Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.
The Rundown
Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ
Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Released | ServeTheHome
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
Zoom
Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand
Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft
Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too - Last Week in AWS
Digitial Ocean: It's all about the bandwidth
Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It
Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
Fortnite
Travis Scott Fortnite Twitter Thread
Fortnite Stats
Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security
Relevant to your interests
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Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use
Cote.pizza
Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of
Why we can’t build
It’s Time To Learn
Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products’
How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan
AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs
Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility
Nonsense
What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel?
Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter
All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say
Microservices Video — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile
Old french safe
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
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