Friday Five — May 8, 2020

IN THE NEWS:

IT World Canada - Over 80,000 people tune into virtual Red Hat Summit, crushing last year’s attendance record

Last year around this time, about 8,900 people gathered in Boston for the 2019 Red Hat Summit. That was a record. This week, the 2020 Red Hat Summit went virtual and ended up hosting over 80,000 people in a two-day online experience that did its best to offer almost everything the physical conference would have provided while keeping all participants safely isolated in their homes.

 

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Red Hat’s approach to Kubernetes

With Kubernetes, the cloud works as it was always intended to. And Red Hat’s approach to Kubernetes is the one that smart IT enterprises will adopt. Our perspective on K8s is the subject of the second installment in our new thought leadership series.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:

Command Line Heroes: Season 4, episode 8

Steve Wozniak (aka Woz) has had a tremendous effect on the world of hardware. Season 4 features many of the devices he’s designed, built, worked on, and been inspired by. But for Woz, what’s most important isn’t necessarily the devices he’s created—it’s how he built them.

GOOD READ:

Open source and the changing world

At Red Hat, we live and breathe open source. It is not just what we do, it is who we are. And, more than ever, we believe open source technologies—and the communities behind them—are responsible for driving new innovations, such as edge computing, and also the real impact these technologies can have on our world, and how they shape our future.