Episode 333: Chop wood, carry water

This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash.
Rundown
State of devrel 2021 (https://www.stateofdeveloperrelations.com/_files/ugd/383279_55d4ef5b6f3847c188639d20f3f31b01.pdf)
The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues (https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-cloud-in-2021-adoption-continues/)
Relevant to your interests
AWS Primitives (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1466464691312594955?s=21)
An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) (https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take)
Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005108/en/Meta-Selects-AWS-as-Key-Long-Term-Strategic-Cloud-Provider)
@Werner vs @QuinnyPig (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1466803730934734849?s=21)
Unleash the Booch on No Code (https://twitter.com/grady_booch/status/1467278429221384193?s=21)
A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/business/softbank-marcelo-claure-masayoshi-son.html)
Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum)
FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/ftc-sues-nvidia-to-preserve-arms-status-as-switzerland-of-semiconductors/)
How H-E-B got into livestreaming (https://www.grocerydive.com/news/how-h-e-b-got-into-livestreaming/610935/)
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M (https://www.builtinnyc.com/2021/11/22/gemini-raises-400m-7b-valuation-winklevoss-crypto-hiring)
Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365 (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1467932100527632389)
Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5 (https://m.tiktok.com/v/7038608341731691823.html?_d=secCgwIARCbDRjEFSACKAESPgo85n%2BtKIwo1Zhqn4KTcyroixZ%2FDA8lQYFxeSIpCqXVWLAncwFASfJBaYShvEGUS%2FMGXSehfMJ3NZVGOvAZGgA%3D&checksum=eaad8d27a15f6b79885fc253d8a2c4e8c08460d79884cbf7bc70c937b1a945d1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAA0HTt90iOfdDeuCxbCJ90nZmvHaieIsIe8dMxMIXWtMD0S9s2k4mM58aBqknhPDlp&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7038608341731691823&share_link_id=412686F9-9887-49F9-A2AB-D70149209B02&source=h5_m&timestamp=1638830750&tt_from=copy&u_code=dkl91gk6a054k8&user_id=7011150160509174789&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy)
Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests)
AWS Top Secret-West (https://twitter.com/aselipsky/status/1468062726656167937?s=21)
Social Media Trends 2022 (https://www.hootsuite.com/research/social-trends)
$50M to reinvent security automation (https://torq.io/blog/a-new-beginning-security-automation/)
Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed (https://www.anyscale.com/blog/the-future-is-distributed)
GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model (https://blog.gitguardian.com/announcing-our-44m-fundraise-to-further-enable-the-appsec-shared-responsibility-model/)
Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows (https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/07/liqid-raises-100m-demand-composable-data-center-infrastructure-grows/)
Launched Managed Kubernetes service (https://serverspace.io/services/managed-kubernetes/)
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage)
The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-06/the-trump-spac-did-a-pipe)
Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3777464-salesforce-zoom-lead-580m-investment-in-call-center-software-company)
Kelsey wades into Bitcoin (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1468263886323261443?s=21)
AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises (https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/appneta-acquired-by-broadcom-in-order-to-bring-its-award-winning-visibility-platform-to-the-world-s-largest-enterprises-835894275.html)
New Horizons for Open Source (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_Annual_Report_120721c.pdf)
VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/vmware-tanzu-application-platform-with-triggermesh)
A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future (http://)
Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source (http://)
Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent? (https://diginomica.com/hyperscalers-dont-appreciate-needs-smbs-what-should-aws-be-doing-reinvent)
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage)
Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge (https://www.itbusinessedge.com/development/devops-trends-2022/)
Nonsense
icanhazdadjoke (https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api)
Estonian capital began with a traffic jam (https://twitter.com/kane/status/1466883996315308032?s=21)
Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/)
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Coté: Basel gingerbread (https://www.laeckerli-huus.ch/en/).
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Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/b9-odQi5oDo)

This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash.

Rundown

State of devrel 2021
The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues

Relevant to your interests

AWS Primitives
An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities)
Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider
@Werner vs @QuinnyPig
Unleash the Booch on No Code
A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees.
Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website
FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors
How H-E-B got into livestreaming
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M
Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365
Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5
Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
AWS Top Secret-West
Social Media Trends 2022
$50M to reinvent security automation
Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed
GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model
Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows
Launched Managed Kubernetes service
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others
The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE
Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM)
Kelsey wades into Bitcoin
AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises
New Horizons for Open Source
VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh
[A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future](http://)
[Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source](http://)
Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent?
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others
Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge

Nonsense

icanhazdadjoke
Estonian capital began with a traffic jam
Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt
Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: postlight.com/podcast

Conferences

THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022

Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT
Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75

DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers

CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
Event Date: May 10 & 11th, 2022

DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers

CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
Event Dates: April 18 & 19th, 2022

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Brandon: Brother Compact Monochrome Laser Printer
Matt: Lens Desktop for Kubernetes
Coté: Basel gingerbread.

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