Episode 413: Swim between the flags

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413

Runner-up Titles

Airplane Ghost
No Hashtag for That
Sorry Fellow Travelers
That’s what they said about Google Reader
That’s the beauty of nonsense stories
How do you really feel Brandon?
Nobody wants monitoring data
Airport Hotels
I don’t remember
Security Line Sick

Rundown

Checking in on Cloud Earnings

Cloud Giants Update
Clouded Judgement 4.28.23
IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched
Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug
Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division
Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo
Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record
Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth
Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz

OpenCost
Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit
MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Swim between the flags

Episode 413

May 5th, 2023

41 mins 12 secs

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About this Episode

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413

Runner-up Titles

• Airplane Ghost

• No Hashtag for That

• Sorry Fellow Travelers

• That’s what they said about Google Reader

• That’s the beauty of nonsense stories

• How do you really feel Brandon?

• Nobody wants monitoring data

• Airport Hotels

• I don’t remember

• Security Line Sick

Rundown

• Checking in on Cloud Earnings

• Cloud Giants Update

• Clouded Judgement 4.28.23

• IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022

• Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched

• Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug

• Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division

• Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo

• Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record

• Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth

• Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz

• OpenCost

• Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit

• MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

Relevant to your Interests

• FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins

• Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company

• Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding

• Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”

• The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - Moor Insights & Strategy

• Clubhouse ↓

• Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT

• How SQLite helps you do ACID

• On-prem still cheaper but don't rule out the cloud yet

• Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices

• Today in Apple history: Apple-1 starts a revolution

• How Incumbents Survive and Thrive

• Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more

• Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine

• NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

• Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta

• Announcing the deps.dev API: critical dependency data for secure supply chains

• Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Pay Falls to $1.3M, Touts Ad Business in Annual Letter

• Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services

• Venture Capital Deals

• Zoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering

• WSJ News Exclusive | IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business

• Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet (The Verge)

• Keith White On Why He Is Leaving HPE, Dell Apex And Why The ‘Sky Is The Limit’ For The HPE GreenLake Ecosystem

• Apple's batteries will use 100 percent recycled cobalt by 2025

• Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY

• Introducing Gloo Fabric

• MillerKnoll CEO sparks backlash after telling employees to "leave Pity City" over lack of bonuses

• Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business

• Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown

• A 12% decline in global smartphone shipments is what passes for stability these days

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