This week, we discuss CockroachDB's relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.

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Runner-up Titles

• Put in your AirPods
• People’s lives are boring
• More than zero
• Know your risks
• Violating the social contract
• Keeping my “Rug Pull” card
• Love of the code
• I call it a waiting room

Rundown

• Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
  • Justin Warren’s newsletter this week.
  • Oxide: Whither CockroachDB? (RFD) and Whither CockroachDB? (Podcast)
• Remote Work
  • Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
  • New Starbuck’s CEO gets remote office
• Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?

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Nonsense

• Waymos honking
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Conferences

• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
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• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW

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