Episode 342: Paradox of Advice

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF’s new project and Tim Bray’s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity…

Rundown

• Earnings
  • Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales
  • Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue
  • Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split
  • Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring
• OSS Security
  • Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)
  • OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects
• Citrix goes private
• Tim Bray’s take on Cloud

Relevant to your Interests

• Confluent and AWS just announced a "Strategic Collaboration Agreement."
• Internal messages show Amazon is telling employees to warn customers away from using Microsoft's or Google's clouds as a hedge against AWS outages
• Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business
• Google cloud unit shuffles partnerships and sales groups as CEO Kurian chases market share
• Science says ‘Zoom fatigue’ is real — and worse when you don’t like your face
• Power tool companies have discovered USB-C
• Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data – The Markup
• Germany will break the Internet
• A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs
• Meta doubles down on Oculus Quest name change and everyone hates it
• Streaming Service Retention Rates
• Okta Chart for Cloud Adoption
• Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise
• Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice
• The numbers behind Spotify's Rogan
• How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”
• Universal Control was worth the wait – here's how it's changing the way I work
• Craob X: World's First Portless Laptop on The Way (Exclusive Leak) - My Laptop Guide
• .NET Beyond
• Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant
• SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month
• MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation
• Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion
• Serverless less trendy?

Nonsense

• Tesla launches 'TeslaMic,' a microphone for in-car karaoke

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