This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.
Runner-up Titles
Freed from Intel
It works!
Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
It will be fun
The Apple Chip
A Demi Kettle
Pay for your own Flu
Free to interrupt me
Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
None of us can master the intranet.
The network is the calendar.
Rundown
Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
AdobeAdobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion
Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window
Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google
Relevant to your Interests
Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
Ethereum Is Merging
Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk
Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile
Audio subscription platform Podimo raises €58.6M
Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language
Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong
Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live — here's what it does
Amazon Web Services — Acquired
It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors
Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing
Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120
McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data.
Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO
Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation
Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget
JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers
The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About
Document Foundation charges €8.99 for macOS LibreOffice
Sharp Tech
Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives
A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings
Charted: Big Tech market values
Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund
The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok
Nonsense
When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling
File this under: Old Bay goes with anything
I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.
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
Listener Feedback
Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] 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:Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast
Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World
Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.
Photo Credits
Banner Photo
CoverArt
