This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,.

Relevant to your interests

• Confluent’s meteoric rise.
• Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data.
• The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS.'
• Opinion | The Facts About Facebook.
• Google asks Supreme Court to rule on when code can be copyrighted.
• My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales.
• Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1.
• Google Hangouts is shutting down for some users in October.
• Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up.
• Software Chasms with Martin Casado.
• Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users.
• Puppet Names Yvonne Wassenaar as Next CEO.
• Automation Software That Helped Consulting Firm Cut 40,000 Jobs Is Reportedly Now for Sale.
• OmniTI ~ credativ massively expands U.S. footprint with OmniTI acquisition.
• Microsoft cloud services see global authentication outage.
• Interview with Jason Cohen
• WP Engine Announces $132M in Annual Recurring Revenue

Non Sense

• Modern OSI Model

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• Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
• Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
• Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
• Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Recommendations

• Brandon: Movies Anywhere and Disc to Digital from Vudu
• Coté: new Preditor.