The Enterprise #devrel Path-to-Profit Pincer Movement
Episode 311 · July 16th, 2021 · 48 mins 38 secs
About this Episode
This week, Coté and Matt Ray finally nail the secrets of enterprise devrel. You won’t want to miss this one! Also: Coté gives up on streaming PowerPoint and IT survey show that it’s time to ask for a raise.
Mood board:
- Free glowsticks for leadgenning yourself.
- Our tragic doppleganger.
- DevRel secrets.
- If you open a terminal you win streaming.
- Memes are serverless.
- You gotta spend money to lose money.
- All about the pincher.
Rundown
- Cloud Native Integration Platform TriggerMesh Receives Strategic Funding from Cisco Investments, Existing Investors.
- Cisco leads $5M round for multicloud application integration startup TriggerMesh.
- Checking in on Matt’s devrel notes.
- Twitter is shutting down Fleets on August 3, citing low usage.
- Labor shortages in IT, but growing IT budgets.
- Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus
- Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers.
Relevant to your interests
- Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm
- Stamps.com Agrees to Thoma Bravo Buyout in $6.6 Billion Deal
- CentOS Stream: 'I was slow on the uptake, but I get what they are doing now,' says Rocky Linux founder
- Experts analyzed Andy Jassy's first memo to Amazon employees as CEO
- Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ for >$500 million
- Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity startup RiskIQ; reports peg deal at more than $500M
- @vladtenev (CEO of @RobinHoodApp) is now following @profgalloway
- The Future IBM We Will Probably Never See
- Q3 IPO cycle starts strong with Couchbase pricing and Kaltura relisting
- Report: Broadcom in talks to buy SAS for as much as $20B
- Broadcom No Longer in Talks to Buy SAS Institute, Sources Say
- Probably Wrong Flowchart, this time on AWS database services!
- Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy
- Person advises Principal AWS engineer not to build AWS on AWS, because a16z’s cloud repatriation piece said it’s too expensive at scale.
- The Windows 365 Cloud PC
- SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware campaign’ targeting its EOL equipment
- Analyzing the Legal Implications of GitHub Copilot
- Kelsey Hightower changing Roles
Nonsense
- Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs
- Tesla finally releases Full Self-Driving Beta v9
- Netflix to offer Video Games
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Conferences
- RabbitMQ Summit, July 13-14
- Carolina VMUG, July 22 - Coté gives DevOps metrics talk.
- THAT Conference, July 26-29
- SpringOne, Sep 1-2
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Recommendations
- Matt: McGruff's SMART KIDS Album
- Coté: Cumin Beef, from FuLu Mandarijn.