September 30, 2022

Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap

1 hour 2 minutes

This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379.

Runner-up Titles

You’re not proud of the product

You can have both

Landing Pages

It’s just like Serial

Don’t bring me these unqualified deals

It’s a Floppy Disk Problem

The better the metrics, the less useful they are

The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful

Highly Edited

Focus on Earnings

Rundown

AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started

Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast)

Google and Developer Toil

Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting

Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency

Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money'

Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive

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Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong

The Dead End from RedMonk

Building for the 99% Developers

Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs

Slack canvas has officially entered the chat!

Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air

Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile

Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition

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The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security

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Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights

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KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022

SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022

THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it.

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Join us in Slack.

Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!

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September 30, 2022

Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap

1 hour 2 minutes

This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379.

Runner-up Titles

You’re not proud of the product

You can have both

Landing Pages

It’s just like Serial

Don’t bring me these unqualified deals

It’s a Floppy Disk Problem

The better the metrics, the less useful they are

The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful

Highly Edited

Focus on Earnings

Rundown

AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started

Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast)

Google and Developer Toil

Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting

Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency

Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money'

Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive

Relevant to your Interests

PaaS Is Not Dead

How devops in the cloud breaks down

Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong

The Dead End from RedMonk

Building for the 99% Developers

Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs

Slack canvas has officially entered the chat!

Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air

Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile

Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition

Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday

Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us

What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption?

Did We Overeat on Software?

Someone is pretending to be me.

Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M

For teens to do better in school, they need to sleep in

Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security

Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

Nonsense

The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid

Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights

Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads

Conferences

Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting

KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022

SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022

THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.

Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!

Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

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Brandon: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode

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