Episode 302: Amsterdam hates cars

This week we try to make sense of Snowflake’s stance on open source and review the State of Serverless. Plus, some advice on parking cars in Amsterdam. Rundown Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3617938/striking-a-balance-with-open-at-snowflake.html) Matt Asay’s Take on Snowflake (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1395809597806366720?s=21) Data Warehouse Wars: Snowflake Vs. Google BigQuery (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4429909-data-warehouse-wars-snowflake-vs-google-bigquery) The State of Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/) Relevant to your interests Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus (https://sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/) SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern (https://www.cyberscoop.com/solarwinds-ceo-reveals-much-earlier-hack-timeline-regrets-company-blaming-intern/) U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/us-treasury-calls-for-stricter-cryptocurrency-compliance-with-irs.html) The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told (https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/) Coinbase suffers outages as cryptos plummet in massive sell-off (https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/coinbase-suffers-outages-as-cryptos-plummet-in-massive-sell-off/) Snapchat's partner summit this year was done entirely in augmented reality (https://www.axios.com/snapchat-ar-spectacles-partner-summit-8bb68470-aa48-402f-a531-aa6c5a78b17b.html) Snap says it now has 500 million monthly active users (https://www.axios.com/snapchat-500-users-developer-tools-92932ae6-a26c-445f-87b6-92775a454f71.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Snap buys WaveOptics, a company that makes parts for augmented reality glasses, in $500 million deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/21/snap-buys-augmented-reality-company-waveoptics-in-500-million-deal.html) Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/20/microsoft_azure_outage/) Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it’ll take a 20 percent cut of sales (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447328/twitter-ticketed-spaces-monetization-stripe-approval) Oracle insiders say there is a ‘culture of fear’ under the leadership of its key cloud unit (https://nullednow.in/trending/oracle-insiders-say-there-is-a-culture-of-fear-under-the-leadership-of-its-key-cloud-unit/2021/) It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/21/linux_5_13_patches/) The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/the-unstoppable-battery-cavalcade/) Netflix Reportedly Wants To Get Into The Video Games Industry (https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2021/05/23/netflix-reportedly-wants-to-get-into-the-video-games-industry/) Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing (https://www.wsj.com/articles/auto-makers-retreat-from-50-years-of-just-in-time-manufacturing-11620051251?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1) Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds (https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997462169/thousands-of-people-are-dying-from-working-long-hours-a-new-who-study-finds) Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/oracle_ampere_cloud/) Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/twilio-invests-in-adaptive-communications-platform-hyro/) Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News (https://news.microsoft.com/build-2021-book-of-news/) Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/) Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3 (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22451144/microsoft-gpt-3-openai-coding-autocomplete-powerapps-power-fx) Green Software Foundation (https://greensoftware.foundation/) The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-containers-on-aws/) Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt (https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/please-fix-the-aws-free-tier-before?ck_subscriber_id=512830314) Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: CISOs React (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-cisos-react-a-16698) Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y) Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine (https://blog.discord.com/happy-blurpthday-to-discord-a-place-for-everything-you-can-imagine-fc99ee0a77c0) Nonsense The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia (https://www.wired.com/story/ford-lightning-f150-electric-vehicle-dystopia/) Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has an unusual approach to his finance (https://twitter.com/robaeprice/status/1396483218954543113?s=21) Twitch launches a dedicated "hot tubs" category after advertiser pushback (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447898/twitch-hot-tub-category-launches-amouranth-advertising) Nonstop flights to Amsterdam back on Austin's horizon (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/05/24/nonstop-flights-to-amsterdam-rescheduled-for-2022.html) Sponsors CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. 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