Biden’s mistake is that he thinks he was elected to transform the country, but actually everyone just wanted less drama

Upbound Raises $60M in Funding to Advance its Universal Cloud Platform blog.upbound.io/upbound-raises…

Big milestone for HashiCorp ! Great team led by David McJannet Mitchell Hashimoto Armon Dadgar and many others.

A Return to the General Purpose Database redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/1…

Universal Crossplane and Upbound General Availability blog.upbound.io/universal-cros…

CEO Bassam Tabbara of Upbound breaks down the relationship between Crossplane and Kubernetes.

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Bassam Tabbara upbound crossplane John Furrier theCUBE #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #theCUBE #Upbound #Kubernetes #k8s #Crossplane #GitOps #containers

Prediction:
Edge-to-cloud container orchestration will need edge-to-cloud data services with dev-friendly SDKs that handle 'identity'-based smart sync, data roaming, sharding, sharing, geo-fencing and distribution across the network through pre-built distributed backend APIs.

when we started, we didn't even have walls, we lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road // cont. p43

This is a must read: an interview with our Chief of Staff. Kevin keeps a low profile, but he was our first non-engineering hire and designed almost all the systems that make HashiCorp tick. He built a machine. review.firstround.com/focus-on-your-…

Frank Slootman doesn't start companies. But no one is better at taking the ideas of others public.

My newest Forbes cover story takes you inside Slootman's shock arrival at $80B cloud unicorn Snowflake. The result: the biggest software IPO ever.

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Cockroach Labs closes $160M Series E funding round zd.net/38BYyhR via @ZDNet & Andrew Brust

Data 2021 Outlook Part II: Hedging the cloud zd.net/3s3rW8D by Tony Baer

I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.

Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.

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Slackforce and the Beginning of the End of SaaS Sprawl platformonomics.com/2020/12/slackf…

🥳 Today’s the day! TimescaleDB 2.0 RC has arrived 🚀

Multi-node. Petabyte-scale. Relational. Purpose-built for time-series. 💯 free.

Get started and learn what's new👇

tsdb.co/get-timescale-… 1/

JAMstack vs. WordPress: Which Is the Future of Web Architecture? bit.ly/3433wkl Richard MacManus JAMstack CMS WordPress

💸💸💸 Today we’re announcing that we’re going all-in on cloud, making all of our enterprise features available for free, updating our software license to provide greater rights to our users, and reinforcing our commitment to the Timescale community. tsdb.co/tsl-v2 1/

$CLDR: We are an OSS data platform company
$SNOW: We are proprietary cloud data platform
$CLDR: we are hybrid. On-prem & cloud
$SNOW: Cloud only, please
$CLDR: Look, 5 SQL engines, ML, operational DB, streaming, Viz, BI
$SNOW: DW only, please

Market: OK, $SNOW=70B, $CLDR=2.5B

Cockroach Snags $87 million to Grow Cloud Database Biz datanami.com/2020/05/05/coc…

HashiCorp Names Brandon Sweeney as Chief Revenue Officer globenewswire.com/news-release/2…