Episode 362: Are we using version control?

Software Defined Talk

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,

SDT news & hype

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Recommendations

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

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