☁️ Cloud Study Weekly - November 8, 2021 🗞
HashiCorp IPO 💰, Google ❤️ Pentagon, GitHub CEO leaves 👋. New goodies 💸, upcoming meetups & conferences 🗣️ and more…
Hey there! 👋
Black Friday comes early! Officially Black Friday this year is on 26 November. But look out for tech goodies and discounts. Companies like e.g. Amazon and Samsung have begun with huge discounts for their gadgets.
In this issue of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter you’ll find:
📢 Announcements
🔜 Upcoming Community Events
⌛ Past Community Events
🤝 Conferences to Attend
💸 Goodies & Discounts
📰 Tech News
If you have any suggestions or want to share newsworthy updates in the upcoming newsletter - let us know (just reply to this email).
Announcements 📢
Community Calls on Clubhouse
Every Sunday we’ll open a room on Clubhouse for our weekly community call. It’s a good chance for our members to talk to each other, exchange experiences and ask for advice.Live Coding Sessions
Every Sunday as well we’ll run a live coding / live learning session hosted by Lukas and Karen. In these sessions we are trying to learn and explore new programming frameworks. Currently we are concentrating on the Svelte frontend framework. Sessions will be recorded.
Announcement of each community call and live coding can be found in the “Upcoming Community Events“ section (below).
Upcoming Community Events 🔜
Why You Need An Ingress Controller And How To Pick One (free webinar)
📅 Tuesday, November 9, 2021.The Future of Package Management with Kubernetes (free webinar)
📅 Tuesday, November 9, 2021.Improve Core-to-Edge Mobility and Resiliency for Cloud-Native Applications
📅 Wednesday, November 10, 2021.FREE Webinar - Introduction to Kubeflow
📅 Thursday, November 11, 2021.Cloud Community Call on Clubhouse
📅 Sunday, November 14, 2021.Live Coding - Exploring the frontend frameworks Svelte & SvelteKit
📅 Sunday, November 14, 2021.
All upcoming community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.
Past Community Events ⌛
Adopting GitOps from Scratch in Enterprises (free online webinar)
📅 Tuesday, November 2, 2021. 🎥 Recording available.Clouds, Certifications, and Careers: Finding a Path That Works for You + PRIZES!
🎁 A full Google Cloud Professional Architect certification course ($84.99 value) to be provided for FREE to every attendee.
📅 Wednesday, November 3, 2021. 🎥 Recording & 📄 materials available.Cloud Community Call on Clubhouse
📅 Sunday, November 7, 2021.Live Coding - Exploring the frontend frameworks Svelte & SvelteKit
📅 Sunday, November 7, 2021. 🎥 Recording available.
All past community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.
Conferences to Attend 🤝
NVIDIA GTC on 8-11 November 2021. Topics: AI, Data Science. Online. Free.
Kontent Horizons on 9-11 November 2021. Online. Free.
Deploy by DigitalOcean on 16-17 November 2021. Topic: computing. Online. Free.
Find further conferences & summits in our tech events repository.
Goodies & Discounts 💸
💰 JetBrains IDEs
JetBrains is is known for their great integrated development environments (IDEs) and many developers are in love with those IDEs. Two coupons below will give you 100 % discount for 1 year of Free Personal Subscription for one of the following tools: AppCode, CLion, DataGrip, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm, ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, RubyMine, WebStorm, or dotUltimate.
Please use for your own purposes only and only one coupon per person.
💰 Kubernetes Certifications
This week we are giving away yet another 5 Kubernetes Certified coupons with 20% OFF discount each for the following certifications:
Here are the coupons. Please use for your own purposes only.
💰 O’Reilly Learning
O’Reilly learning is a paid membership that provides expert-created and curated live online training courses, books, videos, interactive tutorials, and more. It covers the areas like artificial intelligence, operations, data, UX design, finance, leadership.
Use the promo code CSNN21 to get a FREE 30-days membership (no credit card required. Will not be automatically prolonged into a paid subscription).
💰 Whizlabs
Whizlabs is a popular online training provider that offers online certification training in various disciplines such as Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) DevOps, Big Data, Project Management, Agile, Linux, CCNA, and Digital Marketing.
Use the coupon WHIZSITE15 and get flat 15% OFF on all Whizlabs courses.
Tech News 📰
VMware Salaries: How Much VMware Pays Engineers, Managers, and Salespeople
VMware hired hundreds of engineers in the past 12 months to beef up its security and cloud business units, with some making over $200,000.
Nov 5, 2021, 3:02 PMMicrosoft Email Says Abnormal 'Misrepresented' Azure Cloud Use
Abnormal agreed to move onto Azure, and Microsoft agreed to cosell Abnormal's products. One year later, the deal doesn't seem to be going as planned.
Nov 5, 2021, 5:03 PMThe Balance of Power Is Shifting in the Cloud Computing Industry
Hot startups like Databricks are gaining more leverage when working with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google's clouds as power moves into customers' hands.
Nov 4, 2021, 1:40 PMMicrosoft adds GPT-3 AI writing model to its cloud service
The top natural language program makes the jump to corporate work.
Nov 3, 2021Microsoft rolls out new tech to connect its cloud to rivals
Microsoft Corp announced a new round of technologies aimed at making its cloud computing services work in data centers it does not own - including the cloud data centers of its rivals.
November 2, 2021Google to Pursue Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract
The company pulled out of the bidding for a similar project three years ago amid employee complaints about doing work for the military.
Nov. 3, 2021 7:34 pm ETGoogle Invests $1 Billion in Exchange Giant CME, Strikes Cloud Deal
Alphabet’s Google and futures-exchange giant CME Group reached a deal under which the Google Cloud unit will eventually power markets that handle trillions of dollars in trades each day.
Updated Nov. 4, 2021 1:48 pm ETThe Dalles sues to keep Google’s water use a secret
Google says it needs a lot more water to cool its new data centers, but neither the company nor the city will say just how much.
Updated: Nov. 05, 2021, 11:44 a.m. | Published: Nov. 01, 2021, 10:45 a.m.Cloud software vendor HashiCorp files for IPO as investors pour money into high-growth tech stocks
HashiCorp has over 2,000 paying customers for its management software, which draws on open-source tools.
THU, NOV 4 20212:20 PM EDTMicrosoft’s GitHub CEO steps down
Microsoft-owned GitHub is getting a new CEO on November 15th. Nat Friedman is stepping down after three years, with Thomas Dohmke taking charge.
Nov 3, 2021, 12:19pm EDTWhat Is the Metaverse? The Future Vision for the Internet
Tech leaders describe the online world as an extensive place where people and their avatars can work, shop, attend classes and even walk on the moon.
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