Coté

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?

Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”

February 22nd, 2019  |  1 hr 25 secs

Google goes enterprise, Time to upgrade Win 2008, Redis changes licenses again. All this and more in this episode. Plus, Matt explains good parenting to Brandon.

Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"

February 15th, 2019  |  49 mins 55 secs

Matt makes his return! What do vendors mean by “multi-cloud” and “digital transformation.” Could Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory apply to the public cloud? We discuss all of this and offer more advice on tacos.

Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support

February 7th, 2019  |  59 mins 43 secs

Should you pay for Java support? Now you get to decide! It’s more kindle for the lock-in fire. Also, some uninformed commentary on “surveillance capitalism.”

Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”

February 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 15 mins

This week we discuss why Facebook, Google and Apple are fighting., what makes Enterprise Sales so hard and Coté explains why he misses American Food,

Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards

January 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 15 mins

Coté has a late night, mental breakdown about scorecards. Can Brandon save him? Also, kafka, Travis CI, and snow.

Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing

January 18th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

Are we still on that open source licensing thing? Yes. “The most boring topic of all time.” Also, Slack's logo and long term support software monetization models: how do they work?

Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist"

December 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 21 mins

Brandon interviews Coté about what it's like to be a tech evangelist. Call it "developer advocacy," "developer relations," being a "thought leader," or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of. Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists.

Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away

December 8th, 2018  |  59 mins 4 secs

Istio comes to GKE, Kubernetes needs to be patched, Microsoft & Docker announce a standard and what is going on at Faceback. We talk about all this and give you some tips for your next QBR.

Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!

November 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 16 mins

It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”?

Episode 156: People: Google doesn’t get ‘enterprise’ and should have people who’re more enterprise focused. GOOG: Look, we just hired an enterprise focused person. People: OMG! Why did just hire an enterprise person?

November 21st, 2018  |  1 hr 12 mins

See title.

Episode 155: Existing investments & business innovation fuel

November 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 21 mins

Hybrid cloud and kubernetes with Cisco, and the latest beard analysis from the OpenStack community, and some spontaneous ERP and ethics of Facebook meandering - all this week in our power episode!