This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft… Rundown Kubecost Istio Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo Earnings AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter Microsoft earnings beat across the board Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB Twitter Back to the Future of Twitter Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter Bezos on Twitter being acquired Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover Relevant to your Interests 7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers Is Firefox OK? After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch Good SDT Slack Thread on this The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience YouTube’s growth struggles to load Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you Nonsense Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head' Conferences THAT Conference comes to Texas, May 23-26, 2022 Discount Codes: Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75 3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50 Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75 DevOpsDays Austin 2022, May 4 - 5, 2022 DevOpsDays Chicago 2022:, May 10 & 11th, 2022 MongoDB World 2022, June 7-9th, 2022 Splunk’s ,conf, June 13-16, 2022 THAT Conference Wisconsin, July 25, 2022 VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Brandon: F1 TV Matt: Factorio Story Missions Photo Credits Banner CoverArt