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Published: Aug. 4, 2023, 5:30 a.m.

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This week, we discuss New Relic going private, Dell buying Moogsoft and digital transformation comes to Border Control. Plus, ideas for a last minute family vacation.

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Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 426

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Runner-up Titles

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• The Paris economy is all croissants.
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• The Euphoria of the Buffet
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• All that firing people gave us a soft landing.
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• Is it going to be New Logic, or SumoRelic?
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• You drive a hard bargain, now we\\u2019re billionaires
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• The tinfoil hat of complexity
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• Just buy more backpacks
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• Here in the United States, we have a lot of banks.
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• Can Americans use it?
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• Bigger numbers are smaller numbers.
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• It\\u2019s pretty easy to quarantine with Internet.
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Rundown

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• More Monitoring, More Money\\n\\n
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  • Dell Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Moogsoft
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  • What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS by @ttunguz
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  • Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic
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  • Francisco Partners & TPG to take New Relic private in $6 billion all-cash deal
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  • Inside the $6.5 billion buyout of New Relic
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• Government IT\\n\\n
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  • Federal Reserve announces that its new system for instant payments, the FedNow\\xae Service, is now live
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  • CBP Goes Paperless with Global Entry
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  • Mexico Phasing Out Use of Paper Visitor Permits (FMM)
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  • New requirements coming in 2024 for Americans traveling to Europe
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  • Passport Palooza
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Relevant to your Interests

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• Broadcom\'s $61 billion VMware deal wins conditional EU antitrust OK
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• Broadcom claims VMware\'s strategy isn\\u2019t succeeding
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• Moderation actions
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• Shopify\'s anti-meeting crusade is failing and it\'s taken to shaming employees instead: \'Most of the modern work environment is broken\'
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• Investors and business owners for 3x more likely to invest after reading a GPT-4 pitch deck
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• 3 tax prep firms shared \'extraordinarily sensitive\' data about taxpayers with Meta
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• macOS Sonoma lets Chrome use passwords stored in iCloud
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• Passkeys in iOS 17: Watch a sneak peek at what\'s coming to 1Password for iOS | 1Password
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• Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud
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• AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
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• Amazon Shares Jump 2% After Reporting Record Prime Day Sales
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• Threads Is About to Make All the Money That Twitter Isn\\u2019t
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• Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
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• Jamin Ball (@jaminball) on Threads
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• Introducing NotebookLM
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• Ford CEO explains why legacy car manufacturers cannot compete with Tesla in software
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• Cloudflare as an AI play. An interview with CEO Matthew Prince.
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• This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!
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• The Rise Of DIY In FinOps
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• Announcing Akita Has Joined Postman \\u2014 Akita Software
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• Announcing the New Lightweight Postman API Client | Postman Blog
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• Does \\u2018Buy American\\u2019 Policy Make Sense? The Answer Is Key for Your AI Portfolio Too
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• AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won\\u2019t kill its RHEL-compatible distro
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• Twitter becomes X
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• The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
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• Meta Profit Is Up 16% to $7.8 Billion in Recent Quarter
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• Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023 | Amazon Web Services
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• AWS Easily Beats Microsoft In $120B IaaS Cloud Market: Gartner
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• Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games
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• Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses
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• The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem
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• Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more
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• A Day in the Life of a Senior Manager at Amazon
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• 7 generative AI innovations from AWS Summit New York 2023
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• TikTok is adding text posts
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• Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS \\u2013 All the Numbers
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• AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in Israel
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• AMD revenue falls 18% as PC market shows continued weakness
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• From Docker to Dagger with Solomon Hykes (Changelog Interviews #550)
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• A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit
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• Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers
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• Q2 2023 is the largest quarter ever in the number of startup closures.
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• VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them
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• VC firm says their companies are good/leading, and you should invest in them too
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Nonsense

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• FIGHTING
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• The Best Buy It for Life Backpack (Please Don\\u2019t Call It Tactical) (Published 2020)
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• Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts
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• Americans spark backlash after claiming that Europeans \\u2018don\\u2019t believe in water\\u2019
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• The Spongmonkeys, Fast Food\\u2019s Most Unhinged Mascots, Are Back
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• Here\'s why Elon Musk\'s rebranding of Twitter to \'X\' is good, actually
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• The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
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Conferences

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• August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
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• August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
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• Explore EU CFP is open.
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• Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Cot\\xe9 speaking.
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• Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Cot\\xe9 speaking.
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• October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt\\u2019s doing a workshop
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• October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
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• November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT\\u2019s a sponsor
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• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
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• If you want your conference mentioned, let\\u2019s talk media sponsorships.
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SDT news & hype

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• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!
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Recommendations

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• Brandon: Full Circle
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