Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify

Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.

The Rundown

• Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ
• Ubuntu
  • Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Released | ServeTheHome
• Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
• Zoom
  • Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand
  • Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft
  • Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too - Last Week in AWS
  • Digitial Ocean: It's all about the bandwidth
  • Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It
  • Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
• Fortnite
  • Travis Scott Fortnite Twitter Thread
  • Fortnite Stats
• Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security

Relevant to your interests

• Deploy Cloud Foundry to Google Kubernetes in 10 minutes
• Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use
• Cote.pizza
• Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of
• Why we can’t build
• It’s Time To Learn
• Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products’
• How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan
• AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs
• Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility

Nonsense

• What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel?
• Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter
• All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say
• Microservices Video — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile
• Old french safe

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Conferences, Videos et. al.

• Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
• Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
• ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
• MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.

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• Brandon: Sony X950G
• Matt Ray: Privacy Redirect
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