This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores…
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Runner-up Titles
Going Hardcore
Sleeping under the desk
The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet
Rundown
Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-plans-to-eventually-go-big-on-physical-grocery-stores-154524344.html)
Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mi-tienda-ready-to-cook-flour-tortillas/2188466)
Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game (https://www.engadget.com/the-division-2-botched-update-172527977.html)
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter (https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/)
The Twitpocalypse may have begun today (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/twitter_glitches_raises_tweet_limit/)
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4)
Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… (https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23)
These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/these-new-platforms-will-be-great?utm_source=substack&publication_id=50&post_id=102609967&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true)
IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/ibm-graphql/)
Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-be-acquired-francisco-partners-17-billion)
Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155650909/google-chatbot--error-bard-shares)
The maze is in the mouse (https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Speaks: 'Lot of Growth in Front of AWS' (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-speaks-lot-of-growth-in-front-of-aws/)
The Morning After: Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown begins (https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-netflixs-password-sharing-crackdown-begins-121557582.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIYHiHrsIv_lVu8RNqY46BjFzlgU4pFDBXmk1gQxq2wlQOz02b5tuepColb1KJFoYYwQVWy2SjTUKWVY2oAEMzfkYXlXs97_PE0gpwNUA4RjnDwE_YEm7FB323M9oOBQJNHboj1t77QC9HriDL8cJP-VcplJ5UlJvvwHZRzMn9PC)
AI Homework (https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/)
Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593966/cloudflare-mastodon-server-wildebeest-instance-fediverse)
Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does. (https://twitter.com/liron/status/1622962433752195072)
"The New Gatekeepers" (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations)
A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology (https://fortune.com/2023/02/13/tesla-elon-musk-fsd-tech-ceo-spent-almost-600000-on-a-super-bowl-ad-to-warn-america-about-teslas-self-driving-technology/)
AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/aws_slammed_for_postgresql_dbaas/)
Can this man turn Amazon around? (https://www.ft.com/content/a8cdfe3a-a445-476c-b4a7-367468ac1398)
A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (https://www.twilio.com/blog/restructuring-twilio)
An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/)
Nonsense
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