This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 383 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7AKtJ-_h0)
Runner-up Titles
Serverless is the new OpenStack.
“I intended to read it.”
American Airline lounges are like bus terminals.
Made it to my hotel at 4 AM
Kubernetes is about the journey
That is your 3D chess
Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher.
Would you like to buy some YAML?
We’re gonna go with the ball pit money
DHH vs. Mr. Beast
Rundown
DHH
Why we're leaving the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0)
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter? (https://world.hey.com/dhh/need-it-take-7-500-people-to-run-twitter-a8cb36a6)
Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’ (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-cloud-seeing-significant-vmware-momentum-gm/3)
Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD (https://www.futurehealth.live/blog/2022/9/7/disruption-for-healthcare-practitioners-3)
Earnings
Microsoft beats but cloud growth comes in short (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q1-2023.html)
Alphabet misses on top and bottom lines as YouTube ad revenue drops in the quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/alphabet-googl-q3-2022-earnings-.html)
Relevant to your Interests
Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud (2022) (https://consciouslyhybrid.com/watch.html#film)
Snap plunges more than 20% on third-quarter revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/snap-earnings-q3-2022.html)
US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/20/public_cloud_price_rise/)
Are We Past Peak Newsletter? (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/business/media/newsletters-bubble.html)
IBM Consulting staff must work from office three days a week (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/ibm_consulting_three_day_week/)
Facebook shuttle bus drivers are losing their jobs as Meta slashes costs and employees stay home (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/facebook-shuttle-bus-drivers-face-layoffs-as-meta-slashes-costs-.html)
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/20/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak (https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/microsoft-confirms-server.html)
Apple's top designer is leaving the company three years after taking over from Jony Ive (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/21/apples-top-designer-is-leaving-three-years-after-taking-over-from-ive.html)
Social media market caps (2021 peak to today (https://twitter.com/yo/status/1583202482444201984?s=20&t=Na-u4OwFjYe1NEtyBIxanQ)
GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/github_copilot_copyright/)
Cyber unicorn Snyk to sack 198 employees, 14% of workforce (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1wmnrxnj)
Apple Releases macOS Ventura With FaceTime Handoff, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager, New Apps and More (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/24/apple-releases-macos-ventura/)
Larry Ellison killed Oracle's first-generation cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/24/ellison_oracle_cloud/)
PayPal shares rise after Amazon adds Venmo as checkout option (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/amazon-will-now-let-users-pay-with-venmo-at-checkout.html)
Tragedy of the Digital Commons (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4245266)
Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/business/spotify-apple-audiobooks-app.html)
Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on? (https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-it-taking-so-long-for-cloud-dev-environments-to-catch-on?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Snowflake, Revisited (https://www.thediff.co/p/snowflake-revisited)
What’s going on with Se (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)r (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)verless (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)
Netflix launches new ‘Profile Transfer’ feature to help monetize account sharing (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/netflix-launches-new-profile-transfer-feature-to-help-end-account-sharing/)
Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV+, Music Services for the First Time (https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/apple-price-increase-apple-tv-plus-music-1235412633/)
Nonsense
American Airlines is ditching first class on all flights (https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-ditching-first-class-105109577.html)
The $30 Million Lottery Scam (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/viktor-gjonaj-michigan-lottery-scam-wire-fraud/671741/)
Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23423977/iphone-usb-c-eu-law-joswiak-confirms-compliance-lightning)
Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
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SDT news & hype
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Generative A.I. Is Here. Who Should Control It? (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article)
Matt: Upgrade (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/).
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