Brandon Whichard

Episode 135: Coté's magical, mystery mortgage application workflow, or, "serverless: WTAFF?!"

May 18th, 2018  |  1 hr 28 mins

We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is.

Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities”

May 11th, 2018  |  1 hr 5 mins

Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon.

Episode 133: If only there was some way to automate software deploys, hopefully with yaml…?

May 5th, 2018  |  1 hr 12 mins

There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud native land. We then discuss Red Hat’s Operators, Chef, and related ways to package up applications and related configuration for deployment onto cloud platforms. Plus, once again, we finally solve how to calendar better.

Episode 131: How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ, plus, PE in systems management

April 20th, 2018  |  54 mins 22 secs

It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon and Coté discuss that. Also, a detailed HOWTO on eating Texas BBQ.

Full show-notes: http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/131

Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you!

April 6th, 2018  |  52 mins 14 secs

“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.”

We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and compliance area. Plus, Cloudflare’s new consumer DNS service, The Man in the High Castle, and Oracle goes after those sweet government cloud contracts. And, Coté gets a little too angry about Google Fiber giving his neighborhood the finger.

Episode 128: “Mark’s home, actually, it costs about the same as this”

March 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins

Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the Google/Oracle case around Java’s copyright.

Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook

March 24th, 2018  |  46 mins 39 secs

We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall.

Episode 126: “Broad, but an inch deep.”

March 16th, 2018  |  52 mins 52 secs

This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and recommend never ordering the Bison Ribs.

Episode 125: Kubernetes was never for developers…probably. Hold on…hrm.

March 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 15 mins

Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever.

Episode 124: “These pants are all too small,” or Dropbox and all the great public clouds

March 2nd, 2018  |  57 mins 11 secs

Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? Well, probably a lot more than where Apple, Spotify, and Dropbox run their stuff in - or out! - of the cloud, a topic we also discuss. Also, sheep-skin shoes are hot, too hot. Also, something about dtrace and zfs, I don’t know - just listen to it.

Episode 123: Mesh, Monitoring & Compliance

February 22nd, 2018  |  58 mins 24 secs

This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices.

Episode 122: Don’t get wasted at sales kick-off, & Coté needs to stop being so pessimistic

February 15th, 2018  |  57 mins 27 secs

It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Coté complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs.

Episode 120: RedHat buys CoreOS, Heptio DOES NOT have a distro - the kubernetes kids are over their Christmas hangovers

February 6th, 2018  |  56 mins 30 secs

Episode 119: The ethics of fur lined shoes, bi-modal IT critiques, & Amazon HQ2

January 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins

Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking.

WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Fear of FANG

January 19th, 2018  |  1 hr 5 mins

This week, regular Software Defined Talk listeners get a free episode of our members only podcast. If you like this, sign-up to get access to these extra episodes, about every week. We do a deep reading and analysis of various types of tech content, marketing, and other ephemera from press releases, books, presentations, and white papers. Plus, as with this episode, we just talk about tech ideas and news in general, in the course of being a critic.

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Episode 118: Bad chips, garbage home IoT, & cloud spending

January 17th, 2018  |  56 mins 17 secs

Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves.