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Published: June 25, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss Knative\u2019s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake\u2019s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office.

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• Did we market Knative wrong?
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• Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake.
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data
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• Good To Go! \u2014 or not: Washington state\u2019s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why?
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• How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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• Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years
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• Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation
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• Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO
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• PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now
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• Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues
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• The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer
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• Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software
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• Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices
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• CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control
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• Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share
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• Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays
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• Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack
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• Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme
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• Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays
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• Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar
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• Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users
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• Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier
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• PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now
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• State of Digital Operations
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Buc-ee\u2019s to build world\u2019s largest convenience store in Sevierville
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• 24 Hours at the World\u2019s Largest Gat Station
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• Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
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\n\nListener Feedback\n\n

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• Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks.
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• Free Knative Eventing Training - June 30
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• RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14
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• THAT Conference, July 26-29
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• SpringOne, Sep 1-2
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon:\n\n
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  • Listen to my appearance on The Cloudcast
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  • Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee
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• Matt: We Are the Champions\n\n
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  • ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers
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• Cot\xe9: La La IJs.
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