Episode 378: Email is not broken

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
• Adobe
  • Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
  • Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
  • Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
  • What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion
• Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?
  • Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
  • Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window
• Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google

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• Sharp Tech
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• YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok

Nonsense

• When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling
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Conferences

• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

• Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast
  • Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World
• Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.

Photo Credits

• Banner Photo
• CoverArt