Episode 106: The Cloud Pod disagrees with Gartner on Low-Code

On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan has returned and is sitting in his garage letting it get darker and darker before he turns a light on.  Gartner says low-code is growing!! NOOOOOO! A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS is teaming up with TV to make hockey more exciting.  Google is no longer stuck in the 90s.  Oracle thinks it’s ruggedly handsome — it is not. Follow Up: Somebody’s In Trouble SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Microsoft source code for Azure, Exchange and Intune. Intune is probably the most damaging — this is not good news for Microsoft. General News: The Glowing Puck Gartner is reporting that Low-Code development tool growth has grown 23% this year. Gartner, pay to play.   AWS provides the National Hockey League with cloud, AI and machine learning services. It’s great to see computer tech adding to viewer engagement.  Hashicorp announces the general availability of the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. It’s an interesting solution to a very hard problem.  Amazon Web Services: Everyone’s On Vacation  Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Big Sur