The AWS EC2 service was invented in Cape Town, AWS already have a lab and infrastructure there so its easier for them to scale up infrastructure when the people, skills and local ecosystem is already present.
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Snowflake had incredible timing as they hit the market just before CFO's and non-tech business leaders realized the cost and talent needed to pull off a datalake successfully was more than they'd like. Those that were sick of the management jumped to Snowflake fast and AWS/Azure never really responded until recently.
Awesome to see all the innovative takes on solving these extremely technical problems! I love it!
This is roughly 1% of the annual operating budget.
Not much as $60k/person would cover just 40,000 people. Homeless advocacy/Non-profits would take a large percentage of this for administration so the per person dollar spend is far lower.
Time is running out for some of the regions politicians. With hundreds of millions spent, it feels like there is almost zero impact.
The odds of mistaken identity are too high with an automated service.
EPIC is a perfect example of the walled garden ecosystem that extracts every last drop from its clients and keeps anyone trying to innovate out. Healthcare tech could use the competition to drive down costs related to medical record management and exchange.
Here is the original interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRZtZQoLtQ
When I was at Oracle this was a well known business plan, if Oracle acquired it a bunch of guys who knew the market/problem well would get together, seek funding and start a competitor aimed at the existing customer base. People couldnt be happier to get out of working with Oracle so it worked well for a long time.
More recently larger companies have learned to leave their acquisitions alone. Just look at LinkedIn as a great example.
I would not recommend this career track if you're the kind of person that wants to climb a career ladder and go into management on the business side of things, there are definitely useful skills to acquire on the legal and softskills side. Having any degree will just check a box and help people without a clear view of what they want out of the future. It can also help if you want to put yourself through being just another number at a FANG organisation.
Too stubborn and arrogant to allow someone to tell me I'm incapable of being a success without a piece of paper.
Its great, when I flip on the little machines I know is music making time and I wont have to deal with any hurdles.
The same thing has happened with some rock genres, I've seen Spotify build playlists of pop bands who've taken the image/art of a hardcore/heavy rock band to create this really confusing situation where you are expecting a raw rock sound but you get a heavily produced pop sound.
Ultimately this will strengthen a labels position as signed artists will be "allowed" to be influenced by songs the record label already owns.
Anyone else will be stuck in court.
There's a fantastic documentary on this called Copyright Criminals that breaks down this area and just how intertwined the entire music industry is as artists are naturally inspired by each other. The conclusion from this film was that innovation and creation will then come from places where these laws do not exist.
I still subscribe to Spotify but for anything I love I buy the vinyl/flac copy and store it on my Roon server at home.
They have a similar setup at Bar Shiru in downtown Oakland but its too noisy to appreciate the setup they have.
We recently went back to PC's and it was immediately obvious we needed wall to wall antivirus protection which was not always the case on macs.
This is great news for the project and should drive more work on the convenience layers that need to be built above the IPFS layer.
And like any good crypto "expert", he spent his time sharing opinions and copying other peoples source code versus building anything real.
My firm uses Informatica's IICS to output all of the datasets for Tableau to visualize, its not as exciting as the hundreds of frameworks and languages that do the same but it works reliably and I don't have to hire expensive data scientists to get the job done or switch tech every few years to whatever is the flavor of the month.
We take the 80/20 approach that most questions the business asks can be answered with Informatica. The last 20% we save for our developers and the odd data scientist to help us with.
I work very closely with the Google Cloud team as a technology partner. With the recent hire of Thomas Kurian he has to make a big splash at Google while good will is forthcoming and I expect he will continue to authorize significant acquisitions to help build out their cloud to compete with Azure/AWS. The next piece of the puzzle will be an integration platform to help bring it all together.
The US by contrast is a continent in its own right with a vastly diverse set of people and cultures. My own experience of the bay area is people are extremely giving and donate a lot of money and time towards homeless efforts. However I feel the latest backlash is born from fatigue towards no solution in sight. If homeless refuse to accept help or seek alternative options to sleeping on the street why would you want to keep helping? I am still stunned that the tiny city of San Francisco had a $300m annual budget to help less than 5000 people. Thats $60k/homeless person, this is greater than the per capita GDP of every single country on earth except the US.
Anecdotally I have a guy living in his car on my street that is filled to the ceiling with trash, he refuses to move or get into a shelter despite us trying to help him. Sadly the neighbors on the street are starting to sour towards him after 6 months of having social workers reach out to help and various charities try to assist.
The no. 1 piece of advice he gave me.... "If you can't grow it or kill it, don't eat it". I've been in incredible shape for over a decade following this simple rule and its also exposed to me just how hard it is to follow this rule when traveling in the US.