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Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 6:30 a.m.

This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash.

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• State of devrel 2021
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• The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• AWS Primitives
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• An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities)
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• Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider
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• @Werner vs @QuinnyPig
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• Unleash the Booch on No Code
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• A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees.
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• Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website
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• FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm\u2019s status as \u201cSwitzerland\u201d of semiconductors
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• How H-E-B got into livestreaming
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• The Winklevoss Twins\u2019 Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M
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• Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365
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• Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5
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• Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare\u2019s recent performance tests
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• AWS Top Secret-West
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• Social Media Trends 2022
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• $50M to reinvent security automation
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• Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed
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• GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model
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• Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows
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• Launched Managed Kubernetes service
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• An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others
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• The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE
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• Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM)
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• Kelsey wades into Bitcoin
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• AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises
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• New Horizons for Open Source
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• VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh
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• [A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future](http://)
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• [Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source](http://)
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• Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent?
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• An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others
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• Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge
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\n\nNonsense\n\n

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• icanhazdadjoke
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• Estonian capital began with a traffic jam
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• Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)
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\n\nConferences\n\n

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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Brother Compact Monochrome Laser Printer
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• Matt: Lens Desktop for Kubernetes
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• Cot\xe9: Basel gingerbread.
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\n\nPhoto Credits\n\n

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• Header Graphic
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• Cover Art
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