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

  • 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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!

    June 7th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

    It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software! Cloudera misses their forecast, Oracle and Microsoft team up on cloud computing and more open source licensing discussion. Plus, we try to make sense of the metric system once and for all!

  • 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.

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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!

  • 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.

  • 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.