Episode 372: Don’t do any editing

This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th. Runner-up Titles Strategy for eating mixed nuts. Finish in a flurry Eat Dessert First It’s about where you is, not where you was. We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator Lost his fastball Just a paycheck It’s cool to be the “turns out” person Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment McKinsey Titles, the movie Rundown App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers Gladwell’s take on Work from Home Relevant to your Interests Cisco Networking And Cloud Leader Todd Nightingale To Join Fastly As CEO Aviatrix CEO On Potential Post-Broadcom VMware Layoffs And Why On-Prem Market Is ‘The Titanic Going Down’ | CRN Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains Amazon and iRobot Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire iRobot Companies Disney Owns S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even Twilio Shares Stumble as Investors Fear a Demand Slowdown Closing the cloud strategy technology, and innovation gap Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million New request for comments on improving npm security with Sigstore is now open The Billionaire’s Dilemma Intel launches Arc Pro GPUs that are designed for workstations and pro apps AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history Acorn launches from the Cloud.com and Rancher Alumni Nonsense French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo Sponsors Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. Listener Feedback Conferences Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch. Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023 SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: Sea of Tranquility Coté: The Sympathizer Photo Credits Banner CoverArt