Roll For Enterprise: Recent Episodes
Dominic Wellington, Lilac Schoenbeck, Mike Ianiro, Zack Zilakakis
Four tech thinkers and doers who came up through the trenches of enterprise IT talk about the news that's relevant in this world.
Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @lilacshoenbeck, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis
Theme music by Renato Podestà — http://www.renatopodesta.com
Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073
Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg
Google parent Alphabet’s results come up short despite cloud strength
https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/26/google-parent-alphabets-results-come-short-despite-cloud-strength/
Google Cloud hit $5.82B in Q1 sales, up from $4.05B YoY and above estimates of $5.75B, and an operating loss of $931M, down from $974M YoY
Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html
Amazon's cloud unit grew 36.5% year over year in the first quarter, a bit faster than analysts projected.
Brian Olsavsky (CFO) -
“We saw another strong quarter of innovation and customer engagement in the AWS segment, where net sales were $18.4 billion in Q1, up 37% year over year and now represent an annualized sales run rate of nearly $74 billion.”
“I mean, we're continuing to see what the backlog is, right? It's the increase of AWS customers making long-term commitments for AWS. At the March period ended, we had $88.9 billion balance for that. So that's up about 68% year over year.
And the weighted average remaining kind of life term for those is 3.8 years.”
AWS Wins Out Over Microsoft For $10B NSA Cloud Contract
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-wins-out-over-microsoft-for-10b-nsa-cloud-contract
Microsoft’s Cloud Growth Propels Quarterly Sales, Earnings
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/microsoft-cloud-growth-propels-higher-quarterly-sales-earnings
Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 32% YoY to $23.4B in Q3, including $19.1B from Intelligent Cloud, up 26% YoY, and from Azure and other cloud services, up 46% YoY
MSFT Earnings Transcript
Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript | The Motley Fool
Satya Nadella - “This quarter, we helped more customers than ever, simplifying and accelerating their cloud migrations. And it's still early days.” & “As a percentage of GDP, tech spend is, on a secular basis, by the end of the decade, going to double.”
Satya continuously doubles down on “Data & AI” -
“Data and AI for sure. I mean, the thing that I find really to be something that I think is a long run is going to probably be one of the bigger drivers of our growth and differentiation is our data fabric because we're the only guys who have a complete data fabric from the operational store, that's fully integrated into an analytics engine, that's fully integrated into governance.”
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GitOps
https://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitops
Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months.
The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability.
GitOps is part of the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) meta trend.
According to E-Topics, Searches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months. The mainstreaming of cloud practices and the continued increase in adoption of DevSecOps are two main drivers of accelerating IaC growth.
Hyperautomation
https://explodingtopics.com/topic/hyperautomation
Hyperautomation is the use of technologies to scale the automation of processes within an organization.
Hyperautomation is part of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Technology meta trend.
According to Gartner, 80% of finance executives have made plans to implement RPA within their organization.
And Deloitte estimates that 78% of the companies that have already implemented RPA plan to significantly increase investment in this area in the next three years.
ServiceNow adds new RPA capabilities with San Diego release
https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/23/servicenow-adds-new-rpa-capabilities-with-san-diego-release/
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Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022
https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/
Puppet acquired (by Perforce)
https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppet
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/12/nasuni-ransomware-without-backup/
Microsoft Customers Decry Cloud Contracts That Sideline Rivals
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud-contracts-that-sideline-rivals
Atlassian cloud outage could take days to resolve
https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252515706/Atlassian-cloud-outage-could-take-days-to-resolve
https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1513727021087543300
https://twitter.com/atlassian/status/1513913041540333569
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
Mike
wecrashed: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wecrashed/umc.cmc.6qw605uv2rwbzutk2p2fsgvq9
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Back to (in-person) work
Big tech conferences aren’t coming back
https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-events
Microsoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emails
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/microsoft-ceo-warns-of-the-impact-of-all-those-late-night-emails
Using your dishwasher is more Earth-friendly. Here's why.
https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-water-do-dishwashers-use/
Any other news
Microsoft Azure to build Arm servers with chips from Ampere
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
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Remote meetings are big money
HP Inc. to Acquire Poly
Poly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/
How much of IT should be self-serve?
Cloud self-service doesn’t need to invite the orc apocalypse | CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing
Shadow IT discourse is back, baby!
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/
Large-scale npm attack targets Azure developers with malicious packages
https://jfrog.com/blog/large-scale-npm-attack-targets-azure-developers-with-malicious-packages/
Google Docs corner
New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-calendar-now-lets-paid-users-create-a-booking-page-website/
Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
Macs Fan Control https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
Lilac
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life
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Okta popped
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690
Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010
Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/
FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA): https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/
Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283
Japan's Self-Defense Forces launch new cyberdefense unit: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/03/17/national/sdf-cyberdefense-unit/
Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/
Zooming into the Metaverse
Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990983/zoom-virtual-avatars-animal-face-replacement
Of course many of us did this with Snap Camera for a couple of weeks and then forgot all about it: https://snapcamera.snapchat.com
'I'm not a cat': Video shows lawyer can't turn off kitten filter during Zoom court appearance: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-m-not-cat-video-shows-lawyer-can-t-turn-n1257168
The Thing With Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom
GIF inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/24/stephen-wilhite-gif-inventor-dies
Tune in for an exciting discussion about enterprise sales & pricing next week!
Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
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- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprise
https://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase
- Sabotage of NPM packages is back in the news once again
BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/
- Remote events are still with us
Google I/O takes place May 11th and 12th, and it will be fully online
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981868/google-i-o-2022-may-11th-12th-online-virtual
Performance & Security - Ask Me Anything Panel from MongoDB.local London 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgVLgfTB-E
- Partnering with cloud providers
MongoDB Expands Global Collaboration with AWS
https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-expands-global-collaboration-with-aws
AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance-
Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout
- Maybe you don’t want that Apple Studio Display after all
Daring Fireball Apple Studio Display — problems with the webcam
https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display
Opal camera — DSLR quality on a webcam
https://opalcamera.com
- Customer Experience Personalisation and how it breaks
Help, I'm Being Personalised!
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/help-i-m-being-personalised
- Recommendations
Dominic
Event: MongoDB World, 7th-9th June in NYC — discount code DOMINICWELLINGTON25 for 25% off! https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022
Book: The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-scalzi/the-kaiju-preservation-society/
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NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malware
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/
Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefront
https://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/google-s-mandiant-acquisition-brings-cybersecurity-automation-to-forefront
Amazon jumps 10% on 20-for-1 share split, $10 billion buyback
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811399-amazon-jumps-10-on-20-for-1-share-split-10-billion-buyback?lctg=60c1e2e9dba83e59148a0f62&mailingid=26973903&messageid=wall_street_breakfast&serial=26973903.883067&userid=50571090&utm_campaign=WSB%203_10_22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=wall_street_breakfast
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1501688392915898370
Everything Apple Announced Today in Just Over Seven Minutes
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/08/march-2022-apple-event-everything-announced/
S&P Global Acquires 451 Research
https://www.spglobal.com/en/press/press-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc
Lydia Leong, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner
https://twitter.com/cloudpundit
Recommendations
Lilac
https://www.askamanager.org/
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Ukrainian tech companies
https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies
Grammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfits
People around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan to check in
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-airbnb-donations-cec/index.html
Nvidia Confirms Company Data Was Stolen in Hack
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-confirms-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/nvidia-hackers-leak-ransomware/
DARVO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
$50/month to plug a mystery box into your home network: https://twitter.com/jackrhysider/status/1498780187776933888
The Register survey on zero-trust https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/reg_reader_survey_zero_trust_results/
EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/02/new_hope_for_privacy_shield/
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html
Apple “Peek Performance” event https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-event
Recommendations
Dominic
Notes From The Burning Age, by Claire North https://text.npr.org/1018496548
Zack
Wordle - https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Worldle - https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Airportle - https://airportle.scottscheapflights.com
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Ukraine Crisis
Ambulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’t
Biden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russia
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-russia-rcna17558
Disturbing Mass Text Operation Terrorizes Ukraine as Russian Troops Move In
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/disturbing-mass-text-operation-terrorizes-ukraine-as-russian-troops-move-in/ar-AAUdejJ
Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/cyberattack-hits-ukrainian-banks-and-government-websites.html
https://twitter.com/aneel/status/1496826799162077189
The Associated Press tried to sell an NFT of migrants adrift at sea
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-24-1
Multi-cloud
Europe proposes rules for fair access to connected device data
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/23/eu-data-act/
Interoperable Friendship
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/interoperable-friendship
Kyndryl, AWS Sign Deal With Aim To Train 10,000 Workers By Year’s End
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/kyndryl-aws-sign-deal-with-aim-to-train-10-000-workers-by-year-s-end
AWS And Snowflake: ‘From True Competitors, To Frenemies To…An Alliance’
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-and-snowflake-from-true-competitors-to-frenemies-to-an-alliance-
Recommendations
Dominic
Bone-conduction headphones: (After)Shokz Aeropex / Openrun https://shokz.com/products/openrun
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Forbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/
Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal - https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/citrix-to-be-acquired-taken-private-and-merged-with-tibco-in-16-5-billion-deal
Weighted ACV as more useful SaaS metric - https://whoisnnamdi.com/weighted-acv/
Intel plans - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/intel_gelsinger_plan/
Intel — Powering the Metaverse- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/powering-metaverse.html
Salesforce Establishes Sustainability as a Core Company Value; Launches Net Zero Cloud 2.0 Globally- https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/sustainability-core-value/
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Dominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies.
Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno
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Amazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71B
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71b
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504
https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1489350978642100230
⬆️ 20B Jeff Bezos
⬇️ 30B Mark Zuckerberg
Alphabet Q4 Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 45 Percent
https://www.crn.com/alphabet-q4-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-jumps-45-percent
https://twitter.com/munster_gene/status/1488646948835905536
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021_Q4_Earnings_Transcript.pdf (page 15)
The Apple effect. Is Facebook/Meta in trouble?
- Slowing sales: Meta revenue hit $33.7B in the last quarter but its guidance for Q1 2022 ($27-$29B) was below expectations
- The Apple effect: New changes to iPhone’s privacy policy will cost Facebook’s ad business an estimated $10B this year
- High-value users (e.g., US coastal) are leaving Facebook and going to TikTok
- M&A options are off the table due to antitrust scrutiny
- Founders are choosing not to work at Meta, which means it can’t build new products
AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ai-insurance-company-faces-class-action-7991163/
Recommendations
Dominic
Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
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Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderates
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html
Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-abandon-acquisition-arm-bloomberg-news-2022-01-25/
Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html
Calendly discourse
https://twitter.com/lessin/status/1486477359717187589
https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1486747239544459265
https://twitter.com/calendly/status/1486780920048672772
Peloton to halt production of its Bikes, treadmills as demand wanes
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/peloton-to-pause-production-of-its-bikes-treadmills-as-demand-wanes.html
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Microsoft buys Activision for $69B (nice)
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html
Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it
https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-activision-antitrust-games-streaming-gamepass
3 billion gamers — sure, if you count Candy Crush etc, but how many of those are playing Call of Duty?
Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.html
But the video everyone has seen is old:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/5/22868323/walmart-metaverse-shopping-video-viral-old
Is Google taking another run at AR, not quite a decade after Google Glass?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22892152/google-project-iris-ar-headset-2024
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US airports block rollout of 5G, one day before launch
AT&T and Verizon limit 5G service near US airports after carriers’ outcry
https://www.ft.com/content/e1f1d59f-2e9f-4f23-a80a-25dcc0274513
Only happening in US because of different frequencies and higher power levels
But why did the issue come to light so late?
Opinion | The FAA’s 5G freakout raises a big red flag — about its competence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/18/faa-5g-wireless-freakout-raises-red-flag/
Boeing Takes Hit as Its 777, 787 Planes Appear Susceptible to 5G Network
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeing-takes-hit-as-its-777-787-planes-appear-susceptible-to-5g-network/ar-AASW0GM
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Quick News
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The FCC proposes new data breach rules for phone companies
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22882281/fcc-telecom-data-breach-notification-rules-proposal-commission-seats
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Italians continue to prefer real coffee
https://www.italy24news.com/local/347225.html
Lol: Starbucks closes two locations in Milan because they were so unprofitable. Six locations remain.
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Lilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it.
- What’s the data problem? How do we think about it in companies?
- What’s the opportunity … can we dream about what we could do with better handle on enterprise data
- Open Source and Security
https://www.protocol.com/open-source-security-white-house-2656216576
https://www.theverge.com/platform/2022/1/13/22882176/google-government-action-protect-open-source-software-funding-security
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/
Doug is a 25-year veteran building teams and technology products. His experiences span startups as well over 15 years in enterprise product management with 17 years in the low code tooling space. Doug is a musician, having toured as a section violinist with artists like Sarah Brightman (“Phantom of the Opera”), Diana Ross, Moody Blues, and Ray Charles.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasjohnson/
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2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictions
Employment changes, new wave of freelancing
Fractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-one
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chief-Technology-Officer-Salary
Healthcare impacts
More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation: https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality
Amazon considers changing how it distributes employee stock options to stem exodus of top talent: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-stock-compensation-monthly-vesting-l7-top-employees-2022-1
Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A Klue : https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Season-2-Episode-3-We-Get-A-Klue-ep331n
Low-code/no-code Report
Electric Capital Developer Report (2021)
https://medium.com/electric-capital/electric-capital-developer-report-2021-f37874efea6d
https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1478776674648944641?s=20
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Themes of the year that was:
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Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover
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Outages and incidents
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Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc)
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No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects
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Mental health and the change in employment landscapes
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The Great Resignation
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The year the employees took the power back
The book Dominic referred to is “Feersum Endjinn” by Iain M Banks, first published in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_Endjinn
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Patch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploited
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/
List of software impacted by log4j
https://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db/blob/develop/README.md
The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/17/1042692/log4j-internet-open-source-hacking/
Another AWS Outage
This time it’s not us-east-1!
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/amazon-owned-twitch-down-many-users-2021-12-15/
Benedict Evans’ year-end presentation
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Our takeaways:
- Web3: “All the old problems, in exciting new ways”
- VR/AR: “The technology can always get better… but that doesn’t guarantee universal appeal”
- Mainframe installed capacity still growing
- Lessons from the past: “who made more from the deployment of cars, and who made more from car-commerce - Detroit, or retailers?”
Dominic was thinking of Mary Meeker’s monster “Internet Trends” presentations; we look forward to being completely intimidated by the scale of the 2021 edition when it drops
Recommendations
Dominic
Loïc Suberville’s “Universal Language” shorts: https://youtube.com/channel/UCywGsTdh_qqZUYmA2Gro2CA
Lilac
Askamanager.org
Mike
How to Resolve Duplicate Outlook for iOS Contacts
https://office365itpros.com/2020/11/05/resolve-duplicate-outlook-ios-contacts/
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AWS us-east-1 outage (again)
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-now
https://deadline.com/2021/12/amazon-web-services-outage-unplugs-netflix-disney-and-many-websites-in-parts-of-u-s-1234886348/
AWS post-mortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/
Quill shutdown
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-acquires-quill-a-would-be-slack-rival-team-will-work-on-dms-as-quill-shuts-down/
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-quill-acquisition
https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1468289633964290049
Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quill
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/slack-investor-index-ventures-backs-slack-competitor-quill/
Swiss suicide pod: https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/controversial-suicide-pod-that-kills-peacefully-gets-go-ahead-in-switzerland/
Quick News
Touch Bar post mortem review
Recommendations
Dominic
Vinegar https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 Un-break YouTube
Also! Merry Mixmas http://www.djriko.com
Zack
Govee Flow Pro LED Smart Light Bars
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KXPRJ5D?maas=maas_adg_2148198443AE66955CA03BDDC20F78D0_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas
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AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
AWS re:Invent Keynotes
https://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2
F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/technology/ftc-nvidia-arm-deal.html
UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/
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Have you tried WebEx lately?
Whither Skype?
Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom
Zoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilities
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/contact-center/webex-contact-center/index.html
Nvidia's on a Roll - Nvidia’s just beginning
TinyML
Global shipments of TinyML chipsets are expected to reach 2.5 billion units by 2030, representing a 164x increase from 2020.
https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/tinyml
TinyML solution can decrease the size of the deep learning algorithms by 98% while decreasing accuracy by only 1%.
Ford and GM announce plans to develop chips amid ongoing semiconductor shortage
https://www.techspot.com/news/92299-ford-gm-announce-plans-develop-chips-amid-ongoing.html
No-Code/Low Code Update
Taplink is a tool used to quickly create mobile-friendly no-code websites. (Again - everyone is IT)
Rebranding of IT - This is relative of the role in organizations
https://www.idgconnect.com/article/3576598/the-changing-name-and-face-of-enterprise-it.html
Recommendations
Dominic
Belkin Soundform Connect
Zack
Like drawing on real paper for your iPad
https://paperlike.com/
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MongoDB.local London
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Recommendations
Dominic
People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life.
Mike
The Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/id863897795?i=1000540043607
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Facebook goes Meta
https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/
Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own game
https://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/
Tinder also goes meta, with NFTs
https://social.techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/match-group-details-plans-for-a-dating-metaverse-tinders-virtual-goods-based-economy/
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Quick News
Low-code/no-code: Botmock acquired by Walmart
https://www.botmock.com/blog/walmart-to-acquire-botmock-technology
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
Mike
New Oura Ring Coming - $50 discount link:
https://ablink.m.ouraring.com/ls/click?upn=N8tmOVmhlLmN-2BvzIQBg5G3IT8A2NTQkRZyCa1tZK-2F0qLMl0-2BqVeEIUKxyjaHEX33kBut-2FVEdMXeCL6Jk8oZcyDytT8r-2FRa4-2Bs8fI29Ubw-2B2DJhSeFUyUMpl0Al58prLQtceo5aMW8QvmF14i8dzdO-2FKnp20cbozCr17BNPGZwcUOCMz620zcTNt1SdhXkc7Mw0xZFB67exKv7hVbb6kdFQ-3D-3DZkCm_Id0GDeWFgkDhRsu8fkH4t9bRZZJLAwwoMgGS5MPZjgaEy4SkX295IFfN0mQk6nuK1Wh5bhkOsvNfCPIvmsi37YyX24kxFacmiFR21ZYFNTj7lZvOWn06rxSJQidVMXKktATiJjCM-2Ba9XB0o-2FL2NiiwgT-2BCPI63U7ZUCbC31M0iDS7vl5HIwOjtpQsJiHcv75D5p4MHyMQM7O-2BHVzAeycjuCc-2FKlzcmYHrukT-2Fi3-2BThazwDEq1-2FXN3HnkJpovSjM0FNOyo3RLLLdzGftR4atNQhGP4bg-2FOC6UcLUJTUUMfm5mYOHQuE9yXGMWyDvjksy4-2Fs35tUgEc9aeDRcc-2FBK2pCg-2FbgD1HZj4fXr6gQBfMcC8p1-2BvMJ7VhJS2Oe5m081I-2FdLr3OxFfg5gaxwnfuw7SmWS01W-2Bfl2bsJLj0IVkp26BA-2BjLEJik2jrqUL2dAwDAD0bxa9BXT85gSIKodMzjFq44nyAXy7LUpmgKNNWs27z2qnryjDQwiMuRECE2VtAjy4CB4Ij1gdxHJ5FwLytxNNPxE-2F2-2FcY31rB25ZQKofZNwod16TJeHMIk928Ik0z-2FcvnhXm1VK1R9yb03EX0hJ7l9v7uwKPgwzOUI-2FCUubgoSF8rhsI85MX-2FyV8OzzV-2FQMn3SjiOWwThR0jrg3ugq25A-3D-3D
Zack
Drone racing league https://thedroneracingleague.com
Lilac
People. Just people. In three dimensions and real life.
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Google Next ’21
https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next
Google Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough?
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html
Google Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3%
https://cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2021/sep/29/google-cloud-cuts-its-marketplace-revenue-shares-from-20-to-3/
Upcoming event we talked about:
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Microsoft Ignite
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home
Apple Event - October 18,2021
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2021/?useASL=true
Apple Announcement
Apple is desperate for you to adopt Siri….so much so they are reducing Apple Music if you use Siri https://www.smh.com.au/technology/with-voice-plan-apple-pays-you-to-use-only-siri-for-music-20211019-p591a5.html
New MacBooks — and no new standalone display
Apple Pro Display XDR
https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/
Apple Pro Stand
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
Mike
Microsoft Ignite
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home
AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
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Our top 5 technologies we wish never were:
Bitnet VDI “Modern” Web front-end stack https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160 Web apps (Google Docs in primis) USB 3.0 spec
15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
Recommendations Dominic MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon 50% discount code: DominicWellington50
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Facebook outage, Twitch leak
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Lost server
https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/
Twitch source code and payout data leaks
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/twitch_data_leak/
Also blamed on config error
Best comment: “It’s complex systems all the way down; even the turtles are complex systems.” https://twitter.com/swagitda_/status/1445376680684572678
NPM outage
npm Status - Service outage
Verica Open Incident Database
https://www.thevoid.community/
Low-code/no-code
Databricks Acquires Low-code/No-code Company to Expand its Lakehouse Platform to Citizen Data Scientists
https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-acquires-low-code-no-code-company-to-expand-its-lakehouse-platform-to-citizen-data-scientists
Get Started in No-Code App Development with Unqork and MongoDB | MongoDB
Quick News
Cisco raising prices due to supply chain challenges
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/06/ciscos_base_price_to_increase/
That Zoom/five9 tie-up we discussed back in episode 30? It’s not happening, in large part because it was to have been an all-stock offer, and Zoom’s stock is worth 23% less than it was when the deal was agreed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/zoom-and-five9-agree-to-terminate-acquisition-plan.html
https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E30-Apology-Podcast-e14uqn4/a-a672hvb
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
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Sorry for making some of our listeners feel old, because their “I feel old now” references are twenty years earlier than Nevermind!
Here’s what we talked about this week:
How IBM lost the cloud
https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud
Cloudflare Announces R2 Storage; Rapid and Reliable S3-Compatible Object Storage Designed for the Edge
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-announces-r2-storage/
EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/23/22626723/eu-commission-universal-charger-usb-c-micro-lightning-connector-smartphones
Positive example of standard: RJ-11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack
Recommendations
Dominic
MongoDB.local London — hybrid event, in-person and online
https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon
50% discount code: DominicWellington50
Lilac
Rocket customer conference, EVOLVE 21
https://www.rocketsoftware.com/events/evolve21
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30 years since Nevermind!
Listening guide: https://www.nme.com/features/nirvanas-nevermind-at-30-a-track-by-track-guide-dave-grohl-st-vincent-lorde-3048697
30th anniversary reissue: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-reissue-1231124/
The kids don’t get filesystems: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
Dinosaurs evolving — including why email is better at email than Slack can ever be: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/dinosaurs-evolving
The college mindset list: http://themindsetlist.com/2017/08/beloit-college-mindset-list-class-2021/
Gen-X vs Millennials: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CTS15PcDK-H/
Epikfail
Epikfail explainer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/worst-i-ve-seen-in-20-years-how-the-epik-hack-reveals-every-secret-the-far-right-tried-to-hide/ar-AAOw25G
Programming is hard: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Recommendations
Lilac
Spotify — listening together
Dominic
Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell https://www.bookbub.com/books/light-chaser-by-peter-f-hamilton-and-gareth-l-powell
Mike
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/1635576059
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A look back at IT and technology in the 90s and the evolution that led us to today.
Timeline of Computer History
1993
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/
1995
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1995/
The Oregon Trail(1971 video game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game)
Drug Wars(video game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)
Silicon graphics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
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Dominic, Zack and Mike are together again discussing how conferences which should have been in person have now fallen off again. Companies are becoming non-committal to return to work and business travel is looking to be forever changed. They also touch on Ray Ban’s new Facebook glasses, Amazon’s new TV and the upcoming Apple event. Will the Apple Event shed light on the semi conductor supply chain issues?
Facebook Ray-Ban
https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1436300410810257408
‘Forever Changed’: CEOs Are Dooming Business Travel — Maybe for Good
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-31/will-business-travel-come-back-data-show-air-hotel-travel-forever-changed
Satya Nadella: Companies are 'short-sighted' if they force employees back to office now
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/microsoft-ceo-says-companies-should-use-data-to-determine-when-employees-return-to-work.html
Zoom and Teams
https://twitter.com/juanmicrosoft/status/1436071323030151170
Remote work
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/workers-moonlighting-two-jobs-work-from-home
Apple Event Announced: 'California Streaming' on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/07/apple-september-14-event/
Amazon TV
Amazon starts building its own televisions with the Fire TV Omni Series
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/amazon-fire-tv-omni-series-announced/
Opal C1: The first professional webcam
https://opalcamera.com
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In which Mike considers paying for some software, Lilac solves all of Enterprise IT's problems, and all four hosts are re-united once again.
Enterprise software financials
How about that monster H round — yes, H — from Databricks?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/
Meanwhile Docker is hoping to get paid by desktop users…
https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/
…and we debate digital transformation, prompted by Benedict Evans.
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation
Security — It’s still hard
If you're a user of Microsoft's Cosmos DB, you definitely want to check up on this Chaos DB vulnerability.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/
And what does this mean for cloud delivery models more generally?
Recommendations
Dominic
Generalising Wildly | Find the thread
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The Great Resignation: Why Employees Don't Want To Go Back To The Office
A Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed 38% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year. In the US alone, April saw more than four million people quit their jobs, according to a summary from the Department of Labor – the biggest spike on record.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2021/07/28/the-great-resignation-why-employees-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-office/?sh=1f2702b02000
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx
https://www.forbes.com/sites/randyillig/2021/08/24/the-great-resignation-in-sales-is-real-heres-what-leaders-can-do-to-stem-it/?sh=44342e651558
The Great Resignation In Sales Is Real: Here’s What Leaders Can Do To Stem It (forbes.com)
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210629-the-great-resignation-how-employers-drove-workers-to-quit.
$14.7 Billion Five9 Acquisition Aims To Revive Zoom’s Growth
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2021/07/19/147-billion-five9-acquisition-aims-to-revive-zooms-growth/?sh=29da22d32e8b
Mike also calls out, “The war for the living room.” “The living room is becoming the office, and the office is becoming the living room. It’s all merging into our home space.” Netflix joined the foray with a gaming announcement.
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Intel CEO flashes cash, calling company a 'willing buyer' in semiconductor industry
https://www.windowscentral.com/intel-ceo-flashes-cash-calling-company-willing-buyer
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2022
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2022
Nvidia beats earnings expectations, but cryptocurrency chip sales falter
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q2-2022.html
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding
https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/02/nvidia-is-tracking-more-than-8500-ai-startups-with-60b-in-funding/
Nvidia admits bid for Arm likely to stretch beyond 18-month deal timeframe
https://www.ft.com/content/3758929d-66f0-4095-94f3-ea62b92f9480
Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/microsoft-will-raise-office-365-business-subscription-prices-in-2022.html
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Accenture confirms hack after LockBit ransomware data leak threats
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/accenture-confirms-hack-after-lockbit-ransomware-data-leak-threats/
Employees may need to keep up ‘the pretense of working’ as automation spreads, says A.I. expert Kai-Fu Lee
https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/ai-automation-talent-ethics-bias-kaifu-lee/
FedEx Deploys new AI-Robotics E-Commerce Fulfilment System
https://supplychaindigital.com/logistics/fedex-deploys-new-ai-robotics-e-commerce-fulfilment-system
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Intro
Glitter bomb vs porch pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4
Ship Your Enemies Glitter https://shipyourenemiesglitter.com
Chip Shortages Continue
The shadow of the chip shortage is looming over tech’s big quarter https://www.theverge.com/22602104/chip-shortage-tech-quarterly-earnings-intel-apple-microsoft-amd-samsung-tesla
Apple CSAM Protection Features
Apple reveals new efforts to fight child abuse imagery https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611721/apple-csam-child-abuse-scanning-hash-system-ncmec
https://twitter.com/sjmurdoch/status/1423397219491852291
Apple — Expanded Protections for Children https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
Platformer — Apple joins the child safety fight https://www.platformer.news/p/apple-joins-the-child-safety-fight
“Dylan Loewe, Biden’s former speechwriter, will be Apple’s director of public relations and CEO Tim Cook’s speechwriter.” (via Politico)
Privacy on iPhone commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y
XKCD on security https://xkcd.com/538/
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While Dominic is in the alps, doing yoga with goats, Zack, Lilac and Mike got together to talk about the recent Google, Microsoft and Amazon earning report showing that cloud is still growing rapidly. Will it ever end? The gang also gets into product death and how to communicate end of life of products/components and how enterprises should deal with it.
AWS Sees 37 Percent Quarterly Growth As Amazon Disappoints
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-sees-37-percent-quarterly-growth-as-amazon-disappoints
Alphabet Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Climbs 54 Percent To $4.63B
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/alphabet-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-climbs-54-percent-to-4-63b
Microsoft CEO Nadella Touts ‘New Franchises’ In Security, Gaming, LinkedIn As Cloud Growth Surges
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-ceo-nadella-touts-new-franchises-in-security-gaming-linkedin-as-cloud-growth-surges
Cloud earnings: AWS "reaccelerates," Azure up 51%, Google Cloud up 54%
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloud-earnings-aws-reaccelerates-azure-up-51-google-cloud-up-54/
The 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services
https://www.bmc.com/blogs/gartner-magic-quadrant-cips-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services/
https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-1ZDZDMTF&ct=200703&st=sb
Product Death
How to handle products or component that reach end of life and what to do as an enterprise.
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What happened last week?
We failed to record a normal podcast episode, so we tried something different and put out a Textual Podcast instead: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/textual-podcast
Management = FOMO?
Some people wind up in management more due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) than because they actually want to do the work — and then the rest of us get to rehabilitate the people who suffered the consequences.
Management track is not the only track: Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp
Quick News
Zoom Bets on AI with $14.7 Billion Deal to Acquire Five9 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/zoom-to-buy-cloud-service-firm-five9-for-14-7-billion
Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/akamai_edge_dns_outage/ (it’s always DNS)
A different kind of supply-chain attack: A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosting-site-is-flooding-normal-websites-with-hardcore-porn
Recommendations
Dominic
Clean install your OS. That’s it, that’s the recommendation.
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Dominic is back! Dominic, Mike and Zack discuss the AWS Infinidash origin and how everyone needs an AWS Infinidash expert on their team. Another supply chain attack has occurred this time at Kaseya. Finally we discuss once again Zack and Dominic's favorite subject, Kubernetes, but this time in relation to run away cloud spend. Cloud keeps growing and the only reason on premise hardware exists is because it's used to solve a problem cloud hasn't solved for yet.
AWS Infinidash
“Hey, are you hiring for Infinidash experts? I hear nobody can find any!”
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/
Kaseya supply chain attack impacts more than 1,000 companies
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/kaseya-supply-chain-attack-impacts-more-than-1000-companies/
https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/
Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/kubernetes_spend_report/
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/kubernetes-is-a-platform-for-building-platforms
Recommendations
Dominic
Thermacell anti-mosquito device
Zack
Genetically modified mosquitoes released in Florida Keys, first in US (usatoday.com)
Mike
Ooni Koda 16 https://ooni.com/products/ooni-koda-16
Thermacell E55 Rechargeable Mosquito Repeller; Highly Effective Rechargeable Mosquito Repellent https://amzn.to/3ecQV3J
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Lilac, Zack and Mike discuss how even after planning an email migration for 18-month, IBM still failed. What is going on with all these underwhelming startup acquisitions? What really happening? and who suffers? Has anyone noticed how even companies that offer “cloud” are moving their core service to Microsoft Azure? Azure is now powering AT&Ts 5G network. Microsoft continues to win.
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/
Arista Buys SDN Pioneer Big Switch 'For a Song' – Sources
https://www.lightreading.com/carrier-sdn/arista-buys-sdn-pioneer-big-switch-for-a-song---sources/d/d-id/757076
HPE to acquire cloud disaster recovery startup Zerto
https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/01/hpe-acquiring-dr-startup-zerto/
EMC Sues Zerto - Patent Litigation (2016)
https://www.zerto.com/blog/company-announcements/emc-v-zerto-update/
AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud
https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html
MSFT acquires Affirmed Networks
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/microsoft-acquires-5g-specialist-affirmed-networks/
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Zack and Mike were joined by this week by David Cheriton, VMware & Google angel investor, as he talks Cloud, AI, and the Internet while weaving in stories from Stanford University, where he was a professor, and the beginnings of Google & VMware. What he reveals may surprise you.
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The gang is back together this week discussing the Windows 11 leak and their thoughts on MacOS versus Windows. Also the value, or not, of teaching coding in school. What code? What do we really want to teach our kids? Plus HBOs recent snafu and the hilarious intern responses. And finally what is happening that is leading to the increase in mental health startup funding?
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu
Learn coding in school
https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1404197107964301320
The Hard Work Of Success
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-hard-work-of-success
Year 2038 problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
HBO blame the intern
https://twitter.com/hbomaxhelp/status/1405712235108917249
Venture Funding For Mental Health Startups Hits Record High As Anxiety, Depression Skyrocket
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2021/06/07/venture-funding-for-mental-health-startups-hits-record-high-as-anxiety-depression-skyrocket/
Recommendations
Dominic
Rectangle app https://rectangleapp.com
Mike
Divvy Window Management App https://mizage.com/divvy/
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On this episode of Roll For Enterprise the gang is all together to discuss the recent Fastly outage which brought down a large part of the internet. Is this the same or different from on premise outages and just more noticeable with so many companies impacted?
Fastly outage and cloud resilience
Internet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issue
Does the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines?
What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
Grindr Is Down So Users Are Hitting The Downdetector Comment Section To Pick Up
SRE and error budgets — need to review the concept
https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1402301316165160966
S2E10: SLOs and SREs a conversation with Brian Singer from Nobl9
https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/S2E10-SLOs-and-SREs-a-conversation-with-Brian-Singer-from-Nobl9-ersprg
WeWork follow-up — losses continue mounting up
https://robcampbell.co/2021/06/09/we-dont-work/
Steven Sinofsky on remote work
https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1403112390032388096
Hardcore Software, Steven Sinofsky’s newsletter with the history of early Microsoft
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
How to negotiate with ransomware hackers — turns out there are scammers who will negotiate between victims and criminals to try to arbitrage payments and pocket the difference
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/how-to-negotiate-with-ransomware-hackers
Recommendations
Dominic
Love Death + Robots volume 2 on Netflix
Lilac
Grace and Frankie - in part for the Mac tech support scene
Mike
WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
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Back to Work
(What do they think we’ve been doing all this time?)
People refusing to come back to the office
Lilac: "When I’m in the office I’m not also a mother and someone who has to do a load of laundry"
Dominic: Dangers of a hybrid office — people who are physically in the office get the inside track
“There is no return to normalcy,” says Mayer-Schönberger, whose research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. “The environment people are reentering is fundamentally changed, so we need to reframe how we see our work and ourselves. If there is a reason why we go to a workplace, it needs to be a different reason than the one that we had: that this is the way we’ve always been doing it.”
Why the wild variation in plans for returning to offices is a good sign
Why Women Don't Want To Go Back To In-Person Work
News Roundup: Security and Ransomware
Hackers have new targets: people returning to the office.
Information About the Sale of Products Business to Symphony Technology Group | FireEye
Stack Overflow's value to job seekers is what makes it valuable — Quartz
Recommendations
Dominic
Defekt, by Nino Cipri (sequel to Finna, which was nominated for Best Novella in the Nebula Awards)
Lilac
Pink iPad Air!
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The team passionately debates the impact of GPT-3 converting speech to code on the business and software developers. Microsoft introduces this as a low code feature at their Build Conference.
@Mike points out that IT must provide the business with guard rails. “The biz knows how to read and use the data, more so than someone in a technology role. This is the democratization of software development, and data is the next step. It’s going to continue and has to continue.”
@Mike reminds us that Bubble & SquareSpace are empowering users to create the next Amazon or Shopify with no-code.
@Lilac is looking for a low code version of Atlassian. “A CICD type cycle that allows people to manage these type assets, to cycle them and collaborate against them, relate them, fork them, etc.”
A16z pens an article about cloud and repatriation cost but quickly loses credibility with the classic and worn-out Dropbox example. The team debates the report and future of the cloud.
Speed round:
Apple iPad Pro and the Center Stage feature is impressive. @Dominic shares his feedback on the wide camera angle that focuses on the active speaker and zooms out if someone else enters the frame. “Impressive. The iPad camera has been poor UNTIL NOW.“
Rapid7 has a software supply chain breach that has not hit the news like SolarWinds. People are in shock. Companies are going back and reanalyzing.
In-person events…AWS is leading with re:Inforce in Houston this August.
Basecamp has learned nothing and doubled down.
SFDC threw a lone engineer under the bus for an outage…Really Salesforce!? One employee is the reason for everything that has gone wrong, and they should feel bad?
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Show Links:
From conversation to code: Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/from-conversation-to-code-microsoft-introduces-its-first-product-features-powered-by-gpt-3/
Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/microsoft-uses-gpt-3-to-let-you-code-in-natural-language/
Bubble is the most powerful no-code platform, empowering entrepreneurs to build production-ready web apps.
https://bubble.io
https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1397842550153793536
The State of The Cloud
https://app.livestorm.co/p/b445fedf-e2a9-432e-8935-7321c43e29d0
Over 90% of respondents reported growth in on-prem sales over the past 5 years.
Over 50% of respondents’ revenue can be attributed to on-prem software sales.
86% of respondents are using Kubernetes for their on-prem software
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox — a16z
https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/
In this episode Roll for Enterprise welcomes Aneel Lakhani as a guest. Aneel is a Marketing Exec, Startup Advisor, Growth Therapist, and Investor. After 25-plus years in technology, with stints in engineering, product, and marketing in big companies and startups--Aneel now serves as an advisor to mostly b2b enterprise software startups and VCs.
Aneel shares his insights with Dominic, Lilac and Mike on the difference in marketing between startups and more established enterprises, getting your first enterprise clients as a startup and why it’s particularly hard on both sides and failure modes of tech marketing.
References:
Dominic on getting your first customer reference as a startup: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this
You can find Aneel as @aneel on Twitter.
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Dominic, Mike and Zack are together again this week to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and all that we’ve learned since. People are still the weakest link in social engineering of attacks. Could China has prevented something like this thanks to their great firewall when compared to American or European companies? They also discussed various news items including: IBM surprise 2nm chip rollout which took everyone by surprise; Elon Musk’s Crypto announcements; and Apple’s hire and fire of Antonio García Martínez. Whom coincidentally is an ad tech person and signifies Apples move into ads, or some ads.
https://twitter.com/dwellington/status/1392864211630530563
A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/
Tech audit of Colonial Pipeline found ‘glaring’ problems
https://apnews.com/article/va-state-wire-technology-business-1f06c091c492c1630471d29a9cf6529d
Colonial Pipeline paid hackers nearly $5 million ransom in cryptocurrency to restore network
https://fortune.com/2021/05/13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-5-million-ransom-cryptocurrency-ransomware-attack/
News roundup
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip
Musk Sends Bitcoin Tumbling With Shock U-Turn on Payments
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/musk-says-tesla-suspending-bitcoin-purchases-citing-energy-use
Musk Renews Critique of Bitcoin as Environmentally Unsustainable
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/musk-renews-critique-of-bitcoin-as-environmentally-unsustainable
Spectacular failure of vetting by Apple HR, rapidly corrected
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22433437/apple-hire-antonio-garcia-martinez-out-petition-investigation
https://twitter.com/gassee/status/1392665221014032385
Recommendations
Dominic
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir — but don’t start it at bedtime, because you will be up late reading “just one more page”
Mike
Crypto mining! Seriously!
Zack
Follow Dominic and Mike recommendation.
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Our guest on the podcast this week is Priya Doty. Priya is the Global VP Product Marketing for IBM’s iconic IBM Z brand and it’s all-Linux sister brand, LinuxONE. Unlike a lot of marketers, Priya has also been a developer, which means she enjoys deconstructing marketing messages by reading technical manuals. Based in Brooklyn, she is a mom, wife, and author of an upcoming fiction novel.
Aside from majoring on the topic of Confidential Computing (and Cloud Security in general), Priya is all about the IBM Z platform, Product Marketing (Top 100 Influencer in PMM 2-Years Running!), and outside of work, writing.
Confidential computing is a cloud computing technology that isolates sensitive data in a protected CPU enclave during processing. The contents of the enclave - the data being processed, and the techniques used to process it - are accessible only to authorized programming code, and invisible and unknowable to anything or anyone else, including the cloud provider.
Gartner has called confidential computing a top trend for 2021, naming it and Fully Homomorphic Encryption as part of a trend for “Privacy Enhanced Computation”.
Why IBM believes confidential computing is the future of cloud security
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
The Changing Value Of Mistakes
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With the recent controversy surrounding Basecamp and David Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh?s=20) Dominic, Lilac and Mike spent some time discussion their thoughts on the topic. Not an easy topic with a lot of different opinion and many consequences to be considered.
Background:
https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp
https://qz.com/work/2002100/why-basecamps-culture-memo-is-so-controversial/
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009?s=21
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387044958377447424?s=21
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1386773744484552715?s=21
https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1388237962991652865?s=21
Yes, a bunch of people took that severance package
https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1388212468510380034?s=21
https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1388300929506582530?s=21
https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/pyramid-of-hate.pdf
Reference to Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
https://amzn.to/3vDWbE6
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The guest on this episode is Rachel Chalmers of Alchemist Accelerator. Rachel joined Alchemist from Autodesk, where she was Director, Transformation Growth Boards and Product Excellence. Prior to Autodesk, Rachel was a VC with Ignition Partners and Merian Ventures, leading investments in Docker, Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook), Unikernel (acquired by Docker) and Honeycomb.io. She began her career as employee number 10 with 451 Research (acquired by Standard & Poor), where she was the first analyst to cover VMware, Cloudera and Splunk.
Find Rachel on Twitter and on LinkedIn. Alchemist Accelerator is at https://www.alchemistaccelerator.com
Among many other things, our conversation touched on:
- “Survival strategies that have outlived their usefulness”
- “The humanities teach us what to do when STEM fails”
- The importance of core skills (they’re not soft skills!)
- And some truly excellent SF reading recommendations for those who listen all the way to the end
Links mentioned by Dominic:
- Heart of Blandness: A Walking Tour of Silicon Valley
- manwhohasitall on Twitter
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The entire team was back together this week and there was a lot to discuss. There have been a slew of acquisitions in technology lately including Rocket Software acquisition of ASG, Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance and then Dell decided to finally spinoff VMWare. IBM also renamed its services spinout Kyndryl. Nvidia’s ARM announcement, among what felt as 100 others from Nvidia, was also discussed as Nvidia seems to be getting better and better with every announcement and product they release. Finally the team is dreaming of conferences, but gone are the days of Cisco Live and VMWorld being the go to conference as Re:Invent and Ignite have taken the reigns as the go to conferences moving forward.
Rocket Software acquires ASG Technologies
https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-extends-its-technology-and-global-reach-agreement-acquire-asg-technologies
70-90% of acquisitions fail
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/06/24/most-mergers-fail-because-people-arent-boxes/
Kyndryl https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/12/business/kyndryl-ibm-corporate-names/index.html
Dell spinning off VMware https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/dell-jumps-as-it-unveils-vmware-stock-spinoff-plan.html
Nvidia ARM server CPU https://www.anandtech.com/show/16610/nvidia-unveils-grace-a-highperformance-arm-server-cpu-for-use-in-ai-systems
Microsoft buys Nuance, creators of Siri https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/microsoft-nuance-aws-google-ai
Note: Microsoft is aiming to take over the desktop for the doctors with long-term target set on the front-end workflows in healthcare.
Microsoft HealthVault is officially shutting down in November (2019)
https://medcitynews.com/2019/04/microsoft-healthvault-is-officially-shutting-down-in-november/
Recommendations
- Dominic: Lego Space Shuttle https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/lego-has-a-new-2354-piece-nasa-space-shuttle-set-and-its-awesome/
- Mike: Sunglasses tens.co Boulevard lenses https://tens.co/pages/boulevard-lens
- Zack: KLEAR UVC Sterilizing Cap + 32oz Water Bottle (https://mashable.com/shopping/april-9-klear-uvc-sterilizing-cap-32oz-water-bottle)
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Zack, Mike, and Dominic discuss Tim Cook's interview in which he talks about AR, some news about the long-expected AirTags, and Dominic's delayed plans to spend more money on Apple's products. We also talked about the massive Facebook contact data leak — check if your details were included here. Dominic may have gone off on a bit of a rant about the ills of adtech and surveillance capitalism, but then again, he does have form here.
Recommendations
Dominic: when you register for some site, append the name to your Gmail address, like so: youraddress+somesite@gmail.com. That way, when one site inevitably leaks your info, at least you'll know where it came from.
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Fortinet invest in Linksys to focus on securing home office network in a clear play to take advantage of the long term changes due to COVID. Meanwhile at AWS they announced that Tableau CEO, Adam Selipsky, an ex-AWS employee is replacing Andy Jassy. Could this be a sign that AWS is getting ready to spinout or is everyone too busy wondering why someone from the AWS ranks didn’t get the job? In silicon wars Intel announced a 20 billion dollar investment into new foundries in the US and proclaimed it is back with a vengeance. Surprising to us but definitely entertaining as usual!
Fortinet invests $75 million in router maker Linksys with focus on securing home office networks https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortinet-invests-75-million-in-router-maker-linksys-with-focus-on-securing-home-office-networks/
IBM TV AD - Universal Business Adapter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOqOxI0K_I
Amazon building a networking chip https://seekingalpha.com/news/3677611-amazoncom-pursues-its-own-networking-chip-amid-frosty-broadcom-relationship-report.
AWS New Leader
AWS Picks Tableau’s Adam Selipsky As New CEO, Replacing Jassy
https://www.crn.com/aws-picks-tableau-s-adam-selipsky-as-new-ceo-replacing-jassy
AWS customers and partners confident in CEO transition — for now
https://www.cio.com/article/3610228/aws-customers-and-partners-confident-in-ceo-transition-for-now.html
Amazon News tweets https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1374911222361956359 https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/you-cant-trust-amazon-when-it-feels-threatened/
Intel
Intel CEO Gelsinger commits to being a 'world-class foundry business', two new factories in Arizona
https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-ceo-gelsinger-outlines/
Justin Long commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsAEBAnGd4
Aftershow
Recommendations
- Dominic: NewsBlur, a web-based RSS reader (with mobile apps for both iOS and Android) which can also read your newsletters — including mine!
- Mike: The Tim Ferris Show Episode 506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More https://tim.blog/2021/03/24/balaji-srinivasan/
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This week's guest is Grace Marshall. Author of the award-winning How to be Really Productive, Grace is known for her ‘refreshingly human’ approach to productivity. Featured in The Guardian, Forbes and Huffpost, her work as a Productivity Ninja with global productivity training company Think Productive has helped thousands of people to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction.
We mainly discussed her new book Struggle: the surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s sh*ttier moments:
In a world that’s obsessed with fast hacks, quick wins, and Instagram-perfection, struggle has become a taboo. A sign that something’s gone horribly wrong.
But what if we’ve got it all wrong about getting it wrong?
What if struggle isn’t a battle to fight, a trap to avoid, or a sign of weakness?
What if struggle is precisely where the magic happens – where we do our best, most important work?
With everyday observations and practical encouragement, Grace’s new book Struggle, shines a surprising new light on the truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s shittier moments.
You can find out more at StruggleTheBook.com.
Grace lives in Stafford in the middle of the UK with her husband and two kids, continually working on being a good-enough mum most of the time, with intermittent lapses into hopelessness and brilliance.
She can be found at GraceMarshall.com, on Twitter @GraceMarshall, IG @gracemarshallninja and LinkedIn.
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MS Ignite
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home
Industrial IoT was a trend at re:invent and continued at MS Ignite with the cloud reaching into the network edge and deep into manufacturing.
Manufacturing is going through an evolution, and that's why the cloud is focused there. Companies are taking more of a nationalistic approach toward manufacturing. There's a real push for the first time in a long time for all countries, not only the US, to build more factories at home. This push will result in a revolution, so it's a market that will accelerate, so Amazon and MSFT see the opening and push for new technologies.
Microsoft Power Fx
The low-code programming language for everyone https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-power-fx-the-low-code-programming-language-for-everyone/ Based on Excel syntax!
Convergence with "real" programming https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/02/microsoft_debuts_lowcode_power_fx/
And wtf was going on with Cirque du Soleil?
MSFT for the win again!! microsoft-ai-powerpoint-presenter-coach-available-desktop-mobile
No Code/Low Code
One major analyst firm doesn't buy-in and only views "lower code."
- Insights from Mike: The way to get people into programming is to start with No Code/Low Code, and then people will want more and more and begin to code eventually. The avenue to come in is different, and I think that no code/low code is here to stay.
- Insights from Lilac: It (no code/low code) lowers the barrier to entry in what was seen as specialized and usually for a very specific club of people, often a boys club of people who had had CS degrees.
Virtual events — Gartner charging $1000 plus for virtual events
- Insights from Dominic: MS Ignite was free as most virtual events were this past year. These events are valuable, but it typically isn't the part on the official agenda, it's the hallways track, coffee break, and networking and meeting people, and I have yet to see a visual format where all of that works.
What does the future hold for analysts?
Are analysts being surpassed by business consultants? Are analysts seeing a risk for the first time that wasn't there before? Will the analyst and their research maintain staying power? The business analysts with newsletters and opinions are taking the story telling may be taking away from traditional analysts. You go to the analyst for thought leadership, but you can get that from talking to CIOs, industry leaders, and platforms, including podcasts and Clubhouse.
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With special guest Jason Garbis from Appgate.
Jason has worked in the software industry for over 30 years, in roles that include software engineer, technical consultant, marketing, product marketing, and product management. This makes him extremely old! Despite his advanced age, he manages to remain productive in his role as SVP of Products at Appgate, a security vendor. He is also co-chair of the SDP Zero Trust Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance, and just published a book - “Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide”.
You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn
Try different things: skill stacking
Music by Renato Podestà.
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In this episode of Roll For Enterprise the team sits down with Brian Singer of Nobl9 to discuss SLOs and SREs.
Brian Singer is a product-focused entrepreneur with a passion for enterprise software, cloud computing, and reliability engineering. He is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Nobl9, a Battery-backed company building a platform to optimize software reliability. His previous company, Orbitera, was acquired by Google where he adapted the SaaS product to follow Google’s best practices for production and reliability. Prior to Orbitera, Brian worked for BMC and Novell. Brian holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from MIT. He resides in the Boston area where he is perfecting his golf swing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/briantsinger/
Nobl9 is the first Service Level Objective (SLO) platform that transforms your existing reliability metrics (i.e. Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic etc.) into actionable indicators of application performance and user experience via a modern engineering workflow (think GitOps / Infra-as-Code) resulting in greater ROI from your reliability initiatives.
https://nobl9.com
Nobl9 news:
https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/10/nobl9-raises-21m-series-b-for-its-slo-management-platform/
Brian’s book recommendation:
Implementing Service Level Objectives https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FBP3ZRH/
Site Reliability Engineering: https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Production-Systems-ebook/dp/B01DCPXKZ6/
Brian’s Community Reference:
Beyond Seattle SRE https://www.meetup.com/Beyond-Seattle-SRE/
SLO Conference mentioned by Brian:
SLOconf https://twitter.com/SLOConf
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Spoon theory ‘Nano transitions’ are the secret to staying productive and avoiding burnout How to avoid being controlled by your digital tools Microsoft giving employees extra paid days off to ease pandemic stress https://twitter.com/beeonaposy/status/1365022176684965896 Airbnb predicts 'significant' travel rebound Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Calls For Workers To Return To The Office — yes, Dominic misspoke and said BlackRock, but it was actually Goldman Sachs Jason Fried Notes
Face-to-face real-time should be the last resort, not the first resort. Many people can't work full time right now, and leadership must recognize that from a leadership perspective. Leadership needs to set the stage and realize that everyone can't put in a full day. We need to find balance right now. The communication style is different in the office. It's real-time, pulling into a meeting, or walking over to a. Cube, or shouting down the hall. We don't need to turn everything into a real-time conversation. Sitting on a zoom call sucks, it's draining. Zoom meetings, it sucks to sit on one. We have to stop doing that and write things up instead and give more people time to themselves. People need longer stretches of uninterrupted time. If 2-3 people need to get together, they'll start a zoom right up. There is value in a face-to-face social hour. 5x12, where 5 people once a month randomly get together every month to talk about something non-work-related for an hour.
Recommendations/Rants Zack Home gym equipment
Aftershow Stanley Tucci on Negroni
NYT Negroni recipe https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12519-negroni Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or on our LinkedIn page. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!
What would it mean for IT Ops to be an actually mature discipline, rather than one that is still maturing?
One indication would be that there would be no need to follow the developing trends as new ideas (slowly) percolate through to the mainstream.
Top 8 DevOps Trends for 2021
Rise of serverless: Is serverless hitting the mainstream?
2021 DevOps Predictions
The blog post by Mike Gualtieri at Forrester that started the NoOps conversation: I Don’t Want DevOps. I Want NoOps.
Dominic's reaction: Not NoOps, but SmartOps
Recommendations/Rants
Mike: Zapier — automate all the things (but we're not sure how to pronounce it)
Zack: Lemonade — new style insurance
Dominic: a rant about CarPlay and Apple Car rumours that turned into a whole aftershow — skip it if you're not interested!
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Recently there has been a lot of talk of getting into technology with a degree and the value of degrees compared to online training and certifications, etc..
Dominic, Zack, Mike and Lilac discuss the IT Career Roller Coster. They go through everything from career progression, generalist versus specialist and then dive into education. The differences in education in different countries, specifically US versus other countries. They also touch on the value of a degree and specifically an MBA. Is the value of an MBA the degree or the connections and social connection it creates? Listen to find out their thoughts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/education-student-loans-lambda-schools.html
Recommendations/Rants
Dominic
Daylight
Mike
Best Espresso Beans in the US!
https://herkimercoffee.com/
Lilac
Kitty letter.
Zack - All things Apple (https://www.twelvesouth.com)
https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/hirise-wireless
https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/hirise-for-macbook
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Now that the big three have reported earnings, let’s compare Cloud growth. AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP - The quarterly review
Note: In the late 2000s, the top 5 public cloud companies' market capitalization was approximately 14Bil. Today those top 5 public companies have a market cap of over 600Bil, a 40x increase in the value in the past decade.
What’s bigger news Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy getting the job, or a new leader for AWS to be announced with Andy Jassy moving on?
AWS is the logical evolution of Amazon, assembling undifferentiated units (books, VMs) to build higher-value service offerings; happy to iterate fast and fail in public if necessary as long as they learn something from it
Amazon promotes Jassy after Microsoft promoted Nadella; cloud becoming more strategic
https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/1357003413356228611?s=21
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1357163267521531904?s=20
Recommendations/Rants
Dominic
iOS 14.5 Apple Watch unlocks iPhone
Mike
Anker Bluetooth Speaker: https://amzn.to/3jhdi9v
Lilac
Online ticket to ride
Zack
Turn your Apple watch into a full biometric reading device https://auraband.io
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Oracle launches APEX low-code offering: https://www.techradar.com/news/oracle-wants-to-drastically-simplify-app-development-with-new-low-code-service
“SaaS has created an environment where departmental purchasing encourages people to try subscription-based point solutions when they need an edge or face a sudden shift in needs. This has led to an explosion of applications that SaaS purchasing will only accelerate. While this has sometimes encouraged the growth of silos, there is a real movement to connect products into platforms and ecosystems.”
https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/101139/ (451 clients only)
Remote work
https://remoters.net/remote-work-trends-future-insights/
Recommendations/Rants
Dominic
Hush https://apps.apple.com/app/hush-for-safari/id1544743900
Mike
DropBox because it works https://www.dropbox.com
Zack
Home Office Inspiration https://grovemade.com
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Intel
Intel's new CEO says troubled chip project is recovering
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/intel-intc-earnings-q4-2020.html
Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232554/intel-ceo-apple-lifestyle-company-cpus-comment
CES 2021 - Intel Mobileye
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/ces-2021-mobileye-avs-on-move/?utm_source=morning_brew#gs.qsf1o6
- Intel and Mobileye are developing a lidar system-on-chip. Slated for 2025 production, the hardware could slash costs of self-driving tech stacks.
- Mobileye controls ~80% of the market for advanced driver-assist vision systems used by automakers today.
Cloud Platforms Compared
Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/2021-cloud-report
Recommendations/Rants
Dominic
Housework is a gear sport! Shark vacuum cleaner: https://amzn.to/37u7yFf
Mike
No recommendations this week — Instagram has failed Mike
Zack
Zero Ice Cooler (-4 to 68 degrees)
https://mashable.com/shopping/jan-15-gosun-chill-solar-cooler/
Lilac
Trello but with background pictures
https://trello.com/en-US
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This week we are joined by Vincent Lo, VP of Product Marketing at Klue, a Competitive Enablement company. A 20 year veteran in tech with a wealth of experiences across product, engineering, sales, and marketing, Vincent is an engineer who loves to bring innovative products to market. He’s also a, literally, certified wine geek and spends his down time poking at ways to discover and uncover interesting wines from around the world.
Klue, the highest-rated competitive intelligence platform on the market (as rated by real users on G2), helps companies collect and curate hard to find competitive intelligence, centralize the best of what the web knows about your competition with the best of what your employees know into a single repository.
Klue’s approach to competitive enablement is attracting leading enterprise customers like Cisco, Tableau, Dell EMC, Red Hat, Shopify and Drift. To name half a dozen. It’s the top platform for supporting enterprise teams to scale, enabling revenue teams with the real-time information to position and message to win competitive deals, and helping Product Marketers deliver trusted and actionable insights across the entire org.
Hit Vincent up on LinkedIn or on Twitter if you want to talk shop or wine. Or hit up Klue’s website for resources and best practices on how to help your sales team kick the competition’s butt with actionable competitive intelligence.
JetBrains denies being involved in SolarWinds hack
JetBrains denies reports that is being under investigation and somehow related to the SolarWinds breach.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involved-in-solarwinds-hack/
M&A Market
Top fundraiser Thoma Bravo bets software’s red-hot run is far from over
https://www.pehub.com/top-fundraiser-thoma-bravo-bets-softwares-red-hot-run-is-far-from-over/
The problem of customer references for startups
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/reference-this
Alphabet Union
We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html
Here’s what we know about the Google union so far
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215171/google-alphabet-union-cwa-organizers-goals-explainer
Recommendations/Rants
Dominic
Knog Blinder front light https://amzn.to/2KDU7cE
Knog Blinder rear light https://amzn.to/3p1Src5
Knog low-profile bell https://amzn.to/3nvDBtU
Mike
Gyroscopic Training Ball
https://powerballs.com/
Zack
Virtual Escape Rooms for Team Building in 2021
https://teambuilding.com/blog/virtual-escape-rooms
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Happy New Year!
Lilac is back for our first episode of the new year! Naturally we kick it off with our predictions for the new year. Amazon dominated prediction like everything else lately.
Mike predicts Amazon will spin out AWS before it comes under tighter DOJ scrutiny over their practices. This way they can continue to featuring everyones business and continue killing startups and competition. Everyone agreed that Amazon should take a lesson from Microsoft and lose the arrogance.
Dominic predicted a change in the nature of Open Source where Open Source moving towards SaaS might not matter to organization as much. Could Open Source diminish?
Lilac suggest a major shift coming in real estate as we never build house or expected to need space for every member of your family to have a video conferencing space.
Zack predicts the battle for industrial workloads to move front and center and a true battle for industry 4.0 to break out. Player will want to dominate as Industry 4.0 will grow like never before.
Other predictions:
AI assistance (or self help) for employees will become front and center in 2021.
More cloud outages and security breaches are to be expected and become common place with company building around them to adapt.
A Discord tie-up with Zoom? There are only two real corporate instant messenger platforms left and a third player needs to emerge after Salesforce acquisition of Salesforce.
Ethic in AI will become a more common place discussion in corporations everywhere.
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It's a festive miracle: we made it all the way to the end of 2020!
We looked back on the major events in 2020 from an enterprise IT perspective.
Lilac Schoenbeck joined us once again, and helped us consider the wider implications of remote work. It's not just about a spike in the sales of webcams; there have also been major career impacts that have fallen disproportionately on women.
We were all in agreement that WfH during a pandemic is way harder than during normal times, much more so than we had expected. Zoom fatigue is very real, and is also a symptom of Zoom having (so far) failed to convert its sudden cultural relevance into anything larger. Some major cloud outages during 2020 also highlighted the widespread impacts of single provider failures. Could this be a symptom of the fact that AWS especially seems to be focusing on individual services in isolation, without any wider vision — apart from TOTAL DOMINATION, of course?
Thanks for listening to us in 2020!
AWS re:Invent
AWS Expands Industrial Offerings
https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2020/12/04/aws-expands-industrial-offerings
AWS re:Invent 2020 – Top Announcements
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reinvent-announcements-2020/
Amazon Monitron
https://aws.amazon.com/monitron/
AWS Panorama Appliance
https://aws.amazon.com/panorama/appliance/
Other news
SolarWinds
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3601508/solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-explained-why-organizations-were-not-prepared.html
Salesforce rolls out low-code environment Flow Orchestrator https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2020/12/02/introducing-salesforce-einstein-automate/
Chrome is bad https://chromeisbad.com
Recommendations/Rants
Dominic
Velcro zip-ties https://amzn.to/3msG86Z
Mike
Oura Ring: ww.oura.com
Zack
USPS https://www.usps.com/
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Special guest: Claire Agutter
Claire Agutter is a service management trainer, consultant and author. She is the director at ITSM Zone, providing accredited eLearning in ITIL, DevOps, BRM and more, and also at Scopism, publisher of the SIAM Foundation and Professional books. In 2018, 19 and 20 she was recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the 50 most influential women in tech, and in 2017, 18 and 19 she was recognised as an HDI Top 25 Thought Leader. Claire is the host of the popular ITSM Crowd YouTube channel, and Chief Architect for VeriSM.
https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutter
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireagutter/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1-auh6FwgROoXy--ozOMg
ITSM recap
What is the state of the art for ITSM? Where did it come from? What do we mean when we say “ITSM”?
Everything started with ITIL (and Prince), now it's more about lean IT.
“Everything we wrap around tech to make it do what we want for the organisation”
Problem: Thinking about people like software, “how do we upgrade our people”
“This will shock no one in #ITSM but having attended a lot of virtual events, my conclusion is...it's not about the #technology, it's about the people. Organisation, communication, community are what really matter”
https://twitter.com/ClaireAgutter/status/1333450454790000642
ITSM and DevOps
How relevant is ITSM if everyone is off being agile?
Tribalism, guardrails
Scope of service management — applies more to supply chain than consumers
ITSM in the cloud
How does moving to the cloud affect ITSM? Does it increase or decrease the need for process?
SIAM for integration and management of many suppliers
Geo differences: big in EMEA, APJ, but nothing in US/CA
IPaaS integration platform as next step in evolution from swivel-chair approaches, through RBA, to RPA and beyond
Should startups implement ITSM? Should large established enterprises model startups’ agility?
More from Claire
2020 has accelerated digital transformation beyond all expectations. As well as coping with a crisis, we need leaders and teams who can create the organisation of the future. ITSM Zone has been helping companies build their digital skills for more than 10 years - and all of our training is online. Visit itsm.zone and see our full catalogue including Agile, DevOps, ITIL, VeriSM and more.
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AWS re:Invent
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020
https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/andy-jassy-s-10-boldest-statements-at-aws-re-invent-2020/2
AWS Marketplace Now Offers Professional Services
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-marketplace-now-offers-professional-services/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29
reQuinnvent: A reInvent Partner Keynote Rebuttal / your questions answered
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/824558423
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IBM buys Instana — what does this mean for the monitoring market
https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/18/ibm-acquires-instana-for-its-ai-powered-app-performance-monitoring/
Is this a sign of more monitoring deals to come?
451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase has recorded more than 50 'monitoring' purchases, on average, for each year since 2015, which is two-thirds higher than the number of deals in the first half of the decade.
Salesforce may be buying Slack
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/tech/slack-stock-salesforce-acquisition-rumors/index.html
What does this mean for adoption? Did Teams steal Slack’s growth, or did they fumble execution all by themselves? And what does this mean for Zoom? With everyone working from home, we have not seen a real change in remote working compared to before; Slack & Zoom are still Slack & Zoom, just with more people.
(But also: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11/25/slack-salesforce )
Amazon outage
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet
Anchor affected!
https://twitter.com/discoposse/status/1331667061748211719
Instead of recommendations, we talked about what we are thankful for
Dominic
Slack, Zoom, and all the rest of the apps & services that have made it possible to work remotely this year
Mike
Home office space
Zack
This podcast and our chat channel
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How do people actually use the cloud?
Is it still raw infrastructure components, lifted & shifted from on-premises data centers, or are people architecting apps differently in a cloud-native world?
Servers > VMs > Containers > Functions
The Big Three providers and what differentiates them
Who’s the customer: developers or business users
Openshift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/11/17/openshift-at-the-center-of-the-hybrid-cloud-storm/
John Chambers: Why tech companies need to reinvent themselves every three to four years https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17957886/john-chambers-cisco-connecting-dots-book-leadership-management-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast
How Many AWS Services Are There in 2020? https://cloudwith.me/posts/how-many-aws-services-are-there-in-2020
Killed by Google https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle
What is Backend as a Service (BaaS): https://george-51059.medium.com/backend-as-a-service-list-9104bdce845e
Recommendations
Dominic
Charles Stross, “Dead Lies Dreaming” https://amzn.to/2UxPfrx
Mike
Oura Ring https://ouraring.com/
Zack
Grammarly - AI-powered writing tool. Checks for spelling, syntax, punctuation, tone, plagiarism.Freemium model with paid tiers for additional features. https://www.grammarly.com
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How technical should you be, as a manager or a marketer?
At what point is it okay to accept that you’re no longer hands-on? Vice versa, how do you keep up to speed enough to make intelligent decisions?
William Gibson quote, from “Johnny Mnemonic” (published as part of “Burning Chrome”): “These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.”
Skill stacking (although Dominic didn’t yet know the term when he wrote this post): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/intersections
The value of reference customers
How to avoid burning them out — user groups let you go one-to-many
Why a warts-and-all story may actually be better than a “perfect” reference
The power of internal references within a company
Should marketing departments have their own engineers?
https://firstround.com/review/The-Case-for-Why-Marketing-Should-Have-Its-Own-Engineers/
Low-code/no-code, Microsoft, and open-source
Guido Van Rossum joins Microsoft: twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549
Recommendations
Dominic
Reverse recommendation! Since Apple didn’t announce a monitor that costs less than several of my early cars, what 4k monitor should I get? Zack and Mike came out strongly in favour of Dell curved monitors, which are tempting, but what else should I consider?
Mike
Italians Mad About Food (see here for some context, or just enjoy the tweets)
Zack
Naps
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Cloud computing is always in the news — but the reason we are talking about it on the podcast is that this feels like a tipping point. Famously, Snowflake had a cloud-only strategy from day one, and that seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Now, others are moving in the same direction, with Atlassian planning to end sale and support of their on-premise server product and go cloud-only:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by-2024/
There is a recurring revenue trap. There is no way back. Cloud delivery does save time, but if you are a growth company, then as you add more users you pay more, and soon enough the cost has ballooned. Now what? There might not be an easy way back.
But the ratchet turns both ways: PAYG business models work for both users and providers, because they scale with utilisation (flat-fee cloud services with unlimited usage would not last very long). Marginal costs are a factor, and ideally you want to go up the stack and offer more differentiated services that command higher margins so that you can amortise your fixed costs better. Recurring revenue aligns incentives better between user and vendor:
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/incentives-drive-behaviour-security-is-no-exception
This conversation is becoming more critical as cloud becomes the default:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/13/the-good-saas-times-will-end-and-challenges-are-coming/
The calculation is about CapEx vs OpEx, efficiency vs resilience. Also as companies modernize (or try to) there is often no business case. There might be a road to a business case — if your CIO doesn’t get fired!
IT Fragmentation is another factor. We all know shadow IT is IT, but there is an issue with the power of cloud offerings: too many people with too much power and no idea what they can do. Next thing you know someone turns on or off a feature and your company is paralyzed.
Finally, what about skills? All this abstraction risks creating skill silos; will new generations of technologists need specific vocational training? Will they be trapped in one particular domain, without transferrable skills?
Recommendations
Dominic
Bicycles — bicycles are good
Mike
Smokeless Backyard Firepit - We all need to be outside this winter to survive the dark winter ahead. Be smart.
https://breeo.co/
Zack
Exercising in front of YouTube videos
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This week we welcome back friend of the show, Lilac Schoenbeck, VP of Go-To-Market Strategy at Rocket Software. This was very timely, since it gave us a chance to discuss Rocket’s new acquisitions: https://www.rocketsoftware.com/news/rocket-software-acquires-connectiq-and-webconnect-activeops-delivering-rpa-mainframe We were especially interested to talk about the RPA side of things, including what increased automation means for the job market. RPA can be thought of as APIs for humans… Also, it turns out mainframes are still everywhere, mainly because they work, and unless and until the business process that they automate changes, it’s not worth the effort and risk to move automation of that process to a different platform.
Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud: is this time different?
Cloud computing is always in the news — but the reason we are talking about it on the podcast is that this feels like a tipping point. Famously, Snowflake had a cloud-only strategy from day one, and that seems to have worked out pretty well for them. Now, others are moving in the same direction, with Atlassian planning to end sale and support of their on-premise server product and go cloud-only:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by-2024/
This cloud prioritization can lead to concerns about cloud lock-in, but because we are talking about middleware — SaaS or PaaS — that conversation plays out a bit differently than last time, when it was all about IaaS. For instance, MongoDB just launched multi-cloud clusters for the Atlas DBaaS:
https://diginomica.com/mongodb-forges-ahead-multi-cloud-agenda-announces-multi-cloud-clusters-atlas (disclosure: Dominic’s employer)
Recommendations
Dominic
“The Ministry For The Future”, Kim Stanley Robinson — especially for the talk of discounting future values
Zack
IDC FutureScape webinar series
https://www.idc.com/events/futurescape (+1 from Dominic)
Mike
Microsoft Power Automate
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/
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Dominic, Zack and Mike discuss the long term impact working remote is having on the workforce including:
- Hiring while retaining culture
- Pay decreases if you move
- 3 day work week nonsense
Rumors at Cisco and why hardware companies are in trouble. Why Mike thinks even if you aren’t a software companies you need to give the illusion you are like Nvidia.
Also why channel partner are shifting to managed services as a result of hardware company troubles.
Also the shift in MAC to PC. Is BYOD now benefitting PCs more than MACs? Who are these people asking for PCs? The Microsoft turn around has been strong for years now.
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Zack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by John Hanlon and Steven Palmese, respectively the CRO and CIO for Presidio.
As the pandemic accelerated companies' journey to the cloud, challenges have emerged, whether migrating existing applications, building new cloud-native applications, or managing both the cloud and on-premise environments. In parallel with these infrastructure questions, digital business transformations have challenged the IT workforce and created demand for new roles and skills – both in IT and across every functional area. All of these evolutions are taking place against a backdrop of falling budgets and ever-greater expectations from the business and end-users. Presidio managed and professional services have spent the last years adding automation and AI/ML to their existing toolset, helping Presidio respond faster and more efficiently to ever-changing business needs.
John and Steven share their thoughts on the high expectations placed on CIOs, the ever-changing IT workforce, the gradual acceptance of shadow IT, and the dos and don’ts of migrations to the cloud and adopting a cloud-first mindset.
You can reach Presidio online at https://www.presidio.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/presidio-/, and their Twitter handle is @Presidio, https://twitter.com/Presidio.
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Zack, Mike, and Dominic are joined this week by Matt Harper. Matt is Vice President of Marketing for Nylas, where he leads global marketing efforts for the API-first developer platform that serves customers like Dialpad, Ceridian, Hubspot and Move.com. Nylas most recently closed a Series B round for $25M this past June. Matt joined Nylas from Moogsoft, where he helped lead the company from Series B through Series D rounds, raising nearly $100M and scaling the company’s revenues by over 6x. Previously, Matt led marketing departments at Glassdoor and Sony PlayStation, where he led digital marketing efforts for the PlayStation 4.
Nylas is a developer API platform that helps you quickly launch new productivity features without having to write custom code. Through a single integration, developers can leverage rich communications data to trigger automated workflow, like scheduling meetings or syncing data to a CRM. Learn more about Nylas at nylas.com or on Twitter @nylas.
Some of the topics we discussed:
- Secular trends in the market - engineering as a blue-collar profession
- API adoption rates and insights into Twilio’s enterprise market penetration
- Combinatorial innovation, composable software
- What matters most to developers? Insights from market research.
- From monolithic suites to individual components — rise of REST APIs
- Why “best of breed” used to be a dirty word — and isn’t any longer
- Integration with “proper” development practices — versioning, backups, security, ongoing maintenance, etc
- What does DevOps look like when Dev is not developers and Ops is automated away?
That blog post of Dominic's that he shamelessly promoted on air: Serving Two Causes
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You’re doing cloud wrong
Lift & shift leads to high costs, missed benefits https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/03/cloud_control_costs/
Cloud economists: Corey Quinn, Owen Rogers
Embracing cloud requires org changes — decentralisation, delegation; Shadow IT comes out into the open
BUT! All of this is not free, will coexist for some time with existing models — which leads to the dreaded bimodal IT
See also https://cloudpundit.com/2020/09/18/the-multicloud-gelatinous-cube
Stupid Sh*t Vendors Do — reprise
Mike wishes that sales people would please stop selling through LinkedIn....
Beware of hobbyists
Certain domains (security, ML) attract a vocational approach which may not follow organisations' best interests. How to align to organisational priorities, not just personal interest?
Follow up
iOS14, App Store moderation
https://daringfireball.net/2020/09/widgetsmith_bunco_squad
Automation
VMware and SaltStack Important, But Not Exciting | Find the thread
Recommendations
Mike:
Elon Musk interview on Sway talking about neural ink and our human meat flaps.
Elon Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’
https://overcast.fm/+he8FSycfQ
Dominic:
Let there be light — put more lights around your working area, both for visibility on webcam and for your mood
Zack:
Vitamin D is good
You always need operations
Is DevOps an oxymoron with the no code movement? Is it time to move on? What about GitOps?
Snowflake can also be considered as shadow IT, or conversely, business empowerment through NoOps
Dominic’s NoOps blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/not-noops-but-smartops
“Said no CEO ever: Things that don't matter in the cloud”: https://speakerdeck.com/caseywest/said-no-ceo-ever-things-that-dont-matter-in-the-cloud
Forrester NoOps article: https://go.forrester.com/blogs/11-02-07-i_dont_want_devops_i_want_noops/
Lehman Brothers spreadsheet error: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533631/excel-error-leaves-barclays-with-more-lehman-assets-than-it-bargained-for.html
Lightning round
Privacy
Airlines and privacy https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
AI/GPT-3
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 language model
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/
Is this exclusivity an issue?
Recommendations
Dominic
Handwriting! Rotring 800 mechanical pencil https://amzn.to/2EuvEUC
Mike’s pend of choice: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E6A9M8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Zack
A diet based on caloric restriction might make you live longer. Starve your cancer cells and renew & rejuvenate.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/20/553/prolon-starvation-diet/
Mike
Amazon Ring drone camera! https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-drone-security-camera-price-specs-features-amazon
Arm & Nvidia
The deal discussed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-officialnvidia-acquires-arm-for-40b-to-create-what-could-be-a-computing-juggernaut/
But UK jobs at risk: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/uk-tech-giant-arm-holdings-to-be-sold-to-us-company-nvidia-in-40bn-deal
Follow up
Low-code / no-code
Airtable raises $185M
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/airtable-raises-185m-and-launches-new-low-code-and-automation-features/amp/#click=https://t.co/1ssv9830f3
WFH
Free IDC whitepaper, featuring Dominic’s thoughts https://www.uk.idc.com/research-uk/what-organizations-need-to-do-now-to-accelerate
Recommendations
Dominic
Soulver 3 https://apps.apple.com/app/soulver-3/id1508732804 for when a calculator isn’t enough, but a spreadsheet is too much
Zack
Facebook’s new VR headset Oculus Quest 2, priced at $299 (has an infinite office feature) https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/16/facebook-debuts-infinite-office-a-virtual-reality-office-space/
Mike
No Filter https://www.amazon.com/No-Filter-Inside-Story-Instagram/dp/B07Y3TJ163/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=No+filter&qid=1600433523&sr=8-1
Reference Episode 3 Stupid Sh*t Vendors do: https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Stupid-Sht-Vendors-Do-eedp3s
Topic 1: Moving from monitoring to automation.
- Chef acquired by Progress (https://devops.com/progress-announces-acquisition-of-chef/)
- Chef to be acquired for $220M by Progress in ‘next chapter’ for Seattle automation tech company (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/chef-acquired-220m-progress-next-chapter-seattle-automation-tech-company/)
- Progress Q3 Preliminary Results and Chef Acquisition (https://investors.progress.com/static-files/ff4a1323-3cd6-4fc0-9b83-e9de625ad986)
- Autonomous operations, self-healing infrastructure
- Tanzu? https://mailchi.mp/thenewstack/aws-bottlerocket-blasts-off?e=cafeea848e
- Anthos? https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/google_anthos_onair/
Topic 2: Citizen developers
- Episode 6: What happened to the developers? https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/What-happened-to-the-developers-efbgqs
- What’s next for low-code/no-code? https://itbrief.co.nz/story/what-s-next-for-low-code-no-code
- OutSystems Pushes Low-Code Beyond Its Visual Basic Legacy – The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/outsystems-pushes-low-code-beyond-its-visual-basic-legacy/
Lightning round
Jobs
- Dominic is hiring: Americas https://www.mongodb.com/careers/jobs/2317693 EMEA https://www.mongodb.com/careers/jobs/2318858
Recommendations:
- Mike: Not a recommendation but fascinating article from the Guardian: A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? GPT-3 (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3)
- Dominic: https://www.moritzplassnig.com/saas-and-moving-downmarket-mongodbs-transformation/ disrupting yourself is hard, but it’s the only way to avoid being disrupted by someone else
- Zack: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/technology/fawkes-tool-protects-photos-from-facial-recognition.html
- Dazzle camouflage against facial recognition: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/privacy-campaigners-dazzle-camouflage-met-police-surveillance
- This week in Startups E1100 Clearview AI https://thisweekinstartups.com/e1100-clearview-ai-ceo-hoan-ton-that-on-facial-recognition-advancements-balancing-privacy-security-engaging-with-controversy-more/
Veego (https://www.veego.io) is an Israeli startup aiming to perfect the internet experience of any connected home. They use AI techniques to detect and resolve any possible connectivity issue, from the home router. This week, we were joined by Denis Sirov, one of the founders.
We had a good discussion on using technical monitoring data as a training set for AI/ML models, and how this use of AI can actually be privacy-preserving. Recurring topics: 5G, work from home, privacy.
Links:
- Veego homepage: https://www.veego.io
- A16Z article on improving AI economics: https://a16z.com/2020/08/12/taming-the-tail-adventures-in-improving-ai-economics/
Recommendations:
- Dominic: Overlap — https://apps.apple.com/app/overlap-by-moleskine-studio/id1516950324
- Mike: Finviz — https://finviz.com
Dominic's back from the beach, where luckily there were no clouds. The question of the week is, can enterprises also avoid the cloud — and should they?
We talked about cloud repatriation, and mentioned Lydia Leong's piece on the topic (https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/). Dominic also shamelessly plugged a piece of his own on multi-cloud in 2020 (https://diginomica.com/three-reasons-why-multi-cloud-back-and-here-stay), as well as Charity Major's piece on the future of Ops jobs (https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs). We didn't get around to mentioning Steve Yegge's piece on Google Cloud and how its deprecation policy makes it hard to love (https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc).
Recommendations:
- Meeter app: https://apps.apple.com/app/meeter-for-zoom-teams-co/id1510445899
- Decathlon Forclaz solar panel: https://www.decathlon.it/pannello-solare-trek100-10w-id_8485459.html
- Autonomous AI Zen Work Pod: https://www.autonomous.ai/zen-work-pod
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While Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/.
This week they discuss the "fear of missing out" occurring in IT departments everywhere. The pressure imposed by the analysts & marketing to keep up with all other "cool" companies. Casting doubt on this catch up/keep up culture, and the need to differentiate and strive.
Are we doing it all wrong?
Does IT really need always to follow the latest trend? Do we need to look further than optimizing and efficiencies? Are we tackling optimization and efficiencies in IT rather than in the care business?
In case you hadn't realized it, IT is part of the business, so if you're trying to align or bring closer, IT strategy and business strategy, we fear you are doing it all wrong and are already off base.
While Dominic is enjoying the sandy beaches of Italy, Zack and Mike welcome back Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/) VP, Go-to-Market Strategy for Rocket Software https://www.rocketsoftware.com/
Together they discuss what exactly does it mean when cloud is moving on premise and the challenges it poses to IT. Why does it matter? And isn't infrastructure just infrastructure?
Followed by a discussion on the mounting pressure on IT to keep up, innovate and change at break neck speeds. The discuss turns to the challenges around budgets, tech talent and from the business itself. Where are the true decisions makers?
Be prepared to count how many times you hear the term Mainframe, AS/400, iSeries and Power. Not to mention Zack’s favorite terms containers and kubernetes.
The “Wall” is expanding, no not that wall, The Great Firewall between the US and China! Five reasons why the government’s Clean Network plan will be difficult to enforce. Plus, what are you waiting for, iOS 14 is here and there’s a reason to download!
iPadOS 14 introduces new features designed specifically for iPad
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/ipados-14-introduces-new-features-designed-specifically-for-ipad/
Note taking
https://findthethread.postach.io/post/note-taking
mmhmm
https://www.mmhmm.app/
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Announcing the Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets
https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/
The real reason Microsoft wants to buy TikTok.
Microsoft could use video data from its potential acquisition of TikTok to train AI systems and learn more about its consumers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/05/microsoft-tiktok-ai/
In this week's episode: Dominic, Zack and Mike tackle the antitrust hearing from big tech (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple) and the monster earnings announcement the next day.
Virtual Conference and the continuing pain. Conferences need to change! Google Next has moved to 9 weeks long — and what is Gartner doing?
Cloud, and specifically on premises cloud. When did cloud move on prem, and can it still be cloud if it is on prem? What exactly is the benefit here?
https://cloudpundit.com/2020/07/27/hunting-the-dread-gazebo-of-repatriation/
We close it off with a discussion of GPT-3 and the benefits versus worries for some of us. https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/07/23/openais-new-gpt-3-language-explained-in-under-3-minutes-syndication/
In this week's episode: Slack vs Microsoft, ARM updates, and what it's like to sell and buy enterprise software that lives in the cloud. Links:
Slack Accuses Microsoft of Illegally Crushing Competition: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/slack-microsoft-antitrust.html;
Nvidia Eyes Biggest-Ever Chip Deal in Pursuit of SoftBank’s Arm https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/softbank-s-chip-company-arm-is-said-to-attract-nvidia-interest;
Intel's 7nm is Broken, Company Announces Delay Until 2022, 2023 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7nm-processors-now-one-year-behind-expectations;
Zawinski's Law http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
News: Zoom and Microsoft announce all-in-one devices designed for home-office conference calls
Zoom introduces all-in-one home communications appliance for $599: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/zoom-introduces-all-in-one-home-communications-appliance-for-599/
Microsoft Teams smart displays make it easier to work from home https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-teams-smart-displays-make-it-easier-to-work-from-home-09628391/
We compared these to Cisco's existing all-in-one devices: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/dx80/index.html
News: UK to purge Huawei from 5G by end of 2027 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei/uk-to-purge-huawei-from-5g-by-2027-angering-china-and-pleasing-u-s-idUSKCN24E30P
Some context: The Nortel Job https://www.magzter.com/article/Business/Bloomberg-Businessweek/The-Nortel-Job
Main topic: Open source in the enterprise — how much do buyers care about OSS specifically?
Google Istio trademark announcement: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-googles-new-kind-of-open-source-organization-is-not-vendor-neutral/
Rancher acquisition: https://rancher.com/press/suse-to-acquire-rancher/
A Double-Digit Episode Spectacular!
For Episode 10 (or should that be Episode X?), we invited a very special guest: Lilac Schoenbeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilac/).
We discussed remote events briefly, riffing off Dominic's recent blog post: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/remote-events
After that, we had a wide-ranging discussion about legacy technology, how come "legacy" is a bad word in the technology industry — but not in the outside world, how technologies become legacy, and what value users find in these technologies.
Some topics that came up:
- Pace Layering https://findthethread.postach.io/post/tech-in-layers ;
- Gartner and bimodal IT https://findthethread.postach.io/post/bimodal-or-bi-model ;
- Walled-up server https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ ;
- John Chambers quote: "50% of Fortune 500 Won’t Exist in 10 Years" https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/john-chambers-50-of-fortune-500-wont-exist-in-10-years/2020/06/
Follow-up from last week:
Apple Silicon Benchmarks: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/developers-leak-benchmarks-from-the-apple-silicon-mac-transition-kit/
Low-code / no-code platform wars:
Amazon Honeycode: https://youtu.be/vMR2KOJUEr8
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycode-build-web-mobile-apps-without-writing-code/
The Corey Quinn quote I mentioned was from issue #168 of his newsletter, which is not yet online but will be linked from here when it is: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/
Microsoft announces STOCKHISTORY: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-stockhistory/ba-p/1404338
Google’s G Suite finalizes Connected Sheets and introduces AI-driven data cleanup tools https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/30/googles-g-suite-finalizes-connected-sheets-and-introduces-ai-driven-data-cleanup-tools/
UK TV interviews with kids' cameos:
https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1278358093710217216
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1278404657992392704
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
Zack, Mike, and Dominic talk about ethics in AI, Macs moving to ARM CPUs, and what this might mean in the cloud.
Links:
- Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
- ARM Mac Impact On Intel
- Coal-free first for electricity in Great Britain
- An Unexpected Holiday
Zack, Mike, and Dominic talk about Hey.com versus Apple, the latest Zoom news, and then get into the meat of 5G, SD-WAN, and the future of networking.
What happened to the developers? Wait, you’re a developer? Everyone’s a developer!
Zack, Mike, and Dominic discuss citizen developers, low-code/no-code, shadow IT, and more.
Links:
- That Lehman Brothers spreadsheet story
- My newsletter story in full
Mike, Zack, and Dominic talk robots — both the physical kind and software bots — and more importantly, what they mean for the IT industry and for society in general.
Zack and Dominic pull back the curtain and show Mike some of the sales-side perspective on closing deals. It turns out, reputation matters — a lot, and the best way to build and keep a good reputation is to focus on your customer's business.
That blog post about the economics of booth babes: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/babe-got-talent
Dominic and Zack interview Mike about what it's like to be on the receiving end of all those sales calls. The talk gets spicy, names are named, dirty tricks are shared… Tune in to hear the whole story!
In Episode Two, Dominic, Mike, and Zack talk about what it's like to work from home, and some of the longer-term implications of that switch. Does this mean SD-WAN and VDI are going to have the day? Does the corporate network edge now reach into employee's homes, and does that mean surveillance is okay? What about onboarding, especially for interns or people starting their first job in this climate? And how come we aren't hearing more about VR?
- Dominic's post about remote internships: https://diginomica.com/how-tech-internships-and-mentoring-should-work-lockdown
Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis
Dominic, Mike, and Zack kick off the podcast by getting into the news about Zoom, what it means in the enterprise, and what the longer-term prospects are for Zoom.
- Dominic's blog about Zoom: https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom
- Zoom's announcement of the Keybase acquisition: https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/
- Keybase's version of that announcement: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom
Catch us on Twitter: @dwellington, @MikeIaniro, and @ZZilakakis