Description

This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.

Rundown

• VC
  • Stripe is now valued at $95 billion
  • Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market
  • Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch
  • Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done
  • Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing
• Work Life
  • This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout
  • Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon
  • Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
  • Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard

Relevant to your interests

• Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’
• Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon
• Google’s plan to disrupt higher education
• Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions
• Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML
• Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration
• Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices
• China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules
• Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
• Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs
• Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise
• CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation
• Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage
• Boosting developer success on Google Play
• IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions
• AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type
• Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021
• Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch
• Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users
• Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong
• Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google
• Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers
• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
• IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services

Nonsense

• Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year
• Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more
• Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla
• IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns
• So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5?

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Conferences

• SpringOne.io, Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th.
• Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th, and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th.
• VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event, April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
• Cloud Native Rust Day

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