This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.
Rundown
- Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
- M&A
- Microsoft
- Earnings
- The Commodification of DevOps
- Crypto miners are killing free CI
Relevant to your interests
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- Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln
- Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
- Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years
- Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
- Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt
- SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast
- Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts
- What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS
- Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch
- How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data
- Changes at Basecamp
- Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours
- IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM)
- HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure
- Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party
- The Slander Industry
- What really happened at Basecamp
- Changes at Basecamp
- In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
Nonsense
- YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993
- Google Timelapse
- World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction
- "Microsoft Excel Influencer”
- N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash
- Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font
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Conferences
- RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14, 2021.
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Recommendations
- Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)
- Matt: Leeroy Jenkins
- Coté: MonitorControl. You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid.
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