Brandon Whichard
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Brandon Whichard has hosted 372 Episodes.
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Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”
May 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 42 secs
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.
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Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know.
April 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
Airports, the challenges of the CI/CD market, authentication woes.
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Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.”
April 19th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
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.
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Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM!
April 11th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs, but who has time for that?
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Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage
April 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
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.
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Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update
March 22nd, 2019 | 59 mins 51 secs
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?
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Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch
March 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
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.
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Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors
March 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
Security. mostly.
Also:
The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management
They need Java in Cincinnati.
The Mongols have no wine.
Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf. -
Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear
March 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
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?
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Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”
February 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 25 secs
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.
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Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"
February 15th, 2019 | 49 mins 55 secs
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.
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Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support
February 7th, 2019 | 59 mins 43 secs
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.”
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Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”
February 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 15 mins
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,
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Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards
January 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 15 mins
Coté has a late night, mental breakdown about scorecards. Can Brandon save him? Also, kafka, Travis CI, and snow.
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Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing
January 18th, 2019 | 1 hr 4 mins
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?
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Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins”
January 10th, 2019 | 55 mins 52 secs
Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s life a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids.