Episode 385: Armchair Strategist

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 Relevant to your Interests Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules Documentary Film “Inside Prometheus” Highlights Open Source Impact and the Innovators That Make it Happen Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators What a combined Broadcom and VMware can deliver to our customers Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT 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 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: Southwest Airlines Lost and Found 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? Photo Credits Header CoverArt