Episode 342: Paradox of Advice

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF’s new project and Tim Bray’s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity…
Rundown
Earnings
Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales (https://www.axios.com/apple-earnings-top-estimates-strong-iphone-4a850376-e1f2-445f-90b4-2d3216a1e36f.html)
Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1486876801314000903?s=21)
Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/alphabet-crushes-earnings-announces-20-212516853.html)
Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/)
OSS Security
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) (https://openssf.org/)
OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects (https://openssf.org/press-release/2022/02/01/openssf-announces-the-alpha-omega-project-to-improve-software-supply-chain-security-for-10000-oss-projects/)
Citrix goes private (https://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2022/takeprivate.html)
Tim Bray’s take on Cloud (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In)
Relevant to your Interests
Confluent and AWS just announced a "Strategic Collaboration Agreement." (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1486876801314000903?s=21https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1486790805029199872)
Internal messages show Amazon is telling employees to warn customers away from using Microsoft's or Google's clouds as a hedge against AWS outages (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-multi-cloud-outages-messaging-sales-marketing-2022-1)
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)
Google cloud unit shuffles partnerships and sales groups as CEO Kurian chases market share (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/28/google-cloud-unit-shuffles-partnerships-and-sales-groups-email-says.html)
Science says ‘Zoom fatigue’ is real — and worse when you don’t like your face (https://thehustle.co/01282022-zoom-fatigue)
Power tool companies have discovered USB-C (https://twitter.com/verge/status/1486883202102923269?s=21)
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/27/life360-says-it-will-stop-selling-precise-location-data)
Germany will break the Internet (https://twitter.com/fascinatingtech/status/1487342734906171393)
A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs (https://mirror.xyz/dhaiwat.eth/O5CK6Tjfv8uhl6FPbjT0yZ8LUwViDPWGYHdu9khRWpM)
Meta doubles down on Oculus Quest name change and everyone hates it (https://www.androidcentral.com/meta-quest-oculus-name-change)
Streaming Service Retention Rates (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1488249269433872384?s=21)
Okta Chart for Cloud Adoption (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1488233622934933504?s=21)
Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/commentary-how-homeowners-defeated-zillows-ai-ultimately-leading-to-zillow-offers-demise/)
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/ryanbreslow-bolt/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The numbers behind Spotify's Rogan (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-f981e6a4-e379-409c-aba4-83ee55beb79f.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare)
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy” (https://charity.wtf/2022/01/20/how-engineering-driven-leads-to-engineering-supremacy/)
Universal Control was worth the wait – here's how it's changing the way I work (https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/28/universal-contorl-ipad-and-mac-feature/)
Craob X: World's First Portless Laptop on The Way (Exclusive Leak) - My Laptop Guide (https://mylaptopguide.com/craob-x-worlds-first-portless-laptop-on-the-way-exclusive-leak/)
.NET Beyond (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond)
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant (https://www.fintechfutures.com/2022/02/bolt-founder-ryan-breslow-announces-new-ceo-after-silicon-valley-twitter-rant/)
SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22913921/spacex-starlink-premium-satellite-internet-faster-speed-expensive)
MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation (https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-corporation-ab-to-become-a-publicly-traded-company-via-combination-with-angel-pond-holdings-corporation/)
Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion)
Serverless less trendy? (https://twitter.com/LawrenceHecht/status/1486723915393101836)
Nonsense
Tesla launches 'TeslaMic,' a microphone for in-car karaoke (https://electrek.co/2022/01/28/tesla-launches-teslamic-microphone-in-car-karaoke/)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Brian recommends you read Amp It Up (https://www.audible.com/pd/Amp-It-Up-Audiobook/B09QBTJZJL)
Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022
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THAT Conference Wisconsin Call for Speakers is open (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022
CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022
CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
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Recommendations
Brandon:
DDOG Dashboard for ERCOT Power in Texas (https://twitter.com/danopia/status/1361712065564598276)
Wordle (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) and some news The New York Times Buys Wordle (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html)
Coté: The Important Thing podcast (https://randsinrepose.com/archives/category/the-important-thing/).
Matt:
TriggerMesh Office Hours (https://www.twitch.tv/triggermesh)
Living With Yourself (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8880894/)
Photo Credits
Banner Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/2JIvboGLeho)
Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/9-dkDEXWGzI)

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF’s new project and Tim Bray’s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity…

Rundown

Earnings

Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales
Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue
Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split
Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring

OSS Security

Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)
OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects

Citrix goes private
Tim Bray’s take on Cloud

Relevant to your Interests

Confluent and AWS just announced a "Strategic Collaboration Agreement."
Internal messages show Amazon is telling employees to warn customers away from using Microsoft's or Google's clouds as a hedge against AWS outages
Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business
Google cloud unit shuffles partnerships and sales groups as CEO Kurian chases market share
Science says ‘Zoom fatigue’ is real — and worse when you don’t like your face
Power tool companies have discovered USB-C
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data – The Markup
Germany will break the Internet
A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs
Meta doubles down on Oculus Quest name change and everyone hates it
Streaming Service Retention Rates
Okta Chart for Cloud Adoption
Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice
The numbers behind Spotify's Rogan
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”
Universal Control was worth the wait – here's how it's changing the way I work
Craob X: World's First Portless Laptop on The Way (Exclusive Leak) - My Laptop Guide
.NET Beyond
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant
SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month
MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation

• Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion


• Serverless less trendy?

Nonsense

• Tesla launches 'TeslaMic,' a microphone for in-car karaoke

Sponsors

• strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
  

Listener Feedback

• Brian recommends you read Amp It Up
  

Conferences

• 
  THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022
  
  
  • Discount Codes:
  
  
  • Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
    
  
  
  • 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
    
  
  
  • Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75
    
  
  
  
  


• 
  THAT Conference Wisconsin Call for Speakers is open, July 25, 2022


• 
  DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers, May 10 & 11th, 2022
  
  
  • CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
  
  
  
  


• 
  DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers, April 18 & 19th, 2022
  
  
  
  • CFP closes on Jan 31, 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:
  
  
  • DDOG Dashboard for ERCOT Power in Texas
  
  
  • 
    Wordle and some news The New York Times Buys Wordle
    
  
  
  
  


• Coté: The Important Thing podcast.


• Matt:
  
  
  • TriggerMesh Office Hours
  
  
  • Living With Yourself
  
  
  
  

Photo Credits

• Banner Art


• Cover Art

Sponsored By:

• 
  strongDM: Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.