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Nov 30, 2021 14 tweets 1 min read
Did I accidentally dial into a history seminar? 30 minutes in. Still no new databases. Or anything except a chip turn.
Nov 30, 2021 12 tweets 2 min read
Pre:Invent 🧵 /1 AWS is dropping hints of where the elephant is going to lay down this week at re:Invent: /2

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Nov 28, 2021 13 tweets 3 min read
Barron’s makes its semi-regular pitch for IBM’s imminent reincarnation in this week’s cover story) 🧵 /1
apple.news/AfLykb0h9S0yoA… Despite a lede calling Watson “one of the greatest coups in the history of public relations”, “a stunt” and “an albatross, symbolizing IBM’s lost decade”, Barron’s quickly starts on the new storyline (kudos to IBM PR, a rare oasis amidst what otherwise a desert of mediocrity) /2
Feb 5, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2020 Retrospective #bonkers platformonomics.com/2021/02/follow… The three hypercloud companies – Amazon, Google, and Microsoft – collectively spent almost $97 billion on CAPEX in 2020
Dec 1, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read
1\ Some random thoughts on AWS Reinvent keynote

2\ AWS continues to push the infrastructure primitives hard, but pace and surface area of innovation seems to be slowing. Scope of cloud platform increasingly mature.
Nov 26, 2019 17 tweets 3 min read
1\ I was going to do a blog post with my key questions going into re:Invent 2019, but realize last year’s tweet still works for this year

2\ After “reinventing” their view on hybrid and on-premises computing (previously described as both “whacky” and “ill-advised”), AWS made some big promises last year for Outposts.
Jul 9, 2019 8 tweets 1 min read
A Very Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud Hyperbole platformonomics.com/2019/07/a-very… 1\ WHY IS THIS DEAL HAPPENING? (TL;DR MUTUAL DESPERATION)