We discuss the things we're excited about for 2021 as Michael prepared for a different show, Joe can't stop looking at himself, and Allen gets paid by the tip of the week.
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News
- We really appreciate the new reviews.
- iTunes: 8BitToaster, NotResp, masterull
- We're hosting a game jam January 21 – 24, 2021 – let's make games!
- Follow all of our upcoming events! (/events)
Who's Excited about What
- Joe
- Interactive online/streaming events
- DevOps and SRE technologies
- Python
- Game development
- Allen
- .NET 5
- DevOps technologies
- Kubernetes
- Game Jams
- Big Data
- Video content creation
- Presentations
- IoT
- Machine Learning
- Michael
- Kubernetes all the things
- Kotlin
Resources We Like
- 15 Kubernetes Tools For Deployment, Monitoring, Security, & More (phoenixNAP.com)
- Kubernetes Training and Certification (kubernetes.io)
- We're sad to see you go, Azure Notebooks (notebooks.azure.com)
- At least they list some alternatives.
- Announcing .NET 5.0 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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