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Tom Krazit

@tomkrazit
32 posts
2022-12-06
The timing might be a coincidence, but two of the product leaders Salesforce once thought were key to its future leaving abruptly is not. https://mostlycloudy.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-06 View on X
Insider

Memo: Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield plans to leave Salesforce in January 2023, saying the move “has nothing to do” with Bret Taylor's departure

2022-09-05
In 20 years of doing this I'm pretty sure I've never read an angrier piece of corporate communication. Blaming the organizers of the pressure campaign for causing Kiwi Farms users to do what they've always done, only to a wider group of people, was a choice. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-05 View on X
Washington Post

Cloudflare reverses course and drops Kiwi Farms, citing “an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life” after a rise in targeted threats

Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare Inc. announced Saturday …

2022-09-04
In 20 years of doing this I'm pretty sure I've never read an angrier piece of corporate communication. Blaming the organizers of the pressure campaign for causing Kiwi Farms users to do what they've always done, only to a wider group of people, was a choice. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-04 View on X
Washington Post

Cloudflare says it has blocked Kiwi Farms, citing “an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life” after a recent rise in targeted threats

Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare Inc. announced Saturday …

2022-07-25
Lamanna is clearly a rising star at Microsoft, and ticketed for bigger things either there or somewhere else should he get the startup bug again. @aishacounts talked to him about his current gig: https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-07-25 View on X
Protocol

Q&A with Microsoft corporate VP Charles Lamanna on low-code/no-code tools and the Power Platform, which he says has 7M MAUs and grew its revenue 72% YoY to $2B+

Despite the fact that enterprise tech is still trying to figure out exactly where it fits, Charles Lamanna is all in on low-code software development.

2022-07-21
New from @chernandburn: how chiplets, a modular chip design approach, helped AMD engineer its turnaround and might one day solve some big looming problems around energy use in data centers. https://t.co/M5wyILSNZR
2022-07-21 View on X
Protocol

Experts say chiplet-based designs, which let AMD make a full suite of server chips to compete with Intel, will quickly become a dominant form of chip design

the way their executives tell it. But the approach is getting deployed across the whole industry and has big potential to shake up how the chips of the future work. https://www.pro...

2022-05-23
Don't sleep on @chernandburn: after Arm's last CEO wrote a blog post saying an IPO meant the company would die, Arm deleted that post in the run up to, you guessed it, an IPO after the Nvidia deal fell through. https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-05-23 View on X
Protocol

Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans, business model, open-source competitor RISC-V, Intel relationship, need to invest more in R&D, and more

2022-05-22
Don't sleep on @chernandburn: after Arm's last CEO wrote a blog post saying an IPO meant the company would die, Arm deleted that post in the run up to, you guessed it, an IPO after the Nvidia deal fell through. https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-05-22 View on X
Protocol

Interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on Arm's future plans, investing more in R&D, its competitor RISC-V, the company's relationship with Intel, and more

The new path for Arm is beginning to come into focus.  —  Weeks after Nvidia's $40 bid to acquire Arm from SoftBank collapsed … Tweets: @tomkrazit Tweets: Tom Krazit / @tomkrazit :...

2021-12-20
Intel hasn't let many people peek inside the crown jewels of its chip-making operation in Oregon. Must-read on how Intel is pushing all its chips (sorry) into the pot with EUV to try and get its manufacturing mojo back. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-20 View on X
Protocol

Inside Intel's Ronler complex in Hillsboro, Oregon, where it conducts its most advanced research and houses the company's most important chip manufacturing site

2021-12-13
The AWS outage, explained: “At 7:30 AM PST (on Tuesday), an automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-13 View on X
CNBC

AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases

2021-12-12
The AWS outage, explained: “At 7:30 AM PST (on Tuesday), an automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-12 View on X
CNBC

AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases

- A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.

2021-05-02
That's just Apple's cut, right? https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-02 View on X
VICE

At least 15 Basecamp employees announced on Twitter that they are leaving the company, with some specifically citing new policy banning political talk at work

Multiple employees say they are leaving specifically because of recent policy changes.  —  On Friday, numerous employees …

2021-05-01
That's just Apple's cut, right? https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-01 View on X
VICE

At least 15 Basecamp employees announced on Twitter that they are leaving the company, with some specifically citing new policy banning political talk at work

Multiple employees say they are leaving specifically because of recent policy changes.  —  On Friday, numerous employees …

2021-03-24
There's no reason for any editorial person to ever trust this company again, especially with the rise of new options for self-publishing. How many times do you have to watch the same cycle play out? https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-24 View on X
VICE

Medium offers buyouts to everyone on its editorial staff, as it shifts focus from its own publications to supporting independent writers on its platform

After what workers describe as a successful union-busting campaign, Ev Williams has announced to journalists who work for him that they should feel free to go.

2021-03-14
New from me: How Amazon's S3 jumpstarted the cloud revolution Amazon's first real web service changed the economics of tech forever. Fifteen years later, insiders tell Protocol how it came together, how it evolved, and where it's going. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-03-14 View on X
Protocol

An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020

Tom Krazit / Protocol : Tweets: @_msw_ , @storagezilla , @joepwilliams31 , @tomkrazit , and @owenthomas Tweets: Matthew S. Wilson / @_msw_ : Here's another great article about the...

2021-03-13
New from me: How Amazon's S3 jumpstarted the cloud revolution Amazon's first real web service changed the economics of tech forever. Fifteen years later, insiders tell Protocol how it came together, how it evolved, and where it's going. https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-03-13 View on X
Protocol

An oral history of Amazon's cloud storage service S3, which debuted 15 years ago to store 20B objects and has scaled to store 100T objects by 2020

In late 2005, Don Alvarez was just another software entrepreneur struggling to get a new business off the ground when a friend working … Tweets: @joepwilliams31 , @tomkrazit , and ...

2021-03-01
New from me: An oral history of #hugops: This is the story of how the people who make the internet work decided to create a culture of empathy after years of being looked down on as “software janitors.” https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-03-01 View on X
Protocol

An oral history of #hugops and the growing community of operations engineers who offer support for their peers before and during major cloud service outages

Tom Krazit / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @lisaphillips , @ejgreenberg , @timgrieve , @fastly , @tomkrazit , @rseroter , and @protocol Tweets: @protocol : The people who keep th...

2021-01-22
New: Elastic's decision to change the licenses on two of its open-source projects appears to have backfired, with AWS announcing plans to fork both projects under its wing. Here's the backstory on Elasticsearch and open source in the cloud era: https://www.protocol.com/...
2021-01-22 View on X
Protocol

AWS will maintain an open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, after criticism from Elastic which changed its licensing terms to monetize cloud-service use

Fed up with what he sees as unfair competition from AWS, Elastic CEO Shay Banon felt he had no choice but to restrict …

2020-12-03
Levie, Tuesday: “This is massive validation of the modern, best-of-breed enterprise software stack.” https://blog.box.com/... Levie, Wednesday: “The reality with the enterprise is that you can have the best product, but that's not good enough.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-03 View on X
Platformer

Slack's struggles to succeed as a standalone company mirror the fortunes of other one-time innovators in enterprise productivity who struggled with distribution

And why the era of worker-centered work tools may be over  —  Slack's life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2, 2016.

New from me: AWS quietly enters the multicloud era. The company confirmed that ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, introduced yesterday, will allow AWS customers to manage Azure/GCP workloads: https://www.protocol.com/...
2020-12-03 View on X
Protocol

AWS quietly makes a multicloud push with new versions of AWS' managed containers services, ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, that can work on Azure or Google Cloud

2020-11-02
There aren't a ton of things that everyone in cloud agrees on, but one of those things is that @kelseyhightower is a special person. Proud to tell his story here: https://www.protocol.com/...
2020-11-02 View on X
Protocol

Profile of Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower, a respected figure in cloud computing and one of the few prominent Black men in enterprise infrastructure tech

Peter Idah had met Kelsey Hightower before.  But this time, he brought his son.  —  It was March 2016, and the Kubernetes jamboree …Tweets:@kelseyhightower,@apbhatnagar,@marktechso...