RIA Weekly

This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 380. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8MwCBPgWY) Runner-up Titles Leave it all in Brighttalk Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later Killed by Google Wins Again Tell that to the WeWork founder Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon Anyone from software thinks they can do anything Lots of learnings. I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy. A good Brandon issue Rundown Google’s Incentives Google is shutting down Stadia (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/29/google_shuts_down_stadia/) Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-555c72e1-380a-4a69-affe-e8260ae5734e.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them. (https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1576985038511448064) 2022 State of DevO

This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU1uSOpu-c) Runner-up Titles You’re not proud of the product You can have both Landing Pages It’s just like Serial Don’t bring me these unqualified deals It’s a Floppy Disk Problem The better the metrics, the less useful they are The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful Highly Edited Focus on Earnings Rundown AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/aws-ceo-says-the-move-to-cloud-computing-is-only-just-getting-started.html) Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast) (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services) Google and Developer Toil Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-me

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle. Runner-up Titles Freed from Intel It works! Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms It will be fun The Apple Chip A Demi Kettle Pay for your own Flu Free to interrupt me Feet on the desk in business suit emoji. None of us can master the intranet. The network is the calendar. Rundown Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture (https://archive.ph/aRauw) Adobe Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/adobe-buying-figma-20-billion-dollars) Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma) Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/adobe-figma-deal-likely-to-attract-antitrust-scrutiny?utm_source=newslet

This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee… Runner-up Titles It’s about me Workshop it I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs This is their Popeye moment Pulitzers and free coffee Financial shenanigans Hide the gift shop in the data center Rundown No more free coffee as bankers return to Goldman Sachs (https://fortune.com/2022/09/12/goldman-sachs-eliminates-free-coffee-business-powerhouses-trimming-perk-employees-return-office/) Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-on-verge-of-becoming-worlds-hottest-cloud-vendor/) Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/starbucks-unveils-its-blockchain-based-loyalty-platform-and-nft-community-starbucks-odyssey/) André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative (https://st

This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers? Runner-up Titles They were already in the system. Headless Optimization Gone Amuck. While sitting on the toilet Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SXfb0CJrE). All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution. Bring Paul Ford out of retirement. Great ideas, getting close Prevent the typo 73 SaaS Companies “Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.” That may be his family crest Rundown Checking on Digital Transformation Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/japan-declares-war-on-floppy-disks-for-government-use/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Instant Payments in the U.S.? (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1567516269594955778) You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button (https://gi

This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…? Runner-up Titles Where’s my admin? All my children qualify as adults Start by eating their food Put two letters in front of it Where’s the grocery store I got that everything bagel spice Is it OK to hang-up on your kids? In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy. The runbook’s already written. Spagetti Bowl Tanzu the Shih Tzu A FinOps Type of Motion The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff Growth is best done in the shadows. Wrapping bullshit with bullshit Nopehouse, home of the fast follower The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans Thought-leadership suicide mission Rundown VMware Explore (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html) How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/snap-microservices-aws-google-cloud) Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Ca

This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King. Runner-up Titles Don’t have the USB cable Barton, can you get me a drink? Just like a beer This is my own podcast, I can do whatever the fuck I want! One day, I’m going to stop being the the butt of all the jokes Throwing a lot of Harvard shade. If you are in France, eat at the Burger King They came for the DevOps glory The jury’s still out for the Dev in DevOps The same sane things Security, always a problem What if there was just one company? Rundown Dallas DevOpsDays (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/) Devs don’t want to do ops (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3669477/devs-don-t-want-to-do-ops.html) Twitter Twitter's security alarm (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-34223563-612c-45a2-b8f2-0ff779d0c0f9.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’

This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means. Runner-up Titles All I am doing is sharing anecdotes That’s the problem with spellcheck Maccas? College here is High School Every cloud has its own sausage Here’s a unicode cow All Rust looks the same Too Good for GitHub The Shameful GitHub Rundown Simplifying Kubernetes, Introducing Acorn (https://acorn.io/introducing-acorn/) Waypoint (https://www.waypointproject.io/) CNAB (https://cnab.io/) Habitat (https://community.chef.io/tools/chef-habitat) Dagger (https://dagger.io) 25 Most Popular Programming Languages Used By DevOps Pros (https://thenewstack.io/25-most-popular-programming-languages-used-by-devops-pros/) Making sense of CSV The Microsoft Excel (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds) W (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-en

This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th. Runner-up Titles Strategy for eating mixed nuts. Finish in a flurry Eat Dessert First It’s about where you is, not where you was. We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator Lost his fastball Just a paycheck It’s cool to be the “turns out” person Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment McKinsey Titles, the movie Rundown App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem (https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1555177364081999874) Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO (https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/25/only-the-paranoid-survive-in-tech-former-intel-ceo.html) Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/08/netflix-games-note-engaging-subscribers/) Gladwell’s take on Work from Home (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRUT8Xh6/?k=1) Relevant to your Interests Cisco Networki

This week we do a deep dive into the Total Addressable Market of Cloud and discuss the rise of Cloudflare. Plus, details about the SDT Meetup in Austin on August 27th (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027). Runner-up Titles “Have a good time at least once” is in my vacation OKRs The podcast of the Slack Analog Clocks Digital Clock Native Pretending to have a sidekick The First Business Case for the Metaverse I was a liberal arts major The TAM Episode Rundown Cloud Earnings Clouded Judgement 7.29.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-72922?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Amazon says cloud-computing revenue rose 33%, topping Wall Street estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/aws-earnings-q2-2022.html) 60% of Amazon's net revenue growth YoY was AWS. (https://twitter.com/conorsen/status/1552749857500286976?s=21&t=4J4ob4S-4vxl-60DOSKkUw) AWS continues to show strength, but there are a few things to watch out for (https://seek

This week we discuss developer toil, local vs. remote development and Facebook’s management woes. Plus, some thoughts on business books… Runner-up Titles The Instant Acquisition Belly of the Beast We can’t be bothered, but we bothered I’m done with that I don’t have those problems More Money, More Weirdness Occam’s Razor is always handy Ghost ride it into production Let’s take the offline online We’re just doing stuff with computers Rundown Coté and Brian attempt to summarize Facebook’s current state (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1658919353110909?thread_ts=1658853863.040209&cid=C6CDLDCVB). Developer Toil: The Hidden Tech Debt (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/developer-toil-the-hidden-tech-debt?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=SDT370) Original webinar, from Susie and Tyson (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/may-6-tech-debt-audit-how-to-prioritize-and-reduce-the-tech-debt-that-matters-most?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=Global_P2_B

If capitalism is so great, why aren’t we working less? We discuss the potential for the GDP to finally do something for us, plus simplifying “sovereign cloud” and the potential of containers with their own jurisdiction. Also, thoughts on PowerPoint filenames. Runner-up Titles Also true, Less Money, Mo Problems Should have just been titled “Mo’ Problems.” Pancakes in Australia Australian names for pancakes: jackies, thin roundies, carbo-jacks, Yankee Breakfast Discs, flappies/flappos. Rentie and Rentos - “I’m renting, so it’s terrible.” Presentation-Final-V2.pptx DJ .PPTX Final_V2 I learned nothing about slide naming in college conferencekeynote-roughdraftfeedbackwelcome.pptx The Software Defined Fund Surfboard popped up and slapped my willies. Lean into it, or be leaned into. Rundown Sovereign cloud as a test of cloud differentiation Microsoft adding in more sovereign cloud stuff (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-cloud-for-sovereignty-to-its-line-up/) . There’s a stack of software you can move to

Barton George interviews Matt Ray about how to manage costs in the cloud. Links FinOps Foundation (https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/) OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io/) Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com) Photo Credits Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/3-Tc_5LROrM) CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/djb1whucfBY) Special Guest: Barton George.

This week we discuss Musk vs. Twitter, Apple Wallet Employee Badges and using Slack for incident management with Incident.io. Plus, some thoughts on European Highways… Runner-up Titles Tasty Jambalaya Cars Rules Exit Ramps The Autobahn The Driving Episode Muscle Memory Norman Doors Screenshotting Screensharts Count the pixels Digital Nirvana Free Ketchup An ROI cul-de-sac Rundown Musk vs. Twitter Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/elon-musk-notifies-twitter-he-is-terminating-deal.html) How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/technology/elon-musk-twitter-damaged.html) Digital Transformation mean outages in IRL A DoorDash glitch temporarily allowed hundreds of users to order free food (https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1545596276271566848?s=21&t=8IJ2hDk6a0d1t226lEORrw) American Airlines pilots get triple pay for trips dropped in scheduling glitch (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/-american-airlines-pilots-get-triple

This week we discuss Fedex going all-in on cloud, app modernization at the IRS and how to take unlimited PTO. Plus, some thoughts on rental property and telling time. Runner-up Titles Spreadsheets in your mind More ETF less Van Gogh The baby likes ducks The sticky stuff was not working I’ve read books Modernization takes 30 to 40 years No time is good Can I go to the beach Take a vacation The Kitchen Table Board Rundown A scheduling glitch temporarily canceled thousands of American Airlines flights (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1109592782/american-airlines-flights-canceled-glitch) Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-microsoft-google-strengthen-grip-on-cloud-11657018980?st=tgisntn6fwhaeii) Cloud infrastructure spend to top non-cloud in 2022 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/04/idc_cloud_spend_predictions/) Brian has thoughts see Slack Thread (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1657112482499439?thread_ts=1657110807.269759&cid=C6CDLD

This week we discuss the Stack Overflow Dev Survey, Securing the Supply Chain and Slack Huddles. Plus, some thoughts on coffee down under. Runner-up Titles Waiting for my wife to get up and out of the bedroom/office My wife is still asleep I feel a Liberal Arts rant coming on That’s not the full stack baby How deep does this chasm go? This was your chance to own the SaaS 10 years ago Rundown Starbucks down under (https://twitter.com/franchisewolf/status/1541032303861739520) Why there are almost no Starbucks in Australia (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-failure.html) Survey Says Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/) The 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report - Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/tools/the-10th-annual-open-source-jobs-report/?utm_campaign=OSSUMMIT-2022&utm_content=212390733&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-14706299) Supply Chain Aqua Security and CIS release first formal guidelines for software suppl

This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs. Runner-up Titles Chrome fixes everything Plateau of Productivity When the curve nopes. When the parabola yeets. First class SaaS Thanks for the legwork fool The cash cow has run out of milk Sign-a-tar Tumbler is now HIPAA compliant Working has its privileges Let go of this dog now Rundown Fermyon Launches With First Cloud-Native WebAssembly PaaS (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/21/2466499/0/en/Fermyon-Launches-With-First-Cloud-Native-WebAssembly-PaaS-for-Developers-Creating-Microservice-Based-Apps-Raises-6-Million-Seed-Funding-Led-by-Amplify-Partners.html) Cloudflare Cloudflare Post Mortem (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/) Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/massive-cloudflare-outage-caused-by-network-configuration-error

This week we discuss Oracle buying Corner, drama at Coinbase and the Gartner MQ for Observability. Plus, some thoughts on European Design Style… Runner-up Titles Secular Winds. Internet Hygiene Don’t Bang the Table Do you own a motorcycle? The Hilda World-building Executive Retreat for Toxic Crytpo Execs. That’s some flavor Client/server Bias. Power of Privilege Rundown Everyone tries to fix verticals like healthcare but can an outsider really do it? Oracle thinks it can fix healthcare’s biggest tech issue (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23162503/oracle-cerner-health-records-data-interoperability) Oracle stock jumps 9% on strong cloud revenue (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-stock-jumps-9-on-strong-cloud-revenue-11655151953) CEO Bias Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62a7fbc951acba00209259f5/elon-musk-brian-armstrong-coinbase-crypto/) Coinbase CEO Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1535304943728414721) An Open letter to Elon

This week we discuss work life balance, the State of Continuous Delivery Survey and recap WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on Buddha and parenting… Runner-up Titles The Buddha had no kids The Air Fryer is a PaaS. Rundown Work vs. Life Office workers get little reward for returning to the office – an idle factory is taboo (https://cote.io/2022/06/08/office-workers-get-little-reward-for-returning-to-work-an-idle-factory-is-taboo/) CEOs had a phenomenal year. Workers, less so (https://thehustle.co/05312022-CEO-vs-Worker-Pay/) Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/tesla-paid-pr-firm-to-surveil-employees-on-facebook-in-2017-union-push.html) Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit (https://electrek.co/2022/06/01/elon-musk-tesla-employees-come-back-office-or-quit/) Ford factory workers get 40-hour week (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-workers-get-40-hour-week) Survey Says State of Continuo

This week Brandon is joined by special guest host JJ Ashgiar and they record a live episode at the THAT Conference. Brandon and JJ interview Clark Sell and Brett Slaski about the origins and purpose of the THAT Conference and then the group discusses Broadcom acquiring VMware. Relevant to your Interests THAT Conference (https://that.us/that-conference/) Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61 Billion in Cash and Stock (https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/financial-releases/60271) Guests Clark Sell (https://that.us/members/clark/) Brett Slaski (https://that.us/members/brettski/) Recommendations Brandon — The Bond King (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Bond-King-Audiobook/1250818656?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1260658&ds_rl=1263561&gclid=CjwKCAjwyryUBhBSEiwAGN5OCPtAy0WtVF9Sw3HS0KsY-puo-qa_4t4xDOyS0HQjFpAOq26oFO8tOhoCQ70QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) JJ — Between (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5sKv4E2ko) Photo Credit (https://twitter.com/coridrew/status/1529094510126501889/photo/1) S