Coté

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?

March 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.

Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked bread

March 13th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey! Spring Live next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend!

Episode 221: How to turn $2bn into $5bn

March 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 14 mins

With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.)

Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers

February 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 19 mins

Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.

Episode 218: Kubernetes for developers, with Charles Lowell

February 14th, 2020  |  52 mins 49 secs

There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise.