This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and recommend never ordering the Bison Ribs.

Fabric Solutions

• Service Fabric is going open source.
• “There’s a bit of history to this. We've been developing Service Fabric internally for Windows for close to a decade, and most of that time it was a Microsoft-internal platform, which means we have close to a decade's worth of internal Microsoft tools to migrate and processes to refine before we can put something usable out on GitHub.”
• Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take.

Relevant to your interests

• Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS?
• IBM launches bare metal Kubernetes
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
• Moogsoft Secures $40 Million in Series D Funding
• RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z
• Palo Alto Networks to acquire CIA-backed Evident.io for $300 million
• a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith — From Microservices to DevOps

Nonsense

• Toys R Us to Close All 800 of Its U.S. Stores
• VIM Clutch

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Conferences, et. al.

• March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference - Melbourne Matt speaking.
• April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
• April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
• May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.

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Recommendations

• Matt:
  • Dicte (Danish crime reporter drama, on Netflix)
  • Chef policyfiles
• Brandon: Netflix Altered Carbon
• Coté: anti, bison ribs at Salt Lick. Garmin vívosmart 3.[

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