Episode 364: First class SaaS

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
• Cloudflare
  • Cloudflare Post Mortem
  • Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error
  • The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps
• Oracle
  • Oracle Versus Amazon: Oracle Will Rip and Replace AWS at Cerner
  • Exclusive: TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers
• DocuSign CEO Dan Springer steps down
• Removing people from security
  • Password policies of 120 websites
  • iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion
• Senate considers ban on data brokers selling health and location info
• Full List of Data Broker Opt-Out Guides: How to opt-out of the internet
• Anna Sorokin plans to launch an NFT collection
• Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup
• Median software multiple is now 5.7x.
• The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud
• The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution
• I Should Be Able to Mute America
• Capital One fraudster got in via 'misconfigured' AWS storage
• Better.com loses three more senior executives, including SVP and VP of sales
• Veza Raises $110M in Funding - FinSMEs
• The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security

Nonsense

• The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021
• Jira gets fired by ClickUp - Exit Interview commercial advertisement
• Amazon demos Alexa reading a bedtime story in the voice of a boy's deceased grandma
• Could You Really Not Just Put This In An Email?

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