Episode Details

This week, we discuss CockroachDB's relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 481

Runner-up Titles

• Put in your AirPods
• People’s lives are boring
• More than zero
• Know your risks
• Violating the social contract
• Keeping my “Rug Pull” card
• Love of the code
• I call it a waiting room

Rundown

• Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
  • Justin Warren’s newsletter this week.
  • Oxide: Whither CockroachDB? (RFD) and Whither CockroachDB? (Podcast)
• Remote Work
  • Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
  • New Starbuck’s CEO gets remote office
• Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?

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