This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th.
Runner-up Titles
Strategy for eating mixed nuts.
Finish in a flurry
Eat Dessert First
It’s about where you is, not where you was.
We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator
Lost his fastball
Just a paycheck
It’s cool to be the “turns out” person
Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment
McKinsey Titles, the movie
Rundown
App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem (https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1555177364081999874)
Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO (https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/25/only-the-paranoid-survive-in-tech-former-intel-ceo.html)
Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/08/netflix-games-note-engaging-subscribers/)
Gladwell’s take on Work from Home (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRUT8Xh6/?k=1)
Relevant to your Interests
Cisco Networking And Cloud Leader Todd Nightingale To Join Fastly As CEO (https://www.crn.com/news/networking/cisco-networking-and-cloud-leader-todd-nightingale-to-join-fastly-as-ceo)
Aviatrix CEO On Potential Post-Broadcom VMware Layoffs And Why On-Prem Market Is ‘The Titanic Going Down’ | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aviatrix-ceo-on-potential-post-broadcom-vmware-layoffs-and-why-on-prem-market-is-the-titanic-going-down-)
Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains (https://clouddb.substack.com/p/gartner-microsoft-1-in-database-revenue)
Amazon and iRobot Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire iRobot (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220804006088/en/Amazon-and-iRobot-Sign-an-Agreement-for-Amazon-to-Acquire-iRobot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Companies Disney Owns (https://www.titlemax.com/wp-content/uploads/every-company-disney-owns.jpeg)
S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-intelligent-tiering-breaking-even/)
Twilio Shares Stumble as Investors Fear a Demand Slowdown (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-shares-stumble-investors-fear-213749401.html)
Closing the cloud strategy technology, and innovation gap (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/consulting/us-future-of-cloud-survey-report.pdf> 1 reply 4 days agoV)
Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/cloudflare-q2-2022-earnings-send-stock-soaring.html)
Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million (https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/axios-agrees-to-sell-to-cox-enterprises-for-525-million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
New request for comments on improving npm security with Sigstore is now open (https://github.blog/2022-08-08-new-request-for-comments-on-improving-npm-security-with-sigstore-is-now-open/)
The Billionaire’s Dilemma (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/)
Intel launches Arc Pro GPUs that are designed for workstations and pro apps (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23296836/intel-arc-pro-gpu-workstations-mobile-specs)
AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23293353/ai-patent-legal-status-us-federal-circuit-court-rules-thaler-dabus)
AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/)
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c)
SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/softbank-vision-fund-posts-a-21point6-billion-quarterly-loss-.html)
Ac (https://acorn.io)o (https://acorn.io)rn launches from the Cloud.com and Rancher Alumni (https://acorn.io)
Nonsense
French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo (https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeemk/chorizo-james-webb-space-telescope)
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Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027)
DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512).
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon: Sea of Tranquility (https://www.audible.com/pd/Sea-of-Tranquility-Audiobook/0593551990)
Coté: The Sympathizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sympathizer)
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