Coté

Episode 79: From a vegan, clothing optional co-op to working with banks and oil companies - Coté’s professional life, part 1

November 17th, 2016  |  54 mins 49 secs

How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us.

Episode 78: Trump's possible effect on tech, plus, containers

November 11th, 2016  |  1 hr 21 mins

We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers.

Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile.

November 4th, 2016  |  1 hr 9 mins

agile

Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever and Coté's favorite part of Matt Ray.

Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack

October 21st, 2016  |  52 mins 51 secs

With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations.

Episode 75: "AWS and VMware are having a LAN party” or “Matt Ray’s deep story” or “some five year old gibberish”

October 15th, 2016  |  51 mins 31 secs

We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack…

Episode 74: Being a tech evangelist, with Bridget Kromhout

October 1st, 2016  |  47 mins 45 secs

We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack…

Episode 73: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle

September 23rd, 2016  |  59 mins 41 secs

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk.

BONUS: DevOpsDays DFW, with ADO and The Food Right Show

September 22nd, 2016  |  57 mins 26 secs

At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.

Episode 72: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.”

September 16th, 2016  |  1 hr 3 mins

It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets.

Episode 71: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants

September 2nd, 2016  |  1 hr 15 mins

We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack…

Episode 70: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.”

August 27th, 2016  |  52 mins 42 secs

This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya.

Episode 69: The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs

August 19th, 2016  |  51 mins 25 secs

There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet.

Episode 68: Too old for the buffet

August 5th, 2016  |  49 mins 33 secs

With Matt securely setup in Australia, we get the low-down on the down under. We also discuss rumors of HPE and Rackspace going private and catch up on Verizon buying Yahoo!

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.

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.

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.