Episode 329: Eat the complexity

This week we discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…?

Rundown

The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless
Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US
From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021?
Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later

Relevant to your interests

HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data
Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM
Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive
Habitica - Gamify Your Life
Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen
Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode
What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms
To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock
We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars
AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada
Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion
Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B
Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered
GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy
You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings

Nonsense

Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock

Sponsors

strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt

Conferences

Coté speaking at DevOops (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?”
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 — Now with the right link

Listener Feedback

Jordan wants you to work as an SRE at Shopify. Fully remote in Americas, Hawaii, APAC and EMEA

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

Brandon: macOS disk size utility
Matt: Cloud Native AF #5: Charming Pirates and the Funnel to Contributors

Photo Credits

Banner
Show Art
Internet Minute Graphic
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Eat the complexity

Episode 329

November 12th, 2021

59 mins 20 secs

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About this Episode

This week we discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…?

Rundown

• The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless

• Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US

• From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021?

• Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later

Relevant to your interests

• HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data

• Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results

• Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM

• Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive

• Habitica - Gamify Your Life

• Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen

• Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

• To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock

• We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars

• AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada

• Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion

• Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B

• Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered

• GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy

• You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings

Nonsense

• Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock

Sponsors

• strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT

• CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt

Conferences

• Coté speaking at DevOops (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?”

• THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 — Now with the right link

Listener Feedback

• Jordan wants you to work as an SRE at Shopify. Fully remote in Americas, Hawaii, APAC and EMEA

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.

• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!

• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

• Brandon: macOS disk size utility

• Matt: Cloud Native AF #5: Charming Pirates and the Funnel to Contributors

Photo Credits

• Banner

• Show Art

• Internet Minute Graphic

Episode Sponsors

[strongDM

Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT.](http://strongdm.com/SDT)

[CBT Nuggets

Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start learning today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt.](https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt)

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