Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, announces new remote-first work policy: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/1519831566486147073 Simpsons meme about Elon Musk criticism: https://i.imgflip.com/3mtyfq.jpg Google parent Alphabet’s results come up

S3E16: Why have searches for GitOps doubled in the past year?

Apr 24th, 2022 31m 22s

GitOpshttps://explodingtopics.com/topic/gitopsSearches for “GitOps” are up 96% over the last 12 months.The reason for growing interest in the practice is that GitOps can lead to increased productivity, higher reliability and better stability

S3E15: Infrastructure as Code is dead, Cloud is the new VMWare, and IT Operations is forever changed

Apr 17th, 2022 35m 40s

Foundry — Cloud computing study 2022https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/Puppet acquired (by Perforce)https://puppet.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-the-ceo-of-puppetBackup frustration brought this CTO to forefron

S3E14: People In Three Dimensions

Apr 10th, 2022 30m 32s

Back to (in-person) workBig tech conferences aren’t coming backhttps://www.protocol.com/newsletters/sourcecode/rip-big-tech-eventsMicrosoft’s CEO Warns of the Impact of All Those Late-Night Emailshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022

S3E13: Conference Boomerangs in the Orc Apocalypse

Apr 3rd, 2022 34m 6s

Remote meetings are big moneyHP Inc. to Acquire PolyPoly is the lash-up of Polycom and Plantronics. And where was Zoom when this was going down?https://www.reuters.com/technology/hp-buy-poly-33-bln-deal-2022-03-28/How much of IT should be

S3E12: Oktapoppin’

Mar 27th, 2022 37m 10s

Okta poppedOriginal tweet: https://twitter.com/billdemirkapi/status/1506107157124722690Okta denial: https://twitter.com/toddmckinnon/status/1506184721922859010Okta detailed statement: https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-

S3E11: Pigeons In The Net

Mar 20th, 2022 30m 56s

- Google Stadia and Vimeo both pivoting to enterprisehttps://www.bgr.in/opinions/google-stadia-dead-for-you-it-is-1247361/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-creators-price-increase - Sabotage of NPM packages is back

S3E10: IT Research Analysts, what exactly are they good for? Plus more on the NVIDIA breach, Amazon’s stock split and the latest Apple event

Mar 12th, 2022 40m 14s

NVIDIA follow-up: leaked certs being used to sign malwarehttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-now-using-nvidias-stolen-code-signing-certificates/Google's Mandiant Acquisition Brings Cybersecurity Automation to Forefronthttp

S3E9: More On Infosec Consequences Of Ukraine War

Mar 6th, 2022 33m 26s

Ukrainian tech companieshttps://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companiesGrammarly, Readdle, MacPaw, many indie developers, and contracting/outsourcing outfitsPeople around the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine. They don't plan

S3E8: Cyber Security in trying times, EU data regulation and multi-cloud frenemies

Feb 27th, 2022 36m 14s

Ukraine CrisisAmbulance-chasing by security marketers — just don’tBiden has been presented with options for massive cyberattacks against Russiahttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-presented-options-massive-cyberattacks-ru

S3E7: Shipping Citrix and Tibco — Citco? Tibrix?

Feb 20th, 2022 29m 43s

Forbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal - https://www.crn.com/news/applic

S3E6: The One With Jon Collins

Feb 13th, 2022 31m 25s

Dominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies. Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno Follow the show

S3E5: Amazon AWS the giant of cloud compared to Microsoft Azure and the often forgotten Google GCP

Feb 6th, 2022 36m 24s

Amazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71Bhttps://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71bhttps://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/148824806638

S3E4: Microsoft Windows license and cloud growth, Nvidia and Arm not happening, and Calendly drama

Jan 30th, 2022 36m 32s

Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderateshttps://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.htmlNvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisitionhttps://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-a

S3E3: Games, Metaverse, and Coffee

Jan 22nd, 2022 28m 45s

Microsoft buys Activision for $69B (nice)https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.htmlMicrosoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-ac

S3E2: Big Data! What Is It Good For?

Jan 17th, 2022 38m 54s

Lilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it.What’s the data problem? How do we think about it in companies?What’s the opportunity … can we dream about what we could do with better handle on enter

S3E1: Here We Go Again, Welcome to the year of the employee

Jan 8th, 2022 33m 6s

2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictionsEmployment changes, new wave of freelancingFractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-onehttps://www.

S2E51: Year In Review

Dec 23rd, 2021 38m 54s

Themes of the year that was:- Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover- Outages and incidents- Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc)- No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects- Mental health and the chang

S2E50: Exploits, outages and the not so different future

Dec 19th, 2021 36m 51s

Patch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploitedhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/List of software impacted

S2E49: Services, Dead Or Alive

Dec 12th, 2021 38m 5s

AWS us-east-1 outage (again)https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.htmlhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-nowhttps://deadline.com/2021/12/amazon-

S2E48: AWS re:Invent experience and the potential end of big tech acquisitions

Dec 5th, 2021 33m 45s

AWS re:Inventhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/AWS re:Invent Keynoteshttps://virtual.reinvent.awsevents.com/track/?trackID=E930FDEA03498D13B5CDACA0833D5A2F.T.C. Sues to Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Armhttps://www.nytimes.com/

S2E47: WebEx Is Good, Actually

Nov 21st, 2021 35m 8s

Have you tried WebEx lately?Whither Skype?Did Zoom depend too much on growth-hacking dirty tricks? https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoomZoom loses Five9 while WebEx extends gap with Contact Center capabilitieshttps://www

S2E46: Return of single threaded life

Nov 14th, 2021 31m 54s

MongoDB.local Londonhttps://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondonAWS re:Inventhttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/RecommendationsDominicPeople. Just people. In three dimensions and real life.MikeThe Tim Ferriss Show - Chris Dixon and Naval Ravik

S2E45: In which we get meta

Nov 6th, 2021 33m 11s

Facebook goes Metahttps://stratechery.com/2021/meta/ Microsoft wants to beat Meta at its own gamehttps://thehustle.co/11042021-microsoft-meta/ Tinder also goes meta, with NFTshttps://social.techcrunch.com/2021/11/03/match-group-details-p

S2E43: Google Cloud reorg/culture shift and Apple being Apple

Oct 24th, 2021 31m 54s

Google Next ’21https://cloud.withgoogle.com/nextGoogle Cloud Removes Old Guard - Will it be enough?Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quicklyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/goog