Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

(Preview) Understanding the AWS Outage, Resiliency Realities and Innovation Urgency, F1 Heads to Apple TV


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Celebrating the return of the NBA with reactions to Inside the NBA on ESPN before turning to an extended explanation of the technology underlying the AWS outage this week and the history of US-East-1 in Northern Virginia. Then: Grappling with the trade-offs inherent to investing in resiliency to preserve the status quo, the risks that preservation comes at the expense of innovation, and Twitter as an object lesson. At the end: Questions on F1's deal with Apple, an F1 hater checks in, a sales pitch for YouTubeTV, and Ben chooses his favorite karaoke songs and explains how he learned Chinese.

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@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube

@Stratechery Channel — YouTube

The NBA's ESPN Problem Might Finally Be Over — Sharp Text

Resiliency and Scale — Stratechery

Zero Trust Information — Stratechery

F1 on Apple TV, Distribution as Differentiation, A Worthwhile Gamble — Stratechery Update

對面的女孩看過來 — Song by Richie Jen (任賢齊)

自由 — Song by Zhang Zhen Yue (張震嶽)

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