Episode 426: There’s no more backpacks to buy

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

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

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

• FIGHTING
• The Best Buy It for Life Backpack (Please Don’t Call It Tactical) (Published 2020)
• Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts
• Americans spark backlash after claiming that Europeans ‘don’t believe in water’
• The Spongmonkeys, Fast Food’s Most Unhinged Mascots, Are Back
• Here's why Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to 'X' is good, actually
• The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor

• August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia in Sydney, Matt attending.
• August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
• Explore EU CFP is open.
• Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, Coté speaking.
• Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.
• October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco, Matt’s doing a workshop
• October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
• November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor
• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21
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