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

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Conferences

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

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

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