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Platformonomics TGIF #122: April 3, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email I made another appearance on the Telco in 20 podcast, where we talked about hundreds of billions of HyperCAPEX spend and asked what ever happened to the…
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Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious III: The Direct to Video Release including Deleted Scenes
Tl:dr We have reached agreement that “supercloud” is not a thing. A note on reader relevance: this series of posts is extremely niche and getting nichier. But consider staying for the gratuitous IBM joke. Just when we thought we were done with the “supercloud”, it has crept back into our lives. Like Rasputin. “Supercloud becomes…
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Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious II: Questions Remain
Tl:dr: “supercloud” is still not a thing that you could pick out of a police lineup A note to readers regarding relevance: this post is extremely niche, is most applicable for bored cloud people with an interest in alternative universe ontologies, and who are probably iced in and/or avoiding a pandemic surge (or both, like…
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2021 Platformonomics Blog Retrospective
Previous annual retrospectives: 2020 2019 This is presumably my last post of 2021 and the audience is primarily myself. I wrote 16 posts this year (not including this one). Three posts were Cloud City Meetup event updates (we’re waiting to be able to return in person, so it could be any year now), with 13…
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Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious
Tl;dr The “supercloud” is still not a thing I recently argued the term “supercloud” was super mostly in the sense of being super vague and that “an industry drowning in jargon needs a higher bar for new terminology”. A plea for a crisper definition followed: The sultans of “supercloud” have responded. Characteristically, the latest “supercloud”…
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The Cloudless Cloud Company
So, “superclouds”, eh? The term seems to have been coined by SiliconAngle, almost as an aside, in a subtitle, accompanied by the briefest of definitions: A new cloud architecture takes shape: “superclouds” Today, any company can have a fully built-out platform in the cloud. Venture capitalist Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners calls this phenomenon “castles…