This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message?

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Runner-up Titles

"Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.”
You don’t want to scare you coworkers
Eating bugs off your coworkers
“Hi” has become a trigger word
Rehabilitate the “Hi”
55 Direct Reports
Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone.
The YAML hand off market

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