Episode 396: Aloha to your strategy

This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A; strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes…

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Runner-up Titles

Work trying to get on my personal calendar

Traveling with an infant

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Socks in a Costco

Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it.

Pay transparency for you, not me

We don’t pay for things on the Internet

Semper Nimbus Privatus

Rundown

Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth,

Digital Transformation Travel Edition

Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1

The Southwest Airlines Meltdown

Southwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million

Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco

Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo

Point of Sale: Scan and Pay

Work Life

Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings

Netflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary Information

U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts

Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023

Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary information

SFDC

Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut

Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space

After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivity

AI is everywhere

Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology

Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google

Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT

Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Relevant to your Interests

2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin

Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos

On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup

Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person

10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco

Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma

Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023

A MultiCloud Rant

Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies.

AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good

AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks

Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation

Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project

VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut

Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom

China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report

Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash

Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO

Top Paying Tools

Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies

CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison

MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models

No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods

The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported

IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments

Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief

Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts

IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety

Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes

List of defunct social networking services

2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice

Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status

TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips

Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd

The infrastructure behind ATMs

Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices

Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards

Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs

CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI

Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union

World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice

omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you

Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills.

Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor

Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com

Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?

Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now

Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info

Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio

Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation

Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing

New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is

Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI

What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage

Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle.

How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared

A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects

The golden age of the streaming wars has ended

YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality

## Nonsense

The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home

Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February

The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego.

Conferences

THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th

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SpringOne, Jan 24–26.

Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.

State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023

CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023

DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

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