Episode 362: Are we using version control?

This week we discuss work life balance, the State of Continuous Delivery Survey and recap WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on Buddha and parenting…

Runner-up Titles

• The Buddha had no kids
• The Air Fryer is a PaaS.

Rundown

• Work vs. Life
  • Office workers get little reward for returning to the office – an idle factory is taboo
  • CEOs had a phenomenal year. Workers, less so
  • Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push
  • Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit
  • Ford factory workers get 40-hour week
• Survey Says
  • State of Continuous Delivery
  • Chainguard raises $50M Series A for supply chain security
• WWDC
  • Apple WWDC 2022: the 16 biggest announcements
  • Create macOS or Linux virtual machines - WWDC22 - Videos
  • Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura
  • All the New Features Coming to Your Mac This Fall
  • EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices

Relevant to your Interests

• Earnings
  • HashiCorp quarter
  • MongoDB quarter
  • GitLab quarter
  • Salesforce stock jumps as it raises profit forecast
  • Tech Valuations Tumble, but Business Software Stocks Are Cushioned by the Cloud
  • A Framework for Navigating Down Markets
• VMware
  • Good thread (VMware history)
  • Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure
  • Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware
  • Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure
  • Brian Madden’s brutal and unfiltered thoughts on the Broadcom / VMware deal
  • Broadcom will tame the VMware beast
  • VMware Blockchain
• Bolt, the payments start-up, has begun laying off employees.
• Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
• Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
• OpenStack, except it's outer space,
• Microsoft confirms it's taking a 'new approach' with its game streaming device | Engadget
• How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person
• Over 380 000 open Kubernetes API servers | The Shadowserver Foundation
• Twitter fined $150M for misusing 2FA data
• First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto.
• Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone'
• Microsoft won't lower software costs on AWS, Google clouds
• A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says
• Forget LinkedIn—Your Next Job Offer Could Come via Slack
• Sheryl Sandberg will leave Meta after 14 years this fall
• This crypto startup believes 'sex-to-earn' is the future of web3
• ExpressVPN rejects CERT-In directives, removes its India servers
• MongoDB CTO on (no)SQL, Superapps, and Southeast Asia
• Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls
• This VR headset will measure a user's brain activity
• Tesla has to respond to increase in phantom braking complaints
• Amazon’s retail CEO is resigning after 23 years
• Zoom Hires Greg Tomb as President
• Peloton hires Amazon Web Services executive Liz Coddington as new CFO in latest shakeup
• Musk accuses Twitter of 'resisting and thwarting' his right to information on fake accounts
• ‘A new IBM’: How the tech giant simplified its marketing
• Coinbase extends hiring pause for 'foreseeable future' and plans to rescind some offers
• Evading the Big Blue Name Police
• IBM CEO explains why company offloaded Watson Health
• MongoDB fires up new cloud, on-premises releases
• In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data
• OpenCost: Open Source Collaboration on Kubernetes Cost Standards
• Kubecost launches open-source OpenCost project
• Datadog’s 2022 State of Serverless report
• The IRS needs digital transformation
• Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner

Nonsense

• The Cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW)
• WSJ News Exclusive | Justin Timberlake Sells Song Catalog to Blackstone-Backed Fund
• Every person in the U.S. now receives an average of 65 packages a year.
• Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise
• Flying ice cream? Unilever links with drone delivery service Flytrex
• Texas to reclaim home of the largest Buc-ee’s

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Listener Feedback / Jobs

• Tim wants you to work at Biogen as a Global DevOps Lead, Commercial & Medical IT
• Walmart is hiring Principal Software Engineer - Linux Kernel in Sunnyvale, California
• Ryan wants you to work at DataDog as the Vice President, Events and Field Marketing
• J&J Senior Algorithm Analytics Engineer in Redwood City, California | Medical Devices
• NYTimes is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - CI/CD Platform

Conferences

• FinOps X, June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
• DevOps Loop, June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
• Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
• DevOpsDayLA is happening at SCALE19x, July, 29th, 2022
  • Discount code: DEVOP
• THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
  • Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 - $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
  • Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 - $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
• VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023,

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• Brandon: Apple Watch SE for Tweens
• Coté: Matt Levine interview on The Longform podcast.

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