Coté

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.

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.

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?

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.

Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind

June 14th, 2019  |  1 hr 10 mins

Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.

Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone

June 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 18 mins

You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be bores.

Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin

May 16th, 2019  |  1 hr 17 mins

Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles.

Episode 178: What is this: a fucking <marquee/> tag?

May 9th, 2019  |  1 hr 19 mins

Putting together the M&A case for Docker, Inc., Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Oracle’s cloud grudge. Also, dead pets and kids: no good answers.

Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know.

April 26th, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

Airports, the challenges of the CI/CD market, authentication woes.

Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.”

April 19th, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

With Matt Ray out sick, Coté and Brandon discuss what the Pentagon’s JEDI contract means for cloud vendors, PagerDuty going public and what exactly do developers need to know about Kubernetes. Plus, Coté offers parenting advice on how to handle the no “free drink refills” policy in Europe.

Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM!

April 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 10 mins

With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs, but who has time for that?

Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage

April 5th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

IBM Watson didn’t work so well in health care, maybe it was too early. Also, Chef goes full open source, with Apache 2. Meanwhile, Coté has to pay taxes in two countries.

Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler

March 29th, 2019  |  1 hr 16 mins

There’s a new kubernetes, Oracle lay-offs, Zoom.US, and the problem with mainframe complainers.

Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update

March 22nd, 2019  |  59 mins 51 secs

SUSE is independent again, so we discuss what’s up with it and its uses. Open source, when mixed with business, is back once again: Coté craves some intellectual closer. Also, Google announced some big game platform thing. So. Chips?

Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors

March 9th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

Security. mostly.

Also:
The 4 Horsemen of Configuration Management
They need Java in Cincinnati.
The Mongols have no wine.
Coté’s going to filibuster ChefConf.

Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear

March 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 9 mins

There’s a lot of notions about what IT executives actually want to hear in a presentation. It turns out that, like all of us, they just want to hear what they want to hear. Also, is kubernetes really a platform for building platforms, or just a platform?