Aaron and Brian review the state of The Cloudcast, review the biggest stories in 2016, and make predictions about 2017.

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2016 Predictions
2015 Predictions
2014 Predictions

Show Notes:
Housekeeping:

Listens up 70% YoY; 50 Shows in 2016 
2017 will be the 7th year of the show.
Thank you to 2016 Sponsors: Intel Cloud For All, Service Now 
[DONATIONS] Krispy Kreme Challenge 2017 
Most Popular Shows: Serverless, DevOps, Containers, Microservices) - all time shows all in 2016 
VC Funding + M&A activities: now over $7.6B ($2.65B VC, $4.98B M&A, 25 acquisitions) - last year closed just north of $5B.  
The Cloudcast listed on several “watch lists” for Blogs/Podcasts 
ServerlessCast (@serverlesscast) shows (red logo) in your pod-catcher 
Weekly | Bi-Weekly “what to watch” shows ~ 10mins - (blue logo) in your pod-catcher 
“The Technical MBA” project

Looking Back at 2016:

Tech Acquisitions + M&A + IPO:

Software-Eating the World M&A:

Prediction Topic 1 - Technology

Prediction Topic 2 - The Economy

Prediction Topic 3 - Politics

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