This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash.
Rundown
State of devrel 2021 (https://www.stateofdeveloperrelations.com/_files/ugd/383279_55d4ef5b6f3847c188639d20f3f31b01.pdf)
The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues (https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-cloud-in-2021-adoption-continues/)
Relevant to your interests
AWS Primitives (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1466464691312594955?s=21)
An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) (https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take)
Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005108/en/Meta-Selects-AWS-as-Key-Long-Term-Strategic-Cloud-Provider)
@Werner vs @QuinnyPig (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1466803730934734849?s=21)
Unleash the Booch on No Code (https://twitter.com/grady_booch/status/1467278429221384193?s=21)
A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/business/softbank-marcelo-claure-masayoshi-son.html)
Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum)
FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/ftc-sues-nvidia-to-preserve-arms-status-as-switzerland-of-semiconductors/)
How H-E-B got into livestreaming (https://www.grocerydive.com/news/how-h-e-b-got-into-livestreaming/610935/)
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M (https://www.builtinnyc.com/2021/11/22/gemini-raises-400m-7b-valuation-winklevoss-crypto-hiring)
Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365 (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1467932100527632389)
Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5 (https://m.tiktok.com/v/7038608341731691823.html?_d=secCgwIARCbDRjEFSACKAESPgo85n%2BtKIwo1Zhqn4KTcyroixZ%2FDA8lQYFxeSIpCqXVWLAncwFASfJBaYShvEGUS%2FMGXSehfMJ3NZVGOvAZGgA%3D&checksum=eaad8d27a15f6b79885fc253d8a2c4e8c08460d79884cbf7bc70c937b1a945d1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAA0HTt90iOfdDeuCxbCJ90nZmvHaieIsIe8dMxMIXWtMD0S9s2k4mM58aBqknhPDlp&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7038608341731691823&share_link_id=412686F9-9887-49F9-A2AB-D70149209B02&source=h5_m×tamp=1638830750&tt_from=copy&u_code=dkl91gk6a054k8&user_id=7011150160509174789&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy)
Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests)
AWS Top Secret-West (https://twitter.com/aselipsky/status/1468062726656167937?s=21)
Social Media Trends 2022 (https://www.hootsuite.com/research/social-trends)
$50M to reinvent security automation (https://torq.io/blog/a-new-beginning-security-automation/)
Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed (https://www.anyscale.com/blog/the-future-is-distributed)
GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model (https://blog.gitguardian.com/announcing-our-44m-fundraise-to-further-enable-the-appsec-shared-responsibility-model/)
Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows (https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/07/liqid-raises-100m-demand-composable-data-center-infrastructure-grows/)
Launched Managed Kubernetes service (https://serverspace.io/services/managed-kubernetes/)
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage)
The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-06/the-trump-spac-did-a-pipe)
Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3777464-salesforce-zoom-lead-580m-investment-in-call-center-software-company)
Kelsey wades into Bitcoin (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1468263886323261443?s=21)
AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises (https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/appneta-acquired-by-broadcom-in-order-to-bring-its-award-winning-visibility-platform-to-the-world-s-largest-enterprises-835894275.html)
New Horizons for Open Source (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_Annual_Report_120721c.pdf)
VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/vmware-tanzu-application-platform-with-triggermesh)
A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future (http://)
Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source (http://)
Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent? (https://diginomica.com/hyperscalers-dont-appreciate-needs-smbs-what-should-aws-be-doing-reinvent)
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage)
Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge (https://www.itbusinessedge.com/development/devops-trends-2022/)
Nonsense
icanhazdadjoke (https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api)
Estonian capital began with a traffic jam (https://twitter.com/kane/status/1466883996315308032?s=21)
Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/)
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