About this episode
Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are on hand and ready to bring you an action packed episode. Unfortunately, this one is also lullaby free. Apologies. This week we’re talking about Databricks and Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google’s little hiccup, and updates to SQL – plus so much more! Thanks for joining us.
Titles we almost went with this week:
KV Phone Home: When Your Key-Value Store Goes AWOL
When Your Coreless Service Finds Its Core Problem
Oracle’s Vanity Fair: Pretty URLs for Pretty Penny
From Warehouse to Lakehouse: Your Free Ticket to Cloud Town
1?Databricks Uno: Because One is the Loneliest Number
Free as in Beer, Smart as in Data Science
Cedar Analysis: Because Your Authorization Policies Wood Never Lie
Cedar Analysis: Teaching Old Policies New Proofs
Amazon Q Finally Learns to Talk to Other Apps
Tomorrow: Visual Studio’s Predictive Edit Revolution
The Ghost of Edits Future: AI Haunts Your Code Before You Write It
IAM What IAM: Google’s Identity Crisis Breaks the Internet
Permission Denied: The Day Google Forgot Who Everyone Was
403 Forbidden: When Google’s Bouncer Called in Sick
AWS Brings the Heat to Fusion Research
Larry’s Cloud Nine: Oracle Stock Soars on Forecast Raise
OCI You Later: Oracle Bets Big on Cloud Growth
Oracle’s Crystal Ball Shows 40% Cloud Growth Ahead
Meta Scales Up Its AI Ambitions with $14 Billion Investment
From FAIR to Scale: Meta’s $14 Billion AI Makeover
Congratulations Databricks one, you are now the new low code solution.
AWS burns power to figure out how power works
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money
02:12 Zuckerberg makes Meta’s biggest bet on AI, $14 billion Scale AI deal
Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, with CEO Alexandr Wang joining to lead a new AI research lab at Meta.
This follows similar moves by Google and Microsoft acquiring AI talent through investments rather than direct acquisitions to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Scale AI specializes in data labeling and annotation services critic
