The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEs8SG2T8XU)
Runner-up Titles
The MacGyver of podcasting
Scooping up The Tube tickets
Buy some velcro
This email could have been a PR
Who the hell is Brian?
Perverse incentives
What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats
Rundown
Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call) (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1661486022239322112?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg)
Clouded Judgement 5.26.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-52623?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=123821962&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/27/y-combinator-backed-neptyne-is-building-a-python-powered-spreadsheet-for-data-scientists/)
Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates (https://twitter.com/ericabrescia/status/1661486363420798976)
Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/francisco-partners-tpg-end-talks-buy-new-relic-sources-2023-05-26/)
Relevant to your Interests
Ivory for Mac (https://tapbots.com/ivory/mac/)
The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06590.pdf)
Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/24/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-bring-intelligent-search-to-its-cloud-data-management-solution/?guccounter=1)
AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/stacks-eol-faqs.html)
1Password is rolling out passkey management next month (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/23725223/1password-passkey-date-password-manager)
Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants (https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/)
Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm (https://gigaom.com/2023/03/17/thinking-strategically-about-software-bills-of-materials-sboms/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? (https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2023/05/18/can-watsonx-rebuild-ibms-ai-relevance/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm (https://gigaom.com/2023/05/03/touchpoints-coalescence-and-multi-platform-engineering-thoughts-from-kubecon-2023/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-value-keeps-falling-under-musk-now-worth-a-third-of-what-he-paid/)
Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp (https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2)
The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked (https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/ai-regulation-open-source-meta.html)
Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q1-2024.html)
Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/cathie-wood-s-arkk-dumped-nvidia-stock-before-560-billion-surge?srnd=premium)
Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally (https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/nvidia-unveils-more-ai-products-after-184-billion-rally-11685385380208.html)
xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/xros-apple-headset-software-rumors/)
AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/stacks-eol-faqs.html)
Nonsense
HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120 (https://gizmodo.com/hp-15c-scientific-calculator-collectors-edition-price-r-1850464801)
Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/a-decade-after-it-mattered-windows-xps-activation-algorithm-is-cracked/)
Conferences
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking.
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Recommendations
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Matt: Spotify Remastered/Deluxe albums
The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) (https://open.spotify.com/album/0H6TddUF2M63ZSHGvhk5yy?si=liZmNJnKTtaYMkrJuiSr5Q)
Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants (Super Deluxe/Remastered) (https://open.spotify.com/album/5lATS8kbZZub29Q3mGyNiB?si=RaO6u8i-Slm2eaxXw1pGAA)
Coté: Bobby Fingers (https://www.youtube.com/@bobbyfingers)
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