Brandon Whichard

Episode 236: Margaret Staples from Twilio on Building Games, Dev Evangelism and Owls.

June 2nd, 2020  |  59 mins 46 secs

interview

Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio and they discuss building games, dev evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest.

Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land

May 29th, 2020  |  1 hr 27 secs

Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.

Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here

May 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.

Episode 232: Amazon’s doing OK

May 8th, 2020  |  1 hr 1 min

On this episode AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam.

Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify

May 1st, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.

Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?

April 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite.

Episode 229: Does it work with JSON? That’s what I do

April 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 28 secs

On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review.

Episode 228: Professor Jeremy Hajek on IT Education

April 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 7 mins

interview

Brandon interviews Professor Jeremy Hajek from Illinois Tech about what it's like to teach Information Technology and we answer questions from his students.

Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode

April 11th, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins

This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.

Episode 225: All my kids have opinions on Scratch

March 27th, 2020  |  59 mins 22 secs

We discuss micoVMs vs. Containers and Intel vs. ARM. Plus, Matt offers advice on when to teach your children about Github. Big congrats to Coté and his wife on their new baby!!!

Episode 224: Miles Matthias on getting started with Containers and Kubernetes

March 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

interview

Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker.

Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?

March 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.

Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked bread

March 13th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey! Spring Live next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend!

Episode 221: How to turn $2bn into $5bn

March 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 14 mins

With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.)

Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers

February 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 19 mins

Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.

Episode 219: Paranoid security, not paranoid schizophrenic

February 20th, 2020  |  58 mins 5 secs

We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats.