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 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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates
August 29th, 2019 | 51 mins 15 secs
This week, the title says it all.
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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.
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Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?
August 8th, 2019 | 1 hr 11 mins
Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump.
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Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.
August 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
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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.
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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.
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Episode 187: Beyond the Fitzgeraldian Theory of Cloud Barriers to Entry
July 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin’ hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Coté finds video chats annoying, and he can’t keep all the camera lingo in his head.
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Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
July 5th, 2019 | 27 mins 38 secs
How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene.
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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?
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Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG
June 21st, 2019 | 52 mins 34 secs
Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, still don’t use build pipelines or issue trackers. When will these kids learn? And Coté explains why Nietzsche’s Eternal Return thing seems unhelpful.