Episode 417: Every Salesforce is a Snowflake

The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels.

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Runner-up Titles

• The MacGyver of podcasting
• Scooping up The Tube tickets
• Buy some velcro
• This email could have been a PR
• Who the hell is Brian?
• Perverse incentives
• What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats

Rundown

• Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call)
• Clouded Judgement 5.26.23
• Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists
• Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates
• Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic

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• 1Password is rolling out passkey management next month
• Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants
• Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm
• Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance?
• Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm
• Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid
• Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp
• The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked
• Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand
• Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge
• Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally
• xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset
• AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks

Nonsense

• HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120
• Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years

Conferences

• June 7th State of Kubernetes overview, online.
• June 8th to 9th PlatformCon, online.
• June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam, attending.
• June 27th to 30th FinOps X San Diego, attending.
• August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia, attending.
• August 21st to 24th SpringOne & VMware Explore US, in Las Vegas.
• Explore EU CFP is open.
• Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines, speaking.
• Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT in Zadar, speaking.
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