About Corey QuinnOver the course of my career, I’ve worn many different hats in the tech world: systems administrator, systems engineer, director of technical operations, and director of DevOps, to name a few. Today, I’m a cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, the author of the weekly Last Week in AWS newsletter, and the host of two podcasts: Screaming in the Cloud and, you guessed it, AWS Morning Brief, which you’re about to listen to.Links
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TranscriptCorey: This episode is brought to you by Trend Micro Cloud One™. A security services platform for organizations building in the Cloud. I know you're thinking that that's a mouthful because it is, but what's easier to say? “I'm glad we have Trend Micro Cloud One™, a security services platform for organizations building in the Cloud,” or, “Hey, bad news. It's going to be a few more weeks. I kind of forgot about that security thing.” I thought so. Trend Micro Cloud One™ is an automated, flexible all-in-one solution that protects your workflows and containers with cloud-native security. Identify and resolve security issues earlier in the pipeline, and access your cloud environments sooner, with full visibility, so you can get back to what you do best, which is generally building great applications. Discover Trend Micro Cloud One™ a security services platform for organizations building in the Cloud. Whew. At trendmicro.com/screaming.Corey: Welcome to the AWS Morning Brief. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, And this is the Whiteboard Confessional segment that has increasingly been taken over by my colleague, Pete Cheslock, as we tear through various cloud-based companies, public filings as they race to go public and inflict their profits, or in more cases, losses on the public markets. Pete, thanks for joining me.Pete: I am super happy to be back again, and making my mother happy that I'm actually using that MBA that I spent all that time to get.Corey: So, we could wind up talking just about how Palantir is awful in a variety of ways. My personal favorite was the letter that their CEO attached saying that effectively engineers were stupid and didn't see the big picture, which is a weird thing to say about a whole group of people you're actively trying to hire, but all right. Let's talk about their S-1 filing. This has been anticipated for a while. What do you think?Pete: Well, Palantir has been around for a very long time. I think it's been around a lot longer than a lot of people realize. You know, early 2000s. It was technology built to tie data together and to be honest, I only know—I’ve ever heard of one company actually using Palantir—the technology—a commercial company. They were actually using it as a SIM—SIM, whatever you want to call it—Security Information Management System—Corey: Event management or something like that. Yeah.Pete: Exactly. And ironically enough, that company actually—that was using Palantir—replaced it with an Elasticsearch ELK stack, which I thought was fascinating. I know nothing about their software, but I was very fascinated to read the S-1 because there's been this mythology around it and you can hear so much about insiders at Palantir, employees selling their shares in this wide secondary market. So, I was very curious to see what we were going to find, and there are definitely some interesting bits within.Corey: There certainly are. And it's strange because for a while Palantir was doing interesting things in the market. They were offering $20,000 referral bonuses to people who referred engineers in for certain roles, and you didn't have to be a Palantir employee to do it, which was fascinating. They've recently moved headquarters from Palo Alto over to Denver, Colorado, which… okay. They are claiming it's for this whole lofty mission. Let's not kid ourselves: it's a tax play. [laughs]. And there's also a whole bunch of interesting stuff buried in here. But yeah, in many ways, this is a legacy company in some respect