Published: May 11, 2018, 10 a.m.

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Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother\\u2019s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon.

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Relevant to your interests

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• Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion more coverage from George Leopold.
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• Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month
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• Oath to Use More AWS Cloud as It Expands Video Play
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• Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways from Jeffery Hammond at Forrester\\n\\n
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  • RedHat OpenShift running on Azure Stack and Azure, partnership.
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  • See also the RedHat/IBM partnership along the same lines, plus nifty history of the two collaborating.
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  • Miniature ponies!
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• CoreOS folded into Red Hat product suite, the old \\u201creverse integration.\\u201d
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• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018
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• 15 Google I/O announcements.
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• Serverless Survey: +77% Delivery Speed, 4 Dev Workdays/Mo Saved & -26% AWS Monthly Bill\\n\\n
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  • Related, Serverless to take over like space carpets.
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• Azure at Microsoft Build Announcements| Microsoft Azure
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• JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon\'s multibillion cloud deal
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• AWS numbers reveal extent of Aussie growth
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• IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere
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This episode brought to you by: Datadog!

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Nonsense

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• Google Duplex making an appointment on the phone
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• Lego Millennium Falcon, enterprise edition.
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Conferences, et. al.

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• NEXT WEEK! May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Cot\\xe9 talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
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• May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
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• May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.
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• June 1st, 2018 - Cot\\xe9 speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
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• June 7th, 2018 - DC Cloud Native Meetup, \\u201cBeyond \\u2018Survival is Not Mandatory.\\u2019\\u201d
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• Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
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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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• Keep up with the weekly newsletter.
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• Join us in Slack.
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• Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
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• Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he\\u2019ll give you one too!
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Recommendations

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• Matt Ray: New phone, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact.
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• Brandon: Postal Service - Against All Odds & A Quiet Place
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• Cot\\xe9: Chasing Hillary, Amy Chozick.
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Photo Credit Bridget Kromhout

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