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Software Defined Talk

408 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings

Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Episode 211: Adam Jacob on Open Source

December 27, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 34.6 MB

Holiday Special! Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef. Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) Special Guest: Adam Jacob.

Episode 210: “What choice do we have?”

December 18, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MB

“What choice do we have?” At the end of the year, we answer listener questions. From middle-names, to athletes, to advice to startups. Also, we talk open source in 2020 predictions, that NYTimes story on Amazon, and Twinkies. Mood board: As they say “a dot w dot s.” Twinkies are better after the Apocalypse Does he know something we don’t know? They could have been the paper of record on “A.M.I.” Judgemental open source. The Three C’s. “CTO Edge.” CTOs don’t go to DevOps Days I try to show up...

Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster

December 12, 2019 21:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MB

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition. Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week. Mood board: #asksdt Remember the Law of Hammarabi. They’re not the Poynter institute or anything. Are we going to be blamed for all the problems? Kubernetes on the barby. It’s all the same broken stuff. Broken ankle con. I’ve never broken a bone. A bunch of old hardware, some Kube...

Episode 208: re:Invent, Oracle's stickyness, and medieval stick candy-bread

December 06, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MB

It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt. Mood board: #asksdt “Where are you thought-lording us to?” Pepernoot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot)....

Episode 207: All the good stuff is proprietary

November 28, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 31.6 MB

Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally re (https://buttondown.email/cote)v (https://buttondown.email/cote)ved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it...

Episode 206: The Sanka of hot sauces

November 23, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 36.7 MB

We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally re (https://buttondown.email/cote)v (https://buttondown.email/cote)ved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Mood board: One. “I am not upgrading.” “Nothing ever good comes out of upgrades.” “I need someone with 35 years experience to run t...

Episode 205: No Change in our journey

November 14, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB

Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Latest issues: Mood board: Coté is gobsmacked by slides. Let’s turn these earnings upside down. It’s not ...

Episode 204: Foiled by Physical Access Again

November 08, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 29.7 MB

We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote). Relevant to your interests The 7 ...

Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings

November 01, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.2 MB

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey. Mood board: Stroke City. QBR times four. Travel costs. We need a better word than “politics.” Corporate virtue signaling. Never ask anything. There’s going to be Werner Hertzog! There’s a difference between making a point and making money. Are you just fillin’ a ...

Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?

October 25, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 29.9 MB

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.emai...

Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy

October 18, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MB

"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is. Mood board: Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots. We can educate Coté. Learning from each other, the more you know! There’s a lot of kube shit. Non-subjugating windows. Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash. What’s a...

Episode 200: The mystery of the 2,000

October 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 35.1 MB

The mystery of the 2,000 Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk. Mood board: The East India Company and Kodak I just want your best 5 hours. Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes. I’m in for a panel. I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting. Ten year journey with billions of burn. We’re talking about trillion dollar companies. You can’t have enough storage for your podca...

Episode 199: 15 meters of cereal

October 04, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 31.5 MB

Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again! Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Go to buttondown.email/cote (https://buttondown.email/cote) or cote.io/newsletter (https://cote.io/newsletter/) and d...

Episode 198: Don’t get a Private Jet

September 27, 2019 05:30 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB

Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Relevant to your interests GitLab opens: Jenkins: One year later (http...

Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS

September 21, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 33.5 MB

The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: The Christmas Greenwich Meantime. The Salary Vortex. Podcast Google Alert. Overnight he is growing 7 inches. Throwing fish at a growing seal. I want to be 63. We’re ...

Episode 196: The janitor strategy

September 13, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 37.3 MB

Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: Buying something different to try something new. A...

Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough

September 06, 2019 10:00 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB

Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity to football fans. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.goo...

Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates

August 29, 2019 15:00 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MB

This week, the title says it all. Mood board: Jandels and togs That’s why they call it The Lucky Country. Decoding “Fly-Wheel.” 1 part synergy and 10 parts how business is done. Unlocking value. It’s always fun to see value created. I bet they got RBAC. The Funny Name Startup Strategy to Success. Brandon looks at The Business End. The Platform of the Future. Brisket for the last Fortune 500. It’s too complicated. You could put a million containers on this one box. I bet the Oracle field has s...

Episode 193: “WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.

August 22, 2019 09:00 - 56 minutes - 26.2 MB

“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show. SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.” Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Relevant to your interests Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader Sig...

Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work

August 15, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 31.9 MB

We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing. Mood board: You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florida? I could be like the 35 year old Andy Rooney. Hey Google, where are my keys? We’re driving off hosts at this point Herbalife. Funny logs. Was it real money? It’s probably cheaper than severance. I am not following any of it. Where’s Tim Wu when you need him? This is Tumblr all over again. Nothing b...

Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?

August 08, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MB

Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Mood board: Have either of you ever eaten dog meat? He easily slides into meataterian. Skype would be terrible if it weren’t so great! Follow the foot-stones Going up the well I like dogs, what I don’t like is additional responsibility. My life is...

Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.

August 03, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MB

Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft. There’s a clutch of data breaches this week and Coté finally learns why this is bad. Also, monitoring company IPOs, nachos, and the eating management and the terrors of European fry condiment management. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Moodboard: I’m making my way to ...

Episode 189: The 6 clouds you’ll meet in the MQ

July 26, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB

It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlauts, ASCII, and Munich bike bells. Mood board: CI/CD is this podcast’s VDI. “Dude, I’ll read.” It’s hot here. Did those clothing-optional vegan hippies invite themselves over to your room a lot? Ruled by actuarial tables I need to look up what constitutes a swamp Google cloud is people. You can’t p...

Episode 188: The transit private/public partnership, and, yeah, still, of course, kubernetes shit of the week

July 20, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 29.9 MB

There’s a couple kubernetes announcements this week: we mostly talk about Pivotal’s, and a tad on IBM. Plus, maybe scooters are actually good for cities and compiling source code for your infrastructure software is probably a bad idea. Don’t @ us. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! Mood Board: Evil Hodor is cancelled. Must be this short to ride free. The full mullet of monitoring. There is no nuance to this statement. Just keep using VMware. If you’re compiling...

Episode 187: Beyond the Fitzgeraldian Theory of Cloud Barriers to Entry

July 13, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MB

With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin’ hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Coté finds video chats annoying, and he can’t keep all the camera lingo in his head. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/s...

Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”

July 05, 2019 06:00 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MB

SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business” How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey (https://twitter.com/nathenharvey) about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene. Sponsors Solarwinds Loggly This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . When there is a service disruption, seconds matter. Don’t waste time looking f...

Episode 185: Drink your own dog food

July 01, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 33.1 MB

Drink your own dog food No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows? Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt...

Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG

June 21, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MB

Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, still don’t use build pipelines or issue trackers. When will these kids learn? And Coté explains why Nietzsche’s Eternal Return thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return) seems unhelpful. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! Also: Pretty hard stop in an hour. ...

Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind

June 14, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MB

Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management. Also: Wacky tobaccy Seattle Smell Denver’s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms (https://www.theonion.com/denver-s-flaming-skull-mayor-announces-plans-to-decrim...

Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!

June 07, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MB

It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software! Cloudera misses their forecast, Oracle and Microsoft team up on cloud computing and more open source licensing discussion. Plus, we try to make sense of the metric system once and for all! Relevant to your interests Open-Source ‘Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins Over Skeptics (https://bloom.bg/2Wsh6wM) Reporter's Notebook: Trees, fiber, petition (https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2019/06/reporters-notebook-trees-fiber-petition/) The boldest WWD...

Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone

June 03, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 35.9 MB

You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be bores. Hey! Want to get Coté’s book, a collection of writing on DevOps, agile, and THE DIGITAL? Go to leanpub.com/digitalwtf and use the code SDT to get $20 off (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. And, if you want a free copy, con...

Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”

May 24, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 30.8 MB

Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos! Relevant to your interests ChefConf Highlights (https://blog.chef.io/2019/05/21/chef-announcements-making-it-easier/) Habitat in your dashboards, Habitat + Chef/InSpec and chef.io/migration (https://chef.io/migration) DJ Darek Mazzone (https://www.kexp.org/djs/darek-mazz...

Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin

May 16, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 35.5 MB

I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles. Opening comments: The intersection between business books and dog vomit. Democracy sausage. Coté can’t get extra pickles (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxh5ikuiFuK/). Let me close out this topic of pickles. It’s not Burger King. Enterprise Salespeople don’t get tattoos T-shirt currency arbitrage. Literally misspelled responsibility Tacos...

Episode 178: What is this: a fucking <marquee/> tag?

May 09, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 36.6 MB

Putting together the M&A case for Docker, Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Oracle’s cloud grudge. Plus: The Most Expensive Free Dog in the World. Dead frogs tell no tales. It’s just me and the dog. Smart enough not to go up the stairs, dumb - enough to think the eggs are coming back. Is Docker the new MySQL. Most valuable, unrealized container brand: Google. JEDI grudge. Nihilism, greatly underrated. Relevant to your interests Announcing Docker Enterprise 3.0: Delivering High-Velocity Applica...

Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”

May 03, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB

Microsoft and VMware made peace, Java goes native, Apache goes to Github and Red Hat gets a new logo. Plus, Matt Ray explains why the Internet in Australia is slow. Relevant to your interests Can Google Cloud Revenues Reach $20 Billion by 2020 (http://bwhichard [12:51 PM] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/04/29/why-cloud-could-be-a-game-changer-for-google/#75de93371694)? Microsoft, Dell unveil new Azure-VMware integrations (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-dell-unvei...

Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know.

April 26, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MB

Airports, the challenges of the CI/CD market, authentication woes. Plus: “Why don’t you just do this.” 86.1 degrees. The cold side of the pillow. Relevant to your interests Apple Watch authentication expanding beyond unlocking your Mac in macOS 10.15 (https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/18/apple-watch-mac-password/). IBM is preparing to close its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, but Wall Street has 'real question marks' after its 'mediocre' quarter (https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-prepares-re...

Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.”

April 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MB

With Matt Ray out sick, Coté and Brandon discuss what the Pentagon’s JEDI contract means for cloud vendors, PagerDuty going public and what exactly do developers need to know about Kubernetes. Plus, Coté offers parenting advice on how to handle the no “free drink refills” policy in Europe. Relevant to your interests Simplifying identity and access management of your employees, partners, and customers (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/simplifying-identity-and-access-ma...

Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM!

April 11, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MB

With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview), but who has time for that? Relevant to your interests A 3-year-old boy repeatedly entered the wrong password, locked up his dad’s iPad until 2067 (https://fox4kc.com/2019/04/09/a-3-year-old-boy-repeatedly-entered-the-wrong-password-locked-up-his-dads-ipad-until-2067/) Anthos | Google C...

Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage

April 05, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MB

IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries. Plus: My dog’s in a cone right now. I gotta go play some video games. This is not premium content. There’s a Ted talk in here. I like my science fiction truck-stoppy. You can go nuts with the code, where ever you like. You are taco-eating hologram. Molemite is the worst. Relevant to your interests How IBM Watson Overpromised...

Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler

March 29, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 35.3 MB

There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers. Plus: USB-C. Fuck that shit. Don’t read the comments (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1110845648813916160). Don’t throw out the executives with the bathwater. They’re using 1/24th of their ass Sometime in the future, I am going to be awesome! If I have a rock question I’ll ask you. Things aren’t too expensive, you’re just not getting enough value from them. Light a fire in an air-tight room. Outrun...

Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update

March 22, 2019 08:45 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MB

Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed with business, is back once again: Coté craves some intellectual closer. Also, Google announced some big game platform thing. So. Chips? Tradies! Not these ones (https://www.tradie.com/us/mens.html). Yes, these ones (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Wear-Uniforms/b?ie=UTF8&node=1731206031). Relevant to your interests S (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse...

Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch

March 15, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB

Look what you made me do Elasticsearch NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch are fighting, and why are there so many tech foundations? All this and more on this week’s episode. Plus, Matt Ray tells us how he survived the Facebook outage. Relevant to your interests NGINX to Join F5 (https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/) Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch (http://ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-open-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/) Free S...

Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors

March 09, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 29.5 MB

Nobody’s going to take it over, sorry startups! The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management They need Java in Cincinnati. The Mongols have no wine. Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf. https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_496DF11063CDFDD5ADCDE2994265DC79C0316721C26F879BC276FEB51BCD7829_1551997391988_image.png Relevant to your interests Red Hat launches Operator Hub, a repository of quality-tested Kubernetes Operators (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENvILOykuSzXahegtrj67r0qEwgEKgwIACoF...

Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear

March 01, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 31.9 MB

There’s a lot of notions about what IT executives actually want to hear in a presentation. It turns out that, like all of us, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Also, is kubernetes really a platform for building platforms, or just a platform? More topics: We can’t talk about blockchain until you’ve done your digital transformation. The Car Wash EBC. Dutch bread. The outcome is that my daughter is no longer hungry. No one ever likes the website. DevRel is Standup. I never get to th...

Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”

February 22, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

Google goes enterprise, Time to upgrade Win 2008, Redis changes licenses again. All this and more in this episode. Plus, Matt explains good parenting to Brandon. Relevant to your interests Google makes $13 billion worth of cloud plans for 2019 (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUWh0dHA6Ly90ZWxlY29tcy5jb20vNDk1NTM3L2dvb2dsZS1tYWtlcy0xMy1iaWxsaW9uLXdvcnRoLW9mLWNsb3VkLXBsYW5zLWZvci0yMDE5L9IBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma (https://techcrunch.co...

Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"

February 15, 2019 11:00 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MB

Matt makes his return! What do vendors mean by “multi-cloud” and “digital transformation.” Could Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory apply to the public cloud? We discuss all of this and offer more advice on tacos. Relevant to your interests Google open sources ClusterFuzz (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/google-open-sources-clusterfuzz/) With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches (https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/05/google-looks-reduce-impact-data-breaches-ne...

Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support

February 07, 2019 13:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MB

Should you pay for Java support? Now you get to decide! It’s more kindle for the lock-in fire. Also, some uninformed commentary on “surveillance capitalism.” Solarwinds To learn more or try the company’s DevOps products for free, visit https://solarwinds.com/devops. Relevant to your interests Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019 (https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-will-charge-for-java-starting-in-2019/). What was Java treated like way back in the mid-2000s Sun days? Should you pay...

Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”

February 01, 2019 22:15 - 1 hour - 34.5 MB

This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,. Relevant to your interests Confluent’s meteoric rise (https://www.indexventures.com/blog/confluents-meteoric-rise). Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-open-source-database-start-up.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogi...

Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards

January 25, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 34.8 MB

Coté has a late night, mental breakdown about scorecards. Can Brandon save him? Also, kafka, Travis CI, and snow. Relevant to your interests Atlassian surpassed $1B in calendar-year revenue in 2018 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-surpassed-1b-in-calendar-year-revenue-in-2018/) Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-remains-the-top-open-source-contributor-to-cncf-projects/) Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down...

Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing

January 18, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MB

Are we still on that open source licensing thing? Yes. “The most boring topic of all time.” Also, Slack's logo and long term support software monetization models: how do they work? Summary: “Diapers.com buster (AKA Amazon)” “What is someone really selling with LTS?” “Artful genitals.” “It’s not butt ducks” “I’ve had three dogs since then…” Microsoft laughed. This week’s cover art from TheNextWeb (https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/01/16/slack-has-a-new-logo-and-umm-you-be-the-judge/). MONGO, MO...

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