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Published: April 15, 2022, 5:30 a.m.

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings\u2026

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• Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet
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• The PE Yo-Yo\n\n
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  • Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion
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  • Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks
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• How big could the cloud get? Part 1
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\n\nRelevant to your Interests\n\n

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• Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge
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• Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch
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• Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon
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• Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids
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• What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don\u2019t Get
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• Are Microsoft\u2019s days as the \u2018friendly\u2019 tech giant over? \u2013 POLITICO
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• The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week
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• Silverfort nabs $65M with a \u2018holistic\u2019 approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems
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• Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer
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• ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost
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• Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs
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• How do you know when a business leads with technology?
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• CEO Andy Jassy\u2019s 2021 Letter to Shareholders
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• Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert
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• CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report
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• The Origins of the Dutch Angle
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• Drata \u2014 Put Security and Compliance on Autopilot: https://drata.com/partner/SDT
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022\n\n
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• DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
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• Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th.
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• DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
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• DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
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• MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
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• Splunk\u2019s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
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• THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022
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• VMware Explore 2022, August 29 \u2013 September 1, 2022
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• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6\u20138, 2022.
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations\n\n
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• Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet \u2014 is it?
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