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It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don’t get you more money. SHOW: 658 CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams CDN77 - CDN Focused on VOD and Security CDN77 - ask for a free trial with no duration or traffic limits. Datadog Monitoring: Modern Monitoring and Analytics Start monitoring your infrastructure, applications, logs and security in one place with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. SHOW NOTES: Google CEO demands higher employee productivity Google asks employees to find 20% more productivity(“Simplicity Sprints”) Amazon builds internal team to keep developers from being bored SOMETIMES THINGS GROW AND IT’S FUN We’re hiring! Launches! Everyone is a rock-star! Nobody cares about accountability during the good times, because growth hides all the flaws. SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT Google added 25k people per year (2019-2021) Do less hiring (less interviews, less new hire-stuff, less “where is?”) Don’t put the burden on the employees to fix leadership ambitions Google “Simplicity Sprints” Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX) 20% more productive 33% do repetitive work Is this good or bad for the concept of Platform Engineering FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot net Twitter: @thecloudcastnet FEEDBACK? Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot com Bluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.social Twitter/X: @TheEntAIShow Instagram: @TheEntAIShow