Armchair Strategist

About this Episode

This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 385

Runner-up Titles

• Cormac will give her a ride home
• The Baby is asleep
• Maybe she will get angry.
• Lectures don’t work
• See you on Mars, motherfucker!
• You can have 1 piece of dog walk
• It’s only stupid until it works.
• Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win.
• Armchair strategists.
• I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal.
• How long have I been working
• The CTA of Twitter
• An exercise for the listener

Rundown

• As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown
• Cloud Giants Update
• Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates
• Meta
  • Meta Myths
  • Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss
  • Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs
  • Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META
  • Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user
• Twitter
  • Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs
  • Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance
  • Welcome to hell, Elon

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• Big Tech's ranks swelled last year
• Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown
• Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app
• List of KubeCon Sponsors
• Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?
• Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok
• DevOps de los Muertos
• Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn
• Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox
• IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2
• Singapore to phase out checks by 205
• Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend
• 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys

Sponsors

• Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure.

Nonsense

• Wirecutter Recommendation
• Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes.

Conferences

• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th
• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off
• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
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  • The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit
    
• Coté: micro.blog. Coté’s setup over there (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register to see my legacy trap talk tomorrow, maybe see the replay?

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