Brandon Whichard
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Brandon Whichard has hosted 487 Episodes.
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Episode 67: Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, "but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho."
July 2nd, 2016 | 1 hr 2 mins
Is anyone minding the business side of these container orchestration plays? That's the main topic we discuss after doing over recent Docker announcements. We then discuss the state of tech journalism and throw out a free business plan for left-ish fried chicken slinging.
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Episode 66: I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub
June 18th, 2016 | 1 hr 2 mins
With two surprise acquisitions this week we have a lot of synergies to discuss. We cover Samsung picking up Joyent, and Microsoft buying LinkedIn. Highly related is a recent article trying to explain what's going on with private equity buying tech companies. Then, we discuss the big news from chef we've been waiting for: the announcement of habitat.
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Episode 65: The High-level WTF on "Scheduling"
June 11th, 2016 | 55 mins 22 secs
We spend this week talking about workload scheduling, starting with Mesos. It's a fun ride from CONTROL-M to Lambda, along with Cloud Foundry and serverless. So get ready to beat a horse into glue. Plus, how to handle gifts for father's day and the usual recommendations at the end.
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Episode 64: Residential Diaper Rash
June 4th, 2016 | 58 mins 31 secs
While Texas moistens up, we talk about the morals of rich tech folks suing journalists, the state of open source business, the history of the BI market, and how to use the Meeker decks. Check out the full show notes for links to the recommendations, conferences, and tech news items we didn’t get to cover.
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Episode 63: The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, & Tater Salad
May 26th, 2016 | 56 mins 7 secs
After we learn how to divide by eight, we discuss Uber being shut-down in Austin, then a recent case for hypervisors aging out. Also, we all agree that we're way too old to consider anything new.
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Episode 62: Peak Ping Pong
May 6th, 2016 | 53 mins 28 secs
This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal's funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn't hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong.
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Episode 61: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there
April 29th, 2016 | 48 mins 16 secs
OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis.