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As the “Great Resignation” rolls along, many people are facing the prospect of a new role or a new company. What are some tips to be successful in the near-term in this new role?

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• Great Resignation (“The Big Quit”) - Wikipedia
• Who is Driving the Great Resignation? (HBR)
• The Great Resignation? More like the Great Renegotiation (NPR)

20-25% OF PEOPLE IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE CHANGED JOBS IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS

Lots of people are taking new jobs, and right now the industry is paying a premium for talent. So how can you stand out in your new role or company? How can you make an immediate difference?

HOW CAN YOU STAND OUT IN YOUR NEW ROLE OR NEW COMPANY

1. Keep in mind that most managers don’t expect you to make big contributions for 3-6 months (sometimes longer) as they realize there is always a learning curve.
2. But everyone is watching what you do to make a judgment of “are they a good fit?”.
3. Find out what’s important to your boss. Understand the things that they are measured on.
4. Identify an area that is either broken or needs improvement. And try to fix it.
5. Read as much as you can (read the docs!), and try to be valuable in your group and somewhere else in the company.

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AWS had an outage in a region and many people responded. What did we learn about outages, responses, and dealing with cloud services going forward?

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• AWS US-East-1 Outage (Dec.10, 2021) - Post Mortem (AWS Blog)
• Your Response to AWS Going Down Shouldn’t Be Multicloud (Tech Republic)
• Larry Ellison brags about Oracle Cloud after AWS outage

CLOUD OUTAGES ARE A PART OF USING A SHARED SERVICE

This week another major cloud service had an outage. They happen frequently enough, for some period of time (usually measured in hours), that we really notice them and then move on. Their impact is felt across many sites and dependent services,

SOME THOUGHTS ON RESPONSES TO CLOUD OUTAGES

1. 5 levels of grief - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
2. The cloud providers (typically) don’t snipe at either other - they’ve all been there.
3. The post-mortems are becoming more consistent - any highly anticipated
4. We continue to learn about differences in cloud architectures, and where failures points (and failure actions) occur.
5. We still don’t understand the internal cloud architectural dependencies of each cloud.
6. How many companies actually follow multi-region best practices? How much does multi-region cost?
7. Multi-cloud is often a knee-jerk reaction, but it’s never that simple - cost, complexity, skills

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Gil Hoffer (@gilhoffer, Co-Founder / CTO @salto_io) talks about the challenges of managing and integrating SaaS applications, the blurring line between business and technical engineer, and software supply-chain for SaaS integrations.
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• Salto (homepage)
• Companies today have, on average, 800 SaaS applications
• Salto (OSS code) - manage business applications by code

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a broad background in engineering and entrepreneurship. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to create Salto.

Topic 2 - There is a big trend happening, where companies are using more and more technology outside of the “central IT” groups. This includes quite a bit of SaaS usage. But it also requires more than just vanilla SaaS. Let’s talk about this concept of a “business engineer”.

Topic 3 - How often do SaaS applications need customizations? How often does a business application require integrations across multiple SaaS services?

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day in the life of a business engineer, and what’s involved in some of the integrations? How much is being able to code, and how much

Topic 5 - Integrations can be complicated, not only to build, but also to maintain. How does Salto simplify the creation and life cycle of these integrations?

Topic 6 - Salto is available as OSS, software and SaaS. What seems to be the best usage model for certain use-cases or types of businesses?

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Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.
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SHOW NOTES:
PODCAST BUSINESS:

• Crossed out 11yr anniversary
• We crossed 500 shows (March ’21)
• Most listens in history, up about 20% from last year
• We launched Cloudcast Basics (4 seasons)
• We launched the Sunday Perspectives shows
• We got named #1 Cloud podcast
• We got named top 20 security podcasts
• Listeners in 130 countries | 4200 Cities
• IPOs from our guests - $2.678B
• VC Funding for our guest - $2.516B

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2021:

• COVID pandemic continued, although some parts of many businesses opened up as vaccines became available.
• Working from Home seems to be a very real, long-term possibility for many in Tech. 25% of workers changed jobs (via LinkedIn)
• AWS - $60B, Azure - $68B, GCP - $15B
• AWS has new leadership. re:Invent felt very different.
• ARM is making a big push in the cloud (and Mac M1)
• This idea of “supercloud” or “overlay cloud services” is gaining traction - companies like Red Hat, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, etc. are growing quickly as SaaS services, even when the cloud has a native service.
• Cloudflare is making a move to chip away at AWS’ profits (egress networking)
• Digital Ocean is making a bigger push around SMB cloud and developers
• VMware become independent again (from Dell)
• Cloud providers still haven’t acquired legacy software companies to get into the on-premises data centers. They keep adjusting their offerings (Outposts, Arc, Anthos)
• Kubernetes keeps growing, but the hype has slowed down and moved to other areas adjacent to Kubernetes (Service Mesh, eBPF, etc.)
• Software-Supply-Chains and DevSecOps “shift left security” are now heavily funded industry segments.
• The metaverse, Web3, Crypto, NFTs are all starting to get a lots of hype (and confusion)

2022 PREDICTIONS:

• Our 2020 Predictions from last year
• Our 2021 Predictions from last year

AARON’s PREDICTIONS

• Zero Trust Models (again...) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continue
• Microsoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2
• Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot...

BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS

• Alphabet/Google decides if they still believe they can get to #2 by 2023
• We’ll start seeing the first generation of ex-AWS people starting new companies

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The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024.

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5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

1. Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?
2. Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all models
3. Does OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?
4. Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?
5. What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot?
6. What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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