Brandon Whichard

Episode 264: I poisoned the security well with my children

October 16th, 2020  |  54 mins 1 sec

Matt and Brandon discuss Hashicorp’s recent product announcements and Twilio buying Segment. Plus, Matt gives his thoughts on the new iPhone 12 mini.

Episode 263: End of an Era

October 13th, 2020  |  48 mins 44 secs

Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the recent changes at Chef and what it means for the Chef Community going forward.

Episode 261: Arnav Hiray on High School, Tech and Debate

October 3rd, 2020  |  54 mins 42 secs

interview

Brandon interviews Arnav Hiray from Stony Point High School. Arnav is an accomplished High School Senior who has a passion for learning and technology. They discuss what it's like to go to High School during a pandemic, Arnav's tech projects and Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

Episode 260: Show me what you got

October 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

This week we recap the latest announcements at VMworld, discuss App Modernization and rate the best software features of all time. Plus, lots of talk on what makes for a great EBC experience.

Episode 259: Michael Levan on Developer Relations, Go Programming and Code Quality.

September 29th, 2020  |  57 mins 57 secs

interview

Brandon interviews Michael Levan from Octopus Deploy. They discuss developer relations, Go Programming and Code Quality. Plus, Michael offers some tips for lighting your home office.

Episode 258: One more adjustment and then we can start

September 25th, 2020  |  40 mins 55 secs

Cote and Brandon discuss PagerDuty's acquisition of Rundeck, the current state of AIOps and why is Reed Hastings writing a book about Netflix’s Culture. Plus, some advice on haircuts.

Episode 257: Once again, I have not read the report

September 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 39 secs

This week we discuss Snowflake’s IPO, Forrester’s Multicloud Container Wave and Nvidia buying ARM. Plus, an extensive discussion of what constitutes a breakfast taco.

Episode 256: There is no passion in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

September 11th, 2020  |  54 mins 28 secs

Cote and Brandon discuss Chef being acquired, the Private Equity Operating Model and Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant. Plus, Cote offers advice on peanut better and jelly sandwiches.

Episode 255: We should not emphasise this behaviour

September 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins

Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads.

Episode 254: Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design

September 1st, 2020  |  39 mins 30 secs

interview

Brandon interviews Alexandra Martinez and they discuss the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, API Design and ProstDev. Plus, Alexandra recommends the best tacos in Monterrey, Mexico.

Episode 253: People don’t understand how pay works

August 28th, 2020  |  52 mins 25 secs

This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…?

Episode 252: It can be exciting, but excitement ends.

August 21st, 2020  |  1 hr 59 secs

Why would Oracle buy TikTok? Why would Amazon invest in Rackspace? We answer these questions and discuss the state of cloud migrations. Plus, Matt and Coté offers advice on hot dogs.

Episode 251: Don’t you use my words against me

August 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 1 min

We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store.

Episode 249: Was Tom Landry cool?

July 31st, 2020  |  57 mins 35 secs

The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap.

Episode 248: They want cloud grade

July 24th, 2020  |  46 mins 48 secs

We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.

Episode 247: Richard Seroter on App Modernization

July 16th, 2020  |  55 mins 6 secs

interview

On this episode Brandon interviews Richard Seroter from Google. They discuss Richard's career, Product Management & Marketing, Google Anthos and what App Modernization really means. Plus, Richard tells us how a doctor removes a wedding ring when you have a fractured finger.