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This whole drama seems heartbreakingly unnecessary.

- Billions of $ in employee options destroyed
- Useful tools destabilized

And for what? So the board could fire a CEO for cause so strong they were begging him to come back within 24 hours?

Tragic.

If my OOO was honest:

“I’m not checking email this week. Then I go straight to reinvent and probably won’t check email much either. Also, my kid got sick last week and the week before that I was at KubeCon, so honestly I’m looking at a month of email debt. Good luck!”

Burn this ReTweet into your brain, and don't ever allow it to be you.

Have the hard conversation, the awkward moments.

Act, create, and fight for the life you want.

AWS is going to be insufferable with its AI messaging now.

Not only were they late to the game and were having their lunch eaten once they arrived, now one of their biggest competitors has the people and the money to go even faster.

Microsoft essentially acquired the best parts of OpenAI for $0

- 2 of the original founders (Sam & Greg), now unshackled & probably with a lot more skin in the game.
- A significant amount of OpenAI staff will follow Sam & Greg to the new org, some of the best people in the…

Important data points on EC2 instance type availability across regions from Andreas Wittig (h/t Last Week in AWS ) cloudonaut.io/worldwide-avai…

I bet if we asked all the cost management products to total up what their customers are spending on data transfer and combined that to one number

we would all be very, very angry at the cloud providers

I've been watching Warpstream for a while. Really liking the direction it's going.

Kafka might be one of the worst workloads to run in the cloud thanks to all the cross-AZ traffic that comes with it. Definitely built with 'the network is free' in mind.

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Heh. Fine, I’ll take the bait and answer this as if it were asked genuinely since I truly can’t tell on here sometimes.

The CEO of a company is not a technician, they are a… well, they are ultimately a sort of “trust broker.”

This is covered in a bunch of business books…
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Every Re:Invent I keep track of releases in an Excel sheet. It's terrible work, and it doesn't scale. So this year, I built an app!

It allows you to mark AWS news and blogs as read, and give them a personal rating. All data is tied to your personal login.

It's about to go live.

Great work on posing a question and then not actually answering that question CLEAR!

Not nearly enough rumors from those directly involved to qualify as a proper Baptist church split

Needs more overt pastoral shade

whoa

Hey [email protected], happy Beaujolais Nouveau Day!

Here's to gettin'-where-you-gotta-go on alcoholic grape juice this weekend 😂

The most amazing part of partyrock.aws is that someone got the greenlight to build it. This is not AWS's normal vibe.

The number of people commenting about how Adam could reduce his costs even more… 🤦‍♂️

I assure you if any member of their team spent a single hour *period* trying to reduce the cost, it will have wiped out any actual savings.

Potentially unpopular opinion, but I'd take 900ms cold starts over death by a million Kubernetes shaped paper cuts any day of the week 🤦

In the spirit of saying nice things FinOps Foundation once in a while, the newly-announced preview spec for FOCUS is pretty great. I like the idea a lot and the spec appears to be well-considered.

focus.finops.org