Software Defined Talk
A podcast about Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing that doesn't take itself too seriously.
About the show
Get ready for a weekly dose of all things Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing! Join us as we dive into topics including Kubernetes, DevOps, Serverless, Security and Coding. Plus, we’ll keep you entertained with plenty of off-topic banter and nonsense. Don’t worry if you miss the latest industry conference - we’ve got you covered with recaps of all the latest news from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Episodes
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Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”
May 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos!
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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.
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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.
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Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”
May 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 42 secs
Microsoft and VMware made peace, Java goes native, Apache goes to Github and Red Hat gets a new logo. Plus, Matt Ray explains why the Internet in Australia is slow.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch
March 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
NGINX gets bought, AWS and Elasticsearch are fighting, and why are there so many tech foundations? All this and more on this week’s episode. Plus, Matt Ray tells us how he survived the Facebook outage.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.”