
Roll For Enterprise
By Dominic Wellington, Lilac Schoenbeck, Mike Ianiro, Zack Zilakakis
Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @lilacshoenbeck, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis
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Roll For EnterpriseMay 01, 2022

S3E17: Podcast's Gone Wild
Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073
Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg
Google parent Alphabet’s results come up short despite cloud strength
Google Cloud hit $5.82B in Q1 sales, up from $4.05B YoY and above estimates of $5.75B, and an operating loss of $931M, down from $974M YoY
Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html
Amazon's cloud unit grew 36.5% year over year in the first quarter, a bit faster than analysts projected.
Brian Olsavsky (CFO) -
“We saw another strong quarter of innovation and customer engagement in the AWS segment, where net sales were $18.4 billion in Q1, up 37% year over year and now represent an annualized sales run rate of nearly $74 billion.”
“I mean, we're continuing to see what the backlog is, right? It's the increase of AWS customers making long-term commitments for AWS. At the March period ended, we had $88.9 billion balance for that. So that's up about 68% year over year.
And the weighted average remaining kind of life term for those is 3.8 years.”
AWS Wins Out Over Microsoft For $10B NSA Cloud Contract
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-wins-out-over-microsoft-for-10b-nsa-cloud-contract
Microsoft’s Cloud Growth Propels Quarterly Sales, Earnings
Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 32% YoY to $23.4B in Q3, including $19.1B from Intelligent Cloud, up 26% YoY, and from Azure and other cloud services, up 46% YoY
MSFT Earnings Transcript
Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool
Satya Nadella - “This quarter, we helped more customers than ever, simplifying and accelerating their cloud migrations. And it's still early days.” & “As a percentage of GDP, tech spend is, on a secular basis, by the end of the decade, going to double.”
Satya continuously doubles down on “Data & AI” -
“Data and AI for sure. I mean, the thing that I find really to be something that I think is a long run is going to probably be one of the bigger drivers of our growth and differentiation is our data fabric because we're the only guys who have a complete data fabric from the operational store, that's fully integrated into an analytics engine, that's fully integrated into governance.”
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S3E16: Why have searches for GitOps doubled in the past year?
GitOps
https://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitops
Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months.
The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability.
GitOps is part of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) meta trend.
According to E-Topics, Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The mainstreaming of cloud practices and the continued increase in adoption of DevSecOps are two main drivers of accelerating IaC growth.
Hyperautomation
https://explodingtopics.com/topic/hyperautomation
Hyperautomation is the use of technologies to scale the automation of processes within an organization.
Hyperautomation is part of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Technology meta trend.
According to Gartner, 80% of finance executives have made plans to implement RPA within their organization.
And Deloitte estimates that 78% of the companies that have already implemented RPA plan to significantly increase investment in this area in the next three years.
ServiceNow adds new RPA capabilities with San Diego release
https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/23/servicenow-adds-new-rpa-capabilities-with-san-diego-release/
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S3E15: Infrastructure as Code is dead, Cloud is the new VMWare, and IT Operations is forever changed
Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022
https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/
Puppet acquired (by Perforce)
https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppet
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/12/nasuni-ransomware-without-backup/
Microsoft Customers Decry Cloud Contracts That Sideline Rivals
Atlassian cloud outage could take days to resolve
https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1513727021087543300
https://twitter.com/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
Mike
wecrashed: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9
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S3E14: People In Three Dimensions
Back to (in-person) work
Big tech conferences aren’t coming back
https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events
Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails
Using your dishwasher is more Earth-friendly. Here's why.
https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-water-do-dishwashers-use/
Any other news
Microsoft Azure to build Arm servers with chips from Ampere
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
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S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse
Remote meetings are big money
Poly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/
How much of IT should be self-serve?
Cloud self-service doesn’t need to invite the orc apocalypse | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing
Shadow IT discourse is back, baby!
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
Large-scale npm attack targets Azure developers with malicious packages
https://jfrog.com/blog/large-scale-npm-attack-targets-azure-developers-with-malicious-packages/
Google Docs corner
New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling
Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
Macs Fan Control https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
Lilac
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life
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S3E12: Oktapoppin’
Okta popped
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690
Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010
Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/
FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/
Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283
Japan's Self-Defense Forces launch new cyberdefense unit: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/17/national/sdf-cyberdefense-unit/
Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/
Zooming into the Metaverse
Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990983/zoom-virtual-avatars-animal-face-replacement
Of course many of us did this with Snap Camera for a couple of weeks and then forgot all about it: https://snapcamera.snapchat.com
'I'm not a cat': Video shows lawyer can't turn off kitten filter during Zoom court appearance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-m-not-cat-video-shows-lawyer-can-t-turn-n1257168
The Thing With Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom
GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/24/stephen-wilhite-gif-inventor-dies
Tune in for an *exciting* discussion about enterprise sales & pricing next week!
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
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S3E11: Pigeons In The Net
- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise
https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase
- Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again
BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/
- Remote events are still with us
Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully online
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981868/google-i-o-2022-may-11th-12th-online-virtual
Performance & Security - Ask Me Anything Panel from MongoDB.local London 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgVLgfTB-E
- Partnering with cloud providers
MongoDB Expands Global Collaboration with AWS
https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-expands-global-collaboration-with-aws
AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance-
Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout
- Maybe you don’t want that Apple Studio Display after all
Daring Fireball Apple Studio Display — problems with the webcam
https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display
Opal camera — DSLR quality on a webcam
https://opalcamera.com
- Customer Experience Personalisation and how it breaks
Help, I'm Being Personalised!
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/help-i-m-being-personalised
- Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
Book: The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-scalzi/the-kaiju-preservation-society/
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S3E10: IT Research Analysts, what exactly are they good for? Plus more on the NVIDIA breach, Amazon’s stock split and the latest Apple event
NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware
Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront
Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1501688392915898370
Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/08/march-2022-apple-event-everything-announced/
S&P Global Acquires 451 Research
https://www.spglobal.com/en/press/press-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc
Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner
https://twitter.com/cloudpundit
Recommendations
Lilac
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S3E9: More On Infosec Consequences Of Ukraine War
Ukrainian tech companies
https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies
Grammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfits
People around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-airbnb-donations-cec/index.html
Nvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in Hack
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-confirms-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/nvidia-hackers-leak-ransomware/
DARVO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
$50/month to plug a mystery box into your home network: https://twitter.com/jackrhysider/status/1498780187776933888
The Register survey on zero-trust https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/reg_reader_survey_zero_trust_results/
EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/new_hope_for_privacy_shield/
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html
Apple “Peek Performance” event https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-event
Recommendations
Dominic
Notes From The Burning Age, by Claire North https://text.npr.org/1018496548
Zack
Wordle - https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Worldle - https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Airportle - https://airportle.scottscheapflights.com
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S3E8: Cyber Security in trying times, EU data regulation and multi-cloud frenemies
Ukraine Crisis
Ambulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’t
Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia
Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In
Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/cyberattack-hits-ukrainian-banks-and-government-websites.html
https://twitter.com/aneel/status/1496826799162077189
The Associated Press tried to sell an NFT of migrants adrift at sea
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-24-1
Multi-cloud
Europe proposes rules for fair access to connected device data
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/23/eu-data-act/
Interoperable Friendship
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/interoperable-friendship
Kyndryl, AWS Sign Deal With Aim To Train 10,000 Workers By Year’s End
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/kyndryl-aws-sign-deal-with-aim-to-train-10-000-workers-by-year-s-end
AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance-
Recommendations
Dominic
Bone-conduction headphones: (After)Shokz Aeropex / Openrun https://shokz.com/products/openrun
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S3E7: Shipping Citrix and Tibco — Citco? Tibrix?
Forbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/
Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal - https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/citrix-to-be-acquired-taken-private-and-merged-with-tibco-in-16-5-billion-deal
Weighted ACV as more useful SaaS metric - https://whoisnnamdi.com/weighted-acv/
Intel plans - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/intel_gelsinger_plan/
Intel — Powering the Metaverse- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/powering-metaverse.html
Salesforce Establishes Sustainability as a Core Company Value; Launches Net Zero Cloud 2.0 Globally- https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/sustainability-core-value/
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S3E6: The One With Jon Collins
Dominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies.
Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno
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S3E5: Amazon AWS the giant of cloud compared to Microsoft Azure and the often forgotten Google GCP
Amazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71B
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71b
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504
https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1489350978642100230
⬆️ 20B Jeff Bezos
⬇️ 30B Mark Zuckerberg
Alphabet Q4 Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 45 Percent
https://www.crn.com/alphabet-q4-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-jumps-45-percent
https://twitter.com/munster_gene/status/1488646948835905536
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021_Q4_Earnings_Transcript.pdf (page 15)
The Apple effect. Is Facebook/Meta in trouble?
- Slowing sales: Meta revenue hit $33.7B in the last quarter but its guidance for Q1 2022 ($27-$29B) was below expectations
- The Apple effect: New changes to iPhone’s privacy policy will cost Facebook’s ad business an estimated $10B this year
- High-value users (e.g., US coastal) are leaving Facebook and going to TikTok
- M&A options are off the table due to antitrust scrutiny
- Founders are choosing not to work at Meta, which means it can’t build new products
AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ai-insurance-company-faces-class-action-7991163/
Recommendations
Dominic
Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
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S3E4: Microsoft Windows license and cloud growth, Nvidia and Arm not happening, and Calendly drama
Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderates
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html
Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition
Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html
Calendly discourse
https://twitter.com/lessin/status/1486477359717187589
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1486747239544459265
https://twitter.com/calendly/status/1486780920048672772
Peloton to halt production of its Bikes, treadmills as demand wanes
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S3E3: Games, Metaverse, and Coffee
Microsoft buys Activision for $69B (nice)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html
Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it
3 billion gamers — sure, if you count Candy Crush etc, but how many of those are playing Call of Duty?
Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.html
But the video everyone has seen is old:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/5/22868323/walmart-metaverse-shopping-video-viral-old
Is Google taking another run at AR, not quite a decade after Google Glass?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22892152/google-project-iris-ar-headset-2024
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US airports block rollout of 5G, one day before launch
AT&T and Verizon limit 5G service near US airports after carriers’ outcry
https://www.ft.com/content/e1f1d59f-2e9f-4f23-a80a-25dcc0274513
Only happening in US because of different frequencies and higher power levels
But why did the issue come to light so late?
Opinion | The FAA’s 5G freakout raises a big red flag — about its competence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/18/faa-5g-wireless-freakout-raises-red-flag/
Boeing Takes Hit as Its 777, 787 Planes Appear Susceptible to 5G Network
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Quick News
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The FCC proposes new data breach rules for phone companies
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Italians continue to prefer real coffee
https://www.italy24news.com/local/347225.html
Lol: Starbucks closes two locations in Milan because they were so unprofitable. Six locations remain.
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S3E2: Big Data! What Is It Good For?
Lilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it.
- What’s the data problem? How do we think about it in companies?
- What’s the opportunity … can we dream about what we could do with better handle on enterprise data
- Open Source and Security
https://www.protocol.com/open-source-security-white-house-2656216576
https://www.theverge.com/platform/2022/1/13/22882176/google-government-action-protect-open-source-software-funding-security
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/
Doug is a 25-year veteran building teams and technology products. His experiences span startups as well over 15 years in enterprise product management with 17 years in the low code tooling space. Doug is a musician, having toured as a section violinist with artists like Sarah Brightman (“Phantom of the Opera”), Diana Ross, Moody Blues, and Ray Charles.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasjohnson/
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S3E1: Here We Go Again, Welcome to the year of the employee
2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictions
Employment changes, new wave of freelancing
Fractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-one
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chief-Technology-Officer-Salary
Healthcare impacts
More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation: https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality
Amazon considers changing how it distributes employee stock options to stem exodus of top talent: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-stock-compensation-monthly-vesting-l7-top-employees-2022-1
Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A Klue : https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Season-2-Episode-3-We-Get-A-Klue-ep331n
Low-code/no-code Report
Electric Capital Developer Report (2021)
https://medium.com/electric-capital/electric-capital-developer-report-2021-f37874efea6d
https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1478776674648944641?s=20
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S2E51: Year In Review
Themes of the year that was:
- Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover
- Outages and incidents
- Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc)
- No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects
- Mental health and the change in employment landscapes
- The Great Resignation
- The year the employees took the power back
The book Dominic referred to is “Feersum Endjinn” by Iain M Banks, first published in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_Endjinn
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S2E50: Exploits, outages and the not so different future
Patch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploited
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/
List of software impacted by log4j
https://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db/blob/develop/README.md
The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/17/1042692/log4j-internet-open-source-hacking/
Another AWS Outage
This time it’s not us-east-1!
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/amazon-owned-twitch-down-many-users-2021-12-15/
Benedict Evans’ year-end presentation
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Our takeaways:
- Web3: “All the old problems, in exciting new ways”
- VR/AR: “The technology can always get better… but that doesn’t guarantee universal appeal”
- Mainframe installed capacity still growing
- Lessons from the past: “who made more from the deployment of cars, and who made more from car-commerce - Detroit, or retailers?”
Dominic was thinking of Mary Meeker’s monster “Internet Trends” presentations; we look forward to being completely intimidated by the scale of the 2021 edition when it drops
Recommendations
Dominic
Loïc Suberville’s “Universal Language” shorts: https://youtube.com/channel/UCywGsTdh_qqZUYmA2Gro2CA
Lilac
Askamanager.org
Mike
How to Resolve Duplicate Outlook for iOS Contacts
https://office365itpros.com/2020/11/05/resolve-duplicate-outlook-ios-contacts/
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S2E49: Services, Dead Or Alive
AWS us-east-1 outage (again)
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-now
AWS post-mortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/
Quill shutdown
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-quill-acquisition
https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1468289633964290049
Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quill
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/slack-investor-index-ventures-backs-slack-competitor-quill/
Swiss suicide pod: https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/controversial-suicide-pod-that-kills-peacefully-gets-go-ahead-in-switzerland/
Quick News
Touch Bar post mortem review
Recommendations
Dominic
Vinegar https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 Un-break YouTube
Also! Merry Mixmas http://www.djriko.com
Zack
Govee Flow Pro LED Smart Light Bars
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S2E48: AWS re:Invent experience and the potential end of big tech acquisitions
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
AWS re:Invent Keynotes
https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2
F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/technology/ftc-nvidia-arm-deal.html
UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/
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S2E47: WebEx Is Good, Actually
Have you tried WebEx lately?
Whither Skype?
Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom
Zoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilities
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/contact-center/webex-contact-center/index.html
Nvidia's on a Roll - Nvidia’s just beginning
TinyML
Global shipments of TinyML chipsets are expected to reach 2.5 billion units by 2030, representing a 164x increase from 2020.
https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/tinyml
TinyML solution can decrease the size of the deep learning algorithms by 98% while decreasing accuracy by only 1%.
Ford and GM announce plans to develop chips amid ongoing semiconductor shortage
https://www.techspot.com/news/92299-ford-gm-announce-plans-develop-chips-amid-ongoing.html
No-Code/Low Code Update
Taplink is a tool used to quickly create mobile-friendly no-code websites. (Again - everyone is IT)
Rebranding of IT - This is relative of the role in organizations
https://www.idgconnect.com/article/3576598/the-changing-name-and-face-of-enterprise-it.html
Recommendations
Dominic
Belkin Soundform Connect
Zack
Like drawing on real paper for your iPad
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S2E46: Return of single threaded life
MongoDB.local London
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Recommendations
Dominic
People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life.
Mike
The Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795?i=1000540043607
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S2E45: In which we get meta
Facebook goes Meta
https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/
Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own game
https://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/
Tinder also goes meta, with NFTs
https://social.techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/match-group-details-plans-for-a-dating-metaverse-tinders-virtual-goods-based-economy/
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Quick News
Low-code/no-code: Botmock acquired by Walmart
https://www.botmock.com/blog/walmart-to-acquire-botmock-technology
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
Mike
New Oura Ring Coming - $50 discount link:
https://ablink.m.ouraring.com/ls/click?upn=N8tmOVmhlLmN-2BvzIQBg5G3IT8A2NTQkRZyCa1tZK-2F0qLMl0-2BqVeEIUKxyjaHEX33kBut-2FVEdMXeCL6Jk8oZcyDytT8r-2FRa4-2Bs8fI29Ubw-2B2DJhSeFUyUMpl0Al58prLQtceo5aMW8QvmF14i8dzdO-2FKnp20cbozCr17BNPGZwcUOCMz620zcTNt1SdhXkc7Mw0xZFB67exKv7hVbb6kdFQ-3D-3DZkCm_Id0GDeWFgkDhRsu8fkH4t9bRZZJLAwwoMgGS5MPZjgaEy4SkX295IFfN0mQk6nuK1Wh5bhkOsvNfCPIvmsi37YyX24kxFacmiFR21ZYFNTj7lZvOWn06rxSJQidVMXKktATiJjCM-2Ba9XB0o-2FL2NiiwgT-2BCPI63U7ZUCbC31M0iDS7vl5HIwOjtpQsJiHcv75D5p4MHyMQM7O-2BHVzAeycjuCc-2FKlzcmYHrukT-2Fi3-2BThazwDEq1-2FXN3HnkJpovSjM0FNOyo3RLLLdzGftR4atNQhGP4bg-2FOC6UcLUJTUUMfm5mYOHQuE9yXGMWyDvjksy4-2Fs35tUgEc9aeDRcc-2FBK2pCg-2FbgD1HZj4fXr6gQBfMcC8p1-2BvMJ7VhJS2Oe5m081I-2FdLr3OxFfg5gaxwnfuw7SmWS01W-2Bfl2bsJLj0IVkp26BA-2BjLEJik2jrqUL2dAwDAD0bxa9BXT85gSIKodMzjFq44nyAXy7LUpmgKNNWs27z2qnryjDQwiMuRECE2VtAjy4CB4Ij1gdxHJ5FwLytxNNPxE-2F2-2FcY31rB25ZQKofZNwod16TJeHMIk928Ik0z-2FcvnhXm1VK1R9yb03EX0hJ7l9v7uwKPgwzOUI-2FCUubgoSF8rhsI85MX-2FyV8OzzV-2FQMn3SjiOWwThR0jrg3ugq25A-3D-3D
Zack
Drone racing league https://thedroneracingleague.com
Lilac
People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life.
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S2E43: Google Cloud reorg/culture shift and Apple being Apple
Google Next ’21
https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next
Google Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough?
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly
Google Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3%
Upcoming event we talked about:
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Microsoft Ignite
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home
Apple Event - October 18,2021
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2021/?useASL=true
Apple Announcement
Apple is desperate for you to adopt Siri….so much so they are reducing Apple Music if you use Siri https://www.smh.com.au/technology/with-voice-plan-apple-pays-you-to-use-only-siri-for-music-20211019-p591a5.html
New MacBooks — and no new standalone display
Apple Pro Display XDR
https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/
Apple Pro Stand
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
Mike
Microsoft Ignite
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
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S2E42: Life, the Universe, and Everything
Bitnet
VDI
“Modern” Web front-end stack twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160
Web apps (Google Docs in primis)
USB 3.0 spec
15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
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S2E41: BGP brought down Facebook; Databricks moves into Low-Code/No-Code; What does it mean for the future of IT organizations everywhere?
Facebook outage, Twitch leak
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Lost server
https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/
Twitch source code and payout data leaks
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/twitch_data_leak/
Also blamed on config error
Best comment: “It’s complex systems all the way down; even the turtles are complex systems.” https://twitter.com/swagitda_/status/1445376680684572678
NPM outage
Verica Open Incident Database
https://www.thevoid.community/
Low-code/no-code
Databricks Acquires Low-code/No-code Company to Expand its Lakehouse Platform to Citizen Data Scientists
Get Started in No-Code App Development with Unqork and MongoDB | MongoDB
Quick News
Cisco raising prices due to supply chain challenges
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/ciscos_base_price_to_increase/
That Zoom/five9 tie-up we discussed back in episode 30? It’s not happening, in large part because it was to have been an all-stock offer, and Zoom’s stock is worth 23% less than it was when the deal was agreed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/zoom-and-five9-agree-to-terminate-acquisition-plan.html
https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E30-Apology-Podcast-e14uqn4/a-a672hvb
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
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S2E40: The Big Four-Oh
Sorry for making some of our listeners feel old, because their “I feel old now” references are twenty years earlier than Nevermind!
Here’s what we talked about this week:
How IBM lost the cloud
https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud
Cloudflare Announces R2 Storage; Rapid and Reliable S3-Compatible Object Storage Designed for the Edge
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-announces-r2-storage/
EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
Positive example of standard: RJ-11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
Lilac
Rocket customer conference, EVOLVE 21
https://www.rocketsoftware.com/events/evolve21
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S2E39: In which we feel very old
30 years since Nevermind!
Listening guide: https://www.nme.com/features/nirvanas-nevermind-at-30-a-track-by-track-guide-dave-grohl-st-vincent-lorde-3048697
30th anniversary reissue: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/
The kids don’t get filesystems: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
Dinosaurs evolving — including why email is better at email than Slack can ever be: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/dinosaurs-evolving
The college mindset list: http://themindsetlist.com/2017/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2021/
Gen-X vs Millennials: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CTS15PcDK-H/
Epikfail
Epikfail explainer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/worst-i-ve-seen-in-20-years-how-the-epik-hack-reveals-every-secret-the-far-right-tried-to-hide/ar-AAOw25G
Programming is hard: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Recommendations
Lilac
Spotify — listening together
Dominic
Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell https://www.bookbub.com/books/light-chaser-by-peter-f-hamilton-and-gareth-l-powell
Mike
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/1635576059
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S2E38: The IT way back machine
A look back at IT and technology in the 90s and the evolution that led us to today.
Timeline of Computer History
1993
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/
1995
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1995/
The Oregon Trail (1971 video game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game)
Drug Wars (video game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)
Silicon graphics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
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S2E37: The uncertainty around conferences, return to work and business travel
Dominic, Zack and Mike are together again discussing how conferences which should have been in person have now fallen off again. Companies are becoming non-committal to return to work and business travel is looking to be forever changed. They also touch on Ray Ban’s new Facebook glasses, Amazon’s new TV and the upcoming Apple event. Will the Apple Event shed light on the semi conductor supply chain issues?
Facebook Ray-Ban
https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408
‘Forever Changed’: CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Good
Satya Nadella: Companies are 'short-sighted' if they force employees back to office now
Zoom and Teams
https://twitter.com/juanmicrosoft/status/1436071323030151170
Remote work
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/workers-moonlighting-two-jobs-work-from-home
Apple Event Announced: 'California Streaming' on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/07/apple-september-14-event/
Amazon TV
Amazon starts building its own televisions with the Fire TV Omni Series
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/amazon-fire-tv-omni-series-announced/
Opal C1: The first professional webcam
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S2E36: All Together Now
In which Mike considers paying for some software, Lilac solves all of Enterprise IT's problems, and all four hosts are re-united once again.
Enterprise software financials
How about that monster H round — yes, H — from Databricks?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/
Meanwhile Docker is hoping to get paid by desktop users…
https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/
…and we debate digital transformation, prompted by Benedict Evans.
Security — It’s still hard
If you're a user of Microsoft's Cosmos DB, you definitely want to check up on this Chaos DB vulnerability.
And what does this mean for cloud delivery models more generally?
Recommendations
Dominic
Generalising Wildly | Find the thread
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S2E35: The One About “The Great Resign”
The Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The Office
A Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed 38% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year. In the US alone, April saw more than four million people quit their jobs, according to a summary from the Department of Labor – the biggest spike on record.
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx
The Great Resignation In Sales Is Real: Here’s What Leaders Can Do To Stem It (forbes.com)
$14.7 Billion Five9 Acquisition Aims To Revive Zoom’s Growth
Mike also calls out, “The war for the living room.” “The living room is becoming the office, and the office is becoming the living room. It’s all merging into our home space.” Netflix joined the foray with a gaming announcement.
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S2E34: Intel and Nvidia, how two giants in the same industry are looking to grow and execute; and Microsoft is turning on the M365 cash machine
Intel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industry
https://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyer
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2022
Nvidia beats earnings expectations, but cryptocurrency chip sales falter
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q2-2022.html
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding
Nvidia admits bid for Arm likely to stretch beyond 18-month deal timeframe
https://www.ft.com/content/3758929d-66f0-4095-94f3-ea62b92f9480
Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022
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S2E33: When the company that provides security consulting gets hacked and ransomware what do you do? Plus are we going to be doing fake job for AI to judge our value?
Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats
Employees may need to keep up ‘the pretense of working’ as automation spreads, says A.I. expert Kai-Fu Lee
https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/ai-automation-talent-ethics-bias-kaifu-lee/
FedEx Deploys new AI-Robotics E-Commerce Fulfilment System
https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-system
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S2E32: Glitter, chip shortages, and Apple privacy concerns
Intro
Glitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4
Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.com
Chip Shortages Continue
The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-tesla
Apple CSAM Protection Features
Apple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611721/apple-csam-child-abuse-scanning-hash-system-ncmec
https://twitter.com/sjmurdoch/status/1423397219491852291
Apple — Expanded Protections for Children https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
Platformer — Apple joins the child safety fight https://www.platformer.news/p/apple-joins-the-child-safety-fight
“Dylan Loewe, Biden’s former speechwriter, will be Apple’s director of public relations and CEO Tim Cook’s speechwriter.” (via Politico)
Privacy on iPhone commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y
XKCD on security https://xkcd.com/538/
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S2E31: Cloud growth continues at speed for the big three
While Dominic is in the alps, doing yoga with goats, Zack, Lilac and Mike got together to talk about the recent Google, Microsoft and Amazon earning report showing that cloud is still growing rapidly. Will it ever end? The gang also gets into product death and how to communicate end of life of products/components and how enterprises should deal with it.
AWS Sees 37 Percent Quarterly Growth As Amazon Disappoints
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-sees-37-percent-quarterly-growth-as-amazon-disappoints
Alphabet Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Climbs 54 Percent To $4.63B
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/alphabet-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-climbs-54-percent-to-4-63b
Microsoft CEO Nadella Touts ‘New Franchises’ In Security, Gaming, LinkedIn As Cloud Growth Surges
Cloud earnings: AWS "reaccelerates," Azure up 51%, Google Cloud up 54%
The 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services
https://www.bmc.com/blogs/gartner-magic-quadrant-cips-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services/
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-1ZDZDMTF&ct=200703&st=sb
Product Death
How to handle products or component that reach end of life and what to do as an enterprise.
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S2E30: Apology Podcast
What happened last week?
We failed to record a normal podcast episode, so we tried something different and put out a Textual Podcast instead: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/textual-podcast
Management = FOMO?
Some people wind up in management more due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) than because they actually want to do the work — and then the rest of us get to rehabilitate the people who suffered the consequences.
Management track is not the only track: Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp
Quick News
Zoom Bets on AI with $14.7 Billion Deal to Acquire Five9 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/zoom-to-buy-cloud-service-firm-five9-for-14-7-billion
Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/akamai_edge_dns_outage/ (it’s always DNS)
A different kind of supply-chain attack: A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosting-site-is-flooding-normal-websites-with-hardcore-porn
Recommendations
Dominic
Clean install your OS. That’s it, that’s the recommendation.
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S2E28: AWS Infinidash, Kaseya’s security issue, Kubernetes cost problem and why hardware is just a problem the cloud hasn’t solved yet
Dominic is back! Dominic, Mike and Zack discuss the AWS Infinidash origin and how everyone needs an AWS Infinidash expert on their team. Another supply chain attack has occurred this time at Kaseya. Finally we discuss once again Zack and Dominic's favorite subject, Kubernetes, but this time in relation to run away cloud spend. Cloud keeps growing and the only reason on premise hardware exists is because it's used to solve a problem cloud hasn't solved for yet.
AWS Infinidash
“Hey, are you hiring for Infinidash experts? I hear nobody can find any!”
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/
Kaseya supply chain attack impacts more than 1,000 companies
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/kaseya-supply-chain-attack-impacts-more-than-1000-companies/
https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/
Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/kubernetes_spend_report/
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/kubernetes-is-a-platform-for-building-platforms
Recommendations
Dominic
Thermacell anti-mosquito device
Zack
Genetically modified mosquitoes released in Florida Keys, first in US (usatoday.com)
Mike
Ooni Koda 16 https://ooni.com/products/ooni-koda-16
Thermacell E55 Rechargeable Mosquito Repeller; Highly Effective Rechargeable Mosquito Repellent https://amzn.to/3ecQV3J
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S2E27: IBMs failed email migration, why startups fail and who suffers, and 5G powered by Microsoft Azure
Lilac, Zack and Mike discuss how even after planning an email migration for 18-month, IBM still failed. What is going on with all these underwhelming startup acquisitions? What really happening? and who suffers? Has anyone noticed how even companies that offer “cloud” are moving their core service to Microsoft Azure? Azure is now powering AT&Ts 5G network. Microsoft continues to win.
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/
Arista Buys SDN Pioneer Big Switch 'For a Song' – Sources
HPE to acquire cloud disaster recovery startup Zerto
https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/01/hpe-acquiring-dr-startup-zerto/
EMC Sues Zerto - Patent Litigation (2016)
https://www.zerto.com/blog/company-announcements/emc-v-zerto-update/
AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud
https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html
MSFT acquires Affirmed Networks
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/microsoft-acquires-5g-specialist-affirmed-networks/
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S2E26: David Cheriton (VMware & Google angel investor) talks Cloud, AI and the changing tech landscape in the US
Zack and Mike were joined by this week by David Cheriton, VMware & Google angel investor, as he talks Cloud, AI, and the Internet while weaving in stories from Stanford University, where he was a professor, and the beginnings of Google & VMware. What he reveals may surprise you.
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S2E25: Microsoft Windows 11 leak, who is copying who? Plus learning code in school and mental health startup funding
The gang is back together this week discussing the Windows 11 leak and their thoughts on MacOS versus Windows. Also the value, or not, of teaching coding in school. What code? What do we really want to teach our kids? Plus HBOs recent snafu and the hilarious intern responses. And finally what is happening that is leading to the increase in mental health startup funding?
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu
Learn coding in school
https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1404197107964301320
The Hard Work Of Success
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-hard-work-of-success
Year 2038 problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
HBO blame the intern
https://twitter.com/hbomaxhelp/status/1405712235108917249
Venture Funding For Mental Health Startups Hits Record High As Anxiety, Depression Skyrocket
Recommendations
Dominic
Rectangle app https://rectangleapp.com
Mike
Divvy Window Management App https://mizage.com/divvy/
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S2E24: Down goes Fastly, down goes the internet
On this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted?
Fastly outage and cloud resilience
Internet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issue
Does the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines?
What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
Grindr Is Down So Users Are Hitting The Downdetector Comment Section To Pick Up
SRE and error budgets — need to review the concept
https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1402301316165160966
S2E10: SLOs and SREs a conversation with Brian Singer from Nobl9
WeWork follow-up — losses continue mounting up
https://robcampbell.co/2021/06/09/we-dont-work/
Steven Sinofsky on remote work
https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1403112390032388096
Hardcore Software, Steven Sinofsky’s newsletter with the history of early Microsoft
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
How to negotiate with ransomware hackers — turns out there are scammers who will negotiate between victims and criminals to try to arbitrage payments and pocket the difference
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/how-to-negotiate-with-ransomware-hackers
Recommendations
Dominic
Love Death + Robots volume 2 on Netflix
Lilac
Grace and Frankie - in part for the Mac tech support scene
Mike
WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
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S22E23: Break’s Over, Back On Your Heads
Back to Work
(What do they think we’ve been doing all this time?)
People refusing to come back to the office
Lilac: "When I’m in the office I’m not also a mother and someone who has to do a load of laundry"
Dominic: Dangers of a hybrid office — people who are physically in the office get the inside track
“There is no return to normalcy,” says Mayer-Schönberger, whose research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. “The environment people are reentering is fundamentally changed, so we need to reframe how we see our work and ourselves. If there is a reason why we go to a workplace, it needs to be a different reason than the one that we had: that this is the way we’ve always been doing it.”
Why the wild variation in plans for returning to offices is a good sign
Why Women Don't Want To Go Back To In-Person Work
News Roundup: Security and Ransomware
Hackers have new targets: people returning to the office.
Information About the Sale of Products Business to Symphony Technology Group | FireEye
Stack Overflow's value to job seekers is what makes it valuable — Quartz
Recommendations
Dominic
Defekt, by Nino Cipri (sequel to Finna, which was nominated for Best Novella in the Nebula Awards)
Lilac
Pink iPad Air!
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S2E22: Microsoft pushes low-code deep into the business by turning natural speech into code with GPT-3; state of cloud & a16z’s on-prem report; Rapid7 breach & AWS re:Inforce
The team passionately debates the impact of GPT-3 converting speech to code on the business and software developers. Microsoft introduces this as a low code feature at their Build Conference.
@Mike points out that IT must provide the business with guard rails. “The biz knows how to read and use the data, more so than someone in a technology role. This is the democratization of software development, and data is the next step. It’s going to continue and has to continue.”
@Mike reminds us that Bubble & SquareSpace are empowering users to create the next Amazon or Shopify with no-code.
@Lilac is looking for a low code version of Atlassian. “A CICD type cycle that allows people to manage these type assets, to cycle them and collaborate against them, relate them, fork them, etc.”
A16z pens an article about cloud and repatriation cost but quickly loses credibility with the classic and worn-out Dropbox example. The team debates the report and future of the cloud.
Speed round:
Apple iPad Pro and the Center Stage feature is impressive. @Dominic shares his feedback on the wide camera angle that focuses on the active speaker and zooms out if someone else enters the frame. “Impressive. The iPad camera has been poor UNTIL NOW.“
Rapid7 has a software supply chain breach that has not hit the news like SolarWinds. People are in shock. Companies are going back and reanalyzing.
In-person events…AWS is leading with re:Inforce in Houston this August.
Basecamp has learned nothing and doubled down.
SFDC threw a lone engineer under the bus for an outage…Really Salesforce!? One employee is the reason for everything that has gone wrong, and they should feel bad?
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Show Links:
From conversation to code: Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3
Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/microsoft-uses-gpt-3-to-let-you-code-in-natural-language/
Bubble is the most powerful no-code platform, empowering entrepreneurs to build production-ready web apps.
https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1397842550153793536
The State of The Cloud
https://app.livestorm.co/p/b445fedf-e2a9-432e-8935-7321c43e29d0
Over 90% of respondents reported growth in on-prem sales over the past 5 years.
Over 50% of respondents’ revenue can be attributed to on-prem software sales.
86% of respondents are using Kubernetes for their on-prem software
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox — a16z

S2E21: Aneel Lakhani on startup marketing and enterprise clients
In this episode Roll for Enterprise welcomes Aneel Lakhani as a guest. Aneel is a Marketing Exec, Startup Advisor, Growth Therapist, and Investor. After 25-plus years in technology, with stints in engineering, product, and marketing in big companies and startups--Aneel now serves as an advisor to mostly b2b enterprise software startups and VCs.
Aneel shares his insights with Dominic, Lilac and Mike on the difference in marketing between startups and more established enterprises, getting your first enterprise clients as a startup and why it’s particularly hard on both sides and failure modes of tech marketing.
References:
Dominic on getting your first customer reference as a startup: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this
You can find Aneel as @aneel on Twitter.
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S2E20: Ransomware on the rise with real world consequence; IBMs 2nm announcement and Apple hire/fire
Dominic, Mike and Zack are together again this week to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and all that we’ve learned since. People are still the weakest link in social engineering of attacks. Could China has prevented something like this thanks to their great firewall when compared to American or European companies? They also discussed various news items including: IBM surprise 2nm chip rollout which took everyone by surprise; Elon Musk’s Crypto announcements; and Apple’s hire and fire of Antonio García Martínez. Whom coincidentally is an ad tech person and signifies Apples move into ads, or some ads.
https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1392864211630530563
A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/
Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems
https://apnews.com/article/va-state-wire-technology-business-1f06c091c492c1630471d29a9cf6529d
Colonial Pipeline paid hackers nearly $5 million ransom in cryptocurrency to restore network
News roundup
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip
Musk Sends Bitcoin Tumbling With Shock U-Turn on Payments
Musk Renews Critique of Bitcoin as Environmentally Unsustainable
Spectacular failure of vetting by Apple HR, rapidly corrected
https://twitter.com/gassee/status/1392665221014032385
Recommendations
Dominic
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir — but don’t start it at bedtime, because you will be up late reading “just one more page”
Mike
Crypto mining! Seriously!
Zack
Follow Dominic and Mike recommendation.
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Season 2 Episode 19: Misusing Excel with Priya Doty
Our guest on the podcast this week is Priya Doty. Priya is the Global VP Product Marketing for IBM’s iconic IBM Z brand and it’s all-Linux sister brand, LinuxONE. Unlike a lot of marketers, Priya has also been a developer, which means she enjoys deconstructing marketing messages by reading technical manuals. Based in Brooklyn, she is a mom, wife, and author of an upcoming fiction novel.
Aside from majoring on the topic of Confidential Computing (and Cloud Security in general), Priya is all about the IBM Z platform, Product Marketing (Top 100 Influencer in PMM 2-Years Running!), and outside of work, writing.
Confidential computing is a cloud computing technology that isolates sensitive data in a protected CPU enclave during processing. The contents of the enclave - the data being processed, and the techniques used to process it - are accessible only to authorized programming code, and invisible and unknowable to anything or anyone else, including the cloud provider.
Gartner has called confidential computing a top trend for 2021, naming it and Fully Homomorphic Encryption as part of a trend for “Privacy Enhanced Computation”.
Why IBM believes confidential computing is the future of cloud security
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
The Changing Value Of Mistakes
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S2E18: Basecamp: Politics and Culture at work
With the recent controversy surrounding Basecamp and David Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh?s=20) Dominic, Lilac and Mike spent some time discussion their thoughts on the topic. Not an easy topic with a lot of different opinion and many consequences to be considered.
Background:
https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp
https://qz.com/work/2002100/why-basecamps-culture-memo-is-so-controversial/
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009?s=21
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387044958377447424?s=21
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1386773744484552715?s=21
https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1388237962991652865?s=21
Yes, a bunch of people took that severance package
https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1388212468510380034?s=21
https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1388300929506582530?s=21
https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of-hate.pdf
Reference to Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
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Season 2 Episode 17: The Importance Of Core Skills (they’re not soft skills!)
The guest on this episode is Rachel Chalmers of Alchemist Accelerator. Rachel joined Alchemist from Autodesk, where she was Director, Transformation Growth Boards and Product Excellence. Prior to Autodesk, Rachel was a VC with Ignition Partners and Merian Ventures, leading investments in Docker, Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook), Unikernel (acquired by Docker) and Honeycomb.io. She began her career as employee number 10 with 451 Research (acquired by Standard & Poor), where she was the first analyst to cover VMware, Cloudera and Splunk.
Find Rachel on Twitter and on LinkedIn. Alchemist Accelerator is at https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com
Among many other things, our conversation touched on:
- “Survival strategies that have outlived their usefulness”
- “The humanities teach us what to do when STEM fails”
- The importance of core skills (they’re not soft skills!)
- And some truly excellent SF reading recommendations for those who listen all the way to the end
Links mentioned by Dominic:
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