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Cloud and infrastructure: what operators said this week

Infrastructure decisions and their costs, from the operators. The 12 strongest moments from named speakers, word for word, each playable from the second it was said. Updated .

“Are you going to do Azure Active Directory domain synchronization between that and your intra tenant if you have intra? Or maybe you have Okta, right? Or maybe you have servers that you're hosting in Amazon or some type of identity management process.”
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Bobby Guerra
Climbing Mount CMMC ·
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Another view · “I used to have a stronger conviction that domain experience isn’t that important... now I see contexts where it is less relevant and others where it is entirely relevant” Ian Jentgen on Inside The Pipeline: B2B Sales and GTM · Listen
“One of my most favorite things for client service is just using Otter transcripts, which we may migrate to zoom, getting so many insights around what clients are asking for sentiment of clients.”
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Ross Hudgens
The SEO Podcast: Page 2 Podcast ·
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Another view · “They've been trained to get a good score… we haven't trained them to be good or ethical… cheating is incentivized” Jeffrey Ladish on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Listen
“Of those, less than 100 are what we would invest in and what we call preferred infrastructure for our universe.”
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Warren Robertson
Equity Mates Investing Podcast ·
Why it worked 400, 100 Share this moment
Another view · “Where is momentum most profitable? It will be in the small stocks, the stocks with little analyst coverage, the stocks outside the US.” Alex Edmans on The Rational Reminder Podcast · Listen
“Adversarial reviews basically boil down to the idea of you have given one cloud a task, spin off another 10 that try to like break this down.”
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Felix Riesberg
Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth ·
How they work 10 agents Share this moment
Another view · “The time invested to find those defects is no longer worth it and should be spent on higher value ways” Jonathan Ellis on AI Engineering Podcast · Listen
“When you go to tiny little office, it loads a bunch of code from tiny little office. Then in your browser, it looks at that data, doesn't send it to the server.”
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Paul Ford
The Vergecast ·
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Another view · “If you can save the government a disaster, they might answer a question after the deadline.” Wendy Freeman on Contracting Officer Podcast 2.0 (samples) · Listen
“Something that used to only cost me maybe $15 for your free shipping is now costing me closer to $20.”
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Damian Primis
Unit Economics ·
Hard number $15 → $20 per order Share this moment
“If you look at some of the larger, I would say more sophisticated pension plans, particularly those in Canada, they may have an allocation up to 20% to infrastructure, where we typically in Australia would probably target more like five.”
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Warren Robertson
Equity Mates Investing Podcast ·
Why it worked 5%, 20% Share this moment
“The cost of the licensing? What is the cost of ownership? And what is the cost of growth? Like those are the three buckets that I think about”
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Nivea Henry
The Stack Overflow Podcast ·
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“It could be a Python application that could be running in a server or a container or some serverless application, or it could be inside a very big larger enterprise system.”
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Sowjanya Pandruju
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers ·
Growth tactic Share this moment
“Real-time location services and moisture meters… more and more of them are smartphone connected and by extension connected to the cloud… upload that data and give the model greater context”
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Chris Bayes
Digital Builder ·
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“We have usually hundreds of terabytes of hard drives on a job site now… using computer vision to turn it into an ongoing data stream, not just of pixels, but of events, activities”
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Chris Bayes
Digital Builder ·
Why it worked hundreds of terabytes of video per job site Share this moment
“Are you going to use RADIUS, right? So you're going to use domain authentication or some type of cloud authentication so that they're just going to use their normal creds that they would use on their workstation to join the wireless.”
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Bobby Guerra
Climbing Mount CMMC ·
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Why read what was said, rather than a summary?

Summaries smooth out the specifics: the number, the caveat, the thing that went wrong. A short quote with the moment attached keeps them, and lets you hear the tone. Quotes are short extracts linked to the publisher’s episode. How we quote.