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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

I've long admired @awscloud but never thought I'd work for them. Until today, when I started. My Day 1. 😇 I feel really fortunate to work here and with such good people. I'm also grateful for so many of you who have shaped my perspectives and will continue to do so.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

9 years

Today's Dilbert on marketing vs. engineering is awesome: http://t.co/3TpC4ePK7G http://t.co/o0FkjTbSaP

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@mjasay

2 years

My wife and I have been watching #crashlandingonyou after several friends and family recommended it. I *love* that show. Never been a kdrama person but this is just lovely stuff.

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@mjasay

3 years

For the past few years, I've been fortunate to work at AWS. Today, however, is my last day there. Very bittersweet for me. Amazon is a demanding, great place, filled with talented, driven people. I will deeply miss both the company and its people.

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@mjasay

4 years

@tim_nolet @awscloud Tim, I run the open source strategy and marketing team at AWS. I hadn't been aware of this but am looking into it. (Regardless of anything we may have done, thank you for what you clearly have done with your project)

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@mjasay

9 years

A new spin on the mythical man month, courtesy of Dilbert http://t.co/dpx0ICxdaw

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@mjasay

4 years

@juliaferraioli Yes, it really is different. I've WFH for 15+ years and these past 2 months have been more wearing than all 15 years combined. I tend to be much more productive WFH but it's been harder during the lockdown

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@mjasay

3 years

Sorry I missed that 7:00 am call. I was busy.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

2 years

Been a decent Saturday so far....

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

It's said you can't go back home again. Well, Monday I rejoined @MongoDB after 7 years away & it's 💯. The company has only gotten better in my absence (bc of my absence? 🤔😬), and is filled with ppl I love, building the data platform I love. Feels 🥰 to be home

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@mjasay

3 years

At AWS we use @rustlang to build services for reasons you'd expect (safety, performance, etc). And bc we (& therefore our customers) depend on Rust, we're committed to ensuring its success by participating in the Rust community, which includes building a deep bench of Rust talent

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3 years

Since we're building up a team to work on Rust I now get to do more Rust-based phone screens and coding interviews. It's noticeable that rust developers code is very consistent and idiomatic. Much more so than either C, C++, or Java. More like Python or Go in that way.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

To my friends and colleagues with whom I rescheduled this morning, I'm sorry for any inconvenience. My daughter said she wanted to ski. And so we did. 🥰

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

Maybe you: "Kubernetes will give me app portability between clouds!" Gartner: "This likelihood is actually very low. Once deployed in a provider, apps tend to stay there" (There are great reasons to use K8s. Portability probably isn't one of them)

Three Factors Weighing on Growth Rates in 2023

Investing in differentiators that drive long-term success, despite pressures that weigh on growth prospects, is critical. #BusinessGrowth #Research #DigitalTransformation

www.gartner.com

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

@tim_nolet @awscloud I'm grateful for your help in this. AWS uses a lot of open source, & we contribute a lot. But open source is ultimately abt community & I personally feel we could've done better here. I'll check w/ you on how we can better support the great work you're doing w/ headless-recorder

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

Red Hat hasn’t had a quarter where total revenue didn’t grow **for 16 years** (64 straight quarters). Compare that to Oracle, IBM, and other so-called tech bellwethers and you can see where the puck is moving

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@mjasay

1 year

I hate to be greedy but, folks, this is every day in Utah. Miles and miles of untouched, perfect powder. Come join me and we can talk data, open source, cloud...or we can just ski. 😉

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

Gartner: Global IT spending in 2019 to top $3.79 TRILLION. Public cloud spending? $214 billion. Cloud is not about trading market share between AWS, Azure, Alibaba, or GCP; rather, it is about making that other ~95% of IT spending dramatically more productive. We have work to do

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

AWS is growing a $27B revenue business growing at 46-49%. Red Hat is (was?) a $3.3B business growing at 14%. Cloudera is a $472M business growing at 25%. MongoDB is a $260M business growing at 57%. All are impressive but AWS' growth is mind-boggling

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

7 years

"Python, Java, and R are most popular skills when it comes to machine learning and data science jobs" (by far, in the case of Python)

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7 years

The Most Popular Language For #MachineLearning and #DataScience is… more interesting than you think: via @kdnuggets

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

2 years

Friday, I'm in love (with Utah).

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

Thinking of career changes people are making, I'm reminded of how incredibly small the tech industry is. Competitors today are peers tomorrow, and vice versa. It's always the right decision to treat people well, respectfully. I've not always done this as well as I'd like

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

Ouch. Investors launch a class action lawsuit against Oracle, alleging Oracle's use of "threats and extortive tactics" to drive cloud $$ "concealed the lack of real demand for Oracle's cloud services"

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@mjasay

6 years

Microsoft has (by far) the most active contributors to open source yet the DO survey respondents picked Google (53%) as “embracing open source most” above Microsoft (23%). Why? Likely because MS may have contributors but Google has projects like K8s and Tensorflow developers use

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

1 year

Good morning from Mount Olympus, skiing with Zeus and Apollo.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

This is the ultimate Utah insult.(This is one of my neighbors and I love them for this.)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

Can confirm. Worked from home for many years; work in an office now. WFH is about a trillion times more productive

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6 years

A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

I was starting to type, "The biggest beneficiaries of open source are also the biggest contributors," but then I realized AWS doesn't make the top-10 contributor list, but is arguably #1 on the beneficiary list 🤔

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

2 years

Some people go on trips and get drunk and wake up to tattoos. I went to London, got high on sticky toffee pudding and scones/clotted cream, and woke up to these. Been singing The Clash ever since.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

I use Twitter for tech news (oh, and Arsenal/soccer 😇), to share tech ideas, and just generally engage on tech-related things. Starting today, I'm unfollowing everyone/everything that tweets politics (of the left or right) because, well, that's not why I'm here.

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@mjasay

6 years

I just might be *ecstatic* about Adobe's acquisition of @magento . It's a company that has built an amazingly popular, open source, developer-driven slice of commerce heaven

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment systems 🥰 Many systems that process unemployment claims still run on a 60-year-old programming language that relatively few coders understand. This is super cool of IBM via @inputmag

IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment systems

Many systems that process unemployment claims still run on a 60-year-old programming language that relatively few coders understand.

www.inverse.com

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

Someone asked me today if MongoDB is still open source. I thought he was joking but since October 16, 2018, MongoDB is no longer open source. It's SSPL-licensed, which is not an OSI-approved license. It's open-ish, but not open source. This genuinely makes me sad

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

1 year

Writing a post and I was quite proud of myself for this line: "If you think Mastodon solves human nature because it’s open source and decentralized, you haven’t spent enough time on the Linux kernel mailing list." 😇

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

@kantrn To all: I don't mean this to sound opportunistic but if you're running an open source project and need infra for $0 pls ping me. AWS offers free credits to open source projects

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

2 years

Going through old photos in preparation for her wedding and remembering that time my daughter and I got to meet @cesc4official at the Emirates....

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

2 years

I've said (& I believe) that open source still matters in the cloud. But I also believe, more strongly than ever, that open data matters more than the code that enables it. Data is where lock-in really resides. So how do we ensure open data? That,I think, is the next big question

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

26 days

Been waiting for this to publish: @OpenTofuOrg responds to HashiCorp's cease-and-desist letter. This answers my concerns, and I appreciate how thoughtful, fair, and *kind* it is. I was hasty in my judgment, and am grateful for their generous reply.

Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu

On April 3rd, we received a Cease and Desist letter from HashiCorp regarding our implementation of the "removed" block in OpenTofu, claiming copyright infringement on the part of one of our core...

opentofu.org

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

No methodology is perfect, but @filmaj 's is pretty darn good, and still shows Microsoft as the world' largest corporate contributor to open source, and Amazon sits comfortably in the top-10.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

Something interesting is happening in @kubernetesio land: VMware is becoming a very (very) active contributor. Compare this last quarter with all time:

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

1 year

In my opinion, Google blew it with open source layoffs. Cutting the very people who built the open source foundation that supports its cloud success seems shortsighted and, frankly, baffling by @mjasay for @InfoWorld

Google blew it with open source layoffs

The decision to cut people who built the foundation that supports Google’s open source and cloud successes seems incredibly shortsighted.

www.infoworld.com

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

I love seeing companies like MongoDB, Fastly, Elastic, GitHub, etc. doing so well. For years the received wisdom was that there was no money in developers. That "wisdom" isn't aging well

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@mjasay

3 years

Yesterday was so emotionally draining. Popped awake at 1:30 am, dithered for a few hours, then I had to get away from Twitter and everything low. I'm fortunate to have this so close to my house. Whatever your personal release, I hope you're getting it today.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

Want to have more PostgreSQL in your life? We're open sourcing Babelfish to make it easy to move from SQL Server to PostgreSQL without changing your application code

Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish | Amazon Web Services

“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just...

aws.amazon.com

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

The best open source development is courteous toward the associated open source *community.* You don't start by showing up with a major functional change ("I've changed everything! You're welcome!!"). You start by "chopping wood and carrying water", helping however most needed

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@mjasay

3 years

@peter_szilagyi @awscloud Péter, I apologize for this. Had I seen it, it never would have gone out. Of course we depend on Ethereum for this service, and open source, generally, for many others. You and others do amazing work. I apologize for how this was messaged.

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@mjasay

3 years

Was just told by one of the editors/publications (WHO/WHICH SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS) for which I write, that they're doing away with the Oxford comma. And now I have a big decision to make. Because, why even go on writing for a world that hates the Oxford comma?

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@mjasay

6 years

I love AWS but increasingly feel that the overtly pro-open source approaches of Microsoft and Google will win over developers

InfoWorld

@InfoWorld

6 years

How #Azure became the place for open source in the cloud, by @mjasay - #oss #microsoft

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

Musl libc creator @RichFelker said something to me the other day that sort of blew my mind. As an open source project lead, he said, "The users, the testers, the adopters, the bug reporters [are] so much more valuable than writing any code" (Post to be published next week)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

Scaling from 25 trillion events to 250 trillion (across 17 data centers): how and why @Adobe uses @apachekafka

Creating the Adobe Experience Platform Pipeline with Kafka

How we deployed a single enterprise-level message bus to support 25 trillion events per year.

blog.developer.adobe.com

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

The Q1 2019 GitHub contributor data is out (see ). Rankings based on % of employees/engineers active, and total # of engineers active

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@mjasay

5 years

Love this from @satyanadella (on Microsoft's earnings call): "Digital technology today is not about tech companies doing innovation. It is about the rest of the world doing innovation with technology"

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

Since I don't drink coffee I have to find other ways to wake up. South Ridge to Mt. Superior was spicier than I really wanted today.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

Good work, @RedHat . Cool to see revenue growth back up to 24%, up from 19% (in the same quarter last year). Open source: good for customers, good for business

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

8 months

I once attended a small conf w/ heads of DevRel from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Twilio, etc: a who's who of DevRel. They'd previously polled 15K+ developers to ask what they needed to be productive, and separately asked the ~50 DevRel leaders where we spent time/$. It was 😭🤯😳.

Matt Asay

@mjasay

8 months

If you're in DevRel and aren't deeply integrated into your company's business, you're an easily replaced expense. I saw this during my DevRel time at Adobe, but it's something I appreciate more and more in my current role.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

The sun also rises (greetings from Utah's Wasatch backcountry)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

AWS re:Invent was great. Glad to be back home though (Early this am skiing the backcountry run "In Between" in West Porter Fork...15 mins from my house)

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@mjasay

3 years

People think they understand AWS and open source, but few do. Here's a (former) insider's guide to how open source works at AWS, and how to influence the company to contribute even more by @mjasay for @InfoWorld

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@mjasay

2 years

Has tech gotten older? I used to think tech kicked you out once you hit 40. Now I see older folks everywhere. A friend theorizes that as tech has permeated all business, the average age of participants has necessarily gone up. Thoughts?

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@mjasay

6 years

It’s been a few months since the @magento acquisition closed and it continues to make my life/work better and remains one of the biggest opportunities for Adobe as we deepen our platform aspirations. I love the people, energy, and code of Magento

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@mjasay

5 years

It’s great that Google Cloud announced an $8B run-rate, but let’s be clear: that isn’t all GCP $$. It includes (and is dominated by) G Suite. It’s awesome to see the big clouds growing, but those comparing AWS apples to “Google Cloud” or “Microsoft Cloud” oranges are confused

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@mjasay

3 years

Welcome to @awscloud , @nikomatsakis ! 👏 "One reason that I am excited to be joining the team at Amazon is that our scope is very simple: help make @rustlang the best it can be" <- Not just the best for Amazon. The best it can be for *all* 🥰

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

8 years

Amazon, not Oracle, is what the future of databases looks like -> Where the Database Market Goes From Here @sogrady

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

7 years

@Arsenal @Ludogorets1945 @ChampionsLeague And...here comes Bayern! Or Real! Again!! :-)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

If you're into data science, you use (or soon will use) @ProjectJupyter . But Perez and Granger didn't set out to revolutionize data science: that was a fortunate consequence of taking care of their students by @mjasay for @TechRepublic

Big Data: Latest Articles, News & Trends | TechRepublic

www.techrepublic.com

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@mjasay

2 years

For those tired of my MongoDB + AWS tweets today, this is how I started my morning. You're welcome

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@mjasay

2 years

Every year during my birthday week I take a day off work and invite friends to an all-day (or as long as our legs last, which tends to be half day) backcountry ski tour. Today was 🥳🤯.

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@mjasay

2 years

First time I've ever talked with @shanselman and...wow. What a kind, fun, thoughtful person (also very smart, helpful, insightful). 10/10 would talk with him again. (Sorry, Scott. You've been warned.)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

4 years

So, I won an award (the 2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence) for writing about multicloud in 2019, which is nice. But what is 1000x better is that my @infoworld editor submitted it (without me knowing). I'm touched by his generosity and thoughtfulness

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@mjasay

5 years

Gartner: "The message in our research is simple – on-premises is the new legacy" (Still allows for a long period of hybrid, but the trend is very, very clear)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

11 months

I want something similar: I'd pay a lot of money to avoid people who want to pay to avoid children (conveniently forgetting they were once children).

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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11 months

I can live with babies on flights--thank you, noise-canceling headphones. But, I'd pay real money for dedicated flights that require all passengers to have taken at least 5 flights the year before.

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3 years

The AWS model of communicating/debating plans through narratives/docs (instead of ppts) is, in my experience, dramatically better. Just did a doc read-out with my team here at MDB and everyone appreciated the way the doc grounded us in the same context for making decisions

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@mjasay

8 months

If you're in DevRel and aren't deeply integrated into your company's business, you're an easily replaced expense. I saw this during my DevRel time at Adobe, but it's something I appreciate more and more in my current role.

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@mjasay

2 years

Missed this before. According to @Gartner_inc , Oracle is no longer the #1 database vendor by revenue. (Microsoft is, and has been for 2 years.) It's not even #2 (that's AWS). Oracle ranks #3 . #4 ? Google. The cloud is shaking up everything....

Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains

The Top 5 vendors concede ground to the rest of the pack

clouddb.substack.com

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@mjasay

3 years

Big news for the best manager ever: @MongoDB names @ulander as Chief Marketing Officer

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

2 years

Because...Utah.

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@mjasay

3 years

Early flight to Seattle meant an early ski. No lift lines at 4:30 am.

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

Good morning, Wasatch. (Devil's Castle above Alta)

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@mjasay

3 years

Google cloud up 45% to ~$5B in the quarter With a $30B backlog, Google has a very positive problem: not sales so much as helping customers productively use what they've paid for. That's a fun problem to solve

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@mjasay

4 years

Samsung migrated 1.1 billion users from Oracle to Amazon Aurora ("practically automatic"), saving 44% in monthly database costs + setting Samsung up for the future by shifting from an Oracle-based monolithic architecture to cloud-enabled microservices 💯

Migrating 1.1 Billion Users across Three Continents from Oracle to Amazon Aurora with AWS Database...

The cloud, as it turns out, is big enough for everyone. It’s even big enough for Samsung Electronics, the world’s second-largest IT company by revenue. As users of Samsung Account—the company’s...

aws.amazon.com

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@mjasay

6 years

A great example of an OSS company that is out-AWS'ing AWS is @MongoDB . Atlas is now 18% of $$ with skyrocketing growth. "Engineered & run by the same team that builds the database" is the winning formula: you can't just be an open source *sw* co; must be an open source *cloud* co

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@mjasay

5 years

To my open source and other friends, the skiing in Utah right now is insanely great. Weep-worthy joy. This was today with @Adobe friends. Please join us. And please don't make me ask you twice

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@mjasay

4 years

I'm sure there are days Googlers think, "We should have kept Borg/Kubernetes to ourselves." But everyone (incl Google) benefits so much more by having it open source. It's the diff between consuming all of a small pie versus sharing in the abundance of a dramatically bigger pie

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@mjasay

2 years

A very happy Monday from 11,000 feet up Mt. Superior.

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@mjasay

1 year

Finding a lot of friends came home from AWS re:Invent with the "re:Influenza." Some covid, some not.

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@mjasay

5 years

Had a great call with @gitlab CEO @sytses . Article(s) forthcoming but in the meantime chew on this: Sid suggested that <1% of the Global 2000 has embraced CI/CD best practices (tracing, feature flags, etc.). That spells lots of $$$ opportunity for leading DevOps vendors...

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6 years

Great glimpse into @satyanadella and his impact on @microsoft -> "Microsoft’s CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most"

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@mjasay

5 years

Back in 1999 I lamented that I was the only person who didn’t make a billion dollars in the dot-com boom. I also haven’t made a billion from open source. BUT...I’m struck by how immeasurably lucky I’ve been to get to know so many lovely, wonderful people through open source/tech

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2 years

Oh, 👀, MongoDB just got even easier to use on @awscloud . Today @MongoDB announced that starting Q1, customers can get MongoDB Atlas as a pay-as-you-go service through AWS Marketplace. Developer convenience X💯

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@mjasay

6 years

Whether jackets to the homeless or something else, this seems like such a great idea. 99% of the time I hate the swag handed out and dump it. I'd be super grateful to have conference organizers spend that money for good instead

Suzie

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6 years

Picture it: A tech conference where they give out 7,000 winter jackets to the homeless instead of 7,000 backpacks to people that already have 7,000 conference backpacks.

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3 years

Kubernetes magic is in enterprise standardization, not app portability by @mjasay for @techrepublic (with a little - OK, a lot - of help from @kelseyhightower )

Kubernetes magic is in enterprise standardization, not app portability | TechRepublic

Commentary: Kubernetes isn't going to magically make your applications portable, but it just might give you something even better.

www.techrepublic.com

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@mjasay

4 years

This time is wearisome for many, and brutally difficult for some. I fall more into the former camp, but the mountains make me feel whole. This was today on Mt. Superior

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

7 years

@BraddJaffy @Kellblog You act like this is a bad thing. I was hoping he'd be gone 100% of the time

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@mjasay

5 years

. @karaswisher 's take-down of Mark Zuckerberg's WSJ op-ed is smart, funny, and true (Also it's funny) (Did I mention funny?)

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@mjasay

5 years

I don't buy individual stocks but I'm sort of in love with watching Fastly, MongoDB, Twilio, Atlassian, and other developer-oriented companies doing so well on the stock market

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@mjasay

5 years

Was just talking with a senior IT exec at a Fortune 500. He made an interesting point: the more competitive the cloud market becomes, the more valuable @openshift becomes to them as it reduces complexity/helps make workloads portable by providing an abstraction layer to write to

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3 years

🤔 I know it’s nuanced but…ppl should be paid for the value of their work, not where it happens. If a PMM drove a $100M increase in revenue from home vs a SF office, is it somehow worth 10% less pay? -> Google employees who work from home could lose money

Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money

Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently, with long commuters hit harder, according to a...

www.reuters.com

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

6 years

Any developers out there that want to come to Utah ("greatest snow on earth") to ski and talk code this winter? Ski in the morning, work afternoon (and talk shop and drink beer (or milk in my case ;-) in the evenings?)

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The @gnome Foundation takes off the gloves, steps up its open source patent defense, by @mjasay via @techrepublic

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

Here’s the smoking gun: “Companies, including banks, large retailers and technology vendors, are investing billions of dollars to find uses for blockchain.” If you’re spending that much just to uncover reasons to use the technology, you’re not really customer-focused...

Matt Asay

@mjasay

5 years

Desperately seeking customer problems to solve. There must be some, but vendors seem more interested in selling blockchain than customers seem interested in buying it

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Matt Asay

@mjasay

3 years

I'll share where I'm going next week, but that's not important today. Today I'm just grateful for AWS. I've never seen a company more tuned to ship software in impressive volume and at unmatched scale. Until you've seen it, you wouldn't believe it. It is awesome.

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