Oh my god this interview starts off bad and gets worse. You might want to mute this thread if you don’t like rants / don’t like the sight of @ibmcloud blood.
@Gartner_inc is paid advertising” may be the dumbest thing I’ve seen all week. You can certainly pay them, but you cannot buy them. Take that as gospel.
Yes, those companies famously just want the basics. Like a cloud that a single third party route announcement can take completely down globally for hours at a time.
So @ibmcloud is best because it can pass compliance requirements, something something mainframe containers, and “confidential computing.”

Somebody’s about to get fired for buying IBM.
In the same paragraph he talks about multi-cloud portability and being forced on other clouds to conform to their cookie cutter approach.

CTO please.
How in earth did this guy get the top @ibmcloud job from @BankofAmerica—oh.
Ohhhh, I know what this is.

Y’know how I shitpost about running @awscloud marketing? That’s what this guy did, and some publication believed he was actually @IBMcloud’s CTO. This is hilarious.

Very funny IBM Cloud, now please send your real CTO out for an interview.

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Let’s try something different. What @awscloud concept are you struggling with? Let me help explain it or find someone who can.
The way accounts were designed originally. "Hard to delete" and "at no point is there not a way to bill for charges" are fundamental tenets of the architecture.

This should change. It's 2021.
"Programmatically provision resources as defined in JSON / YAML / #awswishlist XML."

They're wordy, a bit finnicky, and a lot of projects and tools use more human-friendly things that get rendered into CF.

I struggle too.
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Ahahahaha oh absolutely not.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-…
As much as I appreciate @awscloud's "spend all of your money to find out why you're spending all of your money" approach here, this is approaching "step 17, overpower the wolf" levels of hilarious complexity for disappointing outcomes.
This blog post has, and I am being completely serious, 56 steps you must undertake to arrive at the disappointing outcome.
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The whole premise of the Venture Capital model is that founders perform on command as VCs sit in judgement, only to basically crap on them and decline to invest.

In this thread, let's turn that on its head. Name companies @a16z has invested in, and I will crap on them for it.
When @a16z declined to help Google hire engineers, Google heard that as "well, we can't help you *DIRECTLY*..."
a16z: "Hah, can you believe we got $8 billion from Microsoft!?"

It's this decade's alternate history of "HELL YES, we sold Google to Yahoo for $1 million!"
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Congrats to @revue on their @twitter acquisition. Now, some thoughts on paid newsletters.
Last Week in AWS (lastweekinaws.com) is my snarky email newsletter. I have ~23000 or so subscribers.

There are some folks (Revue is one, @substack is another) that would urge me to write a paid newsletter, to which subscribers are the revenue source.
Unfortunately for my model it's a complete non-starter. Basically none of you you would pay say, $100 a year for my ridiculous ranting nonsense. I might be wrong on that but I seriously doubt it.
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My favorite part is the homage it pays to Charlie Chaplin.
Anne Frankly, it's out of Mein Kampfertzone.
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We turn now to @GitHub's VP of Strategy, Research, and Ass-Kicking, Dr. @nicolefv and her report on productivity from last month.

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You can get awesome graphics.

But only @nicolefv combines the two.
So big pull requests suck, humans suck at repeatable things, open source makes for a fun hobby, and devs are weird.

A bonus fifth item: anything can sound obvious and dumb when I reduce it to something absurd on Twitter.
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