Tech Talks and Audiobook Recommendations

This week, we cover Netflix’s streaming hiccups, cloud earnings updates, Red Hat’s CNCF donations, and the potential sale of Chrome. Plus, a few thoughts on parenting.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 494

Runner-up Titles

• The dog peed on it.
• Jamin’s favorite Excel macros.
• Change up the noodles.
• 0.7 good tips there
• The tiniest of rebellions
• Win one for the stockholders
• Candor
• A datacenter with a gift shop.
• VP of Cables has cucumber water with VP of Monitors.
• You can’t open source a monitor.

Rundown

• Netflix
  • Netflix’s Boxing Event, Customer Acquisition vs. Churn Mitigation, Accounting for Events
  • Disney sets India Cricket Viewership Record for TV, streaming during World Cup
  • Netflix Culture
• Earnings
  • Amazon Reports Record $15.3 Billion Profit
  • Clouded Judgement 11.1.24 - Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Meta on AI and CapEx
  • Amazon Earnings, Robotics and Amazon’s Expanding 1P Business
  • Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity
  • Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud
• Going Open Source
  • Red Hat to Donate Podman Along With Other Container Tools to CNCF
  • Salesforce’s Heroku platform open-sources Twelve Factor project
  • Twelve-Factor App Methodology is now Open Source
• DOJ Will Push Google to Sell off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly

Relevant to your Interests

• These are the passwords you definitely shouldn’t be using
• Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems
• New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
• AI companies hit a scaling wall
• Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
• Clouded Judgement 11.14.24 - Market Tipping to Growth
• For the first time in 25 years, the number of software engineers dropped
• The CNCF's plan to crowdfight patent trolls
• Maybe Bluesky has “won”
• Having 30,000 followers makes you a celebrity, UK advertising watchdog rules
• The Influence of Bell Labs
• Leaked Amazon memos identify critical flaws in the upcoming AI version of Alexa
• RIP to RPA: The Rise of Intelligent Automation | Andreessen Horowitz
• Twenty is building an open source alternative to Salesforce
• Chips
  • RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have
  • Arm to Cancel Qualcomm Chip Design License
  • The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
  • Intel losses hit $16.6B as restructuring efforts take a toll
  • Intel Was Just Dropped From the Dow
  • How much Apple Silicon improves with each release

Nonsense

• Bojangles to install ordering kiosks across its system
• 'Simpsons'-themed broadcast means Bengals-Cowboys won't be flexed

Listener Feedback

• Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG
• LibreLinkUp Status Bar a VS Code extension to display good glucose level in the status bar

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Silo Season 2
• Matt: Followup - Spotify Premium limits audiobooks to 10 hours a month 😞
• Coté: YouTube — IMG_0001.

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