Episode 378: Email is not broken

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle. Runner-up Titles Freed from Intel It works! Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms It will be fun The Apple Chip A Demi Kettle Pay for your own Flu Free to interrupt me Feet on the desk in business suit emoji. None of us can master the intranet. The network is the calendar. Rundown Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture Adobe Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status? Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google Relevant to your Interests Why We Are Changing the License for Akka A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Ethereum Is Merging Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile Audio subscription platform Podimo raises €58.6M Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live — here's what it does Amazon Web Services — Acquired It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120 McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data. Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About Document Foundation charges €8.99 for macOS LibreOffice Sharp Tech Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings Charted: Big Tech market values Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok Nonsense When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling File this under: Old Bay goes with anything I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason. Conferences Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022 SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022 THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023 Listener Feedback Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack 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: Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders. Photo Credits Banner Photo CoverArt