We get a lot of questions from our audience each week, so we thought that it would be useful to answer some listener questions that aren’t easily answered during one of the podcasts. 

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CLOUDCAST LISTENER QUESTIONS

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CLOUD GROWTH, PEOPLE MOVEMENT, OPEN SOURCE TRENDS

Question 1 - Do you expect to see any significant changes to the top public clouds over the next few years?  - Sam A.

• New AWS leadership; AWS profit center needed to keep driving the stock price
• Microsoft capturing more of developers “native tools”; more willing to acquire
• GCP coming up on the 2023 “1st or 2nd place” goal
• “Edge” computing is just starting to take shape.
• Will be interesting to watch how aggressive they get with acquisitions given the antitrust concerns from the US Congress

Question 2 - How is the open source world keeping up with the public cloud? - Melissa L.

• Cloudera was recently acquired by private equity
• IBM acquired Red Hat, and IBM is doubling down on Red Hat technologies
• MongoDB continues to grow their Atlas business
• Confluent is scheduled to IPO soon
• Snowflake is trying to focus more on open APIs and ecosystems
• Several companies (Solo, Hashicorp, Buoyant) recently launched cloud versions of their software
• The public cloud providers continue to ride both sides of the fence regarding open source

Question 3 - Any opinions on the better way to reduce technical debt - lift and shift apps to the cloud, or modernize existing apps? - Sanjay R.

Question 4 - Is the recent consolidation in the IT training market a good thing or a bad thing? - Thomas A.

Question 5 - Are you seeing any post-COVID trends accelerating or gaining more traction?  - Michelle T.

Question 6 - Does it seem like less people are making big money after working for a tech startup than in the past? - Nadir M.

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