The State of the World 2023

This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne….

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397

Runner-up Titles

• I want to vest
• Call the middle
• I just didn’t have money
• XLT, that’s not a thing
• Yeah, I’m down for whatever
• Coté’s Culture Corner.
• Brandon’s Halo Hatrack.
• Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.”
• If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting.
• YOLO workers’ rights

Rundown

• DHH from 37signals shows the numbers
  • Our cloud spend in 2022 - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter
  • They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity
• Work Life
  • Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (those that are left)
  • Corey’s Take

Relevant to your Interests

• CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner
• SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta
• Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout
• Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive
• Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels
• Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
• State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom
• The Great Podcasting Market Correction
• Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts
• Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes
• National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale
• FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system
• The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience
• Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS
• Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long
• U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app with Ukraine.ua
• Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
• The Shit Show • furbo.org
• Extremely Hardcore

Nonsense

• Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house
• Every Cloud Architecture
• Museum of Obsolete Media

Conferences

• SpringOne, Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere.
• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
• Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp, Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
• State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
• Southern California Linux Expo, Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt & Cote!
  • Use Discount Code: DEVOP
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Atomic Habits with Atomic Habits Resources
  • Also mentioned: What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
• Matt: State of the World 2023
• Coté: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

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