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A Double-Digit Episode Spectacular!

For Episode 10 (or should that be Episode X?), we invited a very special guest: Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/).

We discussed remote events briefly, riffing off Dominic's recent blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/remote-events

After that, we had a wide-ranging discussion about legacy technology, how come "legacy" is a bad word in the technology industry — but not in the outside world, how technologies become legacy, and what value users find in these technologies.

Some topics that came up:

Follow-up from last week:

Apple Silicon Benchmarks: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/developers-leak-benchmarks-from-the-apple-silicon-mac-transition-kit/

Low-code / no-code platform wars:

Amazon Honeycode: https://youtu.be/vMR2KOJUEr8

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycode-build-web-mobile-apps-without-writing-code/

The Corey Quinn quote I mentioned was from issue #168 of his newsletter, which is not yet online but will be linked from here when it is: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/

Microsoft announces STOCKHISTORY: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-stockhistory/ba-p/1404338

Google’s G Suite finalizes Connected Sheets and introduces AI-driven data cleanup tools https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/30/googles-g-suite-finalizes-connected-sheets-and-introduces-ai-driven-data-cleanup-tools/

UK TV interviews with kids' cameos:

https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1278358093710217216

https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1278404657992392704

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar 

Zack, Mike, and Dominic talk about ethics in AI, Macs moving to ARM CPUs, and what this might mean in the cloud.

Links:

Zack, Mike, and Dominic talk about Hey.com versus Apple, the latest Zoom news, and then get into the meat of 5G, SD-WAN, and the future of networking.

What happened to the developers? Wait, you’re a developer? Everyone’s a developer!

Zack, Mike, and Dominic discuss citizen developers, low-code/no-code, shadow IT, and more.

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Mike, Zack, and Dominic talk robots — both the physical kind and software bots — and more importantly, what they mean for the IT industry and for society in general.

Zack and Dominic pull back the curtain and show Mike some of the sales-side perspective on closing deals. It turns out, reputation matters — a lot, and the best way to build and keep a good reputation is to focus on your customer's business. 

That blog post about the economics of booth babes: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/babe-got-talent

Dominic and Zack interview Mike about what it's like to be on the receiving end of all those sales calls. The talk gets spicy, names are named, dirty tricks are shared… Tune in to hear the whole story!

In Episode Two, Dominic, Mike, and Zack talk about what it's like to work from home, and some of the longer-term implications of that switch. Does this mean SD-WAN and VDI are going to have the day? Does the corporate network edge now reach into employee's homes, and does that mean surveillance is okay? What about onboarding, especially for interns or people starting their first job in this climate? And how come we aren't hearing more about VR?

Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis

Dominic, Mike, and Zack kick off the podcast by getting into the news about Zoom, what it means in the enterprise, and what the longer-term prospects are for Zoom.

Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis