Summary: <p>In this 239th episode, AC and CJ talk about the podcast’s involvement and plans for upcoming conferences and cover the latest cloud news from Google, Microsoft and related container news!</p><p>Notes:</p><p>News</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://collabsummit.org">NACS</a></li> <li><a href="https://sharepointna.com">SharePoint Conference North America</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build">Microsoft Build</a></li> <li><a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/02/Cloud-TPU-machine-learning-accelerators-now-available-in-beta.html">Cloud TPU machine learning accelerators now available in beta</a></li> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/29/microsoft-buys-cloud-gaming-startup-playfab-to-bolster-its-azure-gaming-platform">Microsoft buys gaming services startup PlayFab to bolster its Azure platform</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/02/04/the-real-reason-red-hat-is-acquiring-coreos/#4a4d43f75c4d">The Real Reason Red Hat Is Acquiring CoreOS</a></li> <li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/designing-distributed-systems/en-us/">Building Distributed Systems free book - Brendan Burns</a></li> </ul> <p>Picks<br> AC’s Picks</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/rgburke/grv">GitHub: rgburke/grv</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-racing-series-electric-gt-cars/">All-Tesla electric racing series gets the green light</a></li> </ul> <p>CJ’s Picks</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20180208-2.txt">KDE Project Security Advisory</a></li> <li><a href="https://itnext.io/kubernetes-monitoring-with-prometheus-in-15-minutes-8e54d1de2e13">Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus in 15 minutes</a></li> </ul> <p>Listener Pick - Joe Gasper</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://lazywinadmin.github.io/2018/02/SpaceX_module.html">SpaceX PowerShell module</a></li> </ul> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>The Microsoft Cloud Show sponsored by: </strong></p> <p><a href="http://nintex.com?utm_source=mscloudshow&utm_medium=email"><img src="http://assets.microsoftcloudshow.com/media/mscloudshow/logos/nintex.png" border="0"></a><br> What if you could take any process your teams use to get work done, and make it happen automatically? 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