Episode 333: Chop wood, carry water

This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash.

Rundown

• State of devrel 2021
• The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues

Relevant to your interests

• AWS Primitives
• An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities)
• Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider
• @Werner vs @QuinnyPig
• Unleash the Booch on No Code
• A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees.
• Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website
• FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors
• How H-E-B got into livestreaming
• The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M
• Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365
• Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5
• Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
• AWS Top Secret-West
• Social Media Trends 2022
• $50M to reinvent security automation
• Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed
• GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model
• Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows
• Launched Managed Kubernetes service
• An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others
• The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE
• Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM)
• Kelsey wades into Bitcoin
• AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises
• New Horizons for Open Source
• VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh
• [A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future](http://)
• [Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source](http://)
• Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent?
• An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others
• Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge

Nonsense

• icanhazdadjoke
• Estonian capital began with a traffic jam
• Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

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