Episode 401: Swing State for Grocery Stores

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English - February 17, 2023 06:30 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
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This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpzvCcFZk0)
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Going Hardcore
Sleeping under the desk
The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet
Rundown
Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-plans-to-eventually-go-big-on-physical-grocery-stores-154524344.html)
Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mi-tienda-ready-to-cook-flour-tortillas/2188466)
Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game (https://www.engadget.com/the-division-2-botched-update-172527977.html)
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter (https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/)
The Twitpocalypse may have begun today (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/twitter_glitches_raises_tweet_limit/)
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4)
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IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/ibm-graphql/)
Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-be-acquired-francisco-partners-17-billion)
Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155650909/google-chatbot--error-bard-shares)
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This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores…

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401

Runner-up Titles

Going Hardcore
Sleeping under the desk
The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet

Rundown

Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores
Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas
Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
The Twitpocalypse may have begun today
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob
Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…
These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers
IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management
Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion
Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake
The maze is in the mouse