests

Unikernels are unfit for production
Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways)
Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system
Slack, Teams and Conferencing

Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield
DHH is not happy with Zoom
Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
Zoom responds with a Blog Post
Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities
Zoom isn’t Malware.

IBM

New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware
IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business
My first day as CEO - our journey together
RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era
Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier

CircleCI

CircleCI Raises $100M Series E
CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment

Apple

Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google
Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million
iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features

The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz
Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers
Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation
Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code
Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics
Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity
The Next Chapter of Meetup
SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares
Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak
OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business
HashiCorp Joins the CNCF
Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic
MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs
Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production
Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem
Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M
Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014
Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers
Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset

Non Sense

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic
Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights...
50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email.
My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting
HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release
Trump order encourages US to mine the moon
CNCF Puzzle