Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We all know 2020 and 2021 was the year of excessive software buying fueled by ZIRP. The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are always some of the first companies to report earnings during earnings season (coming up in 2 weeks), and there’s always a read through for consumption names (meaning people believe there’s a correlation).

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Cloud Cost optimization & reporting GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Review 167

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Wayfair CEO compared the drop in spend to home goods to the 2008 financial crisis: “Customers remain cautious in their spending on the home and our credit card data suggests that the category was down by nearly 25% from the peak we saw in the fourth quarter of 2021. Falling rates have not been enough to move multiples.

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Cloud Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

This week we had two of the hypserscalers report (Microsoft / Azure and Google / GCP), and everyone was eager to see their results. What happened in 2021 is that phase 2 (expansion of usage) was turbo charged. This could be a trend of improving buyer dynamics? AWS reports next week. So what did we learn?

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). Being in the subscription analytics space means data-intensive operations, large volumes, and the ability to often scale accordingly. Our current stack and tooling. Life with DigitalOcean.

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K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52