Episode 378: Email is not broken

Software Defined Talk

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.

Runner-up Titles

• Freed from Intel
• It works!
• Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
• It will be fun
• The Apple Chip
• A Demi Kettle
• Pay for your own Flu
• Free to interrupt me
• Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
• None of us can master the intranet.
• The network is the calendar.

Rundown

• Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
• Adobe
  • Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
  • Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
  • Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
  • What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion
• Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?
  • Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
  • Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window
• Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google

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• JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers
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• Sharp Tech
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• YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok

Nonsense

• When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling
• File this under: Old Bay goes with anything
• I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.

Conferences

• Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
• KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

Listener Feedback

• Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack

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Recommendations

• Brandon:
  • Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast
  • Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World
• Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.

Photo Credits

• Banner Photo
• CoverArt