Episode 355: That’s why he runs my Marketing department

Software Defined Talk

English - April 29, 2022 05:30 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile

Next Episode: Episode 356: They should have consulted us

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft…
Rundown
Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com)
Istio
Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project (https://twitter.com/IstioMesh/status/1518616150258733058)
Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo (https://www.solo.io/blog/istio-past-present-future/)
Earnings
AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/21/aws_not_for_sale/)
Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html)
Microsoft earnings beat across the board (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/microsoft-msft-earnings-q3-2022.html)
Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/alphabet-to-report-q1-earnings-after-the-bell-tuesday.html)
Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft (https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/status/1519363715480514560)
The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993-2006)
Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/25/akamai-launches-managed-database-offering-mysql-postgresql-redis-mongodb/)
Twitter
Back to the Future of Twitter (https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/)
Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html)
Bezos on Twitter being acquired (https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/1518734031566778368?s=21&t=hU6sj6ankANQAZPIf6Pnog)
Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-reassures-staff-cries-during-meeting-about-musk-takeover-00027931)
Relevant to your Interests
7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers (https://bloggingwizard.com/free-rss-feed-readers/)
Is Firefox OK? (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-firefox-ok/)
After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/with-20m-series-a-glide-expands-no-code-application-building-capabilities/)
Good SDT Slack Thread on this (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1650634994278229)
The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company (https://pnw.ai/article/the-founder-who-turned-an-automation-startup-into-portland-s-biggest-tech-company/121260557)
Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-predicts-end-of-chip-shortage)
Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return (https://www.ft.com/content/312acbb3-eb72-4d2f-b81f-649dcb3583ca)
Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html)
Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/devs-upset-apple-remove-app-store-havent-been-updated)
AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/appdynamics-founders-midas-touch-strikes-again-as-harness-valuation-hits-3-7b/)
SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/sonarsource-raises-412m-to-scan-codebases-for-bugs-and-vulnerabilities/)
Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2022)
Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/dropbox_unplugged_datacenter)
YouTube’s growth struggles to load (https://thehustle.co/04282022-YouTube-growth)
Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/apple-now-lets-you-buy-iphone-parts-so-you-can-fix-it-yourself.html)
Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/robinhood-layoffs)
Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you (https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/Top-10-PaaS-providers-and-what-they-offer-you)
Nonsense
Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head' (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-dorsey-changes-his-official-title-from-ceo-to-block-head-11650663753)
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Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
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This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft…

Rundown

Kubecost
Istio

Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project
Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo

Earnings

AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions
Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter
Microsoft earnings beat across the board
Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss
Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft

The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA
Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB
Twitter

Back to the Future of Twitter
Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter
Bezos on Twitter being acquired
Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover

Relevant to your Interests

7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers
Is Firefox OK?
After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch

Good SDT Slack Thread on this

The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company
Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage
Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return
Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter
Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN
AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B
SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs
Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why
Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience
YouTube’s growth struggles to load
Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself
Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff
Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you