#random (2020-12)

Salesforce, the CRM powerhouse that recently surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue, announced today it is wading deeper into enterprise social by acquiring Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal. Rumors of a pending deal surfaced last week, causing Slack’s stock price to spike. Salesforce co-fou…

Example of a Helm Charts repository that uses chart-releaser to publish a public chart repo to GitHub Pages - saic-oss/charts-example

Reading time: 10 minutes Audience: Speaking to DevOps practitioners and the people that manage their work. I don’t care what work management framework your team or company claims to use, making software will still be hard. Supporting those software teams is even harder. Good frameworks can definitely help you manage and deliver your work, but… Read More »Why is it hard to manage work for DevOps teams?​

Thread by @StanTwinB: Alright folks, gather round and let me tell you the story of (almost) the biggest engineering disaster I’ve ever had the misfortune of being involved in. It’s a tale of politics, architecture ……

making kubernetes do what it was always meant to do - order pizza

Red Hat surprised the open source world with its announcment that it is pulling the plug on CENTOS. But should anyone be surprised? At the end of the day, why does it make sense to offer a product that undermines your business model? On the one hand, you have a huge investment in Red Hat Enterprise Linux that generates a ton of revenue. On the other hand, you have an underfunded effort working on an

As was noted here earlier, up to 18,000 customers of globally-dominant network infrastructure vendor SolarWinds may have been compromised by malicious hackers. The hackers – presumed to be operating on behalf of the Russian government – deployed…