This week we discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…?
Rundown
The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-serverless)
Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/9/22766286/twitter-blue-subscription-service-scroll-nuzzel-undo-tweets-ad-free-articles-us?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4)
From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021? (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-amazon-to-zoom-what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-in-2021/)
Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/08/clubhouse-record-room-replay/)
Relevant to your interests
HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/hashicorp-benchmarking-the-s-1-data)
Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-announces-third-quarter-2021-201500627.html)
Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl_ibm_spinoff/)
Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763374/google-drive-search-chips-filters-beta-test)
Habitica - Gamify Your Life (https://habitica.com/static/home)
Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/red_hat_jobs/)
Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode (https://oz-code.com/blog/general/datadog-acquires-ozcode)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms (https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html)
To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock (https://thehustle.co/to-reinvent-work-we-have-to-destroy-the-clock/)
We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/calendar_backwards/)
AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005823/en/AWS-Announces-Plans-to-Open-Second-Region-in-Canada)
Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22769910/mcafee-private-investor-group-acquisition-software)
Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/)
Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-cloud-boss-is-girding-to-defend-turf-in-the-field-company-pioneered-11636300800?st=5gwylbkkz0bug3s&reflink=article_email_share)
GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/ge-to-break-up-into-3-companies-focusing-on-aviation-healthcare-and-energy.html)
You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/one-on-one-meetings)
Nonsense
Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/elon-musk-faces-a-15-billion-tax-bill-which-is-likely-the-real-reason-hes-selling-stock.html)
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Conferences
Coté speaking at DevOops (https://devoops.ru/en/) (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?” (https://devoops.ru/en/talks/kubernetes-is-not-for-developers/)
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