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Published: April 11, 2020, 5:30 a.m.

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.

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• Unikernels are unfit for production
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• Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways)
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• Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system
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• Slack, Teams and Conferencing\n\n
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  • Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield
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  • DHH is not happy with Zoom
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  • Maybe we shouldn\u2019t use Zoom after all
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  • Microsoft\u2019s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment
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  • Zoom responds with a Blog Post
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  • Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities
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  • Zoom isn\u2019t Malware.
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• IBM\n\n
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  • New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware
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  • IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business
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  • My first day as CEO - our journey together
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  • RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era
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  • Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier
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• CircleCI \n\n
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  • CircleCI Raises $100M Series E
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  • CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment
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• Apple\n\n
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  • Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
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  • Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google
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  • Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million
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  • iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features
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• The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz
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• Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers
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• Forrester\u2019s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation
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• Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code
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• Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics
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• Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity
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• The Next Chapter of Meetup
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• SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares
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• Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak
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• OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business
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• HashiCorp Joins the CNCF
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• Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic
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• MongoDB\u2019s field-level encryption protects private data\u2014even from DBAs
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• Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production
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• Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem
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• Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M
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• Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014
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• Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers
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• Don\u2019t Mute, Get a Better Headset
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\n\nNon Sense\n\n

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• Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic
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• Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights...
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• 50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email.
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• My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting
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• HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release
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• Trump order encourages US to mine the moon
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• CNCF Puzzle
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\n\nConferences, Videos et. al.\n\n

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• Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
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• Michael Cot\xe9 - Intro - Spring Live
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• Mykel Alvis is speaking at All Day DevOps Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020
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• ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
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• MongoDB\u2019s virtual event MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Ozark and Tiger King
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• Matt Ray:
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  • The Memory Palace Music to Wash Hands By
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  • Disunited Nations
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