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Published: June 5, 2020, 9 a.m.

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What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco\\u2019s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.

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Mood board:

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• Sounds normal for now.
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• It was kinda cool, kinda sad.
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• Covered in yoke.
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• We just had to speed test it out.
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• Katamari Damacy M&A.
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• I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!
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• The ProductTK.
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• 7G.
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• What\\u2019s the plural of Kubernetes?
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• Managers are really into career development, what\\u2019s the deal with that?
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• Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.
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• Return the Jewels.
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The Rundown

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• Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software
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• Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions
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• DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes
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Relevant to your interests

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• What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates
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• Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge
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• GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware
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• Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence
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• Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager
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• Google\\u2019s \\u201coverpromising\\u201d led to Stadia \\u201cdisappointment,\\u201d says RDR2 publisher
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• Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump\\u2019s threat of violence
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• Google\\u2019s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral
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• Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies
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• Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground
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• Police scanner apps get record downloads
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• Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking \'private\' internet use
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• Mirantis\\u2019 Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs
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• Where GREP Came From - Computerphile
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• Software Engineering Within SpaceX
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Nonsense

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• Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives
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• the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company\'s blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute
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Listener Feedback

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• Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea.
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• Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too.
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Conferences

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• MongoDB\\u2019s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells\\xae. Fill out their survey
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• Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference on August 17th-20th
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SDT news & hype

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\\xe9\\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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Recommendations

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• Brandon: Pod Save America and Pod Save the People podcasts.
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• Matt Ray: Upload; Run The Jewels 4.
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• Cot\\xe9: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast; The Xero Music Hour; Magma notebooks.
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Header photo from Andrew, probably.

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