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We get a lot of questions from our audience each week, so we thought that it would be useful to answer some listener questions that aren’t easily answered during one of the podcasts.
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**Question 1 **- Do you expect to see any significant changes to the top public clouds over the next few years? - Sam A.
- New AWS leadership; AWS profit center needed to keep driving the stock price
- Microsoft capturing more of developers “native tools”; more willing to acquire
- GCP coming up on the 2023 “1st or 2nd place” goal
- “Edge” computing is just starting to take shape.
- Will be interesting to watch how aggressive they get with acquisitions given the antitrust concerns from the US Congress
**Question 2 **- How is the open source world keeping up with the public cloud? - Melissa L.
- Cloudera was recently acquired by private equity
- IBM acquired Red Hat, and IBM is doubling down on Red Hat technologies
- MongoDB continues to grow their Atlas business
- Confluent is scheduled to IPO soon
- Snowflake is trying to focus more on open APIs and ecosystems
- Several companies (Solo, Hashicorp, Buoyant) recently launched cloud versions of their software
- The public cloud providers continue to ride both sides of the fence regarding open source
Question 3 - Any opinions on the better way to reduce technical debt - lift and shift apps to the cloud, or modernize existing apps? - Sanjay R.
Question 4 - Is the recent consolidation in the IT training market a good thing or a bad thing? - Thomas A.
Question 5 - Are you seeing any post-COVID trends accelerating or gaining more traction? - Michelle T.
Question 6 - Does it seem like less people are making big money after working for a tech startup than in the past? - Nadir M.
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