

Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap
Sep 30, 2022
01:02:05
This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379.
Runner-up Titles
- You’re not proud of the product
- You can have both
- Landing Pages
- It’s just like Serial
- Don’t bring me these unqualified deals
- It’s a Floppy Disk Problem
- The better the metrics, the less useful they are
- The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful
- Highly Edited
- Focus on Earnings
Rundown
- AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started
- Google and Developer Toil
- Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting
- Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency
- Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money'
- Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive
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- How devops in the cloud breaks down
- Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong
- The Dead End from RedMonk
- Building for the 99% Developers
- Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs
- Slack canvas has officially entered the chat!
- Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air
- Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile
- Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition
- Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday
- Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us
- What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption?
- Did We Overeat on Software?
- Someone is pretending to be me.
- Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M
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- Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers
- The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security
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Nonsense
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- Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights
- Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads
Conferences
- Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
- KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
- SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
- THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023
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