This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRy69wGMROM)
Runner-up Titles
It’s never stopped us before.
Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment
Three kinds of mayonnaise
An aspirational architectural pattern.
There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there.
I don’t have a computer science degree.
Mid-Code
It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be?
Is it a utopian Wall-E or not?
Rundown
AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfvL_423a-I)
Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/amazon-announces-eventbridge-pipes-a-simpler-way-to-connect-events-from-multiple-services/)
Design Patterns (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201633612/) book
ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/)
ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow? (https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1599655544486187009)
Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/automating-bullshit-openai-chatgpt-removes-office/)
Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore (https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/w2tNHzzV7DXsz63ZWQfKGpD4?model=text-davinci-003).
Relevant to your Interests
Elastic Earnings (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1598068640137428992?s=46&t=eFF6wBlhOCFaLPPQf7nSLQ)
Snowflake Earnings (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1598348082839977984?s=20&t=3ZTOl6JnPJu8vtcP7YUC4Q)
IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/30/ibm-and-maersk-abandon-ship-on-tradelens-logistics-blockchain/)
OpenStack cloud sees explosive growth (https://www.zdnet.com/article/openstack-cloud-sees-explosive-growth/)
Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/?trk=3478554f-e06b-44d5-8171-41d0ea80c8c9&sc_channel=ps&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!544066093425!p!!g!!graviton%20processor&ef_id=Cj0KCQiAvqGcBhCJARIsAFQ5ke48NKL5fH2ETDPdMavKJxSfxS6luQdG2ZGGW51UzVtV8ev8GSxc2ucaAqoCEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!544066093425!p!!g!!graviton%20processor)
HYPR, the Leader in Phishing-Resistant MFA, Raises $25M (https://blog.hypr.com/press-releases/hypr-the-leader-in-phishing-resistant-mfa-raises-25m?_ga=2.20718968.1905140386.1669908801-1738015730.1669908801)
Future is quietly shutting down (https://twitter.com/robaeprice/status/1598393044503502860)
Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (https://www.businessinsider.com/a16z-future-closes-staff-exit-2022-11?international=true&r=US&IR=T)
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/aws-launches-application-composer-a-low-code-tool-for-building-serverless-apps/)
No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff) (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/no-one-seemed-to-see-bret-taylor-stepping-away-from-salesforce-even-marc-benioff/)
Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140076375/major-password-manager-lastpass-suffered-a-breach-again)
Here's everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/heres-everything-aws-announced-today/)
Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/cloudflare_price_rises_annual_exemptions/)
Twitter lawsuit (https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983)
the only cheat sheet you need (https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh)
Google Plans to Lay Off 10,000 'Poor Performing' Employees. Why That's a Big Lie, According to Harvard Professor (https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-plan-to-lay-off-10000-poor-performing-employees-is-based-on-a-big-lie-according-toharvard-professor.html)
Broadcom again tries to quash VMware price rise rumors (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/vmware_broadcom_prices_nutanix_q123/)
Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/05/rackspace_hosted_exchange_security_update/)
If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/rowy-pre-seed/)
Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/06/axiom-launches-its-automated-identity-and-access-management-platform/)
The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set (https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-e-mail-newsletter-for-the-mogul-set)
The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up (https://www.businessinsider.com/eu-hosts-400000-metaverse-party-barely-anyone-shows-up-2022-12)
mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out (https://www.pocnetwork.net/internet-news/mirc-ended-its-lifetime-license-agreement-with-all-who-purchased-its-software-10-years-out/)
Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/security-compliance-and-automation-platform-drata-nabs-200m-at-2b-valuation/)
9 insights on real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/)
Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce co-CEO (https://www.axios.com/2022/11/30/bret-taylor-salesforce-ceo-step-down?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/tableau-software-ceo-mark-nelson-steps-down/)
Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/report-slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-stepping-down-in-january/)
Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature to take on Facebook and Discord (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/7/23497938/microsoft-teams-communities-feature)
Nonsense
Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/2022)
The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck (https://qz.com/work/1225213/the-difference-between-a-snafu-a-shitshow-and-a-clusterfuck/)
Dangerously Advanced Git (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1598382103829544961?s=20&t=3ZTOl6JnPJu8vtcP7YUC4Q)
Conferences
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DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
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