This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne….
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEanhxRwIM)
Runner-up Titles
I want to vest
Call the middle
I just didn’t have money
XLT, that’s not a thing
Yeah, I’m down for whatever
Coté’s Culture Corner.
Brandon’s Halo Hatrack.
Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.”
If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting.
YOLO workers’ rights
Rundown
DHH from 37signals shows the numbers
Our cloud spend in 2022 (https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/) - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/bottleneck-of-worry)
They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity (https://world.hey.com/dhh/they-re-rebuilding-the-death-star-of-complexity-4fb5d08d)
Work Life
Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employees-unlimited-time-off-2023) (those that are left (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/18/23560315/microsoft-job-cuts-layoffs-2023-tech))
Corey’s Take (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1613258939621335040?s=12&t=jzcCYzgaielci5jNtA9nJA)
Relevant to your Interests
CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/)
SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta (https://siliconangle.com/2023/01/12/sailpoint-acquires-identity-solutions-startup-seczetta/)
Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout)
Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-clouds-top-u-s-sales-execs-depart-in-shakeup-as-profits-remain-elusive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/12/twitter-rival-t2-raises-its-first-outside-funding-1-1m-from-a-group-of-high-profile-angels/)
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html)
State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom (https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterverse/)
The Great Podcasting Market Correction (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/the-great-podcasting-market-correction)
Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts (https://www.businesspost.ie/news/stripe-clawed-back-pension-contributions-after-staff-cuts/)
Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1614683724146266114?s=46&t=GIFUEgf6YFIomCbFD0FuQA)
National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/national-instruments-rises-up-to-19-on-plan-to-explore-sale?srnd=deals#xj4y7vzkg)
FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system (https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/faa-computer-failure-grounded-thousands-flights-caused-2-contractors-introduced-data-errors-notam-system/)
The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-airline-industry-meltdown-proves-the-business-case-for-digital-employee-experience/)
Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/forrester-study-finds-228-percent-roi-when-modernizing-applications-on-azure-paas/)
Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909163)
U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c232a791-0715-4475-9240-551d79417fd9.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) with Ukraine.ua (https://ukraine.u)
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs (https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/)
The Shit Show • furbo.org (https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/)
Extremely Hardcore (https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji)
Nonsense
Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house (https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk/status/1613393977134436354)
Every Cloud Architecture (https://www.goodtechthings.com/every-cloud-architecture/)
Museum of Obsolete Media (https://obsoletemedia.org/)
Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io/), Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (https://www.meetup.com/dutch-spring-meetup/events/290846449/) (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere.
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842) Atomic Habits (https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits) with Atomic Habits Resources (https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/resources)
Also mentioned: What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health (https://hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain-health/)
Matt: State of the World 2023 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/522/State-of-the-World-2023-Bruce-St-page01.html)
Coté: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
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