Coté
Co-Host of Software Defined Talk
Coté has worked in the tech world a long time. He works at Pivotal and does things like make podcasts, write about the tech world, and talk at conferences. You know: papers...business papers.
Coté has hosted 306 Episodes.
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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.
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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…?
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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.
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Episode 250: Jana Werner, a Head of Transformation
August 7th, 2020 | 46 mins 40 secs
interview
This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 246: Istio-washing, 20 domain names, .docx
July 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files.
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Episode 245: Michael Coté’s Discount Webinar Barn, aka, The Webinar Episode
July 3rd, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers.
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Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers
June 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.
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Episode 241: Ask more questions, send more one line emails
June 19th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries.
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Episode 239: Coté got up at 2am
June 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore.
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Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”
June 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.
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Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land
May 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 27 secs
Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.
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Episode 234: The “severe ramifications” episode
May 22nd, 2020 | 57 mins 44 secs
We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back!
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Episode 226: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure
April 3rd, 2020 | 42 mins 8 secs
interview
This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure.
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Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?
March 19th, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.