Summary: <p>In this 325th episode, AC and CJ share some of their tips for surviving the upcoming Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, FL and catch up on some cloud news from Microsoft and AWS.</p><h3 id="news">News</h3> <ul> <li>Microsoft <ul> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/">Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/130">.NET Core 3.0 concludes the .NET Framework API porting project </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/10/14/support-office-2010-ending-current-office-365-proplus/">Support for Office 2010 is ending—get current with Office 365 ProPlus</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/10/16/announcing-general-availability-desktop-analytics/">Announcing the general availability of Desktop Analytics</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>AWS <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/">Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database</a></li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-bare-metal-arm-based-ec2-instances/">Now Available: Bare Metal Arm-Based EC2 Instances</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="picks">Picks</h3> <ul> <li>AC’s Pick <ul> <li><a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/09/03/twitter-analysis-identifying-a-pro-indonesian-propaganda-bot-network/">Twitter Analysis: Identifying A Pro-Indonesian Propaganda Bot Network </a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Guest Pick - Vishwas Lele <ul> <li><a href="https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/">Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>
