Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile

This week we discuss the disruption happening to Netflix, Corporate Metrics and a few thoughts on Heroku. Plus, some summer travel tips.

Rundown

• Netflix
  
  
  • Netflix shares crater 25% after company reports it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years
  
  
  • Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords
  
  
  • Netflix slowdown leaves streaming biz reeling
  
  


• Reporting is hard
  
  
  • Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count by @ttunguz
  
  


• Heroku
  
  
  • Heroku is practically down for 4 days
  
  
  • Heroku is like a fallen civilization of elves. Beautiful, immortal, beloved by all who encountered it - but still a dead end. - Adam Jacob
  
  

Relevant to your Interests

• How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog


• Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company.


• "Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost"


• The Chips That Rebooted the Mac


• The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time


• Apollo Global weighs going in on bid to buy Twitter: report


• Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken


• Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions


• Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules


• Discovery is shutting down CNN+ and is expected to provide details to staffers Thursday...

Nonsense

• Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund

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• DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022


• DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022


• MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022


• Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022


• THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022


• VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022


• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Rectangle App on macOS

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