Matt Ray

Episode 219: Paranoid security, not paranoid schizophrenic

February 20th, 2020  |  58 mins 5 secs

We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats.

Episode 217: You’re eating your hamburger wrong - IBM, unlocking value at Compuware, microservices are dead

February 8th, 2020  |  1 hr 17 mins

With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.)

Episode 216: I would give it 5 stars if you still did stars.

January 31st, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos.

Episode 214: VPNs, Windows 7 EoL, & Crapplications

January 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

This week the title says it all. There’s also some more bread talk.

Episode 213: The inglorious cloud basterds

January 10th, 2020  |  58 mins 10 secs

We discuss weird speculation that Google Cloud would buy Salesforce. It seems like bullshit, mostly, but it gives us a good jumping off point to talk cloud strategy. Also, Coté talks about being part of the VMware Tanzu team, how kubernetes could become the white box of the PC market (this is a good thing), that being #3 in a market is probably just fine, and we discuss poisoning-by-bread.

Episode 211: Adam Jacob on Open Source

December 27th, 2019  |  1 hr 15 mins

interview

Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef.

Episode 210: “What choice do we have?”

December 18th, 2019  |  52 mins 10 secs

At the end of the year, we answer listener questions. From middle-names, to athletes, to advice to startups. Also, we talk open source in 2020 predictions, that NYTimes story on Amazon, and Twinkies.

Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster

December 12th, 2019  |  47 mins 26 secs

This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.

Episode 208: re:Invent, Oracle's stickyness, and medieval stick candy-bread

December 6th, 2019  |  1 hr 14 mins

It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt.

Episode 207: All the good stuff is proprietary

November 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 8 mins

Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing.

Episode 206: The Sanka of hot sauces

November 23rd, 2019  |  1 hr 20 mins

We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff!

Episode 205: No Change in our journey

November 14th, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins

Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings.

Episode 204: Foiled by Physical Access Again

November 8th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook.

Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings

November 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 12 mins

The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.

Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?

October 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 5 mins

How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia.

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.