Software Defined Talk: Snap Spends IPO Billions on the Cloud

Fresh from its initial public offering, Snap is looking to spend billions on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud over the next five years. In this new episode of the Software Defined Talk podcast, we talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google’s social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, America wants to start gathering passwords at the border. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe.

This episode features Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.

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Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books "Changing Mindsets," "Monolithic Transformation" and "The Business Bottleneck" cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451...

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