RIA Weekly

This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 394 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7N-aGJUM1Y) Runner-up Titles Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore The Old Dr. Skateboard What a World (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechthewizardofozwitchmelt.html) The Pile-On Lifestyle A little more in booth directions Cloud Bucket We’ve done all the stuff Predictions and Hopes and Dreams Working from home is over like COVID is over It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense Bring in the Big Monkeys Rundown What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories? Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation What are we watching this year? What were the biggest missed opportuniti

Ten years ago Dell launched the developer laptop, shipping a Linux desktop of their best gear. In this episode, Coté talks with Barton George who's lead the project about Project Sputnik (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop/ctox13w11p1c4001u), lessons learned about innovating in large companies, and compressed air can sponsorships. Links mentioned: - Check out Barton's overview of the most recent Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition (https://www.dell.com/community/Developer-Blogs/Dell-XPS-13-Plus-developer-edition-with-Ubuntu-22-04-LTS-pre/ba-p/8255332), and the laptop itself (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop/ctox13w11p1c4001u) and other Linux on Dell machine (https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems). - Also, Barton mentions the new Dell Developer site (https://developer.dell.com), which you can see here (https://developer.dell.com). - Dell Linux Workstations, Laptops, and Deskt

This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 392 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KAB_eacdc) Runner-up Titles We’re always recording, Coté, we’re not always streaming. I live the middle. Best 10 microphones to put in a drawer and never use. The lanyard is a child-management platform “That’s great, Brandon…” Finally DNS does something good Amazon is a dog now But then what? N equals me Rundown Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/google-oracle-amazon-and-microsoft-awarded-9-billion-pentagon-cloud-deals.html) Amazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four Executives (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/amazon-ceo-putting-stamp-on-company-promotes-four-executives) Amazon's heroic phase is over (https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/amazons-heroic-phase/) A Faster Horse (https

Brandon is joined by Anton Grishko, Chief Architect at ProfiSea Labs and they discuss DevOps adoption and the rise of FinOps. Plus, Anton offers practical tips on implementing FinOps and reducing your cloud spend. Show Links ProfiSea Labs (https://profisealabs.com/) Anton’s Blog (https://medium.com/@antongrishko) Contact Anton LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/antongrishko/) Email: anton@profisea.com (mailto:anton@profisea.com) Special Guest: Anton Grishko.

This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRy69wGMROM) Runner-up Titles It’s never stopped us before. Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment Three kinds of mayonnaise An aspirational architectural pattern. There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there. I don’t have a computer science degree. Mid-Code It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be? Is it a utopian Wall-E or not? Rundown AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfvL_423a-I) Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/amazon-announces-eventbridge-pipes-a-simpler-way-to-connect-events-from-multiple-services/) Design Patterns (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201633612/) book ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for D

This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and discuss application vendors mandating use of specific Kubernetes distros. Plus, some thoughts on dog boarding… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 389 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8L0QEIMvOs) Runner-up Titles Everyone gets a Graviton Instance What a Boring re:Invent Part of our brand 17 Days in the Hole Under the Stars, Under the Sea Tighten it up Don’t make me pay for security Secure by default That’s a great message and I don’t believe it Works with Lambda Security, it keeps getting better? Rundown AWS re:Invent What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News - 2022 Archive (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-analytics=*all&awsf.whats-new-app-integration=*all&awsf.whats-new-arvr=*all&awsf.whats-new-blockchain=*all&awsf.whats-new-business-applications=*all&awsf.whats-new-cloud-financial-management=*all&awsf.whats-new-co

In case you haven't heard, DevOps is dead (https://twitter.com/sidpalas/status/1551936840453820417). Again. To discuss its demise, Coté talks with Andrew Clay Shafer. They talk about a lot more: Andrew's new company (https://www.ergonautic.ly), working with executives, sociotechnical systems, Andrew's recent SREcon talk in Amsterdam, and more. You can also watch the live recording of this episoded, unedited (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lvec33N3o8)! It has a discussion of Coté's podcast making recommendations at the start. Check out Andrew and friend's new company, Ergonautic (https://www.ergonautic.ly), and, find him in Twitter as @littleidea (https://twitter.com/littleidea). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 387 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvX2zhF26Kg) Runner-up Titles From Montessori to your Funeral The Shit Pile of Enterprise Software Software Expires Bring in all the Kubernetes you can find You’re in Some Kind of Password Genie Hell. The salesperson at Gartner doesn’t want this report to go away Going back to the Monolith SRElon doesn’t do blameless postmortems Mastodon as a Service at re:Invent I am still betting on status quo outcome Keep the Twitter off the phone Bury me with my MP3 backup drives Rundown Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-infrastructure-and-platform-services/) Musk's Twitter chaos opens door to challengers (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1a68726f-589a-432c-8ed5

This week we recap VMware Explore Europe and discuss the Battery Ventures 2022 State of the OpenCloud report. Plus, some thoughts on cologne… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 386 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_WdZ1ORs4) Runner-up Titles I have conference voice. I thought I had conference voice, but it’s COVID. I painted a door. Blue blazer to black t-shirt ratio. The Java hyphen-hyphen capital X talk. I’ve been to VMware Media Training. Go to the Lenovo Booth. iBanker Butt Sniffing. The Sagrada Familia of iBanker Decks, except the summer interns finished it. That’s like buying your steaks at Walmart. Like I said, yesterday I painted a door. Rundown VMware Explore Europe (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html) State of the OpenCloud 2022 (https://www.battery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Battery-Ventures-OpenCloud-Report__2022.pdf) Them interns are busyAF over there (https://hachyderm.io/web/@cote/109315205406946279). Relevant to your Interests DevOps company JFrog grows at a healthy clip but

This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 385 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9ikhH8zqk) Runner-up Titles Cormac will give her a ride home The Baby is asleep Maybe she will get angry. Lectures don’t work See you on Mars, motherfucker! You can have 1 piece of dog walk It’s only stupid until it works. Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win. Armchair strategists. I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal. How long have I been working The CTA of Twitter An exercise for the listener Rundown As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/28/as-overall-cloud-infrastructure-market-growth-dips-to-24-aws-reports-slowdown/) Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1585726177532030976?s=46&t=RXYniVQ-CK_8YOHAtvdakg) Amazon's cloud business just

Matt reports in from Detroit with all the news at KubeCon NA 2022. Plus, some tips on proper etiquette when stretching on International Flights. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 384 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx9J2sHM6ic&t=4s) Runner up titles Detriot style pizza I’m not doing high knees in the airplane bathroom Masks were required Not gonna get a lot of leads from your friendsd Maybe we’re in the trough of disillusionment We Didn’t Start the Fire for CNCF Projects He has to eat the spreadsheet Rundown CNCF Wasm microsurvey (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/10/24/cncf-wasm-microsurvey-a-transformative-technology-yes-but-time-to-get-serious/) Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/fermyon-cloud-app-webassembly-20m-funding-series-a/) Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/docker-launches-a-first-preview-of-its-webassembly-support/) WebAssembly Platform Company Cosmonic Raises $8.5 Million Seed F

This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 383 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7AKtJ-_h0) Runner-up Titles Serverless is the new OpenStack. “I intended to read it.” American Airline lounges are like bus terminals. Made it to my hotel at 4 AM Kubernetes is about the journey That is your 3D chess Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher. Would you like to buy some YAML? We’re gonna go with the ball pit money DHH vs. Mr. Beast Rundown DHH Why we're leaving the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0) Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter? (https://world.hey.com/dhh/need-it-take-7-500-people-to-run-twitter-a8cb36a6) Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’ (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-cloud-seeing-significant-vmware-momentum-gm/3) Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD (https://www.futurehealth.live/blog/2

This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google Next. Plus, Matt Ray goes car shopping. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 382. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZaTjWHqQvA) Runner-up Titles Matt Ray is ready to buy. That’s legal in Australia When Ray Mail comes out, nobody cares I am into workflow This is the population of Hobart that we’re looking at I want to help you, but you don’t even need help Daddy’s Meeting Fort Brandon hasn’t migrated his mainframe workloads to cloud. All these problems are caused by developers Rundown Aboard.io is coming soon! (https://aboard.io/) NTT Data buys digital consultancy Postlight (https://www.consulting.us/news/7702/ntt-data-buys-digital-consultancy-postlight) Linear (https://linear.app/) Americans Reclaim 60 Million Commuting Hours in Remote-Work Perk (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/americans-reclaim-60-million-commuting-hours-in-remote-work-perk) Google Cloud Next ‘22 wrap-up (https://cloud.go

This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 381. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxsNTYXt0Nw) Runner-up Titles It’s on brand I wish I could see Brandon’s legs Running VM’s in the meta verse They were so busy seeing if they could get VR to work that they didn’t ask if they should. Basically, VR is for seeing through walls, including walls of flesh. Lifehacks disrupting VC They’ve got legs Draw a Triangle Rundown Platform Engineering The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering) Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/platform-devops-summary/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global) What Is Platform Engineering? (https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-is-platform-engineering) Coté’s S

This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 380. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8MwCBPgWY) Runner-up Titles Leave it all in Brighttalk Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later Killed by Google Wins Again Tell that to the WeWork founder Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon Anyone from software thinks they can do anything Lots of learnings. I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy. A good Brandon issue Rundown Google’s Incentives Google is shutting down Stadia (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/29/google_shuts_down_stadia/) Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-555c72e1-380a-4a69-affe-e8260ae5734e.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0) Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them. (https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1576985038511448064) 2022 State of DevO

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. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU1uSOpu-c) 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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/aws-ceo-says-the-move-to-cloud-computing-is-only-just-getting-started.html) Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast) (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services) Google and Developer Toil Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-me

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle. Runner-up Titles Freed from Intel It works! Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms It will be fun The Apple Chip A Demi Kettle Pay for your own Flu Free to interrupt me Feet on the desk in business suit emoji. None of us can master the intranet. The network is the calendar. Rundown Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture (https://archive.ph/aRauw) Adobe Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/adobe-buying-figma-20-billion-dollars) Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma) Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/adobe-figma-deal-likely-to-attract-antitrust-scrutiny?utm_source=newslet

This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee… Runner-up Titles It’s about me Workshop it I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs This is their Popeye moment Pulitzers and free coffee Financial shenanigans Hide the gift shop in the data center Rundown No more free coffee as bankers return to Goldman Sachs (https://fortune.com/2022/09/12/goldman-sachs-eliminates-free-coffee-business-powerhouses-trimming-perk-employees-return-office/) Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-on-verge-of-becoming-worlds-hottest-cloud-vendor/) Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/starbucks-unveils-its-blockchain-based-loyalty-platform-and-nft-community-starbucks-odyssey/) André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative (https://st

This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers? Runner-up Titles They were already in the system. Headless Optimization Gone Amuck. While sitting on the toilet Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SXfb0CJrE). All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution. Bring Paul Ford out of retirement. Great ideas, getting close Prevent the typo 73 SaaS Companies “Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.” That may be his family crest Rundown Checking on Digital Transformation Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/japan-declares-war-on-floppy-disks-for-government-use/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Instant Payments in the U.S.? (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1567516269594955778) You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button (https://gi

This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…? Runner-up Titles Where’s my admin? All my children qualify as adults Start by eating their food Put two letters in front of it Where’s the grocery store I got that everything bagel spice Is it OK to hang-up on your kids? In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy. The runbook’s already written. Spagetti Bowl Tanzu the Shih Tzu A FinOps Type of Motion The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff Growth is best done in the shadows. Wrapping bullshit with bullshit Nopehouse, home of the fast follower The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans Thought-leadership suicide mission Rundown VMware Explore (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html) How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/snap-microservices-aws-google-cloud) Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Ca