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

Listener Feedback

Brian wants you to work at Solo.io:

Gloo Edge Product Manager
Software Engineer (Front-End Systems)
Software Engineer (Back-End Systems)
New Business Developer (BDR/SDR)

Conferences

Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50.
THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022

Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75

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.

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! 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.
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: Rectangle App on macOS

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We’ve always been doing Agile

Episode 354

April 22nd, 2022

1 hr 3 mins

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About this Episode

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

Listener Feedback

• Brian wants you to work at Solo.io:

• Gloo Edge Product Manager

• Software Engineer (Front-End Systems)

• Software Engineer (Back-End Systems)

• New Business Developer (BDR/SDR)

Conferences

• Spring Tour Chicago, April 26th to 27th. Save $50 with the code S1T_SAVE50.

• THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022

• Discount Codes:

• Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75

• 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50

• Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75

• 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.

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.

• Get a SDT Sticker! 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.

• 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: Rectangle App on macOS

Photo Credits

• CoverArt

• Banner

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