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Published: May 3, 2024, 5:30 a.m.

This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements.

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• Extra Innings
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• Later Innings
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• Customer is always right, except for pricing
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• Leave the party crying
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• Put a price on it
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\n\nRundown\n\n

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• Hashi\n\n
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  • Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud
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  • HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management
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  • IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
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  • IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost
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  • IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand
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  • IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next?
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  • The threat to open source comes from within
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• You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not \u201cuse continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.\u201d
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• FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
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• Building for our AI future
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• Amazon recently bought a $650 million nuclear-powered data center
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• Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
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• Netflix Dealt With the Freeloaders. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher.
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• Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck
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• Do software companies actually have good margins?
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• Women Who Code: Influential tech network shuts down unexpectedly
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• The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
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• Tesla\u2019s Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish: \u2018Will you please at least appear to make Tesla your top priority?\u2019
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• The SignalFire State of Talent Report: 2023 tech employee trends
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• Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
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• Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data | Amazon Web Services
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• Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta
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• US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology
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• Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins
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• UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' | TechCrunch
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• Broadcom Tells Partner Negotiating For Charity \u2018VMware Is Not For Everybody\u2019
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• Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry
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• Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
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• The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories
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• Atlassian Co-CEO Scott Farquhar Resigns, Leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as Sole Chief
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• Thoma Bravo to buy UK-listed Darktrace for \xa34.3bn
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• All we have to fear is FUD itself \u2014 Oxide and Friends
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• The walls of Apple\u2019s garden are tumbling down
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• We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines
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• Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value
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• Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills
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• FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
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• Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage
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• The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys
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• Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy?
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• State of DevSecOps | Datadog
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• Letter from Edward Norton, Founder of Zeck, Why Zeck
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• The Man Who Killed Google Search
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• Alphabet earnings are out \u2014 here are the numbers
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• Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement
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• Amazon earnings are out \u2014 here are the numbers
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• Microsoft earnings are out \u2013 here are the numbers
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy
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• A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors
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• Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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• Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd
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• NDC Oslo, Cot\xe9 speaking, June 12th.
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• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Cot\xe9 speaking.
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• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19\u201321, 2024.
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• Brandon:\n\n
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• Cot\xe9: Adam Savage Q&A
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