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)
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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
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Recommendations
Brandon: Epic Games episode of Acquired Podcast.
Coté: Kubernetes and portability (Simon Sharwood summary, original from Marco Meinardi).
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