the cloud

Paris Marx is joined by Dwayne Monroe to discuss what it’s like to work in a data center, how the cloud came to hold a dominant position, and the consequences of its control by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Dwayne Monroe is a cloud technologist and aspiring Marxist theorist of technology, with twenty years of experience architecting large-scale computational systems. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at @cloudquistador.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

• Dwayne wrote about cloud computing for Logic Magazine. He’s also written about a public cloud and the metaverse on his blog.
• Amazon’s cloud infrastructure in the eastern United States experienced a major outage in December 2021.
• Residents in various parts of the world have been questioning the logic of building data centers, including in the United States and New Zealand.
• In July, the network of Canadian telecom giant Rogers went down, leaving millions without service.

"Cloud" gets thrown around as something we are moving towards, but you may be surprised how prevalent it has become in everyday life.  Russell Gainford, VP of Cloud Strategy and Operations at Tyler Technologies, joins host Jeff Harrell to discuss cloud adoption and the many ways the cloud benefits people both personally and professionally. Russell also shares how public sector leaders can make the most of the opportunities the cloud brings their jurisdictions.

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Scot Richardson joins the Real Identity Podcast to share how the cloud has delivered on the promise of measurement with in-flight evaluation and adjustment of campaigns now possible. He discusses the hybrid approaches to campaign optimization from people-based identifiers to anonymized and aggregated views and how nimble analytics help clients become more effective marketers.

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