Episode 347: Son of Beagle

This week we discuss how to measure DevRel, the legacy of Sun and a few thoughts on Markdown. Plus, we determine the TAM for trackballs…
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Measuring Developer Relations (https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel)
What if Sun called it Cloud? (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1498804338751275011?s=21)
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Clouded Judgement 2.25.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-22522?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email)
Report: 76% of IT pros say that cloud has hit a wall (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/report-76-of-it-pros-say-that-cloud-has-hit-a-wall/)
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Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower — Software Engineering Daily (https://overcast.fm/+E6UCo3rcM)
Zendesk Scraps Takeover of SurveyMonkey Parent Company Momentive (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/zendesk-holders-said-to-reject-surveymonkey-parent-s-takeover)
EPAM Systems Withdraws Financial Forecasts. It Makes Software in Ukraine. (https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/epam-systems-stock-ukraine-russia-51646072988?mod=mw_quote_news)
Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games (https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/)
Introducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-google-cloud-architecture-diagramming-tool?utm_campaign=6039766a0836ec00015b0fc5&utm_content=620ed18194703000011ebabc&utm_medium=smarpshare&utm_source=twitter)
Kyndryl signs partnership deal with AWS (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/kyndryl_aws/)
Apple is said to be working on a foldable MacBook/iPad hybrid device (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/apple-is-said-to-be-working-on-a-foldable-macbook-ipad-hybrid-device/)
Amazon Luna – Cloud Gaming Service (https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page)
TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28/22954525/tiktok-maximum-video-length-10-minutes)
Intel energizes decades-old Linux kernel sub-project (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/intel_linutronix_linux/)
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You’ve Been Wearing Your Travel Pillow Wrong This Whole Time (https://www.lifesavvy.com/83514/youve-been-wearing-your-travel-pillow-wrong-this-whole-time/)
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This week we discuss how to measure DevRel, the legacy of Sun and a few thoughts on Markdown. Plus, we determine the TAM for trackballs…

Register here to be invited to future Software Defined Meetups

Rundown

Measuring Developer Relations
What if Sun called it Cloud?

Relevant to your Interests

A Visa exec's email to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy set off an internal scramble that's becoming increasingly common at the tech giant
Clouded Judgement 2.25.22
Report: 76% of IT pros say that cloud has hit a wall
Out Of Scope - #0
Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower — Software Engineering Daily
Zendesk Scraps Takeover of SurveyMonkey Parent Company Momentive
EPAM Systems Withdraws Financial Forecasts. It Makes Software in Ukraine.
Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games
Introducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool | Google Cloud Blog
Kyndryl signs partnership deal with AWS
Apple is said to be working on a foldable MacBook/iPad hybrid device
Amazon Luna – Cloud Gaming Service
TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes
Intel energizes decades-old Linux kernel sub-project

Nonsense

You’ve Been Wearing Your Travel Pillow Wrong This Whole Time

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: https://postlight.com/podcast

Listener Feedback

Listen to The Kubernetes Developer Experience? on The CloudCast

Conferences

.Net Beyond conference, March 30–31, 2022, online.
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, July 25, 2022
DevOps Days Birmingham AL,, April 18 & 19th, 2022
DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.

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Recommendations

Brandon: Mimestream - A native macOS email client for Gmail (BETA)
Coté: The Nineties, Tyler Cowen interview with him.
Matt: Hail Mary

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