Episode 355: That’s why he runs my Marketing department

This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft…

Rundown

• Kubecost
• Istio
  • Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project
  • Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo
• Earnings
  • AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions
  • Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter
  • Microsoft earnings beat across the board
  • Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss
  • Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft
• The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA
• Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB
• Twitter
  • Back to the Future of Twitter
  • Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter
  • Bezos on Twitter being acquired
  • Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover

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• Is Firefox OK?
• After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch
  • Good SDT Slack Thread on this
• The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company
• Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage
• Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return
• Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter
• Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN
• AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B
• SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs
• Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why
• Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience
• YouTube’s growth struggles to load
• Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself
• Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff
• Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you

Nonsense

• Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head'

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Recommendations

• Brandon: F1 TV
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