Episode 356: They should have consulted us

This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro…

Rundown

How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple
Passwords

Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins
Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access
Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO
How FIDO Works
1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features

Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable?
Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results
Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works

Relevant to your Interests

Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget
A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings:
Big Tech revenue growth rates.
Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight
Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time
Actual is going open-source
Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better)
Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business
Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart
Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates
Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade
Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A
Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer
Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives
Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business
Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com
Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud
Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help.
Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland
Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com

Nonsense

AOC and Elon
Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID

Sponsors

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Conferences

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 Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual

Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod

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!
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Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

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Brandon: Ozark Series Finale
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They should have consulted us

Episode 356

May 6th, 2022

57 mins 28 secs

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About this Episode

This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro…

Rundown

• How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple

• Passwords

• Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins

• Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access

• Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO

• How FIDO Works

• 1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features

• Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable?

• Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results

• Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works

Relevant to your Interests

• Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget

• A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings:

• Big Tech revenue growth rates.

• Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business

• Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight

• Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time

• Actual is going open-source

• Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better)

• Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads

• Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business

• Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart

• Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app

• Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

• Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade

• Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A

• Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer

• Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives

• Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business

• Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com

• Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

• Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud

• Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help.

• Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland

• Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com

Nonsense

• AOC and Elon

• Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID

Sponsors

• IT Brew — The IT Brew newsletter delivers the latest news and analysis of trends shaping the IT industry, like only The Brew can. Subscribe today!

Conferences

• 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 Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022

• MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022

• cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual

• Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod

• 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: Ozark Series Finale

• Matt: Debian preseed

Photo Credits

• Banner Art

• Cover Art

Episode Sponsors

IT Brew

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