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Michael Kail, the Netflix exec convicted by a jury trial, had kickback agreements with the following vendors, according to the article:

- Netenrich (and VistaraIT, wholly owned by Netenrich)

- Platfora

- Sumo Logic

- Netskope

- Maginatics

- ElasticBox

- Numerify

Any missing?

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Sumo Logic sales once sent me a targeted email asking if I needed help getting the most out of my AWS S3 Load Balancer logs. The creepy part is I just created an S3 bucket the previous day that had the strings “load balancer” and “logs”. They must be scanning S3 bucket names for key words and maintain or pay for a list of AWS account id mappings to likely owners.

Maybe. But I’d also guess your browser history in the lead up to / around the creation of those buckets would also indicate that you were in the process of managing load balancer logs.

Free dev content exists to educate / onboard to product. It’s utilised in exactly this manner to determine what & when a developer is trying to achieve. And then sell them on suitable solutions.

It was surprising to see SumoLogic there... I used them in a previous company and the service was generally good. Sad to see they subscribed to such shady practices.

Or they're bribing one of your colleagues for information about what you're doing.

I am not saying that an analog of [0] happened

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113198

or AWS sold them rough sketches of your activity.

Sucks to hear that employees saw Sumo underperforming. I used it at my last place, and while it has a steep learning curve, it's incredibly powerful. I thought it was the premier enterprise logging/monitoring platform.

Sumo in 2012 was two years after founding, a lot of things likely improved over the years.

Wikipedia updates pending ;-)

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