Brandon Whichard

Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy

October 18th, 2019  |  1 hr 18 mins

"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is.

Episode 200: The mystery of the 2,000

October 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 16 mins

Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk.

Episode 199: 15 meters of cereal

October 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 8 mins

Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again!

Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally revved back up his newsletter. People love it! Subscribe and tell all your friends to subscribe! Go to buttondown.email/cote or cote.io/newsletter and do it!

Episode 198: Don’t get a Private Jet

September 27th, 2019  |  41 mins 32 secs

Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray.

Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS

September 21st, 2019  |  1 hr 12 mins

The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.

Episode 196: The janitor strategy

September 13th, 2019  |  1 hr 21 mins

Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang.

Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough

September 6th, 2019  |  57 mins 3 secs

Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity for football fans.

Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates

August 29th, 2019  |  51 mins 15 secs

This week, the title says it all.

Episode 193: “WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.

August 22nd, 2019  |  56 mins 46 secs

SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.”

Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work

August 15th, 2019  |  1 hr 9 mins

We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing.

Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?

August 8th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump.

Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.

August 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

Episode 189: The 6 clouds you’ll meet in the MQ

July 26th, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins

It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlauts, ASCII, and Munich bike bells.

Episode 188: The transit private/public partnership, and, yeah, still, of course, kubernetes shit of the week

July 20th, 2019  |  1 hr 5 mins

There’s a couple kubernetes announcements this week: we mostly talk about Pivotal’s, and a tad on IBM. Plus, maybe scooters are actually good for cities and compiling source code for your infrastructure software is probably a bad idea.

Episode 185: Drink your own dog food

July 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 12 mins

With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows?

Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind

June 14th, 2019  |  1 hr 10 mins

Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.