What does NASA, SpaceX, and the Iowa Democratic caucus result tallying app have in common? They both have to make feature vs costs trade offs.  We go on to discuss when it makes sense to go serverless and when it doesn't (hint: it's not a binary decision)

Resources:

Iowa Democratic Caucus voting app woes:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122737/iowa-democractic-caucus-voting-app-android-testfairy-screenshots-app-store

Monolith's are the Future:
https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future

With ~3 billion people playing games and more than 1 billion of them spending money to play, we wanted to look at the gaming industry, to learn and share, in this episode.

We discussed 2 arenas - game playing and game watching. Rise of cloud providers in gaming - Google Stadia, Microsoft XCloud, Apple Arcade, Sony Playstation Now. Rise of the game-watching industry - Twitch, Facebook Game Live, YouTube Game Live more and more and more. Popular streamers earn up to 500k$ per month! Falling internet prices in India, social impacts of over gaming.  Tune in to this episode for all the details!

References

1. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/5-ways-the-video-game-industry-will-change-in-the-next-decade-2019-7-1028394586#regulation5
2. https://newzoo.com/insights/articles/newzoos-2018-report-insights-into-the-137-9-billion-global-games-market/
3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ilkerkoksal/2019/11/08/video-gaming-industry--its-revenue-shift/#34d1d99f663e
4. https://blog.usejournal.com/one-of-the-first-facebook-gaming-partners-reveals-all-and-will-twitch-be-able-to-keep-its-stars-1016bb786e40
5. https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/26/twitch-mixer-facebook-youtube-state-streaming/

* latest updates on all PlayStation 5 rumors
* Digital Ocean laying off people
* apple now owns 70% of the market of AirPods
* Slava's new studio setup

We've rebranded our podcast from Tech Stuff to The Nonintuitive Bits!  We go into why that rebranding was needed in order to stand out, and how you can make your own products stand out from your competitors.  We also discuss how you can better stand out at work and in your career

Our new website is TheNonintuitiveBits.com

Resources referenced

Rise (book) https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Practical-Advancing-Career-Standing/dp/1607742608/

So you want to do Deep Work? https://zainrizvi.io/blog/so-you-want-to-deep-work/ 

Tesla giving more battery power https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/09/11/as-hurricane-irma-bore-down-tesla-gave-some-florida-drivers-more-battery-juice-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/

CES raised many questions about the future of society and our talk took many tangents. Topics discussed included recurring cycles in tech, optimizing for the wrong metrics, advertising with self driving cars, unintended consequences of AI-based makeup products, and wanting the human touch

Our naive thoughts about situation with nginx and overall different aspects of legal ownership of your code.

Re:Invent 2019. Our personal subjective (probably incorrect) opinions on main releases from AWS.

We are going to share our most favorite IDEs with you and some of our secrets how to be more productive when working with code.

Resources for this Episode:

• http://gitpod.io
• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/whyvscode
• https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-environments-and-tools
• https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-environments-and-tools
• https://octoverse.github.com/#trends
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
• https://github.com/electron/electron
• https://github.com/atom/atom
• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
• https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Speakers/erich-gamma

Today discuss news, business, and psychology. We share our favorite sources to keep up to date with the tech industry. Then we analyze two business models that bootstrapped some of today's most successful tech companies (FaceBook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Netflix). Finally, there's a talk about tactics used by various online communities to self-regulate and nudge their members towards good behavior. 

Topics:

• Reasons behind software Enterprise and Long Term Support
• Bid farewell to Python inventor Guido (and the walrus returns)

Related Links:

• TensorFlow enterprise
• TensorFlow world 
• Python creator Guido van Rossum quits Dropbox, triggering his retirement