Brandon Whichard
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Brandon Whichard has hosted 374 Episodes.
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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.
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New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview
January 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 11 mins
interview
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 Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.
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Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist"
December 27th, 2018 | 1 hr 21 mins
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 most companies in the computer industry have at least one of. Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists.
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Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model”
December 21st, 2018 | 55 mins 8 secs
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!
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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."
December 15th, 2018 | 58 mins 56 secs
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 Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes“ and Phippy.
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Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away
December 8th, 2018 | 59 mins 4 secs
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.
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Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!
November 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
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”?
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Episode 155: Existing investments & business innovation fuel
November 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 21 mins
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!
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Episode 154: Singapore Sanka & tech idears
November 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
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.”
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Episode 153: “I have no idea, but I’ll go on,” or IBM buying Red Hat
November 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 25 mins
IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired.
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Episode 152: Who put robots in my clouds? Oracle OpenWorld
October 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 11 mins
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 dropping out, and JEDI problems.
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Episode 151: Who vivisected Mr Peanut?
October 18th, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
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.
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The dogs under the desk people, plus, Elastic, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and hotel loyalty programs and breakfast buffets
October 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
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 shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies.
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Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here)
October 5th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
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 motivation for changing up their enterprise software. We also (mostly ignorantly) talk about Cloudera and Hortonworks merging, as well as filing expenses.