Cloud Study Weekly - July 11, 2021
Cloud meetups & conferences; Cracking down on Big Tech; Pentagon calls off the JEDI contract; hypocrisy at Google; IBM acquires BoxBoat; Google faces an antitrust blitz.
Hello everyone! 👋 Welcome to the 1st issue of the Cloud Study Weekly ☁️ - a weekly newsletter for the Cloud Study Network community members! Let’s see what is going on in the cloud this week:
Upcoming Community Events
Past Community Events
Conferences to Attend
Tech News
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Upcoming Community Events
Skill Badge “Create and Manage Cloud Resources in Google Cloud” + Free Qwiklabs Month!
Thursday, July 15, 2021.Free Kubernetes Bootcamp - Get Prepared for the CKA & CKAD Certifications, Part 3
Friday, July 16, 2021.Live Coding - Building a Community Website with Next.JS & React, Part 5
Sunday, July 18, 2021.
All upcoming community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.
Past Community Events
Free Chaos Engineering Bootcamp + Certificate & Raffle!
Thursday, July 8, 2021. The recording is available on YouTube.Free Kubernetes Bootcamp - Get Prepared for the CKA & CKAD Certifications, Part 2
Friday, July 9, 2021. The recording is available on YouTube.Live Coding - Building a Community Website with Next.JS & React, Part 4
Sunday, July 11, 2021. The recording is available on YouTube.
All past community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.
Conferences to Attend
13-14 July 2021, MongoDB.Live [data]
14-15 July 2021, TechStrong Con Virtual Summit [tech]
Find further conferences & summits in our tech events repository.
Tech News
Biden will sign an executive order cracking down on Big Tech firms buying up smaller companies and hoarding user data
Biden's order will tell agencies to scrutinize Big Tech mergers more closely, especially when these firms try to buy smaller companies.A senior Google executive who reportedly opposed employees working remotely has caused an internal stir by moving to New Zealand to work remotely himself
A senior Google executive, Urs Hölzle, is working remotely in New Zealand after opposing remote work for lower-level Google employees, CNET reports.Google faces a nationwide antitrust blitz as 36 states sign a lawsuit attacking its control of Android's app store
Google said the lawsuit was about 'boosting a handful of major app developers who want the benefits of Google Play without paying for it.'The Pentagon has called off the $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing contract Microsoft and Amazon were arguing over
The Pentagon cancelled the contract due to "evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances."Thirteen of Salesforce's most important execs left in 2021
Salesforce has seen significant executive upheaval this year, as the former CMO, CFO, and Tableau CEO departed, and four new power players came aboard.IBM acquires container services provider BoxBoat
IBM says that it has acquired cloud services and containerized apps provider BoxBoat for an undisclosed sum.Amazon's new CEO Andy Jassy is already making his mark on the company with these additions to the executive 'S-team' and a slew of SVP promotions
In one of the first organizational changes under new CEO Andy Jassy, Amazon expanded its most senior group of executives called the “S-team”.
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