Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap

This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379.

Runner-up Titles

You’re not proud of the product
You can have both
Landing Pages
It’s just like Serial
Don’t bring me these unqualified deals
It’s a Floppy Disk Problem
The better the metrics, the less useful they are
The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful
Highly Edited
Focus on Earnings

Rundown

AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started

Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast)

Google and Developer Toil

Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting
Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency
Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money'
Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive

Relevant to your Interests

PaaS Is Not Dead
How devops in the cloud breaks down
Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong
The Dead End from RedMonk
Building for the 99% Developers
Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs
Slack canvas has officially entered the chat!
Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air
Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile
Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition
Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday
Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us
What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption?
Did We Overeat on Software?
Someone is pretending to be me.
Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M
For teens to do better in school, they need to sleep in
Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers
The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security
Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

Nonsense

The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid
Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads

Conferences

Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it.

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!

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Brandon: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode

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TAMs are a Trap

Episode 379

September 30th, 2022

1 hr 2 mins

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About this Episode

This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379.

Runner-up Titles

• You’re not proud of the product

• You can have both

• Landing Pages

• It’s just like Serial

• Don’t bring me these unqualified deals

• It’s a Floppy Disk Problem

• The better the metrics, the less useful they are

• The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful

• Highly Edited

• Focus on Earnings

Rundown

• AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started

• Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast)

• Google and Developer Toil

• Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting

• Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency

• Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money'

• Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive

Relevant to your Interests

• PaaS Is Not Dead

• How devops in the cloud breaks down

• Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong

• The Dead End from RedMonk

• Building for the 99% Developers

• Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs

• Slack canvas has officially entered the chat!

• Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air

• Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile

• Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition

• Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday

• Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us

• What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption?

• Did We Overeat on Software?

• Someone is pretending to be me.

• Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M

• For teens to do better in school, they need to sleep in

• Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

• The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security

• Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

Nonsense

• The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid

• Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights

• Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads

Conferences

• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting

• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022

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

• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

• Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it.

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: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode

Photo Credits

• Banner

• CoverArt

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