Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber” from 2019-05-03T12:00

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 interestsCan G...

Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know. from 2019-04-26T06:00

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 interestsApple Watch authentication ...

Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.” from 2019-04-19T12:00

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...

Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM! from 2019-04-11T21:00

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-o...

Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice&AI are garbage from 2019-04-05T10:00

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 ri...

Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler from 2019-03-29T10:00

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/1110845648813916...

Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update from 2019-03-22T09:45

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 intel...

Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch from 2019-03-15T11:00

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 te...

Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors from 2019-03-09T07:00

Nobody’s going to take it over, sorry startups! The 4 Horsemen of Configuration ManagementThey need Java in Cincinnati. The Mongols have no wine.Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf. https://d2mxuef...

Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear from 2019-03-01T10:00

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 real...

Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.” from 2019-02-22T12:00

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 interestsGoogle m...

Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud" from 2019-02-15T12:00

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 a...

Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support from 2019-02-07T14:00

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.” SolarwindsTo learn more or try the comp...

Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds” from 2019-02-01T23:15

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 interestsConfluent’s meteori...

Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards from 2019-01-25T09:00

Coté has a late night, mental breakdown about scorecards. Can Brandon save him? Also, kafka, Travis CI, and snow. Relevant to your interestsAtlassian surpassed $1B in calendar-year revenue in 2018 ...

Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing from 2019-01-18T10:00

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...

Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins” from 2019-01-10T12:00

Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s live a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids. ...

New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview from 2019-01-03T12:00

Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux K...

Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist" from 2018-12-27T12:00

Brandon interviews Coté about what it's like to be a tech evangelist. Call it "developer advocacy," "developer relations," being a "thought leader," or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that ...

Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model” from 2018-12-21T12:00

Should cloud providers be able to host open source software? Exactly, what does the Australia Assistance Act mean for employees? What is Melbourne Cup Day? We answer these questions and more. Enjoy...

Episode 159: "Cloud native is pretty simple. You just need to know Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Jaeger, Envoy, Core DNS, Linkerd, Rook, Vitess, Etcd and Raft." from 2018-12-15T03:15

This week we recap all the news and announcements from the KubeCon Keynotes and discuss the repercussions of Australia’s new encryption-busting law. Plus, Brandon offers his review of “The Illustra...

Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away from 2018-12-08T03:00

Istio comes to GKE, Kubernetes needs to be patched, Microsoft&Docker announce a standard and what is going on at Faceback. We talk about all this and give you some tips for your next QBR. Relevant...

Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap&Australia muthafuckers! from 2018-11-30T10:00

It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”? AWS AnnouncementsAWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:...

Episode 156: People: Google doesn’t get ‘enterprise’ and should have people who’re more enterprise focused. GOOG: Look, we just hired an enterprise focused person. People: OMG! Why did just hire an enterprise person? from 2018-11-21T15:00

See title. Google CloudDiane Greene steps down as Google's cloud chief (https://www.axios.com/diane-greene-steps-down-as-googles-cloud-chief-1542390453-6335b289-b216-4584-a615-ddb9114a47f5.html) Go...

Episode 155: Existing investments&business innovation fuel from 2018-11-15T23:00

Hybrid cloud and kubernetes with Cisco, and the latest beard analysis from the OpenStack community, and some spontaneous ERP and ethics of Facebook meandering - all this week in our power episode! ...

Episode 154: Singapore Sanka&tech idears from 2018-11-11T08:00

More consolidation in the kubernetes community, plus the X Windowing System and Canonical. Related: “I’m not waiting for an answer, I’m just going to go on.” Sponsored by SolarWindsThis episode is ...

Episode 153: “I have no idea, but I’ll go on,” or IBM buying Red Hat from 2018-11-01T13:00

IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired. Sponsored by DataDogThis episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance p...

Episode 152: Who put robots in my clouds? Oracle OpenWorld from 2018-10-24T23:00

There’s all sorts of cloud stuff coming out of Oracle OpenWorld this week, so Brando and Coté talk about the mouth-feel of the news. Related, Amazon’s attempts to get off Oracle in Ohio, iCloud dro...

Episode 151: Who vivisected Mr Peanut? from 2018-10-18T15:00

Whether you’re in the Malaysian cement industry or not, there’s something for you in this episode: serverless vs. FaaS, Docker’s funding, Crossing the Chasm revisited, and GitHub actions. Sponsored...

The dogs under the desk people, plus, Elastic, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and hotel loyalty programs and breakfast buffets from 2018-10-11T17:00

Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google sh...

Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here) from 2018-10-05T17:00

With Coté worn out from travel and confused with expenses, we talk about the unique-ish problems of selling software to government agencies. There's 6 problems they have, and three types of motivat...

Episode 148: What do these consultants do anyway? from 2018-09-28T19:00

We discuss the recent Linux controversy resulting in Linus Torvalds taking some time off, review the latest release from Chef and try to figure out how and when you should hire consultants to help ...

Episode 147: Strategy, the systems management company lifecycle, or, Adobe didn’t fuck it up! from 2018-09-21T19:00

There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations produc...

Episode 146: The 2018 State of DevOps Report, a gander from 2018-09-06T17:00

This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Relevant to your interests2018 State of DevOps Report (https://cloudplatform...

Episode 145: Redis be like “I just stepped into a big pile of…SaaSy!” from 2018-08-31T15:00

Related image https://media1.tenor.com/images/e83b2b5aef8c8af0dd36a0d33d3046a4/tenor.gif?itemid=5038124 This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (o...

Bonus Episode -- Interview with Dustin Kirkland from Google from 2018-08-23T12:00

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) for more conversations like this one. Dustin Kir...

Episode 144: GDPR, Observability,&more on the mystery of serverless, still with half-assed research from 2018-08-17T10:15

“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” The title says it all.Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search&Analy...

Episode 143: Serverless now just means “programming” from 2018-08-10T10:00

After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it ...

Episode 142: Harness that peer pressure for good from 2018-07-27T12:00

"Harness that peer pressure for good” This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an impor...

Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of cloud native vendor product management from 2018-07-12T19:00

We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much differ...

Episode 140: Meanwhile, in microchips… from 2018-07-06T17:15

For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids. Meet us in AustinGet your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks&Socializing (https:/...

Episode 139: “Docker? Never heard of ‘em.” from 2018-06-29T09:00

Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We s...

Episode 138: 8 Duffle bags, some permitted food enhancer and, GitHub goes to Redmond from 2018-06-07T12:00

GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announc...

Episode 137: “I didn’t choose the Immortan Joe life-style, it chose me.” from 2018-06-01T05:00

There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors. This episode brought...

Episode 136: That time Matt didn’t eat for 24 hours, or, #chefconf 2018 from 2018-05-25T18:00

“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we m...

Episode 135: Coté's magical, mystery mortgage application workflow, or, "serverless: WTAFF?!" from 2018-05-18T16:00

We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond&Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com...

Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities” from 2018-05-11T12:00

Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with D...

Episode 133: If only there was some way to automate software deploys, hopefully with yaml…? from 2018-05-05T00:00

There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud nativ...

Episode 132: Capturing dumpling juice, the Pentagon selects AWS,&Thor from 2018-04-30T21:00

Eating dumplings, it turns out, is more complicated than just sticking them in your dumpling hole, as Coté found out in Bangkok thanks to a Singaporean friend (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-sz...

Episode 131: How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ, plus, PE in systems management from 2018-04-20T18:00

It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon a...

Episode 130: CROSS-OVER BONUS! Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes&Istio - Software Defined Interviews from 2018-04-12T21:00

Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort th...

Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you! from 2018-04-06T17:00

“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.” We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and...

Episode 128: “Mark’s home, actually, it costs about the same as this” from 2018-03-30T04:00

Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the Go...

Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook from 2018-03-24T08:30

We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo ...

Episode 126: “Broad, but an inch deep.” from 2018-03-16T10:00

This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and re...

Episode 125: Kubernetes was never for developers…probably. Hold on…hrm. from 2018-03-09T15:00

Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which ...

Episode 124: “These pants are all too small,” or Dropbox and all the great public clouds from 2018-03-02T23:00

Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? W...

Episode 123: Mesh, Monitoring&Compliance from 2018-02-22T23:00

This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices. Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods...

Episode 122: Don’t get wasted at sales kick-off,&Coté needs to stop being so pessimistic from 2018-02-15T23:00

It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss ...

Episode 121: Does GDPR work? Cisco/AppDynamics, Solarwinds,&Honeycomb from 2018-02-08T23:00

Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedintervi...

Episode 120: RedHat buys CoreOS, Heptio DOES NOT have a distro - the kubernetes kids are over their Christmas hangovers from 2018-02-06T00:00

Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix h...

Episode 119: The ethics of fur lined shoes, bi-modal IT critiques,&Amazon HQ2 from 2018-01-23T19:00

Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we ta...

WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Fear of FANG from 2018-01-19T22:00

This week, regular Software Defined Talk listeners get a free episode of our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). If you like this, sign-up to get access to these extra episodes, abo...

Episode 118: Bad chips, garbage home IoT,&cloud spending from 2018-01-17T21:45

Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Prob...

Episode 117: Who is the CISO? from 2017-12-26T12:00

With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylandtx) from the CISO Exec Network (https://www.cisoexecn...

Episode 116: Predictions&co. from 2017-12-19T17:00

What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friend...

Episode 115: Confularity at Kublecon from 2017-12-13T16:00

We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea). There is no co-host shortage. Pre-roll SDT ne...

Episode 114: SpringOne, talking with analysts, in-browser IDEs,&dressing for SF HA-HA-BUSINESS meetings from 2017-12-06T18:00

It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from...

Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news from 2017-12-01T00:00

There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discu...

Episode 112: SaaS lunches will be eaten? from 2017-11-21T01:00

With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also dis...

Episode 111: 280 characters on PowerPoint, Product Management,&OpenStack from 2017-11-09T23:00

With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk...

Episode 110: s/private cloud/hybrid cloud/ig from 2017-11-02T22:00

This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private....

Episode 109: I’m getting Kubernetes Stockholm syndrome from 2017-10-20T22:00

Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’....

Episode 108: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting,&Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50% from 2017-10-12T21:30

Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendor...

WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Just another kubernetes article from 2017-10-04T04:00

This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-1-8-arrives-improvements-simplicity-stability-security-storage-improvements/). Susan is a solid ...

Episode 107: Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! from 2017-09-25T11:00

Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers (https://twitter.com/devopsdayskc/status/910968813218394113) from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced,...

Episode 106: Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Or, monitoring sucks? No, you suck. from 2017-09-22T04:00

The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubern...

WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Kubernetes&container landscapes from Forrester&Gartner from 2017-09-01T18:00

This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” (https://www.forrester.com/report/Navigate+The+Kubernetes+Ecosystem/-/E-RES133445) by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartol...

Episode 105: Kubernetes Rules Everything Around Me, VMworld, Pivotal Container Service from 2017-08-31T21:00

It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal...

Episode 104: “When I go to the grocery store, I just buy the bananas” - Amazon/Whole Goods, J(2)EE, building your own kubernetes stack from 2017-08-25T04:00

Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewa...

Episode 103: AI is no longer limited by the garbage that is UNIX from 2017-08-17T14:00

AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits i...

Episode 102: That thermometer don’t work with my iPhone 7, also, AWS kube’ed&DevOps Thought Lordin’ from 2017-08-10T22:00

At long last, Amazon joins the CNCF to work on kubernetes and container related projects. While it's not incredibly clear how strong this embrace is, it's pretty high up there. We also discuss if t...

Episode 101: Cloud is just "jigglin’ wires" from 2017-08-03T21:00

Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies orga...

Episode 100: “I’ve seen The Hot Dog more times this week than 2FA,” or, is The Hot Dog incremental innovation, or disruptive innovation? from 2017-07-20T18:00

“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?” Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems...

Episode 99: Private cloud is the Reuben sandwich of clouds, or, Shafer’s Theory of (Private) Cloud from 2017-07-14T05:00

Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards privat...

Episode 98: “Do I just need some better medication?” or, advertising, antitrust, and talking to strangers from 2017-07-06T04:00

Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about adverti...

Episode 97: The novel strategy of making money, and investing to do so - Amazon + Whole Foods from 2017-06-29T21:00

Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how ...

Episode 96: An AWS private cloud strategy, kubernetes aplenty, microservices by yaml,&detailed hot-dog creature analysis from 2017-06-02T17:00

The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, w...

Episode 95: Beans, fruit, booze, bathrooms,&ChefConf from 2017-05-24T22:00

Live-to-tape from ChefConf 2017, in Austin, we talk about what's going on in Chef land now, esp. in relation to compliance/policy and Habitat. We also discuss the Texas bathroom bill and Matt Ray's...

Episode 94: The Donnie Berkholz Episode, "Freedom in health-care: a regular 'heck of a job, Comey' situation," DevOps&security,&Canonical's IPO ambitions from 2017-05-16T21:00

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise sid...

Episode 93: Cloud Rules Everything Around Me - Red Hat, Moby, Docker CEO, and Halo Effect’ing The First Cloud Wars from 2017-05-04T00:00

There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wa...

Episode 92: The middle-class metallurgical people - boothing, streaming sportsball, M&As&IPOs from 2017-04-09T15:00

Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There's als...

Episode 91: Container orchestration framework names you can't pronounce, for $500. Or, everything’s coming Up kubernetes. from 2017-03-30T17:00

We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it t...

Episode 90: These strategies work really well except for when they’re totally fucked from 2017-03-15T22:00

While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how co...

Episode 89: The Shit Show Matrix, or, they’re following the playbook which is basically unprofitable from 2017-03-08T22:00

Docker’s new enterprise SKUs and, once again, the open-core model. Also: IPO mania with Snap and MuleSoft. In discussion Docker EE, we start with a discussion on how socket-based pricing may seem g...

Episode 88: Docker is just cheap VMware, right? from 2017-02-18T04:00

There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also ...

Episode 87: Snap's cloud billions, Google's social, Monitoring Startups considered hard, DHS wants your passwords from 2017-02-11T13:00

Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategi...

Episode 86: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down Under from 2017-01-30T23:00

With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new ...

Episode 85: Being an analyst without being an asshole - Coté’s professional life, part 2 from 2017-01-20T21:00

In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; workin...

Episode 84: 2017 Predictions: cloud, containers, AI from 2016-12-21T23:00

After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple ...

Episode 83: I think the word we object to is "DevOps" from 2016-12-16T15:00

...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie ...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?....Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get i...

Episode 82: Attack of the two-pizza teams from 2016-12-09T00:00

...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza. ...That sweet OpEx...."Easy to stay." Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at...

Episode 81: DevOpsDays Sydney 2016 from 2016-12-07T16:00

It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick...

Episode 80: The case for flying Southwest and Oracle buying Dyn, and containers from 2016-11-29T00:00

With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sa...

Episode 79: From a vegan, clothing optional co-op to working with banks and oil companies - Coté’s professional life, part 1 from 2016-11-17T04:00

How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt...

Episode 78: Trump's possible effect on tech, plus, containers from 2016-11-11T18:00

We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before...

Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile. from 2016-11-04T21:00

Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever. Show NotesFollow-up Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://So...

Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack from 2016-10-21T03:00

With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recom...

Episode 75: "AWS and VMware are having a LAN party” or “Matt Ray’s deep story” or “some five year old gibberish” from 2016-10-15T00:00

Summary

Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, O...

Episode 74: Being a tech evangelist, with Bridget Kromhout from 2016-10-01T17:00

This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here. Listen above, subscrib...

Episode 73: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates,&Oracle storms the AWS castle from 2016-09-23T00:00

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of th...

BONUS: DevOpsDays DFW, with ADO and The Food Right Show from 2016-09-22T23:00

At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.

Episode 72: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.” from 2016-09-16T18:00

Too old https://giphy.com/gifs/3b1JW7LxfsAKs It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys...

Episode 71: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants from 2016-09-02T17:00

Eventually, you have to decide how your open source software is going to make money, and your partners probably won’t like it. That’s what the dust-up around Docker is this week, it seems to us. We...

Episode 70: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” from 2016-08-27T16:00

This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monume...

Episode 69: The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs from 2016-08-19T20:00

There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs ...

Episode 68: Too old for the buffet from 2016-08-05T23:00

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Episode 67: Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, "but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho." from 2016-07-02T00:00

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Episode 66: I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub from 2016-06-18T00:00

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Episode 65: The High-level WTF on "Scheduling" from 2016-06-11T00:00

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Episode 64: Residential Diaper Rash from 2016-06-04T04:00

SPONSOR Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, r...

Episode 63: The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin,&Tater Salad from 2016-05-26T04:00

SPONSORS Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, ...

Episode 62: Peak Ping Pong from 2016-05-06T02:00

This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal's funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn't hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the...

Episode 61: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there from 2016-04-29T02:00

OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise numbe...