What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online. Mood board: Sounds normal for now. It was kinda cool, kinda sad. Covered in yoke. We just had to speed test it out. Katamari Damacy M&A. I hate network monitoring, shut it all down! The ProductTK. 7G. What’s the plural of Kubernetes? Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that? Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life. Return the Jewels. The Rundown Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes Relevant to your interests What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground Police scanner apps get record downloads Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs Where GREP Came From - Computerphile Software Engineering Within SpaceX Nonsense Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea. Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too. Conferences MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020 THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts. Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4. Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks. Header photo from Andrew, probably.