Cloud Study Weekly - October 13, 2021
Cloud meetups & conferences; News from the cloud & DevOps world; Recordings of past talks and more…
Hello everyone! 👋
The conference season has started. Many local Google affiliated communities begun to run their DevFests 🎪. We are also in the middle of the Hacktoberfest 2021, which will last till the end of October 2021. Contribute 4 pull requests (PRs) and get a unique t-shirt 👕! You can also collect PRs by contributing to our community repositories.
In this issue of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter you’ll find:
🔜 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).
Upcoming Community Events 🔜
Getting Started With Kubernetes on DigitalOcean
Wednesday, October 13, 2021.
All upcoming community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.
Past Community Events ⌛
Hacktoberfest 2021 Official Kickoff: EMEA Edition
Featuring the CSN community founder Karen 🙂
Wednesday, October 6, 2021. 📄 Slides available.
All past community events can be found at CSN Meetup page.
Conferences to Attend 🤝
12-14 October 2021, Google Cloud Next 2021 [cloud]
11-15 October 2021, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon [cloud, devops]
Find further conferences & summits in our tech events repository.
Goodies & Discounts 💸
Google Workspace (former Google G-Suite) is a pretty useful tool for teams. Following two coupons will give you 10 % discount for the first year of usage of the Google Workspace Business Starter or the Google Workspace Business Standard plan (both only within the EMEA region).
Google Workspace Business Starter (EMEA): 77X7CADAQTCAEKR
Google Workspace Business Standard (EMEA): D9GAVFNRF7DF9DF
This week we are giving away additionally 10 Kubernetes Certified coupons with 20% OFF discount each for the following certifications:
🆕 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) - launching in a few days!
Here are the coupons. Please use for your own purposes only. Resale or abuse will be reported.
Tech News 📰
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
The last week Facebook had a huge outage impacting all services because of some DNS misconfiguration. Cloudflare explained what they've seen from their distributor point-of-view, I really like the charts.
Tech Companies Expand Hiring From 'Tech Hubs' to 'All Over The Place'
A Brookings Institution report in December 2019 noted that just five cities — Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and San Jose, Calif. — accounted for more than 90 percent of employment growth in the innovation sector from 2005 to 2017. The trend is now in the other direction: The tech hubs' share of employment is falling.
Microsoft Says It Mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack, the Largest Ever
Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year, at the end of August, representing the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.
Google Unveils Cybersecurity Programs and Action Team
Google at Google Cloud Next 2021 debuted Work Safer, a program to help organizations, employees, and partners collaborate in hybrid work environments. It also unveiled a new security-focused task force - the Cybersecurity Action Team - and a security and resilience framework, in addition to enhanced security capabilities in Workspace. The announcements come after research showing that companies want cloud providers to increase their security efforts.
China Has Won AI Battle With US, Pentagon's Ex-software Chief Says
China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
Google's Fuchsia Is Expanding To 'Additional Smart Devices and Other Form Factors'
According to new job listings, Google is looking to expand the Fuchsia operating system from its current home on the Nest Hub to additional smart devices and other form factors.
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