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  • Episode 385: Armchair Strategist

    This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem.

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    Runner-up Titles
    • Cormac will give her a ride home
    • The Baby is asleep
    • Maybe she will get angry.
    • Lectures don’t work
    • See you on Mars, motherfucker!
    • You can have 1 piece of dog walk
    • It’s only stupid until it works.
    • Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win.
    • Armchair strategists.
    • I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal.
    • How long have I been working
    • The CTA of Twitter
    • An exercise for the listener
    • Rundown
      • As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown
      • Cloud Giants Update
      • Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates
      • Meta
        • Meta Myths
        • Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss
        • Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs
        • Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META
        • Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user
        • Twitter
          • Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs
          • Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance
          • Welcome to hell, Elon
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            • Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules
            • Documentary Film “Inside Prometheus” Highlights Open Source Impact and the Innovators That Make it Happen
            • Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators
            • What a combined Broadcom and VMware can deliver to our customers
            • Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT
            • Big Tech's ranks swelled last year
            • Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown
            • Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app
            • List of KubeCon Sponsors
            • Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?
            • Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok
            • DevOps de los Muertos
            • Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn
            • Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox
            • IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2
            • Singapore to phase out checks by 205
            • Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend
            • 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys
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                • Wirecutter Recommendation
                • Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes.
                • Conferences
                  • SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
                  • All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th
                  • THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off
                  • CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
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                        • Southwest Airlines Lost and Found
                        • The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit
                        • Coté: micro.blog. Coté’s setup over there (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register to see my legacy trap talk tomorrow, maybe see the replay?
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                          • Episode 384: KubeCon NA 2022 Recap

                            Matt reports in from Detroit with all the news at KubeCon NA 2022. Plus, some tips on proper etiquette when stretching on International Flights.

                            Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 384

                            Runner up titles
                            • Detriot style pizza
                            • I’m not doing high knees in the airplane bathroom
                            • Masks were required
                            • Not gonna get a lot of leads from your friendsd
                            • Maybe we’re in the trough of disillusionment
                            • We Didn’t Start the Fire for CNCF Projects
                            • He has to eat the spreadsheet
                            • Rundown
                              • CNCF Wasm microsurvey
                              • Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev
                              • Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling
                              • WebAssembly Platform Company Cosmonic Raises $8.5 Million Seed Funding, Launches PaaS
                              • WeRun313 Detroit Running Club
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                                • Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability
                                • Introducing Honeycomb Service Map
                                • Documentary Film: Inside Prometheus
                                • SDT news & hype
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                                    • Matt and Bridget
                                    • Matt on the Run
                                    • Job Board
                                    • 48 min
                                    • Episode 383: My bag did not make the flight

                                      This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel.

                                      Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 383

                                      Runner-up Titles
                                      • Serverless is the new OpenStack.
                                      • “I intended to read it.”
                                      • American Airline lounges are like bus terminals.
                                      • Made it to my hotel at 4 AM
                                      • Kubernetes is about the journey
                                      • That is your 3D chess
                                      • Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher.
                                      • Would you like to buy some YAML?
                                      • We’re gonna go with the ball pit money
                                      • DHH vs. Mr. Beast
                                      • Rundown
                                        • DHH
                                          • Why we're leaving the cloud
                                          • Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
                                          • Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’
                                          • Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD
                                          • Earnings
                                            • Microsoft beats but cloud growth comes in short
                                            • Alphabet misses on top and bottom lines as YouTube ad revenue drops in the quarter
                                            • Relevant to your Interests
                                              • Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud (2022)
                                              • Snap plunges more than 20% on third-quarter revenue miss
                                              • US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation
                                              • Are We Past Peak Newsletter?
                                              • IBM Consulting staff must work from office three days a week
                                              • Facebook shuttle bus drivers are losing their jobs as Meta slashes costs and employees stay home
                                              • Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
                                              • Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak
                                              • Apple's top designer is leaving the company three years after taking over from Jony Ive
                                              • Social media market caps (2021 peak to today
                                              • GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit
                                              • Cyber unicorn Snyk to sack 198 employees, 14% of workforce
                                              • Apple Releases macOS Ventura With FaceTime Handoff, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager, New Apps and More
                                              • Larry Ellison killed Oracle's first-generation cloud
                                              • PayPal shares rise after Amazon adds Venmo as checkout option
                                              • Tragedy of the Digital Commons
                                              • Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way
                                              • Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on?
                                              • Snowflake, Revisited
                                              • What’s going on with Serverless
                                              • Netflix launches new ‘Profile Transfer’ feature to help monetize account sharing
                                              • Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV+, Music Services for the First Time
                                              • Nonsense
                                                • American Airlines is ditching first class on all flights
                                                • The $30 Million Lottery Scam
                                                • Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C
                                                • Conferences
                                                  • SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
                                                  • All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th
                                                  • THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th
                                                  • CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
                                                  • 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!
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                                                    • Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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                                                      • Brandon: DALL-E 2
                                                        • Generative A.I. Is Here. Who Should Control It?
                                                        • Matt: Upgrade.
                                                        • Coté: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
                                                          • Tanzu Talk.
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                                                            • Episode 382: The Ultimate Dogfooding

                                                              This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google Next. Plus, Matt Ray goes car shopping.

                                                              Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 382.

                                                              Runner-up Titles
                                                              • Matt Ray is ready to buy.
                                                              • That’s legal in Australia
                                                              • When Ray Mail comes out, nobody cares
                                                              • I am into workflow
                                                              • This is the population of Hobart that we’re looking at
                                                              • I want to help you, but you don’t even need help
                                                              • Daddy’s Meeting Fort
                                                              • Brandon hasn’t migrated his mainframe workloads to cloud.
                                                              • All these problems are caused by developers
                                                              • Rundown
                                                                • Aboard.io is coming soon!
                                                                  • NTT Data buys digital consultancy Postlight
                                                                  • Linear
                                                                  • Americans Reclaim 60 Million Commuting Hours in Remote-Work Perk
                                                                  • Google Cloud Next ‘22 wrap-up
                                                                    • Dual Run for Google Cloud
                                                                    • Cloud Workstations
                                                                    • Google is serious about its giant video chat booths, starts real-world testing
                                                                    • Google Cloud Next ‘22 in under 13 minutes
                                                                    • Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective
                                                                      • Kubecost Adds SaaS Edition to Control Kubernetes Costs
                                                                      • macOS Ventura
                                                                      • Relevant to your Interests
                                                                        • Announcing Gloo Platform | Solo.io
                                                                        • Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale
                                                                        • Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta
                                                                        • Demystifying the PR/FAQ - Julian Dunn's Blog
                                                                        • Google's 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world
                                                                        • Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie
                                                                        • Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes
                                                                        • Netflix feels the heat
                                                                        • The creator of Amazon's Kindle has left the company, along with a top Alexa executive, adding to a leadership exodus under new CEO Andy Jassy
                                                                        • Google Fiber is launching 5-gig and 8-gig plans early next year
                                                                        • Bringing passkeys to Android & Chrome
                                                                        • US Army reportedly planning $1B cloud migration contract
                                                                        • iOS 16 quietly added native Dvorak keyboard support, delighting weirdos like me
                                                                        • Floppy disk fever. The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium
                                                                        • Anyone Who Does Business With Google Knows Philipp Schindler
                                                                        • The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job
                                                                        • Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale
                                                                        • DIY laptop offers Apple-like looks with PC repairability
                                                                        • Broadcom’s VMWare takeover: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna gives deal conditional blessing
                                                                        • How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees
                                                                        • Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Staff
                                                                        • With a $13B valuation, Celonis defies current startup economics
                                                                        • Computacenter CEO Bashes 'As a Service' as Bad for Customers
                                                                        • CEO Salaries in SaaS
                                                                        • Belkin’s mount to turn your iPhone into a camera is now available
                                                                        • Nonsense
                                                                          • ROI of a sticker
                                                                          • Conferences
                                                                            • 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
                                                                            • CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
                                                                            • Sponsors
                                                                              • The MacGeekGab.com provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple.
                                                                              • 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!
                                                                                • Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
                                                                                • Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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                                                                                • SDT news & hype
                                                                                  • Brandon: InterStellar BBQ try the Peach Tea Pork Belly when available
                                                                                  • Matt: The Peripheral
                                                                                  • Coté: once again, OK burgers. Checking in with platform engineering: “Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals,” Gartner paper on platform engineering/IDP.
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                                                                                    • Episode 381: Aspiration Fatigue

                                                                                      This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse.

                                                                                      Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 381.

                                                                                      Runner-up Titles
                                                                                      • It’s on brand
                                                                                      • I wish I could see Brandon’s legs
                                                                                      • Running VM’s in the meta verse
                                                                                      • They were so busy seeing if they could get VR to work that they didn’t ask if they should.
                                                                                      • Basically, VR is for seeing through walls, including walls of flesh.
                                                                                      • Lifehacks disrupting VC
                                                                                      • They’ve got legs
                                                                                      • Draw a Triangle
                                                                                      • Rundown
                                                                                        • Platform Engineering
                                                                                          • The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering
                                                                                          • Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions
                                                                                          • What Is Platform Engineering?
                                                                                          • Coté’s Slack Message
                                                                                          • Google Cloud Next
                                                                                            • Exclusive: Google touts cloud deal with Ford
                                                                                            • What’s next for digital transformation in the cloud
                                                                                            • Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security
                                                                                            • Cloud Workstations | Google Cloud
                                                                                            • 9 out of 10 banks still use mainframes. Google Cloud wants to reduce that.
                                                                                            • MSFT Ignite
                                                                                            • Relevant to your Interests
                                                                                              • AMD missed Q3 revenue numbers by $1B
                                                                                              • ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability
                                                                                              • Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’
                                                                                              • Is Nomad taking over Kubernetes?
                                                                                              • Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by '95% of Stanford undergrads'
                                                                                              • Register to secure your seat to join us at the exclusive premiere of Clouded - Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud. Autumn 2022
                                                                                              • I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To
                                                                                              • Confidential Containers brings TEE support to Kubernetes
                                                                                              • All YouTube users will soon have an account handle — but some will get to pick theirs earlier
                                                                                              • From cloud security to code security: why we've raised $25M to take on OSS dependency sprawl
                                                                                              • ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo in Deal for $23.25 a Share
                                                                                              • Meta announces legs
                                                                                              • White House to unveil ambitious cybersecurity labeling effort modeled after Energy Star
                                                                                              • High-profile failures Twitter Thread
                                                                                              • It's 2021 and USB-C is still a mess
                                                                                              • Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of PC Slowdown
                                                                                              • The AI-generated podcast.
                                                                                              • Meta unveils high-end Quest Pro VR headset
                                                                                              • New Metaverse Dreams and Old Metaverse Questions
                                                                                              • Nonsense
                                                                                                • Adafruit’s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy
                                                                                                • Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules
                                                                                                • Clam-O-Naise® by Cards Against Humanity
                                                                                                • Rollercoasters trigger iPhone 14 crash detection
                                                                                                • Listener Feedback
                                                                                                  • Pat Gelsinger interivew on Decorder
                                                                                                  • COIN: A Founder's Story
                                                                                                  • Migrating from Heroku to Code-Engine
                                                                                                  • Conferences
                                                                                                    • 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
                                                                                                    • CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
                                                                                                    • Sponsors
                                                                                                      • Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
                                                                                                      • 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!
                                                                                                        • Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
                                                                                                        • Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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                                                                                                        • Recommendations
                                                                                                          • Brandon: House of Dragons.
                                                                                                          • Matt: Malcolm in the Middle.
                                                                                                          • Coté: Draw a Triangle.
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                                                                                                            • Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts

                                                                                                              This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses…

                                                                                                              Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 380.

                                                                                                              Runner-up Titles
                                                                                                              • Leave it all in Brighttalk
                                                                                                              • Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later
                                                                                                              • Killed by Google Wins Again
                                                                                                              • Tell that to the WeWork founder
                                                                                                              • Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon
                                                                                                              • Anyone from software thinks they can do anything
                                                                                                              • Lots of learnings.
                                                                                                              • I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy.
                                                                                                              • A good Brandon issue
                                                                                                              • Rundown
                                                                                                                • Google’s Incentives
                                                                                                                  • Google is shutting down Stadia
                                                                                                                  • Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate
                                                                                                                  • Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.
                                                                                                                  • 2022 State of DevOps Report
                                                                                                                  • Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
                                                                                                                  • Relevant to your Interests
                                                                                                                    • GitLab beats expectations with impressive revenue growth, but its stock falls anyway
                                                                                                                    • Two Former eBay Executives Sentenced to Prison for Cyberstalking
                                                                                                                    • We’re excited to announce that the transaction to combine Citrix and TIBCO
                                                                                                                    • Can a Zebra Change Its Stripes?
                                                                                                                    • VR & AR headset designers should consider how their customers look like when wearing them
                                                                                                                    • CEO Tim Cook says Apple avoids the word 'metaverse'
                                                                                                                    • DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
                                                                                                                    • Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text
                                                                                                                    • The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
                                                                                                                    • Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase
                                                                                                                    • Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities
                                                                                                                    • The Most Visited Website in Every Country (That Isn’t A Search Engine)
                                                                                                                    • Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio Hands Over Control of Firm
                                                                                                                    • World's First Laptop with RISC-V Processor Now Available
                                                                                                                    • ‎CoRecursive: Coding Stories: Android's Unlikely Success on Apple Podcasts
                                                                                                                    • Database 2x2
                                                                                                                    • Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around
                                                                                                                    • State Of Developer Relations
                                                                                                                    • Red Hat Storage strategy update
                                                                                                                    • IBM Redefines Hybrid Cloud Application and Data Storage Adding Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings
                                                                                                                    • IBM + Red Hat: Doubling Down on Hybrid Cloud Storage
                                                                                                                    • DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering
                                                                                                                    • Nonsense
                                                                                                                      • Kim Kardashian pays over $1 million to settle SEC charges linked to a crypto promo on her Instagram
                                                                                                                      • Test drive new McLaren Formula 1 themes in your Chrome browser
                                                                                                                      • Tacos Are a Staple in Austin. How Is Inflation Impacting Taco Spots?
                                                                                                                      • Google Japan’s latest version of it’s new keyboard, G-Board
                                                                                                                      • "The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"
                                                                                                                      • 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
                                                                                                                        • CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
                                                                                                                        • Sponsors
                                                                                                                          • Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.
                                                                                                                          • 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!
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                                                                                                                            • Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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                                                                                                                                • Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk ****(Podcast)
                                                                                                                                • The Chatter Toolbox (PDF)
                                                                                                                                • Matt: Keyboard.io Model 100
                                                                                                                                • Coté: classic microplane.
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                                                                                                                                  • Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap

                                                                                                                                    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.
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                                                                                                                                                    • Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
                                                                                                                                                    • Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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                                                                                                                                                        • Episode 378: Email is not broken

                                                                                                                                                          This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.

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                                                                                                                                                          • Freed from Intel
                                                                                                                                                          • It works!
                                                                                                                                                          • Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
                                                                                                                                                          • It will be fun
                                                                                                                                                          • The Apple Chip
                                                                                                                                                          • A Demi Kettle
                                                                                                                                                          • Pay for your own Flu
                                                                                                                                                          • Free to interrupt me
                                                                                                                                                          • Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
                                                                                                                                                          • None of us can master the intranet.
                                                                                                                                                          • The network is the calendar.
                                                                                                                                                          • Rundown
                                                                                                                                                            • Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
                                                                                                                                                            • Adobe
                                                                                                                                                              • Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
                                                                                                                                                              • Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
                                                                                                                                                              • Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
                                                                                                                                                              • What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion
                                                                                                                                                              • Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?
                                                                                                                                                                • Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
                                                                                                                                                                • Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window
                                                                                                                                                                • Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google
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                                                                                                                                                                  • Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
                                                                                                                                                                  • A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
                                                                                                                                                                  • Ethereum Is Merging
                                                                                                                                                                  • Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk
                                                                                                                                                                  • Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile
                                                                                                                                                                  • Audio subscription platform Podimo raises €58.6M
                                                                                                                                                                  • Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language
                                                                                                                                                                  • Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong
                                                                                                                                                                  • Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live — here's what it does
                                                                                                                                                                  • Amazon Web Services — Acquired
                                                                                                                                                                  • It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors
                                                                                                                                                                  • Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
                                                                                                                                                                  • Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing
                                                                                                                                                                  • Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120
                                                                                                                                                                  • McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data.
                                                                                                                                                                  • Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO
                                                                                                                                                                  • Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation
                                                                                                                                                                  • Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget
                                                                                                                                                                  • JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers
                                                                                                                                                                  • The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About
                                                                                                                                                                  • Document Foundation charges €8.99 for macOS LibreOffice
                                                                                                                                                                  • Sharp Tech
                                                                                                                                                                  • Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives
                                                                                                                                                                  • A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings
                                                                                                                                                                  • Charted: Big Tech market values
                                                                                                                                                                  • Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund
                                                                                                                                                                  • The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
                                                                                                                                                                  • YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok
                                                                                                                                                                  • Nonsense
                                                                                                                                                                    • When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling
                                                                                                                                                                    • File this under: Old Bay goes with anything
                                                                                                                                                                    • I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.
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                                                                                                                                                                      • Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
                                                                                                                                                                      • KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
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                                                                                                                                                                                • Episode 377: Coffee is for closers

                                                                                                                                                                                  This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee…

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                                                                                                                                                                                  • It’s about me
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Workshop it
                                                                                                                                                                                  • I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs
                                                                                                                                                                                  • This is their Popeye moment
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Pulitzers and free coffee
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Financial shenanigans
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Hide the gift shop in the data center
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Rundown
                                                                                                                                                                                    • No more free coffee as bankers return to Goldman Sachs
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey
                                                                                                                                                                                    • André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it
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                                                                                                                                                                                      • What if those green bubbles aren’t Android’s fault? - The Hustle
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Uber Eats goes driverless with Nuro partnership
                                                                                                                                                                                      • GM is betting on its electric Equinox, starting at $30,000, to kick-start 'massive adoption' of EVs
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Cheating Allegations Shake the Chess World After Champion Suffers Stunning Defeat
                                                                                                                                                                                      • The Book of Reed Hastings, Revisited
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Explainer: Understanding Ethereum's major 'Merge' upgrade
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Patreon security team layoffs cause backlash in creator community
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Bolt's $1.5 billion deal to buy Wyre dies
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Citrix Plans to Explore Sale of Wrike Unit After Buyout Closes
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Meta moves PyTorch to Linux Foundation
                                                                                                                                                                                      • At Google, 'Rest and Vest' for Sr. Employees is Over, Says CEO
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Large railroad labor unions say they will strike if quality of life is not addressed in new contract
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Heat wave knocks Twitter data center offline
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation - Linux Foundation
                                                                                                                                                                                      • What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Twitter shareholders approve $44 billion Elon Musk buyout
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Tech stack
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Squishable computer runs calculations depending on how you squish it
                                                                                                                                                                                      • iOS 16 - New Features
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Nonsense
                                                                                                                                                                                        • IKEA Responds To Balenciaga’s $2,145 Bag That Looks Exactly Like IKEA’s 99-Cent Tote Bag, And It’s Hilarious
                                                                                                                                                                                        • We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Episode 376: Businesses that use computers

                                                                                                                                                                                                        This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers?

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Runner-up Titles
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • They were already in the system.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Headless Optimization Gone Amuck.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • While sitting on the toilet
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Bring Paul Ford out of retirement.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Great ideas, getting close
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Prevent the typo
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 73 SaaS Companies
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • “Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • That may be his family crest
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Rundown
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Checking on Digital Transformation
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Instant Payments in the U.S.?
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • SaaS spend ratios on R&D/S&M/G&A
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Netflix’s Catch-22 Milestone
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • VMware Offers Sneak Peek at Tanzu App Platform
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • VMware customers optimistically wait for Broadcom’s impact
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Ubiquiti Teaches AWS Security and Crisis Comms Via Counterexample
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding – TechCrunch
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Microsoft: The deadline to get off Basic Auth is approaching
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 1 big thing: What's behind chip giants' lawsuit
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms harassment site
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Open-source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M • TechCrunch
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • AWS Preps ‘Bastion’ Cloud Service for Advertisers
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The cloud computing giants are vying to protect fat profits
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Blackouts possible at height of California’s heat wave Tuesday as grid struggles with record usage
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • For homesick Marylanders
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Google announces October 6th event to launch the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7, and new Nest devices
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Isovalent Cilium Enterprise: For Kubernetes Networking & Security
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Introducing Ambient Mesh
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Muck Rack scores one of the largest growth equity investments in PR tech
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Southwest Pilot Threatens to Turn Plane Around if Unruly Passengers Keep AirDropping Nudes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • New escape room just opened in town
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Jaws is a box office hit again, 47 years after it first hit theaters
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