Episode 383: My bag did not make the flight

This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel.

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Runner-up Titles

• Serverless is the new OpenStack.
• “I intended to read it.”
• American Airline lounges are like bus terminals.
• Made it to my hotel at 4 AM
• Kubernetes is about the journey
• That is your 3D chess
• Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher.
• Would you like to buy some YAML?
• We’re gonna go with the ball pit money
• DHH vs. Mr. Beast

Rundown

• DHH
  • Why we're leaving the cloud
  • Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
• Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’
• Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD
• Earnings
  • Microsoft beats but cloud growth comes in short
  • Alphabet misses on top and bottom lines as YouTube ad revenue drops in the quarter

Relevant to your Interests

• Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud (2022)
• Snap plunges more than 20% on third-quarter revenue miss
• US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation
• Are We Past Peak Newsletter?
• IBM Consulting staff must work from office three days a week
• Facebook shuttle bus drivers are losing their jobs as Meta slashes costs and employees stay home
• Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce
• Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak
• Apple's top designer is leaving the company three years after taking over from Jony Ive
• Social media market caps (2021 peak to today
• GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit
• Cyber unicorn Snyk to sack 198 employees, 14% of workforce
• Apple Releases macOS Ventura With FaceTime Handoff, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager, New Apps and More
• Larry Ellison killed Oracle's first-generation cloud
• PayPal shares rise after Amazon adds Venmo as checkout option
• Tragedy of the Digital Commons
• Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way
• Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on?
• Snowflake, Revisited
• What’s going on with Serverless
• Netflix launches new ‘Profile Transfer’ feature to help monetize account sharing
• Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV+, Music Services for the First Time

Nonsense

• American Airlines is ditching first class on all flights
• The $30 Million Lottery Scam
• Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C

Conferences

• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th
• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th
• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

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SDT news & hype

• Brandon: DALL-E 2
  • Generative A.I. Is Here. Who Should Control It?
• Matt: Upgrade.
• Coté: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.
  • Tanzu Talk.

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