Roll For Enterprise

https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/26/google-parent-alphabets-results-come-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

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/microsoft-cloud-growth-propels-higher-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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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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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

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud-contracts-that-sideline-rivals

Atlassian cloud outage could take days to resolve

https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706/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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https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events

Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/microsoft-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

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HP Inc. to Acquire Poly

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

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/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

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-calendar-now-lets-paid-users-create-a-booking-page-website/

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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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

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/

Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront

https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefront

Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-share-split-10-billion-buyback?lctg=60c1e2e9dba83e59148a0f62&mailingid=26973903&messageid=wall_street_breakfast&serial=26973903.883067&userid=50571090&utm_campaign=WSB%203_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=wall_street_breakfast

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

https://www.askamanager.org/

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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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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558

Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disturbing-mass-text-operation-terrorizes-ukraine-as-russian-troops-move-in/ar-AAUdejJ

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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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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Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno 

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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?

AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ai-insurance-company-faces-class-action-7991163/

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Dominic

Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html

Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-abandon-acquisition-arm-bloomberg-news-2022-01-25/

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

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/peloton-to-pause-production-of-its-bikes-treadmills-as-demand-wanes.html

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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 

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-activision-antitrust-games-streaming-gamepass 

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

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeing-takes-hit-as-its-777-787-planes-appear-susceptible-to-5g-network/ar-AASW0GM

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Quick News

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The FCC proposes new data breach rules for phone companies

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22882281/fcc-telecom-data-breach-notification-rules-proposal-commission-seats

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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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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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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

https://deadline.com/2021/12/amazon-web-services-outage-unplugs-netflix-disney-and-many-websites-in-parts-of-u-s-1234886348/

AWS post-mortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/

Quill shutdown

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-acquires-quill-a-would-be-slack-rival-team-will-work-on-dms-as-quill-shuts-down/

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

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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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KXPRJ5D?maas=maas_adg_2148198443AE66955CA03BDDC20F78D0_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas

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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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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

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Dominic

Belkin Soundform Connect

Zack

Like drawing on real paper for your iPad

https://paperlike.com/

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https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon

AWS re:Invent

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

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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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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

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html

Google Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3%

https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2021/sep/29/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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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

npm Status - Service 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

https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/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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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

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/23/22626723/eu-commission-universal-charger-usb-c-micro-lightning-connector-smartphones

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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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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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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https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408

‘Forever Changed’: CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Good

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-31/will-business-travel-come-back-data-show-air-hotel-travel-forever-changed

Satya Nadella: Companies are 'short-sighted' if they force employees back to office now

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/microsoft-ceo-says-companies-should-use-data-to-determine-when-employees-return-to-work.html

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

https://opalcamera.com

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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.

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation

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.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/

And what does this mean for cloud delivery models more generally?

Recommendations

Dominic

Generalising Wildly | Find the thread

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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.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2021/07/28/the-great-resignation-why-employees-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-office/?sh=1f2702b02000

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx

https://www.forbes.com/sites/randyillig/2021/08/24/the-great-resignation-in-sales-is-real-heres-what-leaders-can-do-to-stem-it/?sh=44342e651558

The Great Resignation In Sales Is Real: Here’s What Leaders Can Do To Stem It (forbes.com)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210629-the-great-resignation-how-employers-drove-workers-to-quit.

$14.7 Billion Five9 Acquisition Aims To Revive Zoom’s Growth

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2021/07/19/147-billion-five9-acquisition-aims-to-revive-zooms-growth/?sh=29da22d32e8b

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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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

https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/02/nvidia-is-tracking-more-than-8500-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

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/microsoft-will-raise-office-365-business-subscription-prices-in-2022.html

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/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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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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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

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/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%

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/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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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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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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https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/

Arista Buys SDN Pioneer Big Switch 'For a Song' – Sources

https://www.lightreading.com/carrier-sdn/arista-buys-sdn-pioneer-big-switch-for-a-song---sources/d/d-id/757076

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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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

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2021/06/07/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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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

https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E10-SLOs-and-SREs-a-conversation-with-Brian-Singer-from-Nobl9-ersprg

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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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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Show Links:

From conversation to code: Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/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://bubble.io

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

https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/

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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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

https://fortune.com/2021/05/13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-5-million-ransom-cryptocurrency-ransomware-attack/ 

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/musk-says-tesla-suspending-bitcoin-purchases-citing-energy-use

Musk Renews Critique of Bitcoin as Environmentally Unsustainable

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/musk-renews-critique-of-bitcoin-as-environmentally-unsustainable

Spectacular failure of vetting by Apple HR, rapidly corrected

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22433437/apple-hire-antonio-garcia-martinez-out-petition-investigation

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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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

Fully Homomorphic Encryption

The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

The Changing Value Of Mistakes 

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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

https://amzn.to/3vDWbE6

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Find Rachel on Twitter and on LinkedIn. Alchemist Accelerator is at https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com

Among many other things, our conversation touched on:

Links mentioned by Dominic:

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https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-extends-its-technology-and-global-reach-agreement-acquire-asg-technologies

70-90% of acquisitions fail

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/06/24/most-mergers-fail-because-people-arent-boxes/

Kyndryl https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/12/business/kyndryl-ibm-corporate-names/index.html

Dell spinning off VMware https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/dell-jumps-as-it-unveils-vmware-stock-spinoff-plan.html

Nvidia ARM server CPU https://www.anandtech.com/show/16610/nvidia-unveils-grace-a-highperformance-arm-server-cpu-for-use-in-ai-systems

Microsoft buys Nuance, creators of Siri https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/microsoft-nuance-aws-google-ai

Note: Microsoft is aiming to take over the desktop for the doctors with long-term target set on the front-end workflows in healthcare.

Microsoft HealthVault is officially shutting down in November (2019)

https://medcitynews.com/2019/04/microsoft-healthvault-is-officially-shutting-down-in-november/

Recommendations

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Zack, Mike, and Dominic discuss Tim Cook's interview in which he talks about AR, some news about the long-expected AirTags, and Dominic's delayed plans to spend more money on Apple's products. We also talked about the massive Facebook contact data leak — check if your details were included here. Dominic may have gone off on a bit of a rant about the ills of adtech and surveillance capitalism, but then again, he does have form here.

Recommendations

Dominic: when you register for some site, append the name to your Gmail address, like so: youraddress+somesite@gmail.com. That way, when one site inevitably leaks your info, at least you'll know where it came from.

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Fortinet invests $75 million in router maker Linksys with focus on securing home office networks https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortinet-invests-75-million-in-router-maker-linksys-with-focus-on-securing-home-office-networks/

IBM TV AD - Universal Business Adapter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOqOxI0K_I

Amazon building a networking chip https://seekingalpha.com/news/3677611-amazoncom-pursues-its-own-networking-chip-amid-frosty-broadcom-relationship-report.

AWS New Leader

AWS Picks Tableau’s Adam Selipsky As New CEO, Replacing Jassy

https://www.crn.com/aws-picks-tableau-s-adam-selipsky-as-new-ceo-replacing-jassy

AWS customers and partners confident in CEO transition — for now

https://www.cio.com/article/3610228/aws-customers-and-partners-confident-in-ceo-transition-for-now.html

Amazon News tweets https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1374911222361956359 https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/you-cant-trust-amazon-when-it-feels-threatened/

Intel

Intel CEO Gelsinger commits to being a 'world-class foundry business', two new factories in Arizona

https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-ceo-gelsinger-outlines/

Justin Long commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsAEBAnGd4

Aftershow

Recommendations

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You can find out more at StruggleTheBook.com.

Grace lives in Stafford in the middle of the UK with her husband and two kids, continually working on being a good-enough mum most of the time, with intermittent lapses into hopelessness and brilliance. 

She can be found at GraceMarshall.com, on Twitter @GraceMarshall, IG @gracemarshallninja and LinkedIn.

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https://myignite.microsoft.com/home

Industrial IoT was a trend at re:invent and continued at MS Ignite with the cloud reaching into the network edge and deep into manufacturing.

Manufacturing is going through an evolution, and that's why the cloud is focused there. Companies are taking more of a nationalistic approach toward manufacturing. There's a real push for the first time in a long time for all countries, not only the US, to build more factories at home. This push will result in a revolution, so it's a market that will accelerate, so Amazon and MSFT see the opening and push for new technologies.

Microsoft Power Fx

The low-code programming language for everyone https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-power-fx-the-low-code-programming-language-for-everyone/ Based on Excel syntax!

Convergence with "real" programming https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/02/microsoft_debuts_lowcode_power_fx/

And wtf was going on with Cirque du Soleil?

MSFT for the win again!! microsoft-ai-powerpoint-presenter-coach-available-desktop-mobile

No Code/Low Code 

One major analyst firm doesn't buy-in and only views "lower code."

Virtual events — Gartner charging $1000 plus for virtual events

What does the future hold for analysts?

Are analysts being surpassed by business consultants? Are analysts seeing a risk for the first time that wasn't there before? Will the analyst and their research maintain staying power? The business analysts with newsletters and opinions are taking the story telling may be taking away from traditional analysts. You go to the analyst for thought leadership, but you can get that from talking to CIOs, industry leaders, and platforms, including podcasts and Clubhouse.

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Jason has worked in the software industry for over 30 years, in roles that include software engineer, technical consultant, marketing, product marketing, and product management. This makes him extremely old! Despite his advanced age, he manages to remain productive in his role as SVP of Products at Appgate, a security vendor. He is also co-chair of the SDP Zero Trust Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance, and just published a book - “Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide”.

You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn

Try different things: skill stacking 

Music by Renato Podestà.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/briantsinger/

Nobl9 is the first Service Level Objective (SLO) platform that transforms your existing reliability metrics (i.e. Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic etc.) into actionable indicators of application performance and user experience via a modern engineering workflow (think GitOps / Infra-as-Code) resulting in greater ROI from your reliability initiatives.

https://nobl9.com

Nobl9 news:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/10/nobl9-raises-21m-series-b-for-its-slo-management-platform/

Brian’s book recommendation:

Implementing Service Level Objectives https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FBP3ZRH/

Site Reliability Engineering: https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems-ebook/dp/B01DCPXKZ6/

Brian’s Community Reference:

Beyond Seattle SRE https://www.meetup.com/Beyond-Seattle-SRE/

SLO Conference mentioned by Brian:

SLOconf https://twitter.com/SLOConf

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Top 8 DevOps Trends for 2021

Rise of serverless: Is serverless hitting the mainstream?

2021 DevOps Predictions 

The blog post by Mike Gualtieri at Forrester that started the NoOps conversation: I Don’t Want DevOps. I Want NoOps.

Dominic's reaction: Not NoOps, but SmartOps 

Recommendations/Rants

Mike: Zapier — automate all the things (but we're not sure how to pronounce it)

Zack: Lemonade — new style insurance

Dominic: a rant about CarPlay and Apple Car rumours that turned into a whole aftershow — skip it if you're not interested!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/education-student-loans-lambda-schools.html

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Daylight

Mike

Best Espresso Beans in the US!

https://herkimercoffee.com/

Lilac

Kitty letter.

Zack - All things Apple (https://www.twelvesouth.com)

https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/hirise-wireless

https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/hirise-for-macbook

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https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/1357003413356228611?s=21

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1357163267521531904?s=20

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

iOS 14.5 Apple Watch unlocks iPhone

Mike

Anker Bluetooth Speaker: https://amzn.to/3jhdi9v

Lilac

Online ticket to ride

Zack

Turn your Apple watch into a full biometric reading device https://auraband.io

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Oracle launches APEX low-code offering: https://www.techradar.com/news/oracle-wants-to-drastically-simplify-app-development-with-new-low-code-service

“SaaS has created an environment where departmental purchasing encourages people to try subscription-based point solutions when they need an edge or face a sudden shift in needs. This has led to an explosion of applications that SaaS purchasing will only accelerate. While this has sometimes encouraged the growth of silos, there is a real movement to connect products into platforms and ecosystems.”

https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/101139/ (451 clients only)

Remote work

https://remoters.net/remote-work-trends-future-insights/

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Hush https://apps.apple.com/app/hush-for-safari/id1544743900

Mike

DropBox because it works https://www.dropbox.com

Zack

Home Office Inspiration https://grovemade.com

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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/intel-intc-earnings-q4-2020.html

Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232554/intel-ceo-apple-lifestyle-company-cpus-comment

CES 2021 - Intel Mobileye

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/ces-2021-mobileye-avs-on-move/?utm_source=morning_brew#gs.qsf1o6

Cloud Platforms Compared

Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/2021-cloud-report

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Housework is a gear sport! Shark vacuum cleaner: https://amzn.to/37u7yFf

Mike

No recommendations this week — Instagram has failed Mike

Zack

Zero Ice Cooler (-4 to 68 degrees)

https://mashable.com/shopping/jan-15-gosun-chill-solar-cooler/

Lilac

Trello but with background pictures

https://trello.com/en-US

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Hit Vincent up on LinkedIn or on Twitter if you want to talk shop or wine. Or hit up Klue’s website for resources and best practices on how to help your sales team kick the competition’s butt with actionable competitive intelligence.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involved-in-solarwinds-hack/

M&A Market

Top fundraiser Thoma Bravo bets software’s red-hot run is far from over

https://www.pehub.com/top-fundraiser-thoma-bravo-bets-softwares-red-hot-run-is-far-from-over/

The problem of customer references for startups

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this 

Alphabet Union 

We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html 

Here’s what we know about the Google union so far

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215171/google-alphabet-union-cwa-organizers-goals-explainer

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Knog Blinder front light https://amzn.to/2KDU7cE

Knog Blinder rear light https://amzn.to/3p1Src5

Knog low-profile bell https://amzn.to/3nvDBtU

Mike

Gyroscopic Training Ball

https://powerballs.com/

Zack

Virtual Escape Rooms for Team Building in 2021

https://teambuilding.com/blog/virtual-escape-rooms

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https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2020/12/04/aws-expands-industrial-offerings

AWS re:Invent 2020 – Top Announcements

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reinvent-announcements-2020/

Amazon Monitron

https://aws.amazon.com/monitron/

AWS Panorama Appliance

https://aws.amazon.com/panorama/appliance/

Other news

SolarWinds

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3601508/solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-explained-why-organizations-were-not-prepared.html

Salesforce rolls out low-code environment Flow Orchestrator https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2020/12/02/introducing-salesforce-einstein-automate/

Chrome is bad https://chromeisbad.com

Recommendations/Rants

Dominic

Velcro zip-ties https://amzn.to/3msG86Z

Mike

Oura Ring: ww.oura.com

Zack

USPS https://www.usps.com/

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https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutter

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireagutter/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1-auh6FwgROoXy--ozOMg

ITSM recap

What is the state of the art for ITSM? Where did it come from? What do we mean when we say “ITSM”?

Everything started with ITIL (and Prince), now it's more about lean IT.

“Everything we wrap around tech to make it do what we want for the organisation”

Problem: Thinking about people like software, “how do we upgrade our people”

“This will shock no one in #ITSM but having attended a lot of virtual events, my conclusion is...it's not about the #technology, it's about the people. Organisation, communication, community are what really matter”

https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutter/status/1333450454790000642

ITSM and DevOps

How relevant is ITSM if everyone is off being agile?

Tribalism, guardrails

Scope of service management — applies more to supply chain than consumers

ITSM in the cloud

How does moving to the cloud affect ITSM? Does it increase or decrease the need for process?

SIAM for integration and management of many suppliers

Geo differences: big in EMEA, APJ, but nothing in US/CA

IPaaS integration platform as next step in evolution from swivel-chair approaches, through RBA, to RPA and beyond

Should startups implement ITSM? Should large established enterprises model startups’ agility?

More from Claire

2020 has accelerated digital transformation beyond all expectations. As well as coping with a crisis, we need leaders and teams who can create the organisation of the future. ITSM Zone has been helping companies build their digital skills for more than 10 years - and all of our training is online. Visit itsm.zone and see our full catalogue including Agile, DevOps, ITIL, VeriSM and more.

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https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020

https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/andy-jassy-s-10-boldest-statements-at-aws-re-invent-2020/2

AWS Marketplace Now Offers Professional Services

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-marketplace-now-offers-professional-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29

reQuinnvent: A reInvent Partner Keynote Rebuttal / your questions answered

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/824558423

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https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/18/ibm-acquires-instana-for-its-ai-powered-app-performance-monitoring/

Is this a sign of more monitoring deals to come?

451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase has recorded more than 50 'monitoring' purchases, on average, for each year since 2015, which is two-thirds higher than the number of deals in the first half of the decade.

Salesforce may be buying Slack

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/tech/slack-stock-salesforce-acquisition-rumors/index.html

What does this mean for adoption? Did Teams steal Slack’s growth, or did they fumble execution all by themselves? And what does this mean for Zoom? With everyone working from home, we have not seen a real change in remote working compared to before; Slack & Zoom are still Slack & Zoom, just with more people.

(But also: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/25/slack-salesforce )

Amazon outage

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet 

Anchor affected! 

https://twitter.com/discoposse/status/1331667061748211719

Instead of recommendations, we talked about what we are thankful for

Dominic

Slack, Zoom, and all the rest of the apps & services that have made it possible to work remotely this year

Mike

Home office space

Zack

This podcast and our chat channel

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Openshift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/17/openshift-at-the-center-of-the-hybrid-cloud-storm/

John Chambers: Why tech companies need to reinvent themselves every three to four years https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17957886/john-chambers-cisco-connecting-dots-book-leadership-management-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast

How Many AWS Services Are There in 2020? https://cloudwith.me/posts/how-many-aws-services-are-there-in-2020

Killed by Google https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle

What is Backend as a Service (BaaS): https://george-51059.medium.com/backend-as-a-service-list-9104bdce845e

Recommendations

Dominic

Charles Stross, “Dead Lies Dreaming” https://amzn.to/2UxPfrx

Mike

Oura Ring https://ouraring.com/

Zack

Grammarly - AI-powered writing tool. Checks for spelling, syntax, punctuation, tone, plagiarism.Freemium model with paid tiers for additional features. https://www.grammarly.com

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William Gibson quote, from “Johnny Mnemonic” (published as part of “Burning Chrome”): “These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.”

Skill stacking (although Dominic didn’t yet know the term when he wrote this post): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/intersections

The value of reference customers

How to avoid burning them out — user groups let you go one-to-many

Why a warts-and-all story may actually be better than a “perfect” reference

The power of internal references within a company

Should marketing departments have their own engineers?

https://firstround.com/review/The-Case-for-Why-Marketing-Should-Have-Its-Own-Engineers/

Low-code/no-code, Microsoft, and open-source

Guido Van Rossum joins Microsoft: twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549

Recommendations

Dominic

Reverse recommendation! Since Apple didn’t announce a monitor that costs less than several of my early cars, what 4k monitor should I get? Zack and Mike came out strongly in favour of Dell curved monitors, which are tempting, but what else should I consider?

Mike

Italians Mad About Food (see here for some context, or just enjoy the tweets)

Zack

Naps

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by-2024/

There is a recurring revenue trap. There is no way back. Cloud delivery does save time, but if you are a growth company, then as you add more users you pay more, and soon enough the cost has ballooned. Now what? There might not be an easy way back.

But the ratchet turns both ways: PAYG business models work for both users and providers, because they scale with utilisation (flat-fee cloud services with unlimited usage would not last very long). Marginal costs are a factor, and ideally you want to go up the stack and offer more differentiated services that command higher margins so that you can amortise your fixed costs better. Recurring revenue aligns incentives better between user and vendor:

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/incentives-drive-behaviour-security-is-no-exception

This conversation is becoming more critical as cloud becomes the default:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/the-good-saas-times-will-end-and-challenges-are-coming/

The calculation is about CapEx vs OpEx, efficiency vs resilience. Also as companies modernize (or try to) there is often no business case. There might be a road to a business case — if your CIO doesn’t get fired!

IT Fragmentation is another factor. We all know shadow IT is IT, but there is an issue with the power of cloud offerings: too many people with too much power and no idea what they can do. Next thing you know someone turns on or off a feature and your company is paralyzed.

Finally, what about skills? All this abstraction risks creating skill silos; will new generations of technologists need specific vocational training? Will they be trapped in one particular domain, without transferrable skills?

Recommendations

Dominic

Bicycles — bicycles are good

Mike

Smokeless Backyard Firepit - We all need to be outside this winter to survive the dark winter ahead. Be smart.

https://breeo.co/

Zack

Exercising in front of YouTube videos

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This week we welcome back friend of the show, Lilac Schoenbeck, VP of Go-To-Market Strategy at Rocket Software. This was very timely, since it gave us a chance to discuss Rocket’s new acquisitions: https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-acquires-connectiq-and-webconnect-activeops-delivering-rpa-mainframe We were especially interested to talk about the RPA side of things, including what increased automation means for the job market. RPA can be thought of as APIs for humans… Also, it turns out mainframes are still everywhere, mainly because they work, and unless and until the business process that they automate changes, it’s not worth the effort and risk to move automation of that process to a different platform.

Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud: is this time different?

Cloud computing is always in the news — but the reason we are talking about it on the podcast is that this feels like a tipping point. Famously, Snowflake had a cloud-only strategy from day one, and that seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Now, others are moving in the same direction, with Atlassian planning to end sale and support of their on-premise server product and go cloud-only:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by-2024/

This cloud prioritization can lead to concerns about cloud lock-in, but because we are talking about middleware — SaaS or PaaS — that conversation plays out a bit differently than last time, when it was all about IaaS. For instance, MongoDB just launched multi-cloud clusters for the Atlas DBaaS:

https://diginomica.com/mongodb-forges-ahead-multi-cloud-agenda-announces-multi-cloud-clusters-atlas (disclosure: Dominic’s employer)

Recommendations

Dominic

“The Ministry For The Future”, Kim Stanley Robinson — especially for the talk of discounting future values

Zack

IDC FutureScape webinar series

https://www.idc.com/events/futurescape (+1 from Dominic)

Mike

Microsoft Power Automate

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

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Zack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by John Hanlon and Steven Palmese, respectively the CRO and CIO for Presidio.

As the pandemic accelerated companies' journey to the cloud, challenges have emerged, whether migrating existing applications, building new cloud-native applications, or managing both the cloud and on-premise environments. In parallel with these infrastructure questions, digital business transformations have challenged the IT workforce and created demand for new roles and skills – both in IT and across every functional area. All of these evolutions are taking place against a backdrop of falling budgets and ever-greater expectations from the business and end-users. Presidio managed and professional services have spent the last years adding automation and AI/ML to their existing toolset, helping Presidio respond faster and more efficiently to ever-changing business needs.

John and Steven share their thoughts on the high expectations placed on CIOs, the ever-changing IT workforce, the gradual acceptance of shadow IT, and the dos and don’ts of migrations to the cloud and adopting a cloud-first mindset.

You can reach Presidio online at https://www.presidio.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/presidio-/, and their Twitter handle is @Presidio, https://twitter.com/Presidio.

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Zack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by Matt Harper. Matt is Vice President of Marketing for Nylas, where he leads global marketing efforts for the API-first developer platform that serves customers like Dialpad, Ceridian, Hubspot and Move.com. Nylas most recently closed a Series B round for $25M this past June. Matt joined Nylas from Moogsoft, where he helped lead the company from Series B through Series D rounds, raising nearly $100M and scaling the company’s revenues by over 6x. Previously, Matt led marketing departments at Glassdoor and Sony PlayStation, where he led digital marketing efforts for the PlayStation 4. 

Nylas is a developer API platform that helps you quickly launch new productivity features without having to write custom code. Through a single integration, developers can leverage rich communications data to trigger automated workflow, like scheduling meetings or syncing data to a CRM. Learn more about Nylas at nylas.com or on Twitter @nylas.

Some of the topics we discussed:

That blog post of Dominic's that he shamelessly promoted on air: Serving Two Causes

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Lift & shift leads to high costs, missed benefits https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/03/cloud_control_costs/

Cloud economists: Corey Quinn, Owen Rogers

Embracing cloud requires org changes — decentralisation, delegation; Shadow IT comes out into the open

BUT! All of this is not free, will coexist for some time with existing models — which leads to the dreaded bimodal IT

See also https://cloudpundit.com/2020/09/18/the-multicloud-gelatinous-cube

Stupid Sh*t Vendors Do — reprise

Mike wishes that sales people would please stop selling through LinkedIn.... 

Beware of hobbyists

Certain domains (security, ML) attract a vocational approach which may not follow organisations' best interests. How to align to organisational priorities, not just personal interest?

Follow up

iOS14, App Store moderation‎

https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/widgetsmith_bunco_squad

Automation

VMware and SaltStack Important, But Not Exciting | Find the thread

Recommendations

Mike:

Elon Musk interview on Sway talking about neural ink and our human meat flaps.

Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’ 

https://overcast.fm/+he8FSycfQ

Dominic:

Let there be light — put more lights around your working area, both for visibility on webcam and for your mood

Zack:

Vitamin D is good

Dominic’s NoOps blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/not-noops-but-smartops

“Said no CEO ever: Things that don't matter in the cloud”: https://speakerdeck.com/caseywest/said-no-ceo-ever-things-that-dont-matter-in-the-cloud

Forrester NoOps article: https://go.forrester.com/blogs/11-02-07-i_dont_want_devops_i_want_noops/

Lehman Brothers spreadsheet error: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533631/excel-error-leaves-barclays-with-more-lehman-assets-than-it-bargained-for.html

Lightning round

Privacy

Airlines and privacy https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

AI/GPT-3

Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/

Is this exclusivity an issue?

Recommendations

Dominic

Handwriting! Rotring 800 mechanical pencil https://amzn.to/2EuvEUC

Mike’s pend of choice: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E6A9M8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Zack

A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. Starve your cancer cells and renew & rejuvenate.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/20/553/prolon-starvation-diet/

Mike

Amazon Ring drone camera! https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-drone-security-camera-price-specs-features-amazon

The deal discussed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-officialnvidia-acquires-arm-for-40b-to-create-what-could-be-a-computing-juggernaut/

But UK jobs at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/uk-tech-giant-arm-holdings-to-be-sold-to-us-company-nvidia-in-40bn-deal

Follow up

Low-code / no-code

Airtable raises $185M

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/airtable-raises-185m-and-launches-new-low-code-and-automation-features/amp/#click=https://t.co/1ssv9830f3

WFH

Free IDC whitepaper, featuring Dominic’s thoughts https://www.uk.idc.com/research-uk/what-organizations-need-to-do-now-to-accelerate

Recommendations

Dominic

Soulver 3 https://apps.apple.com/app/soulver-3/id1508732804 for when a calculator isn’t enough, but a spreadsheet is too much

Zack

Facebook’s new VR headset Oculus Quest 2, priced at $299 (has an infinite office feature) https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/16/facebook-debuts-infinite-office-a-virtual-reality-office-space/

Mike

No Filter https://www.amazon.com/No-Filter-Inside-Story-Instagram/dp/B07Y3TJ163/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=No+filter&qid=1600433523&sr=8-1

Reference Episode 3 Stupid Sh*t Vendors do: https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Stupid-Sht-Vendors-Do-eedp3s

Topic 1: Moving from monitoring to automation.

Topic 2: Citizen developers

Lightning round

Jobs

Recommendations:

Veego (https://www.veego.io) is an Israeli startup aiming to perfect the internet experience of any connected home. They use AI techniques to detect and resolve any possible connectivity issue, from the home router. This week, we were joined by Denis Sirov, one of the founders.

We had a good discussion on using technical monitoring data as a training set for AI/ML models, and how this use of AI can actually be privacy-preserving. Recurring topics: 5G, work from home, privacy.

Links:

Recommendations:

We talked about cloud repatriation, and mentioned Lydia Leong's piece on the topic (https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/). Dominic also shamelessly plugged a piece of his own on multi-cloud in 2020 (https://diginomica.com/three-reasons-why-multi-cloud-back-and-here-stay), as well as Charity Major's piece on the future of Ops jobs (https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs). We didn't get around to mentioning Steve Yegge's piece on Google Cloud and how its deprecation policy makes it hard to love (https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc).

Recommendations:

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While Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/.

This week they discuss the "fear of missing out" occurring in IT departments everywhere. The pressure imposed by the analysts & marketing to keep up with all other "cool" companies. Casting doubt on this catch up/keep up culture, and the need to differentiate and strive.

Are we doing it all wrong?

Does IT really need always to follow the latest trend? Do we need to look further than optimizing and efficiencies? Are we tackling optimization and efficiencies in IT rather than in the care business?

In case you hadn't realized it, IT is part of the business, so if you're trying to align or bring closer, IT strategy and business strategy, we fear you are doing it all wrong and are already off base.

While Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/) VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/ 

Together they discuss what exactly does it mean when cloud is moving on premise and the challenges it poses to IT. Why does it matter? And isn't infrastructure just infrastructure?

Followed by a discussion on the mounting pressure on IT to keep up, innovate and change at break neck speeds. The discuss turns to the challenges around budgets, tech talent and from the business itself. Where are the true decisions makers?

Be prepared to count how many times you hear the term Mainframe, AS/400, iSeries and Power. Not to mention Zack’s favorite terms containers and kubernetes.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/ipados-14-introduces-new-features-designed-specifically-for-ipad/

Note taking

https://findthethread.postach.io/post/note-taking

mmhmm

https://www.mmhmm.app/

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Announcing the Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets

https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/

The real reason Microsoft wants to buy TikTok.

Microsoft could use video data from its potential acquisition of TikTok to train AI systems and learn more about its consumers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/05/microsoft-tiktok-ai/