Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS

The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.

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Mood board:

• The Christmas Greenwich Meantime.
• The Salary Vortex.
• Podcast Google Alert.
• Overnight he is growing 7 inches.
• Throwing fish at a growing seal.
• I want to be 63.
• We’re way too top heavy.
• Hot in the sun, cold in the shade.
• Is this because of the Federal Reserve?
• The chaos monkey of IPOs.
• What happened to SVNLab?
• College phrases from random places.
• War Birds and Red Tides.

Relevant to your interests

• VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat
• Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux
• CentOS release
• A developer goes to a DevOps conference
• GitLab
  • Announcing $268 million in Series E funding
  • GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation
  • GitLab Strategy
• GitHub
  • GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot code exploits
  • Welcome Semmle to the GitHub family
• Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation
• Google Warns LastPass Users Were Exposed To ‘Last Password’ Credential Leak
• Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments
• Hold My Beer – Let's Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge
• Apple reschedules iOS 13.1 and iPadOS releases for September 24th
• What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud

Nonsense

• The Question of Whether or Not WeWork Is a Tech Company Has Been Answered

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Conferences, et. al.

• Sep 25th - Something in London.
• Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
• Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
• Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
• Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
• December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
• Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.

SDT news & hype

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• Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• 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: Use Audible Credits in iPhone App; Radiolab’s episode Tit for Tat.
• Matt: Aphex Twin’s website for b-sides and other miscellany
• Coté: second bike. Traveling Salesmen - how does it work?

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