RCN #37 - Cloudy (cost) Forecasts

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week, Eric breaks in the new year with this abridged, solo episode. He dives into the recent LastPass security breach, the industry-wide revolt of cost-conscious cloud users, the year in HTTP, and so much more!

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A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Security update
• Big Tech under pressure from cost-conscious cloud customers
• HTTP updates
• Open source news & tooling
• How eBay Engineering uses OpenTelemetry
• Lagniappe (Cajun for "a little something extra")

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction & Agenda
• 0:27 LastPass security breach
• 1:58 Big Tech under pressure from cost-conscious cloud customers
• 4:03 State of HTTP 2022 at Cloudflare
• 5:27 Open source CLI tool called hurl
• 6:05 How eBay Engineering uses OpenTelemetry
• 7:41 ActivityHub in "The Register"
• 8:18 Lagniappe (Cajun for "a little something extra")
• 9:01 Outro