This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs.
Runner-up Titles
Chrome fixes everything
Plateau of Productivity
When the curve nopes.
When the parabola yeets.
First class SaaS
Thanks for the legwork fool
The cash cow has run out of milk
Sign-a-tar
Tumbler is now HIPAA compliant
Working has its privileges
Let go of this dog now
Rundown
Fermyon Launches With First Cloud-Native WebAssembly PaaS (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/21/2466499/0/en/Fermyon-Launches-With-First-Cloud-Native-WebAssembly-PaaS-for-Developers-Creating-Microservice-Based-Apps-Raises-6-Million-Seed-Funding-Led-by-Amplify-Partners.html)
Cloudflare
Cloudflare Post Mortem (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/)
Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/massive-cloudflare-outage-caused-by-network-configuration-error/)
The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps (https://www.fastcompany.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps)
Oracle
Oracle Versus Amazon: Oracle Will Rip and Replace AWS at Cerner (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-versus-amazon-oracle-will-rip-and-replace-aws-at-cerner/)
Exclusive: TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tiktok-moves-us-user-data-oracle-servers-company-2022-06-17/)
DocuSign CEO Dan Springer steps down (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/docusign-ceo-dan-springer-steps-down.html)
Removing people from security
Password policies of 120 websites (https://passwordpolicies.cs.princeton.edu/>
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/andy-jassy-amazon-bezos-overexpansion-11655383388?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Senate considers ban on data brokers selling health and location info (https://www.engadget.com/senate-health-and-location-data-protection-act-bill-160829066.html)
Full List of Data Broker Opt-Out Guides: How to opt-out of the internet (https://joindeleteme.com/help/deleteme-help-topics/opt-out-guide/)
Anna Sorokin plans to launch an NFT collection (https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/anna-delvey-nft-interview-rcna33811?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew)
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites)
Median software multiple is now 5.7x. (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1536370793399001090)
The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud (https://www.curbed.com/2022/06/hybrid-3-day-return-office-apple-google-remote-work.html)
The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution (https://www.theringer.com/2022/6/17/23172139/the-big-winners-and-losers-from-the-remote-work-revolution-julia-hobsbawm)
I Should Be Able to Mute America (https://www.gawker.com/culture/i-should-be-able-to-mute-america)
Capital One fraudster got in via 'misconfigured' AWS storage (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/captial_one_wire_fraud/)
Better.com loses three more senior executives, including SVP and VP of sales (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/21/better-com-loses-three-more-senior-executives-including-svp-and-vp-of-sales/)
Veza Raises $110M in Funding - FinSMEs (https://www.finsmes.com/2022/04/veza-raises-110m-in-funding.html)
The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security (https://www.slim.ai/blog/the-4-s-s-of-software-supply-chain-security.html)
Nonsense
The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFBwt1nu2U)
Jira gets fired by ClickUp - Exit Interview commercial advertisement (https://youtu.be/LPCUAgzUt2k)
Amazon demos Alexa reading a bedtime story in the voice of a boy's deceased grandma (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-demos-alexa-reading-a-bedtime-story-in-the-voice-of-a-boys-deceased-grandma/)
Could You Really Not Just Put This In An Email? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuP3VLFj70)
Listener Feedback / Jobs
Mantalus hiring Client Account Executive in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3129118727)
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