Episode 360: Radical Transparency

Software Defined Talk

This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad.

Runner-up Titles

• I’m here for the sandwich talk
• I want to get back to the garbage chairs
• Paying for Petrol
• Paying at the Pump
• Anonymize your trash
• I don’t want to improve
• Making life hard for HR
• Radical transparency for you, not me
• Where’d this public cloud come from?
• Don’t ever fall into the trap of sucking
• That’s a Circle

Rundown

• Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings
  • Bridgewater Principles & Culture
  • You need meeting knobs like this
• Seth Green's Stolen NFT Puts His New Animated Bored Ape Series in Jeopardy
• Adam Neumann’s Web3 Startup Raises $70 Million From VCs, ‘Goddess Nature Token’
• How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud?
• Zoom’s QTR

Relevant to your Interests

• Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
• Cloud Foundry Launches Korifi to Ease Kubernetes Development
• Get The Report: State of Observability 2022
• Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
• Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS | Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2022
• Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware
• Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware
• Dell Becomes Billionaire Kingmaker in Broadcom, VMware Deal
• Broadcom Discussing Paying Around $140 a Share for VMware, People Say
• DevOps inspiration from Toyota Production System and Lean considered harmful
• Artifice and Intelligence
• Klarna fires 10% of its team amid valuation crunch
• New – Amazon EC2 C7g Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton3 Processors
• Planview Acquiring Long-Time Partner Tasktop - Mike West
• Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield
• K8s (⁦@kubernetesio⁩) startups raised $500M ~ in funding over the last 30 months alone.
• The results are in, and the longlist of management books for 2022 is being revealed!
• Joining Docker
• LogDNA Unveils New Brand Identity Reflecting Vision for Observability Data
• SlashData: Cloud native continues to grow with more than 7 million developers worldwide
• We Sign Tomorrow? Inside A Tech Acquisition | Paddle Documentary

Nonsense

• Resolution in Rackspace slide lawsuit
• Central Texas man takes on Elon Musk's Boring Company, unkept promises
• Spreadsheet The Game
• A message from the staff of Reply All:
• It’s the end of Superman.
• National bank hit by ransomware trolls hackers

Conferences

• cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual
  • 40% Discount Code: CdCon22SDPod
• MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
• Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
• 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!
• THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
• VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022
• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.

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• Matt: REI Anniversary Sales
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  • Reply All: Flying the Coop
• Coté: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem.

Photo Credits

• Banner
• CoverArt