Twilio & the End of Embedded

<p>Twilio, the publicly traded cloud communications platform, has acquired electric imp, a long-time embedded software and services company. What gives?<br/><br/>Well, what gives is that the lines between IT, the data center, embedded and the edge, continue to blur into one big continuum of compute and connectivity. After a brief discussion about education stemming from a <a href='https://talkingwtko8.carrd.co/'>recent interview Brandon did with TKO Marketing Consultants</a>,  Brandon and Rich to ponder the question, &quot;are we reaching the end of embedded as we know it?&quot; Later, Evan Cummack, GM of the IoT Business at Twilio, and Hugo Fiennes, former Founder and CEO of electric imp and currently a Senior IoT Product Architect at Twilio, join the Insiders to help track the trend and introduce a new IT/OT  services offering called <a href='https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-microvisor'>Twilio Microvisor</a>.<br/><br/>After, Perry is joined by Bruno Tomas, the director of programs and project management at the Wireless Bradband Alliance; and Remi Lorrain, the vice chair of the LoRa Alliance Network in this week’s Tech Market Madness, to discuss the findings of the white paper, “<a href='https://lora-alliance.org/resource-hub/wi-fi-lorawanr-trials-overview-use-cases-across-regions-combining-two-powerful'>Wi-Fi &amp; LoRaWAN Trials - An Overview of Use Cases Across Regions Combining Two Technologies</a>.”</p>