Sugui Digest SE01EP15 — Guts.
Welcome aboard to one more week edition and at home of our digest. Hope you´re safe, and strong. Keep yourself home. This week, the main theme is guts. From minimal simple things like write this digest, to support an idea, to go public, to make important decisions, you gotta get guts in front uncertainty. From my experience, started a company, admit that failed, moved from city (several times), accepted a proposal for a brand new company, be fired for my unpredictable behavior (learned with that), accepted a new challenge and created new challenges. Guts are mandatory. If I didn´t take the chance, I may were on my ordinary life doing the same old stuff repeatedly. Looking back, it worth it! Have a great reading and a great week!
To please your ears during this edition, João Nogueira — Espelho — 1977. A classic, with highlight to the track “Espelho” (miss you dad).
Book of the week: Becoming Steve Jobs. In my opinion, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of last century and the first years of this. Since the garage in 1976 till iCloud announcement on his last WWDC in 2011, those years are a great inspirational board to what to do and what to don´t. I´ve read a few books, watched some movies, documentaries and the ascendings and decays of Jobs life remember an advice that said: “life is like a solenoid, with ups and downs and twisted, what makes it more interesting”. Certainly Steve wasn´t a great human example, but a leader who deserved to be followed because of his tireless mission to do the unthinkable. Of all videos of Apple I particularly have a different admiration for two of them. “Think Different” from 1984 and Jobs Keynote from 2007, the announcement of iPhone. Inspirational, challenging, exciting.
*Project Starlink (that one of low latency internet from space) got some pics this week. Elon Musk and his big mouth (indeed if I´d do some spetacular things like that I´d couldn´t hold my words) confirmed that´s part of the project and SpaceX is starting to sign up for early adopters.
*Yet on AlibabaCloud, TikTok has left their services and signed a three-year contract with GCP around 800 MILLION DOLLARS. It happened last year but was only announced this week.
*Good stuff that I had opportunity to watch/read is the BigQuery Omni that permits processing in different clouds, like AWS and Azure. Spicy. All of that powered by Anthos.
*Boredom of first day was two sessions in special: Competitive Positioning: Google Cloud vs AWS and Google Cloud vs Azure. Shallow arguments regarding some statements and how Google is positioning in strategies. This is the same discussion of what cloud provider is better. The answer? That one who fits better to your workloads (maybe more than one). So, move on. For a complete guide of news of the first week of Next20, check this article from GCP team.
*This week I dreamed that I was working on MS-DOS again, but it has apps in Win3.1 like Netflix (???). Obviously got cheated by my mind, but look this video from 8-bit Guy youtube channel restoring a Commodore VIC-20:
*NEW* GitRepo of the week: AWS. Here you can find 200+ repositories to all products including trends such as Deep Learning Containers and aws-eks-best-practices and newcomers like EC2 Spot Instances Roadmap. Give a try.
Shame of the Week:Twitter and the massive hack who made verified accounts without any communication for a while. Who won in this period? The oldschool users of the network, just having fun, without politics, webcelebs, influencers and so on (and the scammers, was a crypto scam). Apparently what happen was the best hacking tool: Social Engineering. Someone has clicked a link (something like the Nigerian Prince scam) and gave control to some internal tools inside twitter. A deeper description of what happened you can find here.
*Open a window anywhere in the world.
*Money is something vicious. Snoop Dogg after win millions into music and cannabis, now he has a new endeavor. The Cali Red is a mixture of Petite Syrah, Zinfandel and Merlot and will be available this summer.
*We all know how boring is to create expense reports and other tasks that need to fill forms from PDFs. With this guide you can create an engine that extract pdf data into AWS, simple and cheap way. This is a headstart for many projects, integrations and automation for daily basis tasks. Consider the use!
*Cloud Economics are an essential part of your cloud strategy. How to guide your customers, trim the bill, propose better architecture and backup strategies are essential to understand how to invest in a cloud-effective way. Netflix plans starts in 9USD, so they have to control the cloud bills very optimized. Check this article of how they do it and absorb some strategy to your workloads.
After run a marathon, I´ve gained 35 pounds and my plans for this year before the pandemic was to back to track, and maybe run another marathon in 2020. Needless to say I´ll have to start from scratch and the first challenge is to run 5km in a comfortable way. To accomplish that and move on to next distances (10, 16, 21 and 42km) a good time in 5k is essential. This is how you (and I) can achieve the distance in less than 20 mins.
*You may know and understand the relevance of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). But does your spouse know? Lots of scams are targeted to a person using their next-related people to have relevant info. But how MFA can protect my account? Social media, videogames, email, well, everything. Don´t miss it.
AWS Youtube Playlist of Management and Governance. Short videos, that can be shorter (thanks 2x playbackspeed) and give you clearer vision of how to make your tasks simplier.
TL;DR
Dark Web Price Index 2020 (not encouraging, just info)
What It’s Like to Work at Studio Ghibli (what´s your favourite movie?)
AWS Automating safe, hands-off deployments (kudos to Clare Liguori)
Microsoft Analyzed Data On Its Newly Remote Workforce
Detecting fraud in heterogeneous networks using Amazon SageMaker and Deep Graph Library
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