Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Vomit Comet as a Service

Episode 138

AWS re:Invent, Amazon chicanery, and Google shake-ups

Hosts

Ned Bellavance

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@Ned1313

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager

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Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst

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Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator

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Longer Topics

AWS re:Invent recap

* Graviton2 – ARM based chip, Intel is like Huwhattt?

* AWS Outpost are GA, oh and AWS introduced local zones in LA

* Related – Verizon and AWS team up for unholy Edge alliance

* Kendra is going to look at all your stuff

* AWS says your developers stink, they can do better

* EKS for Fargate is an actual thing that you want?

* SageMaker gets its own studio – fully integrate IDE for ML

Don’t trust a word Amazon says when it comes to product recommendations

* Amazon overworks and underpays its warehouse workers and leaves them for dead if they get hurt, right?

* Cyber Monday is the biggest digital shopping day in the United States

* According to reporting done by the Wall Street Journal, the Amazon search algorithm favors Amazon products in listings.

* There are websites that are built to analyze listings and give a percentage of reliability on tons of online retailers.

* Amazon has a huge fake five star review problem, that they are seemingly entirely indifferent to.

Lightning Round

* Steve Google is replaced by Sundar Google, er Pichai

* Who better to sell you your next phone than.. Roberto Escobar?

* Big shakeup in the CWE List of most dangerous software errors

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