It's always us-east-1
Today: Monday's big AWS outage illustrates yet again why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing, further evidence that bitcoin mining is so very 2019 these days, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: a deep dive into Red Hat's decision to take on the rebuilders, Microsoft's curious definition of "all-up," and this week's enterprise moves.
Red Hat is probably the most successful open-source enterprise software company in the history of tech. For many years that success has existed in tension with the open-source software community, and this summer that tension rose to a new level.