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“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?”

Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems to be shutting down. We discuss the wonders of Snap’s hot dog app, the mystery of Amazon’s lack(?) of brand allegiance, and giving up on kale.

“Share price down? I gotcha bro.”

• Dancing Hot Dog.

Amazon to Start a Messaging App

• Link
• I get the whole need to control networks, but it seems like we’ve kinda saturated a lot of these (Allo, is this thing on?). Why not just buy Slack? (Wasn’t that a rumor? Could this be that diapers.com-style retaliation.)
• 80m Prime customers
• Twitch and “Stimpy.” The pair of people doing Minecraft.
• @profgalloway
• Uber driver on Whole Foods acquisition.

Google Transfer Appliance

• Snowball envy?
• So, by “data,” they mean not only CSV files, but also VM images? HRM!
• Data gravity, from Dave McCrory.
• Someone finally made a data gravity chart:
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Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, etc.

• Brandon Butler summerizes
• Techcrunch on the announcement
• List of core stuff:
  • Management of upgrades, releases, and integration of services.
  • Multiple cloud options with Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry across private clouds and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack.
  • Support and service level agreements with 99.99 percent uptime and 15 minute response on emergency issues.
• PCF services put another way: “...on any public or private cloud as well as on customer-owned infrastructure…. The Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution will feature 24/7 management for troubleshooting, managing updates, feature releases, and integration with various services; multi-cloud capability; and on-demand expertise for handing version updates, feature enhancements and other technical updates.”
• Check out dem success numbers: “Fortune 500 customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to build, deploy, and run their legacy and cloud-native apps have experienced 2,000 percent increase in developer productivity, as well as a 50 percent reduction in IT costs due to platform automation”

Basho Shuts it Down

• “The Reg was obviously keen to put the claims in this story to Basho, but we’ve struggled to find anyone still working at the company to answer us.”
• Kafka, Casan