?? Cloud Study Weekly - December 8, 2021 ??

This is a delayed copy of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter. Always up to date version of the newsletter can be found at?https://cloudstudynet.substack.com/welcome

Hey there! ??

In this issue of the Cloud Study Weekly newsletter you’ll find:

1. ???Upcoming Community Events
2. ? Past Community Events
3. ?? Conferences to Attend
4. ???Goodies & Discounts
5. ?? Tech News

If you have any suggestions or want to share newsworthy updates in the upcoming newsletter - let us know (just reply to this email).

Upcoming Community Events???

• Kubernetes Data Protection and Recovery Made Easy (free webinar)
• ?? Tuesday, December 7, 2021.

• Learn to Load Balance Your High Traffic Sites (free webinar)
• ?? Wednesday, December 8, 2021.

• Multi Architectural Kubernetes Clusters (free webinar)
• ?? Wednesday, December 8, 2021.

• Introduction to GitOps with Flux (free webinar) + ?? GOODIES! ??
• ?? Thursday, December 9, 2021

• Cloud Community Call on Clubhouse
• ?? Sunday, December 12, 2021.

• Study Group - Exploring the frontend frameworks Svelte & SvelteKit
• ?? Sunday, December 12, 2021.

All upcoming community events can be found at?CSN Meetup page.

Past Community Events ?

• Introduction to Sqlcommenter, an OpenTelemetry standard & library for databases
• ?? Tuesday, November 30, 2021. [Event was cancelled by CNCF]

• Service mesh 101: an introduction with Linkerd (free webinar)
• ?? Wednesday, December 1, 2021. ???Recording?available.

• An Introduction To Presto, The Distributed SQL Query Engine For The Data Lake
• ?? Wednesday, December 1, 2021. ???Recording?available.

• Continuous Secure Delivery For Infrastructure As Code (free webinar)
• ?? Thursday, December 2, 2021. ???Recording?available.

• Cloud Community Call on Clubhouse
• ?? Sunday, December 5, 2021.

• Study Group - Exploring the frontend frameworks Svelte & SvelteKit
• ?? Sunday, December 5, 2021. ???Recording?available.

All past community events can be found at?CSN Meetup page.

Conferences to Attend ??

• GraphQL Galaxy
• Location and date: Online?December 9-10
• Topics: API

• React Europe
• Location and date: Online?December 9-10
• Topics: JavaScript

• Agile Leadership Conference
• Location and date: Online?December 9
• Topics: leadership

• DevTernity
• Location and date: Online?December 10-11
• Topics: general, Java

Find further conferences & summits in our?tech events repository.

Goodies & Discounts ??

?? 3x Azure Exam Discounts

Kudos to our member?Rohit Sonawane?for providing his Azure discount codes to the community!

The following codes will provide you a 50% discount each for corresponding Azure exams. The codes are 1 time use only.

• MSMS65112921?(50% off - DP900) - expires on 31/05/2022
• MSMS75786A2B?(50% off - AZ900) - expires on 22/04/2022
• MSMS9C431260?(50% off - AI900) - expires on 31/05/2022

?? Google Workspace

Google Workspace?(former Google G-Suite) is a pretty useful tool for teams. Following two coupons will give you?10% discount?for the first year of usage of the Google Workspace Business Starter or the Google Workspace Business Standard plan (both only within the EMEA region). Both coupons are valid till 06/2022.

• Google Workspace Business Starter?(EMEA):?77X7CADAQTCAEKR
• Google Workspace Business Standard?(EMEA):?D9GAVFNRF7DF9DF

?? Free Remote Work Certification

CertiProf?is introducing a new?Remote Work and Virtual Collaboration?certification program. The program is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

To download the study material and access the exam please visit the following link:

https://certiprof.com/pages/remote-work-and-virtual-collaboration-certificate-rwvcpc

This is a great opportunity to learn about the trends and skills required in distributed team environments.

Tech News???

• Amazon Web Services outage impacts thousands of users, online services: What to know
• Amazon Web Services experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday, December 7th, impacting thousands of users on different websites and streaming platforms.

• Microsoft and AWS 'make up about half of the overall cloud software market': Analyst
• Brent Bracelin, Piper Sandler Equity Research Analyst, Cloud Software and Analytics, joins Yahoo Finance to discuss the outlook for cloud companies in 2022.

• Equinix (EQIX) Buys MainOne Cable for $320 Million, Africa's Biggest Tech Deal
• Equinix Inc. is acquiring West African digital infrastructure firm MainOne Cable Co Ltd. at a valuation of $320 million, one of the continent’s biggest tech deals this year, allowing the U.S. data-center investor to tap into a regional boom.

• Salesforce Needs to Keep Having It Both Ways
• The cloud giant has sharpened its focus on profitability, but investors still want high growth numbers as well.

• What's New on Amazon Web Services? Highlights From AWS Cloud Conference
• AWS’s conference gave viewers a preview of what to expect from its new leadership.

• Two crypto miners charged with hacking a Missouri tech firm’s cloud-computing account --- and racking up $760K in server charges
• Mining crypto requires large amounts of computing power to drive the complicated algorithms used to generate the currency.

• 7 best cloud storage platforms that make backing up your data a doddle
• Want to keep important files safe? These are the best cloud storage platforms you can rely on, from iCloud to Google Drive.

• Accenture Suddenly Promotes, Hike Salaries Of 40,000 Indians; 50% Are Women Employees
• Leading IT services and software company Accenture has announced promotions and salary hikes across their organization, for the eligible employees. Around 80,000 employees have received such promotions and salary hikes across all their campuses, globally. And out of these unexpected salary hikes, and promotions, it’s speculated that 50% are from India.

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