2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions

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SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

The show grew nearly 20% YoY (2nd year in a row), with our first 2M listen year.
The Cloudcast named to Top 20 Kubernetes resources of 2022
The Cloudcast hosts named to “Who’s Who of Cloud (2022)” list
Thank you to all our sponsors throughout the year (Datadog, CloudZero, JumpCloud, Mergify, BMC, Teleport, NewRelic, StrongDM, Polyscale, LoadForge, NetApp, Revelo, Lightstep, Granulate, CDN77, Jetbrains, Eaton, Cloudfix)

THE BIG NEWS AREAS:

2023 PREDICTIONS:

Aaron’s Predictions:

We’ll see a Twitter clone founded by folks that left
Azure will become #1 public cloud (pulled from 2022 predictions)
Docker will become a unicorn again and prove everyone wrong
2023 will be the year of the down rounds:
- Worldwide: 450 unicorn and 24 decacorn
- A unicorn will go under
Apple will finally give everyone a peek at their EV car in development, just to mess with Elon a bit.

Brian’s Predictions:

We’ll start seeing some of the 2020-2022 unicorns acquired as sub-unicorn prices
Serverless makes a comeback as a cheaper computer alternative
FinOps conferences become a must-attend event
GCP makes a huge hail-mary acquisition

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