Episode 328: Your MOM is a SaaS

This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase.

Rundown

• Cloud software vendor HashiCorp files for IPO as investors pour money into high-growth tech stocks
  • Coté’s highlights.
• Understanding the 2021 State of Open Source Report
• Amazon
  • Amazon badly misses on earnings and revenue, gives disappointing fourth-quarter guidance
  • Amazon Web Services tops analysts' estimates on profit and revenue
  • Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register
  • A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline!
• Your hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy just got better with Azure
• Compliance in a DevOps Culture

Relevant to your interests

• Abacus.ai snags $50M Series C as it expands into computer vision use cases
• NeuVector is excited to announce we are joining SUSE
• Monitor Your Azure Environment Using Amazon Managed Grafana
• Facebook’s new name will be Meta
• New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 - Raspberry Pi
• Universal Search & Productivity App | Command E
• Software services firm Zendesk to buy SurveyMonkey parent for nearly $4 bln
• Kalshi
• Popular gaming platform Roblox back online after multi-day crash
• Dell spins off $64 billion VMware as it battles debt hangover
• BMC Unveils New Data Management and Analytics Capabilities
• Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million
• AI programming tool Copilot helps write up to 30% of code on GitHub
• Introducing the Free Java License
• Backblaze’s IPO a test for smaller tech concerns
• Happy 1.0, Knative
• A Return to the General Purpose Database
• Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings
• Nat Friedman to step down as head of Microsoft's GitHub
• Microsoft launches Google Wave

Nonsense

• Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth — Engadget
• Aussie++
• Microsoft resurrects Clippy again after brutally killing him off in Microsoft Teams
• Allbirds shares surge 60% in eco-friendly shoe maker's market debut

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Conferences

• MongoDB.local London 2021 - November 9, 2021
• Coté speaking at DevOops (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?”
• THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Success Equation — The spiritual sequel to “The Halo Effect”
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• Matt: The Art and Soul of Dune (Companion Book Music)
  • Dune (the book)
• Coté: LaserWriter II. Also, check out my Tiny Tanzu Talk videos playlist - 18 months of video madness. Also, I watch Frozen from three to ten times a day now with Dutch subtitles turned on. So, I’m trying to memorize “als een kip met het gezicht van een aap.”

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