DOP 281: The Impossibility of Competing With Tech Giants
Posted on Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024
Show Notes
#281: In today’s rapidly evolving tech industry, many startups believe they can challenge the well-established giants by offering similar products with minor tweaks. However, this approach is fundamentally flawed. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft will absorb a few of these new competitors, while many others will simply disappear. The driving force behind this harsh reality isn’t just competition; it’s the absence of truly innovative products.
The tech landscape is unforgiving to those who don’t innovate. While it might seem tempting to follow the footsteps of successful giants like Adobe, Amazon, and Microsoft, the key to success lies in innovation and offering something new. Companies that fail to grasp this reality will find themselves disappearing into obscurity.
In this episode, Bret Fisher and Nirmal Mehta join Darin and Viktor to discuss how artificial intelligence is affecting the tech industry.
Guests
Bret Fisher
Currently focused on cloud native DevOps, Bret has built and operated distributed systems for 30 years. Through his workshops, conference talks, and best-selling courses, Bret has helped over 400,000 people learn containers and DevOps. He’s a Docker Captain, a Cloud Native Ambassador, hosts the weekly YouTube Live show “DevOps and Docker Talk”, releases a weekly newsletter, podcast, and lives in Virginia Beach, USA.
Nirmal Mehta
Nirmal Mehta is an AWS Principal Specialist Solutions Architect leading Container and Serverless solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization team. He is experienced in distributed application architecture, emerging technologies, open source, devops and organizational strategy. Nirmal is an early Docker Captain through delivering container solutions to the public sector. He has presented on a broad range of topics including cloud native devops, modern application architectures, Docker, Kubernetes, organization transformation and emerging technologies, at AWS re:invent, global AWS Summits, Dockercons, Redhat summits, Youtube live streams, podcasts, meetups, local community and partner events. He is co host on the weekly Bret Fisher’s Devops podcast and live stream. He is a co-organizer and emcee of DevopsDays Raleigh conference for the past 7 years. Prior to AWS, Nirmal spent over 14 years delivering modern IT practices such as Cloud, Containerization and Devops to a diverse customer base in the US Government Public Sector industry.
Hosts
Viktor Farcic
Viktor Farcic is a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.
His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (latest can be found here).
He has published The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development.
His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.
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