My Job is to Predict the Future

SaaS for Developers

Sam Ramji is an odd duck. He is full of curiosity, insights and ideas. He is also is the Chief Strategy Officer of Datastax.

In the most wide-ranging conversation I've ever recorded, we discussed the most interesting ideas in computing. From the 1980s - all the way to 2032. Along the way you'll learn how to craft a career as an odd duck with talent for strategy, how to transform an organization, how to create a strategy, and you'll hear 3 future predictions and 3 big data trends that are happening right now.
Related links:
- The data architecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovWiOD6AG78
- Sam's Podcast: https://www.datastax.com/resources/podcast/open-source-data
- Hacking SaaS, the latest and greatest of everything developers need to know when building SaaS: https://hackingsaas.substack.com/
- SaaS Community Slack, join the conversation! https://launchpass.com/all-about-saas

00:00 - Intro: Ducks and curiosity

2:43 - Brief history of computing

6:00 - Career as an odd duck

8:00 - Product Management

12:20 - Microsoft, you have a SaaS problem

20:00 - Clouds, APIs and scale

28:45 - How do we think together

29:53 - APIs are eating the world

33:00 - Advice for engineers in a transforming company

43:40 - The Developer Experience Architect

45:00 - How to Strategy

56:10 - 3 Futuristic Predictions

01:02:47 - 3 Trends in Data

1:14:37 - D&D 5th Edition