I Don't Know if Crypto Is a Good Use Case

This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps.

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Runner-up Titles

• Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore
• The Old Dr. Skateboard
• What a World
• The Pile-On Lifestyle
• A little more in booth directions
• Cloud Bucket
• We’ve done all the stuff
• Predictions and Hopes and Dreams
• Working from home is over like COVID is over
• It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense
• Bring in the Big Monkeys

Rundown

• What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories?
• Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work
• Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation
• What are we watching this year?
• What were the biggest missed opportunities?
• Best Digital Transformation Success of 2023
  

Conferences

• THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule, Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
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• State of Open Con 2023, London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
• CloudNativeSecurityCon North America, Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023, April 20 - 21, 2023

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.
• Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
• Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
• Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

Recommendations

• Brandon: Echo 3
• Matt: Triple Trail Challenge 2023
• Coté: Apple’s new app, Freeform - a little beta-ish (typical Apple 1.0), but worth checking out.

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