2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions

Aaron and Brian discuss the 2022 Year in Review, highlighting the biggest trends, as well as making 2023 predictions. 

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SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

• The show grew nearly 20% YoY (2nd year in a row), with our first 2M listen year.
• The Cloudcast named to Top 20 Kubernetes resources of 2022
• The Cloudcast hosts named to “Who’s Who of Cloud (2022)” list
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THE BIG NEWS AREAS:

• Tech layoffs in 2HCY22
• VMware got acquired by Broadcom (will be part of CA+others)
• The US made a big investment in CHIPS
• NVIDIA’s acquisition of ARM fell through
• AWS - $60B>$85B (+28%), Azure - $35B>$50B (+42%), GCP - $15B>$27B (+38%)
• Microsoft is now 50/50 in Software and Cloud revenues
• AWS re:Invent is different under Adam Selipsky
• Between Texts and Images, AI seemed to make a big leap 
• WebAssembly (WASM) is starting to make noise in new ways (PaaS 2.0?)
• Is Platform Engineering replacing DevOps and SRE?
• Docker 2.0 is making money

2023 PREDICTIONS: 

• Our 2020 Predictions
• Our 2021 Predictions
• Our 2022 Predictions 

Aaron’s Predictions:

• We’ll see a Twitter clone founded by folks that left
• Azure will become #1 public cloud (pulled from 2022 predictions)
• Docker will become a unicorn again and prove everyone wrong
• 2023 will be the year of the down rounds:
  • Worldwide: 450 unicorn and 24 decacorn
  • A unicorn will go under
• Apple will  finally give everyone a peek at their EV car in development, just to mess with Elon a bit.

Brian’s Predictions:

• We’ll start seeing some of the 2020-2022 unicorns acquired as sub-unicorn prices
• Serverless makes a comeback as a cheaper computer alternative
• FinOps conferences become a must-attend event
• GCP makes a huge hail-mary acquisition

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