This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office. Rundown Did we market Knative wrong? Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake. Relevant to your interests Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now State of Digital Operations Nonsense Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville 24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks. Conferences Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30 RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14 THAT Conference, July 26-29 SpringOne, Sep 1-2 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 Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. 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. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Listen to my appearance on The Cloudcast Framing Britney Spears on Hulu Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Matt: We Are the Champions ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers Coté: La La IJs. Photo Credit Photo CreditSponsored By:CBT Nuggets: Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt. strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.