{"id":10354,"date":"2022-03-11T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10354"},"modified":"2022-03-29T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T08:34:24","slug":"random-short-take-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #68. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\">Datadobi<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220216005124\/en\/\">been awarded an NCPA Contract with Climb Channel Solutions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imply.io\">Imply<\/a> has announced Polaris, a Cloud Database Service for Modern Analytics Applications. You can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/imply.io\/in-the-news\/imply-announces-polaris-a-cloud-database-service-for-modern-analytics-applications-plus-major-expansion-for-apache-druid\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I find the idea of scale, and what it really means to different people, to be fascinating. The folks at Netflix know a bit about scale, and I found this article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/netflixtechblog.com\/rapid-event-notification-system-at-netflix-6deb1d2b57d1\">Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix<\/a>\u00a0to be particularly interesting.<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Banks put together this really useful guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/ethancbanks.com\/how-to-create-a-python-function-you-can-call-from-other-scripts\/\">how to create a Python Function you can call from other scripts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Viktor posted this VMUGNL session recording: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viktorious.nl\/2022\/03\/09\/vmugnl-session-recording-from-idea-to-production-with-vmware-tanzu-w-interactive-demo\/\">From idea to production with VMware Tanzu<\/a>. It&#8217;s great to see folks finally able to get back to in-person VMUG meetings.<\/li>\n<li>Howard put together a great guide on backing up iCloud documents &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/02\/21\/can-you-back-up-icloud-documents\/\">Can you back up iCloud\u00a0documents?<\/a>\u00a0It&#8217;s something that I think not enough people look at too closely.<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever had <a href=\"https:\/\/avgadgets.com\/av-upgraditis-the-lure-of-the-upgrade-a-personal-account\/\">AV Upgraditis<\/a>? I have, on plenty of occasions.<\/li>\n<li>This opinion piece over at El Reg was interesting &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/03\/01\/the_age_of_personal_tv\/\">Apple has missed the video revolution<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #68. Let&#8217;s get random. In press release news, Datadobi has been awarded an NCPA Contract with Climb Channel Solutions Imply has announced Polaris, a Cloud Database Service for Modern Analytics Applications. You can read more about that here. I find the idea of scale, and what it really means to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1293,5,596,4],"tags":[801,355,49,1282,1384,1348,1385,848,612,1386],"class_list":["post-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dataprotection","category-datadobi","category-storage","category-vmug","category-vmware","tag-apple","tag-audio","tag-av","tag-datadobi","tag-imply-io","tag-netflix","tag-python","tag-random","tag-vmug-2","tag-vmugnl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10386,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}