Episode 385: Armchair Strategist

This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem.

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Runner-up Titles

• Cormac will give her a ride home


• The Baby is asleep


• Maybe she will get angry.


• Lectures don’t work


• See you on Mars, motherfucker!


• You can have 1 piece of dog walk


• It’s only stupid until it works.


• Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win.


• Armchair strategists.


• I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal.


• How long have I been working


• The CTA of Twitter


• An exercise for the listener

Rundown

• As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown


• Cloud Giants Update


• Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates


• Meta
  
  
  • Meta Myths
  
  
  • Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss
  
  
  • Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs
  
  
  • Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META
  
  
  • Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user
  
  


• Twitter
  
  
  • Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs
  
  
  • Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance
  
  
  • Welcome to hell, Elon
  
  

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• Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT


• Big Tech's ranks swelled last year


• Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown


• Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app


• List of KubeCon Sponsors


• Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?


• Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok


• DevOps de los Muertos


• Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn


• Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox


• IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2


• Singapore to phase out checks by 205


• Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend


• 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys

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Nonsense

• Wirecutter Recommendation


• Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes.

Conferences

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


• All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference, Nov. 10th


• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule. Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off


• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  
  
  • Southwest Airlines Lost and Found
  
  
  • The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit
    
  
  


• Coté: micro.blog. Coté’s setup over there (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register to see my legacy trap talk tomorrow, maybe see the replay?

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