Episode 431: CEO Therapy Session

This week, we discuss Netflix's DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts on why Europe needs more ice.

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Runner-up Titles

• Try Harder


• It’s a necessary luxury


• Someone’s drinking too much water here


• A culture of ice


• Where are the high performers, at home or at work


• Quit using your Gmail address


• Thou shalt export to CSV

Rundown

• Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too)


• Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals


• Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die


• Can you trust 'open source' companies?


• OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!


• OpenTF pulls the trigger on its open-source Terraform fork

Relevant to your Interests

• VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI


• VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close | TechTarget


• Nvidia's blowout offers a giddy whiff of 1995


• Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones


• Top Ten social media platforms we spend the most time on


• Max will launch a 24/7 CNN stream for all subscribers next month


• Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama


• As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle For Control Of Its Algorithm


• Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture - Slack Engineering


• The Cloud 100 2023


• Data isn’t everything. Judgement counts too.


• Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years


• Instacart is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable


• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees it's 'past' time to commit to the company's RTO mandate and their jobs are at stake


• Duet AI, Google's AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud


• Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate


• What’s new with GKE at Google Cloud Next | Google Cloud Blog


• Duet AI in Google Cloud Preview | Google Cloud Blog


• What’s new in Oracle to PostgreSQL database migrations with DMS | Google Cloud Blog


• US AI startup Poolside raises $126m seed round and relocates to France


• Ping, ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo, the power of open source, and the madness of IAM


• Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock; Combines ForgeRock into Ping Identity


• Interoperability between Google Chat and other messaging platforms — powered by Mio


• Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy


• Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures


• Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format


• Google unveils AI tools for enterprise customers at $30 a month


• Chip design firm Arm seeks up to $52 billion valuation in blockbuster U.S. IPO


• Birmingham City Council goes under after Oracle disaster


• IBM Introduces 'Watsonx Your Business'


• Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads


• Announcing Kubecost Cloud in General Availability: The Easiest Way to Optimize Your Kubernetes Costs


• Platform Engineering - What You Need To Know Now


• The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US


• Introducing ONCE

Nonsense

• The fight for the right to repair McFlurry machines


• Delta Airlines Offers Woman $1,800 After Losing Her Dog

Conferences

• Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, Coté speaking.


• October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023, CFP Closes: August 30, 2023


• November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there


• November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending


• Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas


• If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: JUST ONE MILE | Official Trailer


• Matt: Deadloch


• Coté: Rick Rubin interviews Rory Sutherland. I doubt much of the airport business book stuff in here is “true,” but that’s sort of the whole point, and it’s fantastic listening. His book Alchemy has a great one word review right there in the title. But, again: it’s fun! When you’ve listened to too much If Books Could Kill you can check in on Rory if you need to take the cure.

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