Episode Details

There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals!

• SDT got a new logo!
• SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
• You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack.
• US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers.
• We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
• Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast
• Join us all in the SDT Slack.
• Upcoming SDT newsletter.

• Changing of the guard at HPE.
• WeWork buys MeetUp.
• Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.
  • EFF write-up
  • Stratechery & follow-up
• This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway.
• Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise.
• Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.

• AWS Business Update
  • Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
• New AWS Services (100+ new total)
  • Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
  • Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)

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