Episode 373: Everything is a nail, find your hammers

This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means.

Runner-up Titles

• All I am doing is sharing anecdotes
• That’s the problem with spellcheck
• Maccas?
• College here is High School
• Every cloud has its own sausage
• Here’s a unicode cow
• All Rust looks the same
• Too Good for GitHub
• The Shameful GitHub

Rundown

• Simplifying Kubernetes,
  • Introducing Acorn
  • Waypoint
  • CNAB
  • Habitat
  • Dagger
• 25 Most Popular Programming Languages Used By DevOps Pros
• Making sense of CSV
  • The Microsoft Excel World Championship is as brilliantly entertaining as it sounds
  • Data Prep with Power Query
  • https://jupyter.org
• Passwords still a problem
  • Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins
  • Cisco Confirms Network Breach Via Hacked Employee Google Account
  • Remove my password from lists so hackers won’t be able to hack me

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Nonsense

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