Episode 200: The mystery of the 2,000

The mystery of the 2,000 Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk. Mood board: The East India Company and Kodak I just want your best 5 hours. Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes. I’m in for a panel. I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting. Ten year journey with billions of burn. We’re talking about trillion dollar companies. You can’t have enough storage for your podcasts. Fired 2,000 people…and now hiring 2,000 people. First-gen cloud building people are often a handful. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe. See the archives for more. Relevant to your interests How to moderate a panel. Oracle Shelves Larry Ellison’s Dream of Cloud Dominance tl;dr: “this is a bummer, man”…? “Midlevel product managers were being offered $750,000 in compensation while some engineers with a vice president title were paid more than $5 million a year, people familiar with the matter said.” - Shoulda listed “Oracle cloud” on my LinkedIn… Oracle to Make 2,000 Hires in Cloud Push Will Salesforce Dump Oracle and Pick AWS? An Insider’s Perspective Larry vs Jeff: An Epic Battle who controls Salesforce, coming at Dreamforce Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says TechCrunch Disrupt: A tale of two markets separates tech from non-tech IPOs Austin-based AI Startup SparkCognition Raises $100M Series C Is Microsoft Out to Destroy Linux? Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open Source Software New browser security debate heats up Microsoft Unveils Battery-Powered Version of Azure That Fits in a Backpack - Simpsons already did it. Microsoft using Android is bigger than its Surface Duo phone - looks cool, sure. Nonsense Animals on Airbnb Experiences Drink up! Missouri bar charges by the hour, not by the glass Sponsors HMA: To try HMA VPN risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee visit: https://www.hidemyass.com/offer-sdt SolarWinds: To try it FREE for 14 days, just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. If it logs, it can log to Loggly. Conferences, et. al. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd. December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount. NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. Listener Suggested Jobs Openings DevOps Engineer Viasat in San Diego from Justin Hallas Full-Stack Software Engineer at NS8 remote options from Joshua Hover. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Synology, Plex and HDHomeRun. Coté: cookies with bourbon raisons.