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Published: March 24, 2018, 7:30 a.m.

We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall.

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Matt Ray\u2019s Facebook links

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• BIG SNAKE
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• Matt Ray\u2019s son and a dog..?
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• Kangaroo vs. Bicyclist
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Matt\u2019s Coterie of Browser Plugins:

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• TrackMeNot
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• uBlock Origin
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• Ghostery
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• Privacy Badger
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• KB SSL Enforcer
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• TamperMonkey
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Relevant to your interests

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• The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook \u201cData Breach.\u201d Maybe It Should Be.
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• The Facebook Brand
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• Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts
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• Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal
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• Salesforce buys a mule, but pays for a horse
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• Salesforce\u2019s $6.5b acquisition of Mulesoft: what it means for the cloud ecosystem
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• Update: Red Hat could be a Google takeover target \u2013 a deal wouldn't be cheap
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• IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads
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• IBM's Watson Assistant is coming to IFTTT
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• Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling
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• Oracle's New Licenses Sales Drop While Revenue Meets Estimates\n\n
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  • Don\u2019t Anthropomorphize Larry the Lawnmower
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• Docker Cloud is shutting down \u2022 r/docker
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• Introducing Windows Server 2019 \u2013 now available in preview
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• Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
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Exegesis
\nWant more talk about FANG? Then Listen to Cot\xea and Brandon review Scott Galloway\u2019s book The Four on Episode of 52 of Software Defined Interviews from awhile back. Even more relevant today!

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Nonsense

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• Jeff Bezos has a robot dog
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• WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
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Conferences, et. al.

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• April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Cot\xe9 at SpringOne Tour.
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• April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Cot\xe9 speaking.
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• April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit
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• April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Cot\xe9 will be speaking too.
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• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Cot\xe9 talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
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• May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
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SDT news & hype

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• Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we\u2019ve been doing, all in one, for free.
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Recommendations

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• Matt: Earworm video series from Vox
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• Brandon: Metrex II Black Mesh Task Chair from Costco
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• Cot\xe9: Le Relais de Venise - l\u2019Entrec\xf4te
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