Eat the complexity
Episode 329 · November 12th, 2021 · 59 mins 20 secs
About this Episode
This week we discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…?
Rundown
- The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless
- Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US
- From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021?
- Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later
Relevant to your interests
- HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data
- Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results
- Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM
- Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive
- Habitica - Gamify Your Life
- Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen
- Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms
- To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock
- We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars
- AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada
- Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion
- Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B
- Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered
- GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy
- You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings
Nonsense
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- Coté speaking at DevOops (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?”
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