Episode 106: The Cloud Pod disagrees with Gartner on Low-Code
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan has returned and is sitting in his garage letting it get darker and darker before he turns a light on. Gartner says low-code is growing!! NOOOOOO! A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which prov
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Show Notes
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan has returned and is sitting in his garage letting it get darker and darker before he turns a light on. Gartner says low-code is growing!! NOOOOOO!
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
- Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
- AWS is teaming up with TV to make hockey more exciting.
- Google is no longer stuck in the 90s.
- Oracle thinks it’s ruggedly handsome — it is not.
Follow Up: Somebody’s In Trouble
- SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Microsoft source code for Azure, Exchange and Intune. Intune is probably the most damaging — this is not good news for Microsoft.
General News: The Glowing Puck
- Gartner is reporting that Low-Code development tool growth has grown 23% this year. Gartner, pay to play.
- AWS provides the National Hockey League with cloud, AI and machine learning services. It’s great to see computer tech adding to viewer engagement.
- Hashicorp announces the general availability of the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. It’s an interesting solution to a very hard problem.
Amazon Web Services: Everyone’s On Vacation
- Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Big Sur. Completely stunned by this, aren’t you.
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups. This actually solves a small but annoying problem for Justin.
Google Cloud Platform: Jumping Back To 1994
- Google introduces schedule-based autoscaling for Compute Engine. Finally catching up to Azure and AWS, both of which have had this for a few years now.
- Google adds several new features to Google Cloud VMware Engines to support workloads moving from the cloud. We just want the VMware tools.
- Google launches Cloud Domains to make it easy to register and use custom domains within its platform.