Software Defined Talk

Episode 224: Miles Matthias on getting started with Containers and Kubernetes

March 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

interview

Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker.

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 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 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.

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 215: The Jez Humble/Life Insurance Renewal PDF Continuum

January 24th, 2020  |  58 mins 20 secs

Coté proposes that there’s three types of apps to pay attention to in enterprises. Or something like that. Also, he has a magical method for doing digital transformation: actually do it. We open up discussing the delightful adventure of doing analyst feature matrixes. Also, some brief discussi

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 212: "The Four" from the Exegesis Podcast

January 3rd, 2020  |  57 mins 3 secs

This is an episode from the Exegesis Back Catalog. Coté and Brandon review Scott Galloway's book the "The Four."

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.